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Scotty Reifsnyder

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Top spots to live in Greater Boston

No matter the price range, homes in these areas are in high demand.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/06/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/revere0416get.jpg What your money gets you in Greater Boston

Homes on the market at four price points in Boston-area boom towns.

Globe Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/12/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/BG_MAG_Coverrevise1400.jpg Boston?s best-selling neighborhoods

These neighborhoods are seeing the biggest price increases for single-family homes or condos.

Love Letters

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/15/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/Meredith_Goldstein5.jpg Can my controlling, jealous former boyfriend change his ways?

He says he?s different now. But he?s already asked me if I ?cheated? after we broke up.

OBITUARY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/j_geils_web.jpg J. Geils created one of Boston?s iconic bands

The guitarist, 71, was found dead Tuesday at his Groton home.

Sports

Boston Red Sox's Christian Vazquez rounds first on a two-RBI triple during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles at Fenway Park in Boston, Tuesday, April 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Alex Speier

Leon, Vazquez catching on at the plate for Red Sox

Through a difficult season-opening stretch, it is the Red Sox? catching that has been the team?s most valuable asset.

Boston MA 3/12/17 Boston Celtics bench joining in with the fans and do,

Chad Finn

Ranking the Celtics? top 20 basketball assets

What rates higher, Isaiah Thomas or the Nets? draft pick? Brad Stevens or Danny Ainge? Let the debates begin.

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BAA to honor handcycle winners, expand field

The handcycle division winners in this year?s marathon will for the first time be honored with wreathes and a ceremony, and receive prize money.

Opinion

SCOT LEHIGH

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/11/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Scot_Lehigh_150px-3305.jpg Just say what you mean, and say it right

Can it be that every dinner choice I order is ?perfect? or ?excellent?? I?m fine with a simple ?OK.??

Arts

TV Critic?s Corner

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/10/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/RM_FAM_1.jpg Joey Mac is back, in a charming sitcom

?The Return of the Mac? is a new series about the New Kid?s desperate need to be legit.

music review

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/12/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/IMG_5375.jpg While it was frustratingly short, Gucci Mane?s show cast a spell

After a mysterious last-minute cancellation last week, the rapper did appear at the House of Blues last night. For 45 minutes.

South Station is for sale (just not the train tracks)

The retail concourse and four stories of office space above it enter a hot real estate market where tenants and investors prize access to transit.

New residences, stores like Primark and Roche Bros., premium coffee shops, and an influx of tech businesses are behind the district?s revival.

THOMAS FARRAGHER

From desolate streets to Boston?s hottest destination

Downtown Crossing?s comeback is startling, with modern stores, residences, and sidewalks crowded with people.

The

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Wall St. bull sculptor says ?Fearless Girl? violates his rights

The statue, installed last month by Boston-based State Street Global Advisors, was put in place next to the famous bull.

Politics

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/12/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/4b079cd033f44f049fffdf87b12bee96-4b079cd033f44f049fffdf87b12bee96-0.jpg Rex Tillerson meeting with Vladimir Putin

A Kremlin spokesperson confirmed the meeting was taking place.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/7f6e386f0aa34da4a8df75d56746c6df-7f6e386f0aa34da4a8df75d56746c6df-0.jpg Trump seems to rule out further intervention in Syria

??Are we going to get involved with Syria? No,?? President Trump said in a television interview that aired Wednesday.

Ground Game

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/f6f2cd302d5444e3908925c7587e4888-f6f2cd302d5444e3908925c7587e4888-0.jpg The Kansas special election was a test for party leadership. Everyone failed

On paper, a US House race shouldn?t have been such a struggle in a district and state that overwhelmingly favored President Trump in November.

Metro

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/11/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/cnr%20guys.jpg There?s an E. Coli outbreak at Chicken & Rice Guys

?We?re taking this very seriously,? the Boston Inspectional Services Commissioner said. ?People are getting sick.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/sal1.jpg Another city councilor to retire

After nearly three decades in public service, Councilor Salvatore LaMattina announced this week that he will not seek reelection.

Sponsored by Franciscan Children's

With music as medicine, a young patient thrives

A thirteen-year-old boy lives every day with multiple complex medical conditions. But during his sessions with a Berklee student, his life is brightened through song.

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Trump Today

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The FBI won a court?s permission last summer to monitor the communications of Carter Page, a former adviser to President Trump?s campaign.

Opinion & Ideas

Michael A. Cohen

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/07/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/cohen-3327.jpg Unfriendly skies in an increasingly coarse country

The removal of a United Airlines passenger captures so much of what?s wrong in our society.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/06/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/jim.jpg The summer that changed Boston

The nation was splintering, and Boston wasn?t immune. But something was happening here.

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Address: Spring House Hunt

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/06/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/realestate.jpg Advice on taking real estate photos from a Pulitzer-winning photographer

In America, everyone who has a cellphone thinks they are a professional photographer. They are not.

Real Estate

Mountain views framed by papery-white tree trunks inspire a landscape design

Is there a more poetic landscape than a stand of birches? An example of such poetry is on a Vermont hilltop, where gleaming white tree trunks and lacy foliage surround a chalet that could have housed Heidi and her grandfather.

Cars

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Gas prices will rise this summer but should remain low

The Energy Information Administration on Tuesday forecast that retail gas will cost an average of $2.46 a gallon from April through September, up from $2.23 a gallon over the summer of 2016.