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Sasha Hearn saw three kids in trouble and made it her business to intervene.
Your Home | Summer Living
Redesigning a tiny Cape Cod cottage for year-round living A couple?s yearlong house hunt ends at a compact fixer-upper in West Dennis.
Researchers report a male Great White shark spent the last few days traveling the Massachusetts coast.
Sink your teeth into National Lobster Day Celebrating on Thursday is easy when you live in a city that?s teeming with seafood restaurants.
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Here are some key things to know about Sail Boston, the six-day event at Boston Harbor starting Saturday.
More than 50 ships will parade through Boston Harbor starting this week. Here?s where you can see them.
Competition for boats, fees, permits, and politics vex organizers of the Grand Parade of Tall Ships.
Student freed by North Korea has ?severe neurological injury? Otto Warmbier is in stable condition at an Ohio hospital with his mother by his side.
Does a deserted campground contain a clue to the murder of Molly Bish? Volunteers will head to a former campground in West Brookfield Thursday, hoping that the latest technology will allow them to unearth new evidence.
This court case pits surfers against canoers for control of paddle boarding Stand up paddle boarding is seen as a future candidate for the Olympics and both the International Surfing Association and the International Canoe Federation want control.
Tech Lab
The state?s kooky ?cookie tax? will crumble in a court?s hands Massachusetts? bid to tax purchases made with out-of-state online retailers is an overreach.
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Harvard can have its pick of candidates for president, executive search consultants and education experts say.
Jury in Cosby trial is deadlocked after 30 hours of deliberations A judge is sending the jury back to deliberations.
?They made up a phony collusion with the Russians story, found zero proof, so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. Nice,? the president tweeted Thursday.
Keith Bedford/Globe Staff
From graphics designed in Boston to phone banks organized in Maryland, out-of-state attention floods a special election in suburban Atlanta.
A rifle-wielding attacker opened fire on Republican lawmakers at a baseball practice Wednesday.
Yvonne Abraham
Why would we ever talk about gun control after another mass shooting? Democrats and others on the left are always trying to talk about guns at times like these.
Early polling has found that more than two-thirds of voters support the amendment that would raise taxes on the rich.
PorchFest Quincy expands to four neighborhoods The event?s organizers are preparing for a bigger festival in its second time around.
Wallenda hangs by teeth over Niagara Falls Erendira Wallenda, the aerialist wife of daredevil Nik Wallenda, pulled off the stunt five years to the day her husband walked a tight rope over the falls.
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Editorial
After Alexandria shooting, both parties owe the nation a more civil political dialogue A person like the Alexandria shooter, James T. Hodgkinson, doesn?t exist in a vacuum.
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For Arbour hospitals, it?s one problem after another Arbour Health System hospitals, which serve about 16,000 patients annually, were cited again and again in state documents reviewed by the Globe.
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Mickelson?s daughter is the class president at Pacific Ridge School in Carlsbad, Calif., and will give the commencement speech.
The death of Michael Ray, of Fall River, on Saturday is the second suspected suicide this year and the 16th in Bristol County jail since 2006.
'I never felt I had a real home until I lived with my aunt and uncle at their hotel in Maine.
Democrat Ralph Northam, the lieutenant governor, and Republican Ed Gillespie each won their primaries on Tuesday.
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General Motors is extending the normal two-week summer shutdown for at least 2 U.S. car factories because of slumping demand
Ambulances were parked near a hangar after a plane carrying Otto Warmbier, reportedly in a coma, landed.
Companies say they?re taking steps to make their workplaces inclusive and non-threatening.
The 25-year-old singer, composer, and bandleader from Havana comes to the ICA Friday.
In characterless industrial parks that look like the after-dark stamping grounds of serial killers, brewery taprooms have become wildly popular destinations.
Boston Globe coverage and the movie ?Spotlight? ?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
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