Bars and restaurants say reports from drunk drivers are unreliable, but officials say they are vital to tracking which establishments serve intoxicated drivers.
Harvard looks to Bowdoin, but frat ban had mixed results Twenty years after Bowdoin College shut down fraternities, Harvard is trying a similar feat. So just how well did that work?
Boy rescued from capsized boat near Wareham dies The 8-year-old boy was underwater for around 24 minutes before a commercial diver rescued him, authorities reported on Wednesday.
Fred J. Field
Will the more than 87,000 acres of wilderness in northern Maine designated as the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument survive as a monument?
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Ninkovich?s promise as the backup long snapper let Bill Belichick sleep at night.
Susan Collins on spontaneous applause at Maine airport: ?It was just amazing? The Republican senator said when she stepped off the plane, a group of passengers began applauding her for her recent vote on health care.
White House threatens Senate: Pass health bill now ? or else The White House stepped up demands Sunday that the Senate repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
Can Joe Biden?s family endure one last campaign? Voters, it seems, don?t really care about conventional wisdom anymore. So the real question is: What next?
Many of state?s elderly struggle to pay their bills More than 60 percent of older adults living alone in Massachusetts can?t afford basic living expenses, the second-highest rate in the country.
Amanda Nguyen, a 16-year-old from Dorchester, was killed when the car she was riding in crashed on Plain Street.
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When a 16-acre plot of land in Berlin, Mass., came up for sale a dozen years ago, this couple quickly scooped it up. And then they had an idea.
Shirley Leung
Facing sex-bias investigations, country club digs in with denials Some of you will wonder why what happens in the men?s locker room of the private Charles River club should even be a story in the Globe.
The message from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation is clear: Stay home Monday if you can.
Chris Christie got in a fan?s face at the Cubs-Brewers game: ?You?re a big shot? The New Jersey governor doesn?t seem to have much luck when it comes to attending baseball games lately.
DAN SHAUGHNESSY
Boston-related observations from Hall of Fame weekend Even in Cooperstown, the Red Sox are a frequent topic of conversation.
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A year after their 7-year-old son drowned off Carson Beach, Kyzr Willis?s parents still can?t believe he is gone.
Maternal deaths at MetroWest hospital prompt state probes The recent deaths of two women come amid increasing focus on the high rate of pregnancy-related mortality in the United States.
Arlington church protests ouster of beloved priest Hundreds of devastated parishioners turned out to protest a lack of transparency surrounding the firing of a beloved priest at his last Sunday service.
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Fans gather at Boston Common to remember Linkin Park singer Mourners and music fans paid tribute to Chester Bennington, who commited suicide earlier this month.
Skill or luck? Panel is reviewing whether fantasy sports are really gambling A draft state report said contests with cash awards are gambling, but recommends clarifying daily fantasy sports as legal in Massachusetts.
Court says FAA must reconsider regulating seat size on planes One of the judges called it ??the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat.??
?People don?t understand that this parade coming down this street is a miracle? The city was filled with the sound of salsa as people waving flags celebrated the ?Island of Enchantment.?
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Sex, dreck, and rock ?n? roll The Drug Enforcement Administration list of ?Drug Slang Code Words? is a huge narcotic thesaurus.
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His parents said he just needed to sleep. A SWAT team came instead In Hingham, a welfare check on a disconsolate young man with a gun turned into something utterly unimaginable.
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The new enshrinee in Cooperstown grew up in Connecticut rooting for the franchise that later traded him away in 1990.
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A sampling of the housing market here includes an antique with five fireplaces and a town house with a private courtyard.
?Somebody from Brighton? This is glory. This is the highest thing you can be coming from here, from this neighborhood,? said one veteran.
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