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Volunteers are organizing supplies while people who usually guide snorkelers lead residents of the ravaged US Virgin Islands to safety.
?They got decimated,? FEMA official says of St. John Federal officials and volunteers on Tuesday said help has arrived following Irma, and crews are working hard to improve the situation on St. John and other US Virgin Islands.
Some islands in the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean have been devastated by the hurricane.
Four slayings, one gruesome tale Orion Krause used a baseball bat to kill his mother, his grandparents, and their caretaker at their Groton home last week, prosecutors said.
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A dream dashed, now deferred, due to a college deposit When Kadean Jengelley received her financial aid package after the deadline for requesting a deposit refund, Berklee refused to return the deposit.
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Hate on Hillary, but she?s right about Trump You don?t have to like her. But don?t settle for a less than full reckoning of what happened to her.
MBTA shakeup complete with new GM on the job Luis Ramirez starts his new job as the leader of the MBTA on Tuesday.
$41.6 million Tobin Bridge rehab will affect drivers for three years Much of the work will take place on the lower deck, vexing commuters heading north out of the city.
Does Mitt Romney really want to run for Senate in Utah? ?He has mixed feelings,? said one Romney adviser who pegged the likelihood of a run at 30 percent or 40 percent.
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Anybody who?s ever tried to get an error off their credit report knows how tightly credit reporting companies cling to our information.
Magnetic pulses into the brain? They?re an established treatment for depression, and getting easier to find Transcranial magnetic stimulation is coming into wider use as insurance coverage improves and private practices acquire the device.
Family: Biracial boy pushed off table with rope around his neck Teenagers in Claremont, N.H., pushed an 8-year-old boy off a picnic table in what may have been a racially motivated incident.
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This was the first time a woman has called a nationally televised NFL game, ever. She confirmed again that she?s a steady broadcasting pro, no pronoun qualifier necessary.
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Once an industrial eyesore, Birmingham, England, is now kind of hot for travel With a world-class food scene, a dazzling new public library, and a cool attitude, ?Brum? is suddenly hot.
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Authorities investigate possible connection between Dorchester, Expressway shootings A woman was shot to death in Dorchester Sunday night, part of a burst of violence in Boston that also left three men wounded, police said.
Hurricane Jose will do a loop-the-loop in the Atlantic. Then what? Once it straightens out, it will be aimed at the East Coast, an expert said. It could strengthen, and merits watching.
New Haven-based Alexion cutting 600 jobs and moving headquarters to Boston The job cuts amount to about 20 percent of Alexion?s global workforce.
Exodus will open bagel shop in Jamaica Plain, not Roslindale The relocation plans might come as a surprise to neighborhood supporters who had contributed to the shop?s Kickstarter campaign.
After prank, students can pay parking ticket ? or aid relief efforts Braintree High students pranked fellow classmates last week with deliberately poor parking.
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Priests? children live with secrets, sorrow A Globe review finds the children are often denied love and support and pressured to keep the scandal secret. And the church has done absolutely nothing to help.
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We can?t fight the opioid crisis without adequate health care Providers hate delaying treatment, but they often have no choice because resources are stretched too thin.
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Delivered from death by a ?miracle,? a survivor walks gingerly among the living Lisa Geller, a 43-year-old teacher, had been dealt a very bad hand in life. And then, with little warning, she was dealt another card.
The two-year contract extension through 2019 is really is a three-year, $12.87 million deal with $5.5 million guaranteed.
Said an organizer of an event in Boston: ?It?s truly, truly an emotional but worthy day. . . . We don?t want anyone to forget.?
The developers of the apartment community expanded the boardwalk not only to reach the front door, but also to flow around the building like waves at a rocky point.
If Bob Corker retires, it would probably put a seat that analysts expect to stay in GOP hands into a more uncertain state.
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Tesla is rolling out more charging stations, clearing additional obstacles for those who might want to give electric cars a try.
Officials struggled to get aid to islands devastated by Hurricane Irma, which killed 34 people in the region.
Officials who administer the program were informed the data wasn?t part of a breach at Equifax.
The Creative Arts Emmys gave wins to Gerald McRaney, two ?SNL? hosts, and ?Stranger Things,? among many others.
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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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Hurricane Irma devastated Caribbean islands and left a path of destruction all over the state of Florida.
