Walsh says he will focus on issues affecting middle class in Boston

Boston, Massachusetts - 1/2/2018 - Boston Mayor Mary Walsh speaks during his second inauguration in Boston, Massachusetts, January 2, 2018. (Keith Bedford/Globe Staff)

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At the inauguration for his second term, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh promised to rebuild the city?s middle class.

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Participants took the frosty plunge during the Brownies? annual swim Monday morning.

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Other New Year?s plunges were canceled due to the cold weather. But not the Brownies? dip in South Boston

?I can?t feel my feet, but [I feel] great!? said one woman who took the plunge.

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Fans bundled up for Sunday?s Patriots game in Foxborough. Forecasters predict Monday?s temperatures to remain below freezing, with a windchill advisory through 10 a.m.

2018 begins with a bone-chilling start, and more snow may be on the way

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Former Stonehill College employee arrested in accidental shooting at school

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The fire occurred in one-story, two-bedroom circa-1750 antique-style clapboard home, near a gentle bend on Route 2A overlooking a frozen brook and the town?s Congregational Church.

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Woman, 76, dies in house fire in Littleton

It was the the first fire fatality in Massachusetts in 2018, authorities said.

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?This is a moment of solidarity, not a fashion moment,? said actress Eva Longoria, one of the members of the Time?s Up group.

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The movement was announced with an pledge of support to working-class women in an open letter signed by hundreds of women in show business.

Flashing knives made quick work of farm-raised salmon in the fillet room of the North Coast Seafood fish processing plant in South Boston.

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