Columbia Gas withdraws $33 million rate increase
The rate hike for customers was supposed to take effect while the utility is responding to a gas catastrophe in the Merrimack Valley.
The rate hike for customers was supposed to take effect while the utility is responding to a gas catastrophe in the Merrimack Valley.
Leonel Rondon was killed after a gas explosion toppled a chimney onto the car he was in. He was the only fatality in explosions and fires that rocked the Merrimack Valley.
A woman was fatally injured Wednesday when she was struck by a tow truck, spurring a man believed to be her son to allegedly stab the driver five times.
In a new Suffolk University Political Research Center/Boston Globe poll, incumbents Governor Charlie Baker and US Senator Elizabeth Warren are far ahead of their challengers.
The state parks and environmental agencies were trying to determine the cause of a mass die-off of clams.
President Trump said he?s ??so sad over Jeff Sessions,?? whom he has repeatedly denounced for recusing himself from the Russia investigation.
President Donald Trump showered sympathy on his embattled nominee and as Senate Republicans and Democrats fought determinedly over who should testify at a high-stakes hearing.
Samuels & Associates? participation could help move forward stalled plans to build 656 apartments and condos.
Gary Herman collected $12,468 in overtime payments but never showed up for work.
The bizarre case of a Red Sox division title banner that went missing came to an end Wednesday when a Malden man who says he found it in Somerville brought it to Fenway Park.
DAN SHAUGHNESSY
?He told me how to use an illegal lacrosse stick,? a college teammate told author Ian O?Connor in the new book about the Patriots coach.
PATRIOTS NOTEBOOK
The new receiver didn?t appear limited in drills despite reports of a hamstring injury.
Sean P. Murphy | The Fine Print
New England Building Supply, whose truck yanked down the wires, said it?s not to blame and is refusing to reimburse residents.
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The influential book set the standard in its day. In today?s workplaces, much has changed, and a few rules remain, says a former Filene?s stylist.
NAMES
After posting the link to the essay on Twitter Tuesday with the caption, ?I hope this helps,? the Marblehead native received over a thousand comments online wishing him well and thanking him for sharing.
Love Letters
We?re happily married with kids, but this flirtation has been going on for five years.
Efforts to load the dead animal into a Dumpster for transport didn?t go quite as planned.
Indira A.R. Lakshmanan
Trump?s (mis)understanding of the most rudimentary rules of trade and foreign policy has him wielding a blunt cudgel where a sophisticated tool is needed.
Movie Review
?Blaze? is Ethan Hawke?s fourth and best feature as a director; it?s immensely touching, and only deceptively shapeless.
HELP DESK
Recycling clothing of good quality and donating it to local charities can have a lasting effect.
Opinion | Jill Abramson
Christine Blasey Ford must be ready to face what confronted Anita Hill in 1991.
Stranger in the house
The need for home care is soaring, and much of it is done by immigrants willing to take on this hard and low-paying work.
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A review of Gordon?s performances in six games in 2017 and 2018 show three areas he can contribute to immediately in New England.
The work is taking place after last week?s disaster in the Merrimack Valley. AG Maura Healey said she will oppose any request from the utility to pass costs on to ratepayers.
The 2,510-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bath home was built in 1959 and has an atrium with a waterfall at its center.
The Democratic gubernatorial nominee has proposed taxing the state?s richest universities and colleges to the collective tune of $1 billion each year. Those schools quickly panned the proposal.
President Trump sought Wednesday to soothe those who suffered losses in Hurricane Florence, declaring that ?America grieves for you? as he surveyed damage.
The former owners of the Suffolk Downs racetrack site have always believed they were wronged by the state gaming commission.
When mechanical problems grounded the Boston Symphony Orchestra?s plane in Paris, quick thinking and resourceful teamwork ensured that the show went on.
Ani Catering & Café runs a brisk office catering, but visiting in person still feels like a secret. It shouldn?t be.
They?re widely underrepresented in clinical trials for cancer drugs, even when the type of cancer disproportionately affects them.
In a special bonus episode, Meredith Goldstein explores what happens to summer romance when the summer ends, and ?Wet Hot American Summer? creator David Wain shares a girl-crazy memory from his own camp days.
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Slightly more than a third of all home purchases were made by millennials over the past year.
Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan spoke at a Globe event on how innovation is shaping our world, and she?s in high demand among the hundreds of mayors gathered in Boston.
A true-crime podcast about the most valuable ? and confounding ? art heist in history: the theft of 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
The Big Picture
Hurricane Florence brought heavy winds and rain to the Southeast coast of the United States, leaving devastation in its wake.
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