State trooper charged with assault on woman outside Dorchester bar

The trooper was suspended with pay earlier this week, according to a State Police spokesman.

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President Trump directed Michael Cohen to make hush payments to women alleging affairs with him out of concern about ?how this would affect the election,? the attorney told ABC News.

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No leading name has emerged in the days since President Trump?s preferred candidate to replace John Kelly bowed out. But the void has quickly filled with drama.

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The Salem Democrat found a way out of his increasingly uncomfortable fight with the likely new House speaker and is declaring victory.

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A Warren spokeswoman declined to comment for this story. Let us persist in speculating, then.

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The inaugural committee, like those created by other elected officials, operates independently from a candidate?s campaign account.

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Officials say the girl was found Dec. 6 by US Border Patrol agents. They say the girl was taken into custody for about eight hours and then began having seizures.

A truck after it became wedged underneath the East Street Railroad Bridge in Westwood Friday morning.

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An infamous Westwood bridge wrecked a truck Friday... again

The bridge has been the bane of drivers for years as large trucks could get stuck under the low span.

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The Cannabis Control Commission issued the licenses for two locations for Temescal Wellness as well as Northeast Alternatives in Fall River and Theory Wellness in Great Barrington.

R.I.?s Foxy Lady shut down after 3 dancers arrested for soliciting sex

Three exotic dancers were arrested after they offered to perform sexual acts on three undercover police detectives, officials said.

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Early sunsets got you down? A Quincy lawmaker has a cure for those wintertime blues.

Ted Pelkey paid a sculptor $3,000 to create the single-finger salute from a 7-foot-tall chunk of pine. Then Pelkey put it on a pole.

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A small-town feud leads to a big middle finger (literally)

The finger has been the source of much consternation in the small town of Westford, Vt. Was it some kind of political protest? Senior prank? Neighborly dispute?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/2aa124c6-32a3-484c-b965-b9dd4d35dc9a-23972.jpg Hate crimes in Mass. rose last year to their highest level in more than a decade

African-Americans were the most frequent targets, accounting for 34 percent of the incidents, followed by Jews, at 21 percent, and LGBTQ people, at 16 percent.

In this Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012 file photo, a car drives past the town line as the sun breaks the horizon, a day after the shooting of children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

Sandy Hook school receives threat on shooting anniversary

Sandy Hook Elementary School students have been sent home after a bomb threat forced an evacuation on the anniversary of the massacre that killed 20 first-graders and six educators.

Christopher L. Gasper

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/unnamed-24993.jpg If the Patriots don?t beat the Steelers, we?ll know there?s something really wrong

New England, in need of a confidence booster, has a long history of success against Pittsburgh.

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Because of a bug, about 1,500 apps could access ??a broader set of photos than usual,?? Facebook explained in a blog post.

Boston won?t get Apple?s new $1 billion campus ? that will be built in Austin, Texas. Once again, we missed out on a big-time corporate site, but online retailer Wayfair plans to add thousands of jobs here.

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Here?s what Apple?s snub says about Boston?s status as a tech hub

The region seems capable of nurturing homegrown tech wunderkinds, but the area has struggled in the trophy class of tech expansions, the new campuses with thousands of jobs.

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Here?s a look at what is ahead for each of the AFC playoff contenders.

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IDEAS | KELLY KASULIS

What makes a joke funny?

For thousands of years, humans have pondered their own humor. Yet, in 2018, a good joke is still a scientific enigma.

FILE - In this May 7, 2014 file photo, the World War I memorial cross is pictured in Bladensburg, Md. The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a nearly 100-year-old, cross-shaped war memorial located on a Maryland highway median violates the Constitution's required separation of church and state. The court announced Friday, Nov. 2, that it would hear the case. (Algerina Perna /The Baltimore Sun via AP, File)

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JEFF JACOBY

A war memorial is shaped like a cross. Is that a problem?

The Supreme Court is not going to ban a World War I memorial that has stood, without objection, for a century.

The Year in Arts: The best in music, dance, television, art, theater

From Ariana Grande to art in the #MeToo era, with Globe critics? Top 10 picks in TV, music, theater, art, and dance for 2018.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/andrew2-23959.jpg 23-year-old Vt. man?s obituary asking for ?cooling off? period in gun laws gains attention

Andrew Black shot himself Dec. 6, hours after he bought a gun, his parents told a local TV station.

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Globe staff photos of the month: November 2018

Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: a colorful sunrise, Christmas tree lightings, and high school sports.

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A Kentucky appeals court side with STAT, upholding a ruling ordering the release of Purdue Pharma records about the marketing of the opioid OxyContin.

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