The pay bumps will be the first for the governor?s nine cabinet secretaries since he took office in 2015. It will push their salaries from $161,500 to $170,400 a year.
911 outage continues for Mass. residents Louisiana-based CenturyLink experienced an Internet outage that is now impacting 911 calls in Massachusetts and beyond.
More than 130 crashes reported Friday around parts of Mass., N.H. Remarkably, none of those crashes resulted in serious injuries. But the chaos gripped local residents who took to social media to document the morning mayhem.
Baker signs long-awaited Airbnb bill, opening new era for industry The new rules will take effect July 1 and could transform a market that spans the state.
John Blanding/Globe Staff/File 2017
With marijuana legalization sweeping through New England, cannabis consumers in the ?Live Free or Die? state are now surrounded by places where residents are, at least in one sense, more free.
Kevin Spacey is trying to avoid showing up for his arraignment in Nantucket assault case Spacey?s attorneys filed a motion to excuse his presence at the hearing scheduled for Jan. 7 in Nantucket District Court.
Woman survives knife attack by date, who dies after police use Taser After meeting a woman through the Tinder dating app, Erich Stelzer was allegedly stabbing the 24-year-old when police intervened.
Maine governor LePage writes ?stolen election? as he signs off on results Outgoing Governor Paul LePage tweeted Friday he signed off on the results despite his dislike of Maine?s new ranked voting method.
Sears chairman seeks extension to finance bid to keep company alive Also, Sears is closing 80 more stores as it teeters on the brink of liquidation.
Monsignor James Moroney will become interim rector of the Cathedral of St. Paul and the Worcester Diocese? Office for Divine Worship.
Mass. Health Connector sign-ups rise by 9 percent This enrollment period for the insurance exchange is the smoothest here since the 2013 rollout of the Affordable Care Act, officials said.
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Bob Ryan
Upon reflection, 2018 was another year to haul out the duck boats, and another reason for Them to loathe Us.
?Better dead than coed?: Deerfield Academy confronts its male-only past One of the nation?s oldest and most elite boarding schools remains a place where female students have a sense that this is not their Deerfield.
Chad Finn | Unconventional preview
Struggles on road illustrate need for Patriots to clinch bye Sunday It shouldn?t be too difficult to beat the 4-11 Jets, but then, not much has been especially easy this year.
Dinner with Cupid
Blind date: ?I was getting nervous that I was getting stood up? Will these two daters be able to smooth over a nerve-racking start to their dinner?
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Starts & Stops
The new year will bring new trains, new policies, and ? surely ? new debates about how to fight crippling gridlock.
JOAN WICKERSHAM
In era of Trump, what?s a friend to do? The friends stayed in touch, exchanged Christmas cards, and occasionally had lunch together. Then came the election of 2016.
Letters
?My colleagues Nancy Gertner and Laurence Tribe misstate my views in their recent op-ed, ?The judge and Michael Flynn.? ? ? Alan Dershowitz
Opinion | Harvey Silverglate
National Enquirer didn?t commit a crime by killing Trump affair stories Lost in the fury of progressive ? and some conservative ? resistance to President Trump is the fact that the Enquirer did not commit a crime: Its conduct is protected by the First Amendment.
Opinion | Andrew J. Bacevich
Andrew J. Bacevich: Trump vs. the foreign policy establishment President Trump?s conviction to end misguided armed conflicts threatens the foreign policy establishment.
What Barack Obama read, watched, and listened to in 2018 The former president released his annual year-end lists on Facebook Friday.
Trump used her slain daughter to rail against illegal immigration. She chose a different path Laura Calderwood?s daughter, Mollie Tibbetts, was allegedly murdered by an undocumented immigrant and left in a cornfield this past summer.
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The Big Picture
Photographs from July to December on a range of topics from around the world.
Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
The unthinkable has been an all-too-common companion in two small neighboring towns, where six young people took their lives in the short span of 30 months. The questions keep coming: What is happening? Why? When will it stop?
Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc. The story of a profoundly troubled young man and the ugly underside of America?s most popular sport.
Court Sense Follow the Celtics? quest for a title and other NBA news both on and off the court. Sign up here.
The Bruins have lost two in a row, and Brad Marchand is ill, although he will travel with the team for Saturday?s game.
House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Senate President Karen Spilka are already among the highest-paid legislative leaders in the country.
Prices have consistently climbed faster than wages, a challenge that was overcome until last year by historically low mortgage rates. | realestate.boston.
Warren shook up her office ahead of a possible presidential run. It?s one of only a handful in the Senate to be led by a person of color.
Direct payments to some farmers, as well as farm loans and disaster assistance programs, will be put on hold beginning next week, officials said.
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The Dow fell about 75 points, or a fraction of a percent, in Friday?s trading.
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?Tense? is a show of fabric art at Fort Point Arts Community Gallery.
We wish we?d written that: our favorite stories of 2018 It?s been a busy 2018 at STAT, but we still have found the time to see what other journalists are writing ? and get jealous we didn?t do it ourselves.
Love Letters: Until next year, my sweetheart 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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Are we ignoring ? or outright banning ? an easy affordable-housing fix? Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.
