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A California businessman allegedly collected $25 million in bribes to help applicants gain acceptance to elite colleges as part of a nationwide scandal.
A 200-page affidavit lays out the lengths to which uber-wealthy parents allegedly went to help their children get admitted to schools including Yale, Georgetown, and Stanford universities.
OPINION | DANIEL GOLDEN
A journalist who investigated how the rich buy their children?s way into elite colleges reflects on the latest scandal ? and remembers when affluent readers mistook his expose for a ?how-to? guide.
Nestor Ramos
At top and not-so-top colleges and universities, the admissions game is already rigged in favor of the wealthy, and there are already separate systems for the very rich and everyone else.
Felicity Huffman and her spouse allegedly paid $15,000 to a bogus charity to improve her daughter?s test results.
Dozens of people are facing charges in what the US Attorney in Mass. called ?the largest college admission scam ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice.? Here?s how the scheme worked.
BLUE JACKETS 7, BRUINS 4
Columbus scored five unanswered goals in the first two periods and held on to hand the Bruins their second consecutive loss.
Versatile WR Cordarrelle Patterson agreed to a two-year, $10 million deal with the Bears, according to multiple reports.
NFL Notebook
The Browns are sending a first- and third-round pick in 2019, along with safety Jabrill Peppers, to the Giants for receiver Odell Beckham Jr.
DAN SHAUGHNESSY
The Red Sox lefthander made his spring debut with three innings vs. Detroit, and all was positive.
Love Letters Podcast Season 2
In Episode Four, Meredith Goldstein explores dating fatigue and hits the bars with Erin to find love IRL. Plus, hear from Lane Moore, author and host of the show ?Tinder Live.?
SCOT LEHIGH
As moves go, Nancy Pelosi?s was a veritable earthquake.
Editorial
Beacon Hill has left ?body work? businesses unregulated statewide, a loophole that sex traffickers can exploit to run storefront brothels.
JEFF JACOBY
The standard indictment against the Electoral College is that it?s antidemocratic. That?s a feature of the system, not a bug.
Cooking | Magazine
Satisfy cravings for intense flavors with three-cup chicken, beef and ginger, and pork with shiitakes.
Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia II was ousted in a recall election Tuesday night, but then put back into office on the same ballot.
Owners of bars and other liquor license holders on Tuesday discussed safety strategies and other steps to foster secure environments after two women were abducted, one of whom died.
Much of the world grounded the jetliner Tuesday following the Ethiopia crash. Boeing?s CEO spoke to President Trump and said the aircraft is safe, and the FAA said it was reviewing all available data.
Samya Stumo, 24, grew up in Sheffield and graduated from UMass Amherst in 2015 with a degree in anthropology and Spanish.
An Australian judge has sentenced the most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse to prison for molesting two choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral more than 20 years ago.
Britain?s Parliament has dealt a major blow to Prime Minister Theresa May, resoundingly rejecting her Brexit deal just 17 days before the U.K. is due to leave the bloc.
Farrah Belizaire, founder of Young, Black and Social and LiteWork Events, wants to make sure young, black professionals have a social network that works for them.
New England Development plans to start work in May on converting the top floor of CambridgeSide into about 140,000 square feet of office space.
?She keeps saying I don?t know if I?ll make it to next year, but she says that every year,? Barbara Mullay said of her mother-in-law, Agnes Mullay.
NAMES
A member of the ?Big Bad Bruins? will be portrayed on the big-screen in ?Turk.?
A 144-year-old cast iron pipe ruptured Monday night, flooding part of Commonwealth Avenue and forcing the evacuation of at least two buildings; service was restored Tuesday.
The Merrimack Valley is getting its first recreational marijuana shop.
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If it?s March, it must be time for the tournament everyone awaits all year: Munch Madness.
Dating in 2019 is?complicated. Frustrating. Sometimes completely exhilarating. In Season 2 of the podcast, Meredith Goldstein goes deep on one of her most-asked questions.
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Read a multi-part investigation into how and why the lives of promising Boston valedictorians didn?t quite turn out the way they expected.
The Big Picture
Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: winter weather, presidential candidates on the campaign trail, a Chinese New Year celebration.
The popular NESN analyst missed time last season after a cancer relapse but is in Red Sox camp and ready to go.
The MBTA?s board on Monday approved a fare increase aimed at bolstering its budget, but agreed to keep fares stable for bus riders, seniors, and riders with disabilities.
A pet snake escapes and slithers around an apartment building, a very expensive fanny pack goes missing, and other odd items from local police blotters.
From a two-bedroom condo for $399,900 in Rockport to a West End studio with a great view for $459,000.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in an interview that she opposes moving to impeach President Trump even though she believes he is ??unfit?? for office.
Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said the presence of diplomatic staff in Caracas ?has become a constraint on US policy.?
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The $35,000 base Model 3 will still be available, but the company is raising prices by 3 percent on all other models.
Charlie Kravetz, the general manager of WBUR-FM, is leaving the station to ?pursue new options,? Boston University said in a statement.
The Swedish pop star?s show, which focused mostly on her 2018 album, ?Honey,? reflected that record?s idea about the redemption you can find while dancing.
Does this sound like a dandy girlfriend?s getaway? For sure.
Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.
Pricey cancer therapies known as CAR-T are saving patients? lives. But offering them is a financial gamble for hospitals.