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Company related to firm in garage collapse death was cited in 2018

The company overseeing the demolition of the Government Center Garage where an Easton man was fatally injured Saturday was cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 2018 when another employee was killed during the construction of the Encore Boston Harbor casino in Everett, records show.

Government Center Garage has troubled safety history

The site of a building collapse at Government Center Garage, where a construction worker died over the weekend.

Family of worker killed in garage collapse ‘overwhelmed’ by gestures of support

Coming soon to your benefits package: student debt relief
As companies struggle to hire and retain workers during a nationwide labor shortage and waves of post-pandemic turnover, nearly one-third of large employers are offering to help pay off one of the biggest debts young people owe.

Celtics’ Robert Williams reportedly suffers torn meniscus, will be evaluated further

Williams has been a defensive bright spot for the Celtics, who just jumped into a tie for No. 1 in the Eastern Conference.

Celtics reach No. 1 in the East after shellacking Timberwolves, but Robert Williams injures knee

Hospitals on high alert for possible Russia cyberattacks
Health care entities in Mass. have been victims of Russia-based cyberattacks in the past and more could be on the way.

RUSSIA-UKRAINE: THE LATEST

Support for Ukraine shown at Oscars

Oscar night

Left to right, Patrick Wachsberger, Eugenio Derbez, Sian Heder, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, Emilia Jones, Daniel Durant, Amy Forsyth, Philippe Rousselet, and Fabrice Gianfermi, winners of the Best Picture award for ‘CODA’, posed in the press room at the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood.

‘CODA,’ filmed in Gloucester, wins best picture at the 2022 Oscars

The Academy Awards named an unabashed crowd-pleaser, the deaf family drama “CODA,” best picture Sunday, handing Hollywood’s top award to a streaming service for the first time. The film was shot and set in Gloucester and directed by Cambridge native Sian Heder.

Other winners: 'CODA,' filmed and set in Gloucester, wins best adapted screenplay

Will Smith slaps Chris Rock onstage during the 94th Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Matthew Gilbert

An ugly moment makes the wrong kind of Oscars history

There were highs, and, oh yes, there were lows. The emotional nadir of the Oscar telecast on Sunday night was the extremely tense confrontation between presenter Chris Rock and Will Smith.

Will Smith hits Chris Rock on stage during the 94th Academy Awards.

What just happened? Will Smith hits Chris Rock in the face, curses him out

Lupita Nyong arrived at the Oscars on Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

The Oscars’ best dressed men, women . . . and salad greens?

Here's the full list of 2022 Oscar winners and nominees

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Unfinished justice

The state’s high court in 2017 struck down a murder law that had condemned men who never killed to die behind bars. But what about those already facing that dire penalty? They are waiting.

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Xander Bogaerts recently was coaxed into his first trip to Sanibel Island, off Florida's Gulf Coast. Here he watches pelicans fly overhead as he towels off after a dip in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Chilling at Sanibel Island beach with Aruba native Xander Bogaerts

On a rare day off, the Red Sox All-Star shortstop fielded an array of questions about the upcoming season, his leadership role, and other off-the-field topics.

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Should we give it another shot, now that we live in the same area again?

We broke up after he got a job transfer, but we stayed in touch.

Pamela Whynot gave student Kole Conlon a whirl at the Pacheco Autism Center and Daycare. Whynot works three part-time jobs in addition to her 14 to 16 hours as an intern helping young people with a mental health diagnosis develop social and emotional skills.

More people need mental health care. But those who want to help them pay dearly.

At a time when people wait weeks or months for mental health treatment, the people training to be therapists confront one hurdle after another — most of them financial.

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Farm 8 employees work inside an indoor vertical farm in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on Feb. 23, 2021.

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We can eat our way out of climate change

New innovations in agriculture could be one of the most potent carbon-reversal opportunities.

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From vaccines to North End restaurants, Mayor Michelle Wu creates her own equity problems

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Multiple breadbasket failures: Nations must address looming food emergencies

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Jan. 6 committee to seek interview with Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice

The Jan. 6 House panel is poised to discuss Monday whether to seek an interview with Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, about her text messages with a top White House official about overturning the 2020 election, officials familiar with the matter said.

Biden’s $5.8 trillion budget plan: Higher taxes on rich, lower deficits
President Biden's budget blueprint calls for higher taxes on the wealthy, lower federal deficits, more money for police, and greater funding for education, public health and housing.

Surging costs of both fuel and food weigh on food pantries, and the people they serve
Rising prices for essentials like food and fuel have driven Americans to food pantries and assistance programs in droves.

Fast times for New Balance: New Methuen plant to employ 200 by year’s end on strong demand
The company received nearly $1 million in state tax credits to open plant, and it will employ three times as many people as it originally promised there.

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This week’s TV: Chris Wallace talks Fox and fiction, Julia Child cooks, and Gary Oldman gets bossy
Wallace, who is helping to launch CNN+ Tuesday, says it was time for him to leave Fox when people at the news network started "to question the truth." Also, a peek at new shows premiering this week.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Pulling back the curtain on Boston’s new exam school admission process
School officials are asking families to be patient as they await admission decisions, which might not come out until late April or early May

BU’s ‘Jenga Building’ is coming together above the Charles River

The glassy, 19-story computer science building will be a landmark on the city’s western skyline.

Boston police department sees biggest overtime drop in a decade
And the three other things you should know about last year’s police earnings.

‘There’s no way to get back 22 years’: Black officer wrongly accused of cocaine use plans to build school in Honduras with settlement money
Richard Beckers was one of five Black police officers owed millions in backpay after two decades of litigation. Now, he wants to give it away.

Milton girl, 13, killed in boating accident in Aruba, is remembered as ‘an angel’ with ‘an ear-to-ear smile’
Cassidy Murray, a seventh-grader at Buckingham Browne & Nichols, was fatally injured in a boating accident Wednesday evening, her grieving family said Friday.

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A scene from the Broadway production of "Six." A touring version of the show will come to the Emerson Colonial Theatre Nov. 9-Jan. 15, 2023.

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"Beyond King Tut" is coming to Boston this spring.

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The Massachusetts House of Representatives has not had an Equal Employment Officer for 15 months.

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Beacon Hill lags on sexual harassment

How do you respond when something that raw comes out of seemingly nowhere?

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An ugly incident raises this question: How do you respond to sudden bigotry?

Lew Zackin shops in Newton on March 16 with his mask on. He is not planning to go maskless in public even though the guidelines say he can.

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The science says we need to remain vigilant about COVID

Misinformation in Spanish has rapidly spread on social platforms — and often gone unchecked or left up longer than it survives in English.

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Social media platforms must address Russia’s Spanish-language misinformation

A guard in a protective suit watched over a barricaded community locked down in Beijing on Monday.

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Company related to firm in garage collapse death was cited in 2018

Family of worker killed in garage collapse ‘overwhelmed’ by gestures of support

A cousin of 51-year-old Peter Monsini, the construction worker who died Saturday in a nine-story fall at a job site at Boston’s Government Center Garage, said Sunday that the family has been “overwhelmed” by the outpouring of community support following the tragedy.

Government Center Garage has troubled history; closed in 1981 for safety issues

Boston’s Government Center Garage, the scene of a fatal construction accident Saturday that claimed the life of 51-year-old Peter Monsini, once closed for half a year in the 1980s after city officials had deemed the property structurally unsafe.

Hospitals on high alert for possible Russia cyberattacks

Health care entities in Mass. have been victims of Russia-based cyberattacks in the past and more could be on the way.

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Robert Williams left the game on Sunday in the third quarter.

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Celtics’ Robert Williams reportedly suffers torn meniscus, will be evaluated further

Williams has been a defensive bright spot for the Celtics, who just jumped into a tie for No. 1 in the Eastern Conference.

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Stanford players, including Haley Jones (30), Hannah Jump (33), and Lacie Hull (24),celebrate as confetti flies after Stanford beat Texas 59-50 in the Elite Eight.

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Stanford dispatches No. 2 Texas to gain Final Four

Stanford's Lexie Hull scored 20 points in front of her hometown crowd.

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Frozen Four 2022: The best of the West will play for title in Boston

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The surging Celtics lack depth. Do they rest injured players or worry about seeding in the East?

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South Carolina bound for Final Four after ending Creighton’s run

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Jan. 6 committee to seek interview with Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice

Biden pitches $5.8 trillion plan with record tax hike

(Bloomberg) -- President Joe Biden unveiled a $5.8 trillion budget request designed to appease moderate Democrats on Monday, with a proposal that emphasized deficit reduction, additional funding for police and veterans, and flexibility to negotiate new social spending programs.

Biden’s $5.8 trillion budget plan: Higher taxes on rich, lower deficits

Hospitals on high alert for possible Russia cyberattacks

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John Revelstoke Rathom was among the most famous journalists in the United States before he was blackmailed by the government in 1918.

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The writer’s mother dressed up to watch the Oscars at home in Florida. She’s holding her grandchild, the writer’s daughter.

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Company related to firm in garage collapse death was cited in 2018

Family of worker killed in garage collapse ‘overwhelmed’ by gestures of support

Coming soon to your benefits package: student debt relief As companies struggle to hire and retain workers during a nationwide labor shortage and waves of post-pandemic turnover, nearly one-third of large employers are offering to help pay off one of the biggest debts young people owe.

Celtics’ Robert Williams reportedly suffers torn meniscus, will be evaluated further

Hospitals on high alert for possible Russia cyberattacks Health care entities in Mass. have been victims of Russia-based cyberattacks in the past and more could be on the way.

‘CODA,’ filmed in Gloucester, wins best picture at the 2022 Oscars

An ugly moment makes the wrong kind of Oscars history

What just happened? Will Smith hits Chris Rock in the face, curses him out

The Oscars’ best dressed men, women . . . and salad greens?

Here's the full list of 2022 Oscar winners and nominees

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Dear home staging client, your house is lovely, but please throw away everything you own immediately! As home sellers fall under the influence of TikTok staging stars and throw-pillow-focused reality TV shows, a home-staging arms race is building.

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More people need mental health care. But those who want to help them pay dearly.

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From vaccines to North End restaurants, Mayor Michelle Wu creates her own equity problems

Multiple breadbasket failures: Nations must address looming food emergencies

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I was convinced I didn’t have Lyme disease. But guess what?
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Dear home staging client, your house is lovely, but please throw away everything you own immediately!
As home sellers fall under the influence of TikTok staging stars and throw-pillow-focused reality TV shows, a home-staging arms race is building.

Biden’s $5.8 trillion budget plan: Higher taxes on rich, lower deficits
President Biden's budget blueprint calls for higher taxes on the wealthy, lower federal deficits, more money for police, and greater funding for education, public health and housing.

Surging costs of both fuel and food weigh on food pantries, and the people they serve
Rising prices for essentials like food and fuel have driven Americans to food pantries and assistance programs in droves.

Fast times for New Balance: New Methuen plant to employ 200 by year’s end on strong demand
The company received nearly $1 million in state tax credits to open plant, and it will employ three times as many people as it originally promised there.

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Pulling back the curtain on Boston’s new exam school admission process
School officials are asking families to be patient as they await admission decisions, which might not come out until late April or early May

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And the three other things you should know about last year’s police earnings.

‘There’s no way to get back 22 years’: Black officer wrongly accused of cocaine use plans to build school in Honduras with settlement money
Richard Beckers was one of five Black police officers owed millions in backpay after two decades of litigation. Now, he wants to give it away.

Milton girl, 13, killed in boating accident in Aruba, is remembered as ‘an angel’ with ‘an ear-to-ear smile’
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