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Meet Tommy DeVito’s agent, the Mass. native who went viral on ‘Monday Night Football’ — fedora and all
Massachusetts native Sean Stellato, who wrote a book about his time playing football for Salem High School, became an instant internet celebrity.
Traffic headaches drag on, students go remote amid abrupt I-195 westbound bridge closure in R.I.
East Providence schoolchildren are attending class remotely and some 90,000 motorists are again facing traffic delays after the sudden closure Monday of the westbound side of the Washington Bridge on Interstate 195.
Biden meets at White House with the families of Americans taken hostage by Hamas
President Biden on Wednesday held his first in-person meeting with the families of some of the eight Americans still unaccounted for and presumed taken captive by Hamas during its deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the White House said.
APPRECIATION | MATTHEW GILBERT
Deadpan. Drama. Andre Braugher did it all, and did it so well.
Whenever the actor, known for “Homicide: Life on the Streets" and "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," was on the screen, you couldn’t help but pay attention.
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![Ray Romano and Andre Braugher in "Men of a Certain Age" on TNT.](https://bostonglobe-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/moC-ZcIjjTCZ_Z-3YBUaNJSo8E0=/480x319/filters:focal(1495x10:1505x0)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/7DO5BUOUA5B6FKPA5UXACZWOUU.jpg)
Deadpan. Drama. Andre Braugher did it all, and did it so well.
Whenever the actor, known for “Homicide: Life on the Streets" and "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," was on the screen, you couldn’t help but pay attention.
![](https://bostonglobe-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/-f9PMagms5YILNQdnIKe6aZL7Cc=/720x479/filters:focal(956.5x10:966.5x0)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/4X4ECBVHPFGBBBBLSJSFUTQCKE.jpg)
A golden ticket? Not in Boston. Home ownership alone won’t close the racial wealth gap.
Home ownership is like a golden ticket in today’s spiraling housing crisis. But attaining that status is tougher for families of color, who for decades have faced an array of racist and exclusionary obstacles that have prevented them from buying.
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