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Police with bomb-sniffing dogs were investigating after an e-mail warned explosives had been planted in four buildings.
The agency wants to ban certain soap ingredients if manufacturers cannot prove that they are safe to use and more effective than plain soap and water.
The fake interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service allegedly never went to trial for the 2003 killings because he was deemed not mentally fit.
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The Justina Pelletier case sheds light on the fact that there are few good paths to resolution once doctors are convinced that parents are harming their child.
Dan Shaughnessy
Let’s face it, Patriots simply are not that goodDoes anyone seriously think a Patriots team without Rob Gronkowski and Vince Wilfork and Jerod Mayo is really a Super Bowl contender?
Dolphins 24, Patriots 20
Patriots run out of comeback magic against DolphinsTom Brady was picked off in the end zone on fourth down with two seconds to play, sealing a 24-20 Dolphins’ victory.
Even though the senator says she will not run in 2016, that has not stopped Elizabeth Warren boosters from promoting her profile in presidential primary states.
JAMES CARROLL
What is personhood?When animals and humans developed a relationship of love, only one species knew to wonder about the meaning of the interaction.
The Patriots didn’t make the right halftime adjustments and were out-executed down the stretch as the Dolphins rallied to win.
The campaign to get the heightened fares on The Ride rolled back was repetitive, relentless, and tedious — and it worked.
The rites for Mandela concluded in South Africa with a state funeral attended by 5,000 and watched on TV by millions.
The secretary of state returned to the Vietnam region where he once patrolled on a naval gunboat, this time to fight climate change.
Both upstarts, while aiming to reinvent cycling, have produced remarkably similar battery-backed, smartphone-enabled wheels.
Waters’s annual Christmas show is a delicious and dysfunctional antidote to the season’s warm and fuzzy feeling.
Researchers have seen some promising results with the erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil citrate (Viagra).
The start of the school year was filled with winners and memories. It’s time to toast local athletes for their achievements.
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Was Dickens’s Christmas Carol borrowed from Lowell’s mill girls? A new discovery by literary scholars highlights an unexpected inspiration.
