The person who supervised the troubled rollout is retiring, administration officials said.
The evacuation is a precaution in case winds change as some derailed cars continue to burn, officials said.
The prisoners’ release is part of a US-brokered package to restart Mideast peace talks.
The social worker, who was fired Dec. 16 in the case of a missing Fitchburg boy, was promoted on Nov. 27, according to officials.
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Twice rendered paralyzed playing the game he loves, Tom Smith hopes the orange line two feet away from the boards will be permanently adopted as hockey’s warning track.
For many visitors to the Higgins Armory Museum, it’s hard to believe it will close for good tomorrow after 83 years.
ON FOOTBALL
There are six head coaching jobs open in the NFL, and there may be even more when all is said and done.
The Boston doctor’s 1975 manslaughter conviction for performing a legal abortion was overturned on appeal.
JAMES CARROLL
Was Jesus ‘white’? Wrong questionIf Christians had not forgotten that Jesus was a loyal son of Israel from birth to death, the history of the last 2,000 years would be very different.
The short-time Patriot joins the new venture being launched by the SEC and ESPN.
The father of Ibragim Todashev said he e-mailed President Obama photographs of his son’s bullet-ridden body and urged Obama to investigate.
The attacks on Sunday and Monday highlight the terrorist threat Russia is facing as it prepares to host February’s Winter Olympic Games.
Republicans are eyeing many Senate seats in 2014, but also face a challenge with the Tea Party.
In another setback for the drug, the FDA said sufficient evidence has not been submitted to show the benefits of Lemtrada.
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Hendry Nelson is very much her own woman in these linked essays that take family dysfunction up the so-called “ladder of abstraction.”
The Harvard Business School found that getting excited -- rather than relaxed -- about singing or speaking in public was a far more effective way to reduce performance anxiety.
Globe Talks | Jan. 10, 8:30 a.m.
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Countdown to SochiJoin The Boston Globe, Liberty Mutual Insurance, and former members of Team USA for a light breakfast and panel discussion.
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What we learned in 2013From dashcams in Russia to the power of Black Twitter, here are some of the things we would never have known if not for 2013.
