While investigators continued the process of determining the cause of the Back Bay fire, a poignant City Hall ceremony spoke to its terrible cost.
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The Rev. Daniel Mahoney, chaplain of the Boston Fire Department, has tended to 51 fallen firefighters.
Firefighters’ rituals steeped in traditionThe somber customs honoring firefighters killed in the line of duty are playing out in dramatic succession across Boston right now.
Prayers, offerings pour in for firefightersSince word of the deaths of two firefighters stationed on Boylston Street began to spread, tributes have piled up at the firehouse.
Shirley Leung
Boston’s new mayor has turned the casino licensing process into the biggest poker game in town.
Todashev reports leave Waltham wondering about 2011Two separate reports confirmed that Ibragim Todashev confessed last May in Orlando that he was involved in the 2011 slayings of three men.
For owner Henry Wein, the decision to close up his shoe store in East Boston on Sunday is a heartbreaking one.
Christopher L. Gasper
The sides met where Wilfork will still reside in the New England defense: in the middle.
BetaBoston
FDA approves Biogen Idec’s hemophilia drugThe approval gives the huge Cambridge biotech company entry into a market that could be worth billions of dollars.
opinion | Prodita Sabarini
‘The Act of Killing’ doesn’t endSo far, neither Indonesia nor the United States has faced the truth in the massacre of nearly a million people.
Amir Johnson’s putback of a Kyle Lowry missed layup with 7.1 seconds left completed a late Toronto rally.
Lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev allege his brother, Tamerlan, was asked to report on the Chechen and Muslim community.
Vladimir Putin called President Obama to discuss a proposal for a diplomatic resolution to the Ukraine crisis.
Support for Obama’s health care law is languishing at its lowest level since its passage, according to a new poll.
A crop of entrepreneurs are betting that the technology behind Bitcoin can be used for a range of financial tasks.
The book about the criminal justice system is less a public-policy book than a deeper exploration of what it means to punish.
The smell on this brew is louder than its bite. The first sip is nice and buttery, with a pepper kick and a smooth vanilla finish.
Globe Talks
A conversation with Governor Dukakis Join a conversation about transportation with former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and the Globe’s Doug Most.
ideas
The custom justice of ‘problem-solving courts’A new kind of court is reshaping the American legal system — with little oversight.
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