Formerly a leader on land mine ban, Obama now balks

President Obama?s administration has repeatedly delayed a review of the issue.

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An ownership tangle for an Everett site may have two felons in the mix.

Rio Ferguson, 10, shoots a Smith and Wesson 626 .22-caliber revolver at a target at Marlborough Fish and Gun Club.

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Gun controversy lost on new shooting stars

Competitive marksmanship is a growing draw for children and teens.

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US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with Egypt?s new president, hoping to thaw relations.

Ebola getting ?out of control?

Sierra Leone defended its record although more than 330 have died.

Benjamin Corey and his mother, Mary Dawn Small, say they have enough money to pay for a year at Tufts University.

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College costs top inflation, even with financial aid

The out-of-pocket cost to attend most of the top private colleges in Mass. has risen sharply, even as family incomes stagnated, according to a Globe review.

A patient broke a window to jump to his death at the Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center. A request for shatterproof windows was approved a day later.

A warning, a delayed repair, a patient dies

The day after a patient jumped to his death at a hospital in the South End, funds were approved to replace the glass windows.

Colin and Joan Diver, in 1987. They were among the families profiled by J. Anthony Lukas in ?Common Ground,? the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on court-ordered busing in Boston in the mid-1970s.

Yvonne Abraham

Reflections on busing

Colin and Joan Diver came to symbolize the white flight that gutted Boston?s schools ? an exodus from which the city is still struggling to recover.

Cornerback Darrelle Revis is keeping his eye on the ball and allowing others to boast they are the best in the game.

Darrelle Revis insists he has nothing to prove with Patriots

Revis says he doesn?t need to prove he?s the NFL?s premier cornerback. Those around him say he?s motivated to do just that, though.

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To virtually stage a property is to populate its rooms with lifelike digital renderings of furniture and accessories.

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