Peter, or Abdul-Rahman, Kassig has been beheaded, the Islamic State group claims.
Investment brokers are fighting possible restrictions, but consumer advocates say those rules are needed to protect investors.
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Edward Kennedy?s former staffers are an informal network that is almost unrivaled in Washington in size and quiet clout.
Kevin Cullen
A lecture led by the former Supreme Judicial Court chief justice wandered into territory her late husband would have admired.
Greta Rybus for the Boston Globe
Russell ?Rusty? Brace is accused of embezzling $3.7 million from the high-profile charity he ran for 17 years in Camden, Maine.
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Buildings are going up all over the Innovation District, but the architecture, so far, falls flat.
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The new lanes on Cambridge Street should help allay community concerns about cyclist and pedestrian safety on the corridor.
Yvonne Abraham
Hosting the Olympics in Boston could make us great. So could rejecting them.
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Making arts policy a priorityThe arts are an essential component of the state?s quality of life.
Gronkowski, less than a year removed from ACL surgery, is having an MVP-caliber season.
Protesters from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York staged the ??Stop the Pipeline Statewide Summit?? in Fitchburg.
Reeling from devastating election losses, Maine Democrats are preparing to choose a new leader on Sunday.
Trash and recycling tonnages for Greater Boston suburbs with more than 8,000 households that reported the data to the state in 2012.
The group of prodemocracy activists had hoped to lobby the Chinese government to heed their calls for free elections.
Unsettling reports have catapulted foster care into the headlines, but social worker Lucy Collins insists the foster care system is far from broken.
A conversation with Jon Stewart and journalist Maziar Bahari about the new film ?Rosewater,? depicting Bahari?s time in an Iranian prison.
The road that leads to Parsons Beach in Kennebunk, Maine, is rural and lined with stately trees.
Julian Stratenschulte/Associated Press
Among the long shadows of autumn, cold temperatures, winds and snow begin the transition to winter in the northern hemisphere.
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Return to the moon Decades after that first small step, space thinkers are finally getting serious about our nearest neighbor.
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