Even as the casino industry?s main trade group blasted a proposal to give gamblers tools that could help them limit their losses on slot machines, the chairman of the state Gaming Commission said such a program is very likely to be implemented in the state?s soon-to-opened casinos.
James Comey said Boston officials have ?a pretty good handle? on security after similar big trials elsewhere.
Martha Coakley?s office said it has offered to negotiate with Steward despite an agreement to keep Quincy Medical Center open through 2017.
Mayor Walsh fires eight longtime city employeesThe fired include the executive director of Boston?s Landmarks Commission and the city?s director of recycling.
Investigators were looking for evidence connected to the missing woman, Jaimee Mendez, at Floating Bridge Pond.
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Two Palestinians stormed a Jerusalem synagogue complex, killing four men, three of them rabbis. A police officer died later.
Several feet of lake-effect snow blanketed the Buffalo area and forced the closure of a 132-mile stretch of the state Thruway.
Opinion | PAUL MCMORROW
Pay-to-play allegations in the Mass. beer industry can be blamed on one bad player ? the state itself.
PATRIOTS NOTEBOOK
In each game of their six-game win streak, the Patriots scored first; four times, they scored a touchdown on their opening drive.
BetaBoston
The money will support an initiative that seeks to shape policy for future technology such as self-driving cars and delivery drones.
DANTE RAMOS
Soccer stadium could create an urban opportunity, if done rightThe project would forever alter what?s now a no-man?s-land between the South End and South Boston.
Lester and his family live in the Atlanta suburbs, making the Braves an intriguing option for the 30-year-old.
The spruce was cut from a backyard, where, for the past 17 years, the only decoration that hung on it was an old tire swing.
Since the election, the governor-elect has returned to urban areas where voters are usually hard pressed to find GOP politicians.
GOP leaders vowed to take up and pass the bill next year if the Senate fails to advance the measure, or President Obama vetoes it.
The shortfall could deal another blow to southern Europe?s bruised economies as they limp out of a protracted financial crisis.
Even though it is displayed in a dim room, the colors in this superb pastel by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) fairly leap out at you.
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A portrait often pauses events and allows viewers to look into the eyes of the participants.
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The Piano Guys: ?A Family Christmas?Enter to win a pair of tickets to see the Utah-based classical-pop group, which is bringing its tour to Boston on Dec. 9.
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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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