The gunman shot the officers without warning, prompting the police commissioner to say that ?they were, quite simply, assassinated.?
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Governor Patrick has appointed nearly half of the state?s 411 judges, creating along the way a substantially more diverse bench.
Incoming state Senate President Stanley Rosenberg?s partner has been criticized for his social medial activity.
School group doesn?t conduct criminal checks on referees The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association lags behind athletic groups in other states in screening officials.
Clinton faces headwinds from liberals as Warren rises Liberal groups? support for Senator Elizabeth Warren puts pressure on Hillary Clinton to move further to the left.
Four sites eyed south of Boston for marijuana salesGroups across Mass. are bidding for the final approvals they need to enter the state?s medical marijuana industry.
Kevin Cullen
After decades apart, William Wallace Scott Hudson and his family are now reunited, and everyone is grateful.
Yvonne Abraham
Erasing regret, one dot at a timeThis is where mistakes go to die. Or at least to cease proclaiming themselves publicly.
Northeastern University students are working to identify every racially linked murder in the South between 1930 and 1970.
2014 Bostonians of the Year
The grocery chain?s 25,000 employees highlighted that a company formula of low prices and good wages can succeed.
DAN SHAUGHNESSY
New York?s pro teams in a losing state of mindAfter all these years of Boston arguing with New York over which city has the best teams, most of that thrill is gone.
Patriots at Jets | 1 p.m. (CBS)
The Patriots will be without all three players for Sunday?s game in New Jersey.
john l. allen jr. | all things catholic
The Vatican couldn?t have scripted a better week. Plus: The investigating nun and LCWR president speak on the nuns? report.
MOVIES
How the Maine native came to play Cinderella in the star-studded Disney adaptation of the musical.
?You must not worry about Santa Claus,? Kennedy wrote to an 8-year-old, more than 50 years ago.
Globe Santa
?We get by from shopping at thrift stores, using the public library, playing outside, and attending free cultural events,? the mother wrote.
DANTE RAMOS
Rage against the scheduling machineRelying on faceless algorithms makes it easier for employers to casually jerk workers around.
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Photos from the last four months of 2014 depicting news events and daily life around the world.
Jae Crowder, Jameer Nelson, and Brandan Wright were acquired in Thursday?s trade for Rajon Rondo.
Tuesday is the last day to apply and pay for health care coverage that begins Jan. 1.
The 296 bills signed into law was the second lowest total for any two-year Congress in records dating to the 1940s.
??We must not expect that in order for relations . . . to improve, Cuba will abandon the ideas that it has struggled for,? Castro said.
Despite areas of progress, some things have not changed since the publication of ?A Christmas Carol.?
Liv Van Dyke loves community, which is why she joined fellow readers in establishing Little Free Libraries.
For top-notch theater, there?s nothing like a night on the town at this festive time of the year.
Appropriately, the Land of Snow is where the show begins at St. Paul?s School in Concord, N.H., where ?The Nutcracker Act II? was performed last weekend.
ideas
How a Mass. man invented the global ice market An entrepreneur?s 1806 scheme to sell chunks of frozen New England ponds still shapes how we live.
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