Governor Deval Patrick is leaving the State House in a ceremonial walk as he returns to life as a private citizen.
Some schools in the region already canceled classes on Thursday as wind chill temperatures were expected to hit minus 20.
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Cold weather is hardly a novelty in Massachusetts, but such periods of deep freeze are mercifully rare.
Boston may learn its Olympics fate on ThursdayThe US Olympic Committee?s board of directors meets Thursday in Denver to select its contender for 2024.
Experts said the soil sample, harvested from a meadow in Maine, could be a powerful tool in the race against ?superbugs.?
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Salvatore Guglielmino allegedly confessed the crimes to his mother and sister, saying he had ?killed them all,? according to a police report.
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Two men in their 30s and a teenager were the gunmen who killed 12 people in Paris, French officials said.
Editor of Charlie Hebdo pushed defiant campaignsStéphane Charbonnier, 47, was among 12 people killed when gunmen attacked his newspaper?s offices in Paris.
For nearly a decade, the Legislature has maintained an on-again, off-again relationship with side arms.
?Cosby Show? actress Phylicia Rashad defends Bill CosbyThe actress who played Cosby?s wife on ??The Cosby Show?? has broken her silence about the allegations of rape and sexual abuse.
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The fact that 49 voters left him off their ballots did not faze the new Hall of Famer in the least.
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The company plans to boost the diversity in its workforce by 14 percent over the next five years.
Scientists are learning new details about the famous pillars, 20 years after the columns of gas were originally photographed.
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Mass. leads in education, but it?s not because of Deval PatrickThe best one can say about overall student achievement during Patrick?s terms is that it has been stagnant.
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People across Europe are paying tribute to the 12 killed in an attack on a weekly satirical newspaper?s office.
The Bruins begin a difficult two-game stretch Wednesday in Pittsburgh before facing New Jersey Thursday.
Two Fall River women won $1 million apiece after purchasing lottery tickets on Friday.
The gunman also died in the attack, and officials have not indicated a motive for the shooting.
Moulton takes over the Massachusetts Sixth Congressional District seat from John Tierney.
The transformation of the former Boston Herald property into a high-end mixed-use development takes a big step forward.
The A&E show is as artificial as the rest of the celebreality genre. And yet, critic Matthew Gilbert found the hour surprisingly endearing.
Companies see the benefits of offering fresh food from refrigerated kiosks at low cost to their office employees.
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How Boston dreamed of its future, a century agoA peek inside an influential movement to transform a growing city ? and its unfulfilled vision for the metropolis.
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