Unlimited permits strain Boston?s parking system

Boston has a policy of offering residents an unlimited number of parking permits for free and many are taking advantage.

Weymouth police are investigating the incident, along with the Norfolk District Attorney?s office and State Police.

Weymouth man killed; mother found dead

Paul Campbell, who held at least one knife when he was shot dead by police, is suspected in the stabbing death of his mother.

US Olympic Committee president Lawrence F. Probst III, talked about the selection of Boston as an applicant to host the Games at a news conference in Boston on Jan. 9.

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Olympics bid will be a political campaign like no other

Boston?s Olympic effort will feature a campaign that spans the world to promote the city to a tiny electorate of barely 100 people.

Participants in a rally in Boston on Martin Luther King Day held signs and chanted.

Protests and pleas mark MLK Day in Boston

Hundreds flooded downtown Boston on Monday to honor the slain civil rights leader and call for police restraint and justice in the courts.

Obama, GOP aim for vote on war

GOP leaders have pledged to work with President Obama to give him flexibility in the battle against the Islamic State.

Fruits and chicken vacuum-dried in a microwave.

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Natick lab strives for durable, delicious military rations

Lauren Oleksyk, leader of the Army?s sole incubator for food innovation, is tasked with creating menus that can withstand the battlefield.

Boston police arrest New York man in 2014 killing

The 24-year-old man was charged in the death of a woman whose body was found in Boston last July.

In October, a crew in Falmouth used a gauge to measure wind speed and aimed their mist blowers at the ground to limit dispersal of the chemicals in the air.

Cape residents protest NStar?s use of herbicides

The company recently ended a four-year, self-imposed moratorium on the controversial method of controlling vegetation beneath its power lines.

NFL playoffs

Cameron Fleming, Rob Gronkowski, and Julian Edelman celebrated their win Sunday.

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Detractors can?t stop trying to take the air out of the Patriots

With the Patriots going to the Super Bowl for the sixth time in 14 years, it seems like everybody outside New England hates the Pats.

01/18/15: Foxborough, MA: Patriots head coach Bill Belichick smiles as he hoists the AFC Championship Trophy following New England's victory. The New England Patriots hosted the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC Championship Game at Gillette Stadium. (Globe Staff Photo/Jim Davis) section:sports topic:Patriots-Colts

Belichick says he didn?t know about alleged deflated footballs

Patriots coach Bill Belichick said the team would cooperate with an NFL investigation of the balls used in Sunday?s game.

Indianapolis Colts head coach Chuck Pagano walks off the field after the NFL football AFC Championship game against the New England Patriots Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, in Foxborough, Mass. The Patriots defeated the Colts 45-7 to advance to the Super Bowl against the Seattle Seahawks. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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If we?ve seen this before, why hasn?t Chuck Pagano?

The Colts? coaches know that they?re allowed to switch up the game plan occasionally, right?

Genetech, headquartered in south San Francisco, does not plan to open a research and development facility in the Boston area.  ?We do deals with Boston companies. But we go wherever the science is,? an executive said.

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Though a leader in biotech, not all firms flocking to Boston

Pharmaceutical companies have been converging on Mass., but for some, California remains a better place to spark entrepreneurial activity.

Nicole Bollerman, a third-grade teacher at UP Academy in Dorchester, appeared on the Ellen Degeneres Show on Monday.

Dorchester teacher on ?Ellen Show? after donating to school

Nicole Bollerman donated to her school $150,000 that she won in a contest, earning her an appearance on Ellen DeGeneres?s show.

Novelist Allen Kurzweil at his home in Providence.

Decades later, writer Allen Kurzweil tracks down a bully from his childhood

Kurzweil?s new book chronicles his quest to discover what happened to the boy who tormented him.

Opinion

Paul Reville

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/01/17/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/reville-1268.jpg The next steps in education reform

Once again, we need to ask: What more needs to be done?

The Big Picture

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The Naga tribes of Myanmar

Around 120,000 people live in the Naga Self-Administered Zone, where they survive mainly by subsistence farming and hunting.

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