Authorities are searching for clues as to what led to the death of a young child and the hospitalization of another.
Eighth-graders were required to take public transit to school last year, and seventh-graders will do so this year.
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Divided Nation
Investors saw an opportunity, but the CEO of a Wisconsin paper company saw a threat to his operation and workers.
7-minute hearing sealed Hardwick boy?s fateAdvocates are questioning a decision that granted a father custody of his son a year before he allegedly put the boy into a coma.
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It is an unremarkable building, except that 42 Lomasney Way is utterly amazing, a vestige of another Boston, a witness to history.
Red Sox reconfigure coaching staff in John Farrell?s absenceBullpen coach Dana LeVangie will become the bench coach under interim manager Torey Lovullo. Triple A pitching coach Bob Kipper takes over as bullpen coach.
Charlestown, R.I.
An 80-year-old man died when he crashed into a parked pickup truck during a bicycle race Saturday in Rhode Island.
Elite N.H. prep school in spotlight with rape case set to startA former student at St. Paul?s School in Concord, N.H., will go on trial on charges of raping a 15-year-old girl.
BEN VOLIN I ON FOOTBALL
It?s the rare case where both parties can save more face with a loss than a settlement.
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As busing tore the city apart in the 1970s, two friends???one black, one white???and their teammates changed the rules of the game.
Betsy O?Donovan
Lessons in race and disparity, at gunpointWhen demographics collide with culture and racism, young, black manhood is destroyed in a stunning variety of ways.
My First Home
All we knew is that we were buying a house together, in Somerville, in the late 1990s, and everything seemed really expensive at the time.
At MGH, schooling doctors in the power of empathyContrary to popular belief, empathy ? or the ability to put yourself in another person?s shoes ? isn?t necessarily something innate.
Bond, a longtime board chairman of the NAACP, died after a brief illness, the Southern Poverty Law Center said.
Gracia Lam
Connections
It doesn?t matter how many guests you get to invite or how involved you are in the planning.
A nondescript building in Hingham houses a distillery that produces a vodka sold in more than 80 restaurants and stores.
Travel
On the road to beautiful Zion National ParkCut long ago by the Virgin River, Zion Canyon seems a living entity as it shifts, sparkles, and seemingly breathes.
This chocolate-flavored route features 12 stops that cover a fair distance of the Nutmeg State.
BOOK REVIEW
A new book argues that Robert Frost?s famous ?The Road Not Taken? may be his most misunderstood work.
Tracking the endorsements of N.H. GOP activists Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, and Rand Paul have picked up the most support from top party activists in the Granite State so far.
DANTE RAMOS
10 years after Katrina, New Orleans abounds with lessonsThe city?s uneven recovery offers hope, but also a warning.
At least 104 people died in large explosions in Tianjin, a port city on China?s northeast coast. The explosions are thought to have originated in a warehouse that contained chemicals.
Innovation Economy | BetaBoston
On-demand apps creating gigs, but not exactly jobsA parade of new app-based services are making urban life more convenient. But it can be tough to earn a real living.
JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
For Congo church, hand in politics is business as usualIt?s been an eventful few weeks for the Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where roughly half the population is Catholic.
Sheard signed with the Patriots after spending four years with the woeful Browns.
The One Hood Youth Peace Basketball League, launched in 2007, recruits players from rival neighborhoods that share a history of conflict.
Saying goodbye to a child going off to college for the first time is a thing that never changes.
The front-runners each drew large crowds of gawkers during Saturday?s stop in Des Moines.
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Lincoln has developed a concept luxury seat that can be adjusted in 30 different ways.
Authorities pulled more bodies from a massive blast site in the Chinese port of Tianjin, pushing the death toll to 112 on Sunday.
Shire?s unsolicited $30 billion offer for Baxalta was another example of shrewd global business by the company.
In a neat bit of symmetry, his BSO career will end on Sunday as it began: with Beethoven?s Ninth Symphony.
The 26-year-old Oklahoma native has embraced bright, preppy interiors while adding her own flair for quirk and California classic.
So why is a desolate, difficult-to-reach, scruffy property along the Oregon coast ranked at the top of golf wish lists?
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