Officials and business leaders will establish a panel to study health care prices and increased funding for community hospitals.
A hiker who died in 2013 after going off the Appalachian Trail in Maine kept a journal and apparently survived for at least 26 days.
Hiker?s haunting messages: ?Lost since yesterday?Geraldine Largay disappeared mysteriously from the Appalachian Trail on July 23, 2013. Her body was not found until October 2015.
Handgun used to murder Auburn officer was stolenJorge Zambrano fired the .45 caliber pistol five times, hitting Auburn Police Officer Ronald Tarentino Jr. in the back, officials say.
Starts & stops
MBTA GM dealt with cancer throughout agency?s tumultuous yearAfter Frank DePaola was diagnosed with cancer during the winter of 2014, slowing down wasn?t an option.
State Dept. audit blasts Clinton e-mail practicesA State Department audit faults Hillary Clinton and other secretaries of state for poorly managing electronic communications.
11 states sue over federal transgender directive Maine is among the states bringing the suit against a federal directive to US schools to let transgender students use the facilities that match their gender identity.
The new policy is the result of heightened concerns about lead levels in schools? water.
UMass to divest endowment from fossil fuelsThe move comes as UMass and other schools face pressure from students to reallocate investments in response to concerns over climate change.
A strongly worded letter was the culmination of a probe Maura Healey?s office launched during the height of the school?s administrative turmoil.
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Town Meeting approved a trial plan to eliminate one of two westbound car lanes between Coolidge Corner and Washington Square.
Besieged in Salem, couple sounds alarm on drug tradeShawn Meenan and Rachel Shellabarger barricade their condo each night and have recorded footage of nearby drug deals.
Norma Torres Mendoza?s mother is an undocumented immigrant, and she feared putting her on a plane to get to the commencement.
Hiawatha Bray | tech lab
Problems may arise when we let statistics and computer algorithms do our thinking for us.
OPINION | LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS AND RACHEL LIPSON
A lesson on infrastructure from the Anderson Bridge fiasco The delays in the Anderson Bridge project hold key lessons for America?s broader inability to solve its infrastructure problems.
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Now that she?s spending less time on the runway, supermodel Gisele Bundchen has more time to save sea turtles.
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The Twitter war between Elizabeth Warren and Donald Trump continued on Wednesday.
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Museum in Clinton sending back icons to RussiaCalling it an ?international misunderstanding,? the Museum of Russian Icons is returning 16 religious artworks to Moscow for inspection.
After receiving an overwhelming response from the public about adopting goats, the MSPCA will host a meet-and-greet with the animals.
How Massachusetts child actors balance stage with schoolThree child actors from Massachusetts who have been appearing in New York productions are mastering a juggling act.
Comedian Jim Breuer recalled his encounter with the former football equipment manager made infamous by Deflategate.
OPINION | LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS AND RACHEL LIPSON
A lesson on infrastructure from the Anderson Bridge fiasco The delays in the Anderson Bridge project hold key lessons for America?s broader inability to solve its infrastructure problems.
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Ground Game
Could N.H. share its presidential primary day with Mass.?The GOP could significantly curb the influence of the four early primary states by linking them to a neighboring state.
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The pews grew emptier and emptier. Until at last they realized: the Congregational Church of West Medford was dying.
The Bruins GM believes Bruce Cassidy and Jay Pandolfo will help emphasize ?how we want our team to play.?
How can boaters continue to fish effectively while not trapping the 14 species of large whales prone to entanglement?
The writers signed an open letter against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
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Driver opinions on autonomous vehicles have not changed much in the past year, a survey from the University of Michigan finds.
Officials are investigating ways to protect American athletes and members of the US Summer Olympics delegation.
The Boston fund giant is offering a ?digital vault? to secure copies of all your important papers.
The charges are an effort by the FBI to pressure Robert Gentile into cooperating with the Gardner investigation, his attorney said.
The science nerds behind Cambridge-based Lamplighter are betting it all on complex flavors.
Private schools, painful secretsMore than 200 victims. At least 90 legal claims. At least 67 private schools in New England. This is the story of hundreds of students sexually abused by staffers, and emerging from decades of silence today.
Boston Globe coverage and the movie ?Spotlight??Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
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With cameras, defiance, a besieged Salem couple sounds alarm on drug trade just outside their door
Hiker who died after disappearing from Appalachian Trail survived for weeks
How could a woman just vanish?
Sheryl Sandberg graduation speech: It?s the hard days that determine who you are
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