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Checks conducted after the shootout showed ??the person killed, without a shadow of a doubt, is Anis Amri, the suspect of the terrorist attack,?? one official said.
Shirley Leung
For harbor garage project, space is the current frontierWe end 2016 the way we started: fussing over the details of Don Chiofaro?s Boston Harbor Garage project.
1 dead, 1 injured in crash on Falmouth roadOne high school student was killed and another suffered life-threatening injuries in a one-car crash in Falmouth Thursday night.
Watch Dan Koh run ? but for what?Chiefs of staff usually work in the shadows. But in Dan Koh, Boston City Hall has something it has not seen since 1968.
Toy companies are releasing a new category of board games that embrace, not avoid, our smartphone habits.
Serial killer Gary Lee Sampson makes statement in courtIt is the first time the public has heard from the 57-year-old Sampson since his violent crime spree in 2001.
Is ?Boston Winter? the best thing to happen to City Hall Plaza?Fourteen days since its delayed grand opening, the village has attracted 5,000 weekday and 15,000 weekend visitors on average.
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Before lunchtime Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump said he would expand the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Man says he was kicked off flight over Ivanka Trump A man claims he and his husband were removed from a Florida-bound flight after his spouse ?expressed displeasure? about flying with Trump and her husband.
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The sleigh is packed and ready for takeoffGlobe Santa?s helpers have noticed an increase in the number of letter-writers who say they have paused at the thought of asking for a helpful hand.
It?s great to have the kids home from college. Right? Maine dad Dan Howard shared a two-minute video of himself describing what life is like now that his daughter has moved back in for Christmas break.
Our favorite holiday tradition: Hotel ChristmasWhat fun is holiday travel if that?s all we ever did during our time off? And so, a new tradition was born. Behold, Hotel Christmas.
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Being fiercely independent and a ?control freak? helped the filmmaker wend his way from the central California farm country of his youth to a galaxy far, far away.
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At Mida, serving charm with the handmade pastaThe South End nook features an Italian-influenced menu from chef Douglass Williams, previously at Coppa, Radius, and Corton.
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The Enlightenment had a good runAround the world, voters have placed their faith in authoritarian leaders.
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Bob Neumeier, Sean McAdam to be let go by CSNThe long-established veterans will be terminated at the end of the year.
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Trump?s promises are about to collide with realityWe are about to see a collision between complexity and simplicity ? and it will be a public-policy pile-up for the ages.
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Pat and Dina Lacey had been parents for only a few months when doctors discovered a tumor in their new baby?s chest. Told to take their son home to die, they put their faith in a young doctor who wouldn?t accept death as the answer.
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The San Antonio solutionOne Texas city took on mental health as a community and became a national model. Why can?t Mass. do the same?
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.
Isaiah Thomas scored 28 points and Boston outscored Indiana, 29-9, in the second quarter.
A Nativity scene was displayed at the State House while Boston atheists unfurled a banner on the Boston Common.
Well before the Massachusetts Turnpike was built, this New England Colonial graced its Newton street. Converted into condos in 2015, the home retains its welcoming front porch and its charm.
The program?s elimination could make it more complicated for Trump?s administration to launch its own registration system for Muslims.
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A few years back, motorists leaving Rte. 95 and driving down Rte. 1 South in Westwood could look to the right and see a group of businesses: a daycare center, menswear store, pool and patio company, and some warehouses. David Rosenberg, president of Prime Motor Group, who drove by daily, instead saw that large parcel [?]
In a scientific triumph that will change the way the world fights a terrifying killer, an experimental Ebola vaccine tested on humans in the waning days of the West African epidemic has been shown to provide 100 percent protection against the lethal disease.
Barclays Plc was sued by the US Justice Department for allegedly deceiving investors who bought mortgage-backed securities, according to court papers.
Author James Patterson tops Forbes?s author list and Josh Bell of Cambridge was awarded a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Garrett Zevgetis?s ?Best and Most Beautiful Things? and James Bluemel?s ?Exodus? are holiday season reminders of what matters most.
A roundup of local celebrity sightings and news of note.
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NASA?s Operation IceBridge has been studying how polar ice has evolved over the past eight years.
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With Carrier, Trump exposes rift between unions and leadersSomehow Donald Trump, who claims a net worth of $10 billion, was standing up for the little guy, against their own union boss.
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A Gardener?s GardenThe lush landscape around Andrew Grossman?s home and studio is a showcase of possibilities.
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Italian news agency says man killed in Milan is the Berlin Christmas market suspect
Bob Neumeier, Sean McAdam to be let go by CSN
Millennials aren?t lazy, they?re workaholics
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