Baker, the popular Republican who has presided over a strong economy, and running mate Karyn Polito won by a 2-to-1 margin over their Democratic opponents.
Pelosi says there will be ?checks and balances? on Trump administration The Democratic leader also said the voters ?have all had enough of division. The American people want peace.?
Elizabeth Warren wins another term. Is a White House run next? The high-profile Cambridge Democrat has frequently sparred with President Trump. She soundly defeated her Republican challenger, Geoff Diehl.
It?s official: Ayanna Pressley makes history The Boston city councilor will be the state?s first black congresswoman.
The measure asked voters to approve strict limits on the numbers of patients assigned to hospital nurses.
Voters rejected an attempt to roll back the state?s 2016 landmark law.
JOAN VENNOCHI
Is Charlie Baker dreaming of 2020? This is Massachusetts. Presidential dreams are part of the political DNA.
Opinion | Rachelle G. Cohen
For Elizabeth Warren, beating Mr. Cellophane was no sweat Geoff Diehl failed to lose gracefully and couldn?t keep Warren tied down during election season.
Renée Graham
Kemp used every cheap, dirty, and probably illegal trick in the book to rig his tight contest against Democrat Stacey Abrams.
SCOT LEHIGH
Not a blue wave, but an important splash The nation made a vitally important change, turning control of the House of Representatives over to the Democrats.
Editorial
In his second term, Baker needs to spend his political capital It?s time for the governor to spend some of his stockpiled political capital on key issues facing the state.
Editorial
The midterms were a referendum on Trump ? and he failed In districts across the country, Democrats picked up seats by the dozen. In the coming days, they will need to figure out how to use their new House majority.
A Bureau of Prisons official who is familiar with Bulger?s treatment said the Florida prison considered Bulger a nuisance and wanted to transfer him.
A modest majority of voters in Newton appeared to reject a pair of measures that would have banned or tightly limited the number of marijuana retail shops.
Fall River?s mayor loses confidence of city councilors In a separate decision, the council voted 6-3 to ask Jaisel Correia to resign
NICK CAFARDO I ON BASEBALL
Red Sox bullpen door may be closing for Craig Kimbrel The World Series champions will have a big offseason decision to make as their All-Star closer enters free agency seeking a multiyear deal.
Chesto means business
GE sells off Boston-based lighting division as parent company slims down Like its parent company, General Electric?s Current division sure has changed since it set up shop in Boston more than two years ago.
Globe Magazine
Help was a few feet away. Why didn?t they save her? My wife, Laura Levis, did everything she could to save herself when the asthma attack began. She went to Somerville Hospital and called 911, too. How could she have been left to die just outside the emergency room?
Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
Nestor Fabricio nuzzled his mother and father and hugged them as if he couldn?t believe they were real, as if at any moment they would disappear.
Red Sox star Mookie Betts has become a father The outfielder wrote on Instagram that he ?never knew what unconditional love meant or how it felt until I met this little princess.?
Labrie, now 23, was acquitted at trial of raping the victim, Chessy Prout, who was also enrolled at St. Paul?s at the time of the incident, but convicted of having sex with someone below the age of consent and using computer services to entice a minor.
Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff
Devra First
After No. 9 Park, the Southie girl who never wanted to leave Boston just kept opening new places to eat and drink.
JOAN VENNOCHI
The state?s political elite played dumb to the evil of ?Whitey? Leaders tainted the Commonwealth by bowing to the Bulger Brothers for decades.
It?s ridiculous that J.D. Martinez of the Red Sox wasn?t an MVP finalist ? and we probably have WAR to blame for that.
For decades, Nova Scotia has sent a tree to Boston as a gesture of holiday goodwill. But the next tree that arrives will be different from the rest.
Listing touts property as "opportunity to upgrade.
John Tlumacki/Globe Staff
The Big Picture
Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: fall colors, Halloween, and a World Series victory.
In these eight midterms races, health and medicine are front and center Voters will weigh in on issues ranging from medical marijuana to abortion rights to Obamacare.
Are we ignoring ? or outright banning ? an easy affordable-housing fix? Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.
