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Investigators found a ?male-dominated? culture in a 1,500-member department that has 16 female firefighters.
Marty Walsh wants higher fees on Uber and Lyft rides City Hall sees a change in fees on ride-hail companies as a way to beat all the traffic on its streets.
Fixing the MBTA may require big service disruptions To meet a lofty transit repair goal, the T may have to replace more trains with shuttle buses.
?Lola? the Shih Tzu is missing and Boston police want your help to find the dognapper The owner ?could not believe someone had stolen the dog because she is vicious towards [strangers],? police said.
ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC all said they would air the rebuttal to President Trump?s 9 p.m. speech on a border wall and the shutdown.
Vice President Mike Pence says President Donald Trump?s recent claim that his predecessors endorsed his idea of a US-Mexico border wall was an ?impression.?
Dreams of a reinvented Cleveland Circle collided with fears of widespread marijuana use at a meeting Monday night in Brighton.
Spikes to deter homeless removed from under Route 2 bridge in Arlington State workers on Monday removed metal spikes designed to discourage homeless people from sleeping under a Route 2 bridge after Arlington officials objected to them.
Two Everett landlords arraigned in blaze that injured firefighters Everett?s fire chief described the three-alarm blaze in July as ?a worst-case scenario of what can happen when overcrowding and serious fire and building codes are ignored.?
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Inside Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy?s savvy plan to transform Massachusetts? flagship university into ?Cambridge West.?
Josh McDaniels is staying with the Patriots The offensive coordinator said on Tuesday he will not take more head coaching interviews and that he?ll remain in New England.
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DAN SHAUGHNESSy
Beware: These Chargers are no Tomato Can.
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What to expect from the Chargers, how the Patriots match up, and why RBs will be key This game should be all about the running backs, as both LA and New England rely heavily on them in the passing game.
Amazon?s visit to Boston left officials optimistic, but their sales pitch wasn?t enough, e-mails reveal A day-and-a-half visit ? detailed in e-mails discussing Boston?s courtship of Amazon ? left city and state officials believing they made a good impression. But it was not a game changer.
Kevin Cullen
Homicide detectives saw the humanity of a victim who was invisible to so many Joshua Rivera was a homeless man beaten to death in a Charlestown park, his humanity discarded or forgotten by too many.
After court appearance, Spacey is pulled over for speeding while leaving Virginia airport Kevin Spacey flew to Reagan National Airport in Virginia after his appearance in Nantucket and was pulled over for speeding.
JOAN VENNOCHI
Spikes to keep out homeless people? That?s outrageous The spikes, known as ?hostile architecture,? are designed to let people know they, like pigeons, are not welcome.
DAN WASSERMAN
Trump turned the government shutdown into the presidential shut-in, according to cartoonist Dan Wasserman.
Watch: So a moose walks into a hospital . . . The warm lobby and the fresh greenery inside must have been pretty inviting for the Alaskan animal.
In a series of Instagram stories, Kaling said she reads her daughter, Katherine, three to five titles a day.
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Boston organization honors Olympian Michael Phelps for mental health advocacy Michael Phelps is picking up more hardware ? this time for what he?s been doing outside the pool.
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Unhealthy Divide
Cancer is a tremendous burden for anyone, but for a growing number of lower-income and even middle-class patients, an illness means an avalanche of trouble.
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The Big Picture
Here are the photos from July to December that summed up the year.
Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc. The story of a profoundly troubled young man and the ugly underside of America?s most popular sport.
Court Sense Follow the Celtics? quest for a title and other NBA news both on and off the court. Sign up here.
For the last 23 seasons, the Patriots have basically had two kickers: Adam Vinatieri and successor Stephen Gostkowski.
The state legislature would need to approve a rule in Cambridge that would allow people born in the city to amend their birth certificates and choose ?X? as a gender option.
One day, finding an oven that just cooks food may be as tough as buying a TV that merely lets you change channels. | realestate.boston.
Elizabeth Warren pushed back against numerous aspects of the Trump presidency, but rarely uttered his name and refrained from the insults and direct attacks the two have traded previously.
The Russian attorney who met with Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner at Trump Tower has been charged with obstruction in unrelated case.
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People who don?t respond to HIV meds overlooked by pharma, researchers Patient advocates are pursuing orphan drug status to give companies incentives to develop new treatments.
Love Letters: Until next year, my sweetheart In a special bonus episode, Meredith Goldstein explores what happens to summer romance when the summer ends, and ?Wet Hot American Summer? creator David Wain shares a girl-crazy memory from his own camp days.
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