The Thursday morning commute will be slippery, according to the National Weather Service, because the cold will keep traditional road salt from melting snow leftover from last night.
These 10 maps show just how cold ? and snowy ? it?s going to get in Mass. tonight and tomorrow Massachusetts is about to get a taste of the apocalyptic cold that?s been crippling the Midwest.
Temperatures were well below zero throughout the upper Midwest, setting records and disrupting the lives of millions of people.
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?This is more than numbers, we?re looking out for our neighbors,? said Mayor Walsh.
Toby Keith?s in Foxborough abruptly closes; restaurant rep slams ?greedy? Patriot Place Toby Keith?s I Love This Bar & Grill at Patriot Place, a popular restaurant steps from Gillette Stadium, is permanently closed.
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Maura Healey?s suit against Purdue Pharma shows recipe for addiction In excruciating detail, the lawsuit lays out how the maker of OxyContin and other opioids pushed its deadly products on vulnerable patients as aggressively as any street dealer would.
Somerville is suing opioid makers and distributors, alleging negligence and fraud Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone is calling for ?the bad actors within the opioid industry? to be held to account.
Ex-Insys sales rep details doctor bribes to sell fentanyl spray The testimony came on the third day of the landmark racketeering trial against five former company executives and directors, including the company?s founder.
Trump disputes ?naive? intelligence chiefs, suggests they ?go back to school? President Trump lashed out at his intelligence chiefs Wednesday after they told Congress that North Korea is unlikely to dismantle its nuclear arsenal and the Iran deal is working.
The Massachusetts high courts is expected to hear the Boston Globe?s lawsuit to open up the records of thousands of closed-door criminal court hearings this spring.
Settlement reached in sexual harassment case against Fall River seafood plant Over five years after the alleged workplace misconduct began, the women have agreed to a $675,000 settlement in a federal lawsuit against Atlantic Capes and BJ?s.
Holland man pleads guilty to growing more than 100 pot plants at his home Police found more than 100 marijuana plants in the home of Peter Molle Jr. in February 2017.
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Higher education is the third-largest industry in Vermont, yet the state faces a particularly acute version of the challenges that threaten the industry nationwide: decreasing enrollment.
Is Boston tired of all the winning? You could be forgiven for wondering, in the lead-up to the Patriots? ninth Super Bowl appearance in 18 years, whether the thrill has finally begun to wear off.
Second-year defensive linemen Derek Rivers, Deatrich Wise Jr., Adam Butler, and Keionta Davis make sure it?s not all work and no play.
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?The season?s a grind. It?s up and down. I?m not going to lie and sit here and say every week is the best,? he said.
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Boston?s NPR affiliate is opening a new convention location, CitySpace, and rolling out a new $40 million campaign to transform WBUR from a radio-focused to a multimedia news outlet.
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Opinion | Robert A. Pape
Off-shore balancing can achieve our most important national security objective.
Letters
Venezuela in crisis, with the world at the door Globe commentary on the leadership clash in Venezuela generated divided opinion.
Jussie Smollett attack: Police release photos of persons of interest Detectives reviewed surveillance footage of ??Empire?? actor Jussie Smollett walking to his downtown Chicago apartment, and investigators have obtained images of people they would like to question.
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Fed?s relaxed stance on interest rates is good news for investors, Wall Street Just before Christmas, the Federal Reserve Board raised rates and said more increases were coming this year. But now, policy makers are indicating they?ll hold steady.
Chesto Means Business
Connecticut lawmakers are staring at yet another budget deficit. The potential revenue could be too good to pass up.
CELTICS 126, HORNETS 94
Home, sweet home: Celtics erupt in second half, rout Hornets Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum combined to score 44 as the Celtics finished January 10-1 at TD Garden.
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This morning, the Globe will release a multi-part investigation into how and why the lives of promising Boston valedictorians didn?t quite turn out the way they expected.
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Twenty-one people died after a 15-foot wave of molasses swept through the North End in January 1919.
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Dating in 2019 is?complicated. Frustrating. Sometimes completely exhilarating. In Season 2 of the podcast, Meredith Goldstein goes deep on one of her most-asked questions.
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Reporter Ben Volin offers his thoughts on the challenge Tom Brady and the Patriots face in the Super Bowl.
All told, there were 761 violent or serious crimes on the T in 2018, down from 797 in 2017, according to Transit Police data. The five-year average from 2011 to 2016 was 998.
When complete, traffic would move through the square like a "signalized round-about," according to the developer.
Senator Elizabeth Warren is pushing a novel tax idea as one of the first major proposals of her nascent presidental campaign: A tax on the wealth of the super rich.
The Pentagon is poised to send at least 2,000 more active-duty service members, as the Trump administration continues to focus on the US-Mexico border.
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The Federal Reserve is keeping its key interest rate unchanged and signaling it could leave rates alone in the coming months given economic pressures and mild inflation.
In her book on American journalism, Jill Abramson offers a big, ambitious chronicle of the past decade, taking a focused look at what has happened in several influential newsrooms.
After ghoulish allegations, a brain-preservation company seeks redemption Robert McIntyre and Nectome are determined to claw their way out of scientific purgatory.
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.
