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MBTA resets the price tag for fixing its system to $10 billion Just a few years ago, in 2015, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said its repair backlog stood at $7.3 billion.

Kevin Cullen When one mother lost her son, ?the boys? were there for her Joey Lopez died five years ago, but his friends are with his mother, Susan, for the long haul.

Hikers had previously warned each other about Cape Cod man charged in Appalachian Trail slaying He was nicknamed ?Sovereign,? and had been terrorizing hikers on the Appalachian Trail with a knife so large it looked like a machete.

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