Parliament called early elections for May 25, but the president said he would not recognize any of the lawmakers’ decisions as valid.
A 22-year-old woman from Walpole is dead after a car she was driving struck a train bridge in Needham.
The UN Security Council is sending a message to President Bashar Assad’s government that civilians must be helped.
Opiates taking heavy toll on CapeThe overdoses “have become almost an epidemic problem down here,” a Yarmouth official said.
With wintry weather, scourge of potholes plague regionBelow-average temperatures and above-average snowfall have created the perfect storm of broken axles and gashed roads.
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Kenny Gaudette prepared to take aim at a target during the Dalton Gang’s Primitive Biathlon in Dalton, N.H.
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Roger Knowlton, 62, of Cabot, Vt., stepped into a snowshoe as he prepares to compete in the biathlon.
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A competitor used a ramrod to load his rifle during the biathlon.
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Judges Donald Drake (right) of Wilson Mills, Maine, and Bob Lagerstedt, of Berlin, Vt., kept warm as they waited for competitors.
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Nick Wirkkala, 33, of Winchester, N.H., ran along the biathlon course.
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Lisa Wildey, 53, of New Haven, Vt., picked up her rifle after breaking for lunch.
A New Hampshire group’s take on the biathlon is just like the Olympic version, but with the clock wound back.
The 18-year-old’s victory at Sochi made her the first American to take slalom gold since Phil Mahre in 1984.
The former MIT professor tries to balance environment and industry to cut carbon.
opinion | Simon Saradzhyan
Threat of a failed UkraineMore than 20 years since its independence, the country is still lacking cultural and political cohesion.
Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko, who dropped out of competition in Sochi, will have surgery to repair his back.
The rule change comes after a grisly Dec. 31 accident where an East Boston woman walking over the crossing was killed while it opened.
The charges are widely viewed as putting the opposition on notice that dissent would not be tolerated.
Governor Patrick cited Commissioner Olga Roche’s experience in the field of children’s protective services.
On the morning after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, most Fed officials believed that the US economy would continue to grow.
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Arms spring gently into port de bras right on point with the music in José Mateo Ballet Theatre’s “Unbridled.”
She is leaving marriage, but he cannot imagine end to 10-year relationship.
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For pregnant women, two sets of rights in one bodyA new wave of fetal-protection measures creates a collision in American law — and exposes a moral conundrum.
