The budget avoids any increase in taxes or sharp shifts in policy that could anger voters in an election year.
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The FBI agent who fatally shot a Chechen friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev was the target of brutality suits with the Oakland police.
The Public Health Council approval clears the way for the $76 million project in Burlington to move forward.
Fentanyl-laced heroin has been linked to dozens, and possibly hundreds, of opioid-related deaths in the Northeast.
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A violent protest erupted in the Turkish city of Soma, where the fate of an estimated 120 miners remained unclear.
In a CNN interview, the NBA Hall of Famer mostly avoided lashing back at criticism from Donald Sterling.
DAN SHAUGHNESSY
Order will be restored to the 2013-14 NHL hierarchy. The alternative is simply unspeakable, in English or French.
Baker oversaw firm where pension funds were invested Charlie Baker’s campaign acknowledged his firm directed money from New Jersey’s pension fund toward a company he oversees.
Cathy Young
Colleges can’t play cop in sexual assault investigationsVictims are ill-served by having such offenses treated as disciplinary violations rather than crimes.
Chefs see themselves in ‘Chef’Five Boston-area chefs critique the new film “Chef,” about a Los Angeles chef working in a high-end, but soulless, restaurant.
David Ortiz was 4 for 5 with two solo home runs and two RBI singles, but Andrew Miller surrendered the game-ending home run.
The board is set to vote Wednesday to increase bus, subway, or commuter rail passes by as much as 6.5 percent.
Secretary of State John Kerry is preparing to meet Thursday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The National September 11 Memorial Museum was set to be dedicated Thursday and open to the public May 21.
Almost nobody carries cash anymore, a study shows, and those who do don’t carry much.
The former music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra has made a poignant, hard-won return to conducting, and last week he enjoyed a warm reunion with the BSO.
From the Archives | Photo gallery
Get out and playThe equipment might look different these days, but we still need to run around outside when we have the chance.
Q&A
How Catholic fashion got that way Sally Dwyer-McNulty traces how religious dress evolved in America.
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