Groups push for higher state tax on top earners
A proposed constitutional amendment would create a two-tiered income tax system, with earnings over $1 million taxed at a higher rate.
A proposed constitutional amendment would create a two-tiered income tax system, with earnings over $1 million taxed at a higher rate.
Under state law, referendums must propose or repeal laws and cannot be used to simply gauge public support for an Olympic bid.
The Olympic organizing group said it would provide the information, under pressure from City Council and Mayor Marty Walsh.
A man with 20 driving-related violations was found guilty of killing a young woman as she was jogging in Sharon last year.
The proposal to build a $650 million casino on the New Bedford waterfront is dead, the victim of a lack of financing, according to a letter.
In a ritual dubbed ?orange chicken,?? some workers allegedly used an orange sandal to physically punish teens.
Jeb Bush criticized the federal Export-Import Bank and voiced support for Uber at an event in Manchester, N.H.
Prosecutors say Instagram images of Rashad Deihim allegedly showed him violating the terms of his house arrest.
Sandra Bland, who was found dead in a cell after a traffic stop, told jailers that she had tried to commit suicide in the past, officials said.
The 7-year-old child, weighing only 38 pounds, was brought to a hospital unconscious and with serious injuries.
Financial disclosure forms put Donald Trump?s worth in the billions, although how many billions is a moving target.
ASTROS 4, RED SOX 2
Joe Kelly allowed three home runs as the Red Sox lost for the seventh straight game.
CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER
The Red Sox general manager presented no tangible plan to fix the team when he spoke Wednesday.
The Olympic gold medalist from Needham has her sights on next year?s Games in Rio de Janeiro.
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Jenny McCarthy, wife of Donnie Wahlberg, and Rhea Durham, who is married to Mark Wahlberg, seem to have been in a disagreement.
Many applauded the diner owner for yelling at a crying toddler to be quiet, while others couldn?t believe her reaction.
Michael and Dorothy Harrington already own two other landmark inns, Hawthorne Hotel in Salem and Publick House Historic Inn in Sturbridge.
HBO says it has struck a multi-year, multi-platform deal with the former ESPN personality.
Magazine | The Green Issue
The professor from Fall River has been at the center of everything from climate change to nuclear Iran.
Granite Staters don?t love Jeb Bush?s latest talking point. They like their Mount Washington.
JOANNA WEISS
If millennials are open to an earnest, surface-scratching effort to have a real discussion about race, that?s a good start.
Globe photographer Suzanne Kreiter traveled to Cuba this summer, 21 years after her first journey there.
Margery Eagan | On Spirituality
If same-sex marriage was treated the same as remarriage after divorce, it would allow gay men and women to live, openly, as their true Catholic selves.
A blunder by US goalkeeper Brad Guzan led to one of two first-half goals for Jamaica.
The Texas lab will try to use genetic information to find relatives of the little girl whose body was found.
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Some car colors do better than others when it comes to resale value.
Some of the Marines who were shot to death last week in Chattanooga effectively sacrificed themselves to save others.
Governor Charlie Baker has won a spot on the Republican Governors Association?s nine-member executive committee.
Biogen and Eli Lilly released data Wednesday morning of separate Alzheimer?s drug candidates.
In 2013, Dr. Seuss?s widow found a box she had put aside after he died in 1991. In it was this book, to be published Tuesday.
The dish is a great alternative to ice cream because it doesn?t require any special equipment.
Design New England
A new floor plan for a renovated 1960s ranch-style house makes entertaining easy.
Brainiac
Dragonflies get their close-up in a new book by a Yale astronomer.
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