The Catholic Church drew up talking points on the progress it says it has made in responding to the sexual abuse of children.
A European energy company has unveiled plans for what could be the largest offshore wind farm in North America.
The decision further dims prospects of implementation of the plan before President Obama leaves office in 2017.
The visits were meant to symbolize Martin Meehan?s pledge to make the five-campus system more unified.
A Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation report says the moves leave the state deeply unprepared for an economic downturn.
Former House Speaker Robert DeLeo had testified about Probation Department hiring.
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New findings show that lowering systolic pressure can significantly reduce the chance of death or serious cardiovascular disease.
JOAN VENNOCHI
Boston voters have spoken. Except that they may not have the last word.
Boston to assign restaurants letter gradesThe new system will rate cleanliness and food safety practices, giving diners a visible tool to choose where to eat.
An alleged drunk driver intentionally rammed another vehicle on I-495 Monday, causing a crash that left one dead and one injured, police said.
Police, forensic investigators, web sleuths, and child advocates have had no luck in solving one of the state?s most puzzling cases.
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Teams are inquiring about Mookie Betts and Xander Bogaerts, and some of Boston?s pitchers.
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Lewis, who tore his ACL, finishes with 622 total yards, 18 percent of the Patriots? total and third on the team.
Missouri university leaders step downAmid protests over racial incidents, the president of the University of Missouri resigned and the chancellor of the flagship campus said he would take a different role.
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Racial tension is a longstanding issue at the school, and growing protests drew national attention.
The Great Boston Fire of 1872 spurred the rapidly growing city to begin planning for the modern era.
He has traveled so far, from near-fatal abuse to here, invisible among Maine?s poorest, in the care of grandparents who have little left to give but love.
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The Boston landmark will receive a five-candle chandelier, seized by a Boston privateer in 1746, from a closed church in the Berkshires.
When asked if he would kill Adolf Hitler as a baby, the presidential candidate emphatically answered, ?Hell, yeah, I would!?
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TPP too flawed for simple ?yes? voteWhile the administration promised a 21st-century agreement, we have yet another late 20th-century accord.
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How a big field changes the presidential primary seasonThe field has upended long-planned strategies and made this the most unpredictable GOP nomination fight in a generation.
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Thousands of Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns gathered for the annual event to mark Buddha?s descent from the heavens.
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King of the Internet of Things?The companies that build out this immense, global ?Internet of Things? will become some of the biggest and richest yet.
JOHN L. ALLEN JR. | ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
New financial revelations don?t spell doom for church reformsFrancis insisted last week that church leaders can?t serve the poor if they?re seen to ?lead the life of a pharaoh.?
Last year?s approach of using five No. 3-5 starters was a disaster; the hunt is on for an ace.
The pickup truck involved in a double fatal crash smashed through cast iron fencing and then landed in the river.
Insiders, impressed by the representative?s grit and tenacity in Congress, have been buzzing about Katherine Clark?s future.
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The two leaders had their first encounter since their feud over the agreement brought their relationship to a bitter low.
Wages and salaries grew 3.6 percent in Boston in the past 12 months, faster than the US as a whole.
The American Repertory Theater has tapped Diane Quinn, founder of Toronto?s Soulpepper Theatre Company and a Cirque du Soleil executive.
?There is no credible evidence that antioxidant supplementation positively affects health in general, or cancer risk in particular,? an expert said.
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