Low-income workers to get help with new year
Mass. will raise the state minimum wage to $10 per hour on Jan. 1 and expand a tax credit on earned income.
National Weather Service
Forecasters warn of slippery morning commute
Snow, sleet, and freezing rain are expected Tuesday morning in the Boston area, meteorologists said.
Trump pitches his candidacy to Nashua crowd
Donald Trump ranged across topics and told hundreds at a middle school gymnasium that ?this is a movement.?
Holiday spending is up, and online shopping was a winner
Retail spending rose 7.9 percent, spurred by a sharp rise in online shopping, although brick-and-motor sales declined.
Investigator clears City Hall in Teamsters incident
An investigator who reviewed City Hall?s connection to an indictment of five Teamsters members found no criminal wrongdoing by city employees.
Most patients who overdose can get new prescriptions
More than 90 percent of people who survived a prescription opioid overdose obtained another prescription, a Boston study found.
House opioid proposal differs from governor?s bill
Charlie Baker?s legislation would grant hospitals the power to force addicts into treatment ? the House bill wouldn?t do that.
Teen sentenced to 7 years for shooting at Forest Hills station
A 19-year-old Jamaica Plain man was convicted of unintentionally shooting and injuring two women in an argument with rival gang members.
Haverhill woman held on $5,000 bail in dead baby hoax
Holly Fowler and her daughter allegedly made up a story about seeing a man throw a baby into the Merrimack River.
Howard Leibowitz, key aide to Boston mayors, dies at 63
Leibowitz worked for mayors Raymond Flynn and Thomas Menino and always looked to make Boston a better city.
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Renowned abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly dies at age 92
Kelly was a world-renowned abstract painter and sculptor whose work combined an everyday French suavity with vaulting American confidence.
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Patriots can still flip right ahead to the Super Bowl
The decision to kick off in OT and the loss to the Jets will not deter them from going to Santa Clara.
Patriots release running back Joey Iosefa
The rookie was the Patriots? leading rusher against the Titans but had just one carry against the Jets.
Motorhead frontman, hard-rock hero ?Lemmy? Kilmister dies
Ian ?Lemmy? Kilmister, who was a hero for generations of hard-rockers and metal-heads, died of cancer at age 70 in Los Angeles.
Heirs to New Hampshire poet sue ?Big Bang Theory?
The daughters of a New Hampshire woman say the hit sitcom has repeatedly used lyrics their mother wrote.
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Winter Classic is about the show first, the hockey second
Since its inception with the snow-globe game in Buffalo in 2008, the Classic has been a made-for-TV event.
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Pricing will continue to be a big issue for drug companies in 2016
Of all the health care issues that loomed large this past year, none was more controversial than pharmaceutical pricing.
Inspection head dines at reopened Chipotle in Brighton
Commissioner William Christopher ate at the Beacon Street location on Monday after it reopened following a norovirus outbreak.
Tim Neverett to join Red Sox radio broadcast team
Neverett, a New Hampshire native, was offered the position last week, and the deal was formalized Monday.
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When it came to spending in 2015, Mass. said ?no?
Whether it was the Olympics or efforts to fix the T, lawmakers consistently opted against using taxpayer dollars to make big investments.
Mothers face addicts? pain, their own in ?Heroin: Cape Cod, USA?
?It?s watching your kid die,? said one parent who took in the HBO documentary.
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Iowa, N.H. could knock out 15 of 23 presidential candidates
Iowa and New Hampshire do not pick presidents. What they have done in the past is winnow the field and point the way on a few options.
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The New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance is trying to buy a professionally-made model to use for educational presentations.
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Charlie Baker touts RMV improvements
The governor talked about decreased customer wait times, a revamped MassRMV.com, and improving staff accountability.
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A grainy video of the 2014 shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice captured by a surveillance camera provoked outrage nationally.
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Amazon has been a prime beneficiary of more consumers doing their holiday shopping online and procrastinating.
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Several high-tech methods for peering inside the human body are becoming less popular with patients, while the use of ultrasounds keeps growing.
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Researchers have developed a new technology that could turn most smartphones into high-quality 3-D scanners.
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