Workers are repairing portions of the concrete train platform and addressing the rain blowing into the station?s waiting room.
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About 10,000 people in the state lost their food assistance last month, thanks to a provision in the 1996 welfare law.
Mayor Walsh trying to keep focus amid scandalThe message from the administration Friday was that it?s time to get back to governing.
Trump is used as cautionary tale at commencementsMany college speakers are adding another item to the list of essential pieces of advice for the nation?s future leaders: beware Donald Trump.
MBTA pension chief earned $282,000 in 2014The MBTA pension fund released its belated 2014 annual report Friday, confirming a 5.5 percent investment return that year, below its 6.2 percent benchmark.
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DANTE RAMOS
A new project on the waterfront gets the kind of development treatment the Walsh administration was supposed to be weaning Boston off of.
A Jewish community finds its homeConcluding a journey of more than four years to find a permanent home, Congregation Beth Shalom of the Blue Hills recently dedicated its new synagogue in Milton.
THOMAS FARRAGHER
In 1988, the average grant from the state?s primary need-based grant program paid for 85 percent of a student?s education. That number today? 9 percent.
A man in his 20s who was shot on Thursday night in Dorchester has died from his injuries, police said.
Christopher Muther/Globe staff
The Dean a bit off-beat, a bit more thoughtful.
A store?s mission found in translationA Boston-based entrepreneur is now shaping the international strategy of an iconic Japanese brand.
Key federal official supports redesigned Green Line projectThe early support for the redesigned project is good news for the Green Line extension, which has been on hold for nearly a year.
EgyptAir flight data show smoke alerts in plane?s last momentsA French judicial official wouldn?t comment on any initial results as investigators continue to probe what caused the Paris-to-Cairo plane to crash.
Suspect?s brother defends sibling in taking Newton womanSpeaking before the arraignment, David Collignon?s brother said the suspect had done what Beth Birnbaum had wanted.
Camille Cosby?s tense Feb. testimony releasedEmbattled entertainer Bill Cosby?s wife, Camille, underwent tough questioning by attorneys in a deposition taken in late February, a newly released transcript reveals.
The Word
A ravenous suffix The -vore suffix has been en vogue thanks to food trends like the locavore movement, but food culture is now just one item on this suffix?s menu.
ADDRESS
Tips for creating a great rooftop gardenR. Wayne Mezitt, trustee chairman for the Massachusetts Horticultural Society at Elm Bank, offers advice on how to plan and plant a successful rooftop garden.
Filling the gaps of downtown FraminghamTown officials want developers to build on vacant or underused parcels near the commuter rail station.
DAN SHAUGHNESSY
Visit from Terry Francona brings back memoriesThe Indians manager reminisced on the good ? and bad ? days when he was manager of the Red Sox.
Indians 4, Red Sox 2
Clay Buchholz falters early again in Red Sox? loss to IndiansBuchholz got through the first two innings unscathed, but he allowed four runs in the third inning.
The pews grew emptier and emptier. Until at last they realized: the Congregational Church of West Medford was dying. But they were people of faith and they believed in resurrection.
EDITORIAL
Making homeless families? lives more stableThe state has dramatically reduced the number of homeless families living in motels.
STAT, a national publication from Boston Globe Media Partners, covers health, medicine, and life sciences.
Ground Game
Why party unity is overrated in this electionThe rule about candidates getting the entire party to fight for them after a bruising primary might be tossed out of the window.
Reuters
One in an occasional series exploring the definitions of words via photography.
Everyone wants the calls to be right, but there isn?t irrefutable evidence that replay reviews are worth it.
Now it?s your move, Sav-Mor.
Seven Republicans switched their votes under pressure from House leaders and defeated the bill.
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The idea was floated during a live Twitter chat with Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, but some have suggested a much more radical future for cars in Boston.
Okinawa police have arrested Kenneth Shinzato, 32, who was working as a computer and electrical contractor on the Kadena air base.
Blade aviation service is unveiling plans Friday to start weekend flights between Boston?s Logan Airport and Nantucket.
?In the Body of the World? is directed by American Repertory Theater artistic director Diane Paulus.
All I saw were trees. Thousands of them. And my in-law?s house here on Martha?s Vineyard.
Private schools, painful secretsMore than 200 victims. At least 90 legal claims. At least 67 private schools in New England. This is the story of hundreds of students sexually abused by staffers, and emerging from decades of silence today.
Boston Globe coverage and the movie ?Spotlight??Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
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When inspiration strikesWith their home as canvas, the couple behind KTII Design Group embrace the stylistic power of change.
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Sure, Stephen Curry scored 15 points in two minutes, but look what they did
Sheryl Sandberg graduation speech: It?s the hard days that determine who you are
MayorWalsh trying to keep focus amid scandal
Face it, Bernie Sanders. It?s over
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