Patients idle for hours ? and even days ? waiting for treatment, while patients with medical problems rarely experience these holdups, a study found.
As Republicans prepare to repeal the health care law known as Obamacare, Democrats appeared to almost relish the upcoming battle.
Bristol County?s sheriff said county inmates will be available to help build Donald Trump?s border wall with Mexico.
Sanders used the 2015 tweet from Donald Trump as an example of how the Vermont senator believes the president-elect was, well, right.
Ground Game
Trump now enjoying a political honeymoonDonald Trump posted three small victories this week that demonstrated what might be his newfound power.
Methuen police are trying to determine who, if anyone, poisoned a 10-month-old girl with fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid.
Yvonne Abraham
Lo and behold, higher Boston meter rates are already opening up spotsMake street parking more expensive, the theory goes, and people will be less likely to use on-street spots for longer than they should.
Concord firefighters battle blaze at ?home away from home?When the alarms sounded early Wednesday morning, the three firefighters on duty didn?t have far to go: Their own fire station was ablaze.
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Drivers who stop in bike lanes could be fined $50 under new Mass. billThe measure is in part a response to the increasing use of bicycles for exercise and to commute.
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Two Falmouth hockey players died just days before Christmas. On Wednesday, the team played its first game without them.
The Hall of Famer played on two Stanley Cup championship teams and helped bring two others to Boston in the ?70s.
Letter from Tom Brady offers comfort to heartbroken familyBrady wrote to the Riley family of San Mateo, Calif., when their son Calvin, 20, was shot and killed last summer.
CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER
The Celtics forward?s shooting percentage is up, but he misfired in criticism aimed at the fans.
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Movie Review
The new film tells the little-known story of an unheralded group of African-American women who crunched numbers for NASA in the early 1960s.
Days after split, NBC Boston and WHDH angle for viewers? affectionsNBC?s divorce from WHDH Channel 7 is only a few days old, but the competition for Boston?s affection is already underway.
Add the Freeport Tavern to the list of Dorchester restaurants yielding to changes in Boston?s biggest neighborhood.
First self-driving car hits the road in BostonThe test drive, in an industrial park in South Boston, was the first part in what may be more self-driving activity in the state.
Spring forward, fall back. It?s a useful mnemonic, but will we need it for much longer? Plus more of the most important business news of the day.
Macy?s is closing stores nationwide, including two in MassachusettsMacy?s is eliminating more than 10,000 jobs and will close 68 stores after a disappointing holiday shopping season.
Most online sensations live hard and die fast. So why has the dab endured?
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America?s ill-informed electorateReams have been written about the media?s failures in covering election 2016. But what of the voters? shortcomings?
special report
Pat and Dina Lacey had been parents for only a few months when doctors discovered a tumor in their new baby?s chest. Told to take their son home to die, they put their faith in a young doctor who wouldn?t accept death as the answer.
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The Desperate and the Dead | Part 7
The San Antonio solutionOne Texas city took on mental health as a community and became a national model. Why can?t Mass. do the same?
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.
Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels and defensive coordinator Matt Patricia are hot commodities as teams try to fill their head-coaching vacancies.
The city found itself on a list of places from around the country that are ideal for watching the sun go down.
This five-bedroom, five-bathroom, two-half bathroom, 8,763-square-foot country estate in Dover was built in 1910 but remodeled in 2016.
Senate President Stanley Rosenberg called for reforming the state?s criminal justice system and tackling ?the gnawing disparity? in incomes in Massachusetts.
Passengers were standing as they prepared to get off the train when it struck a bumping block at a Brooklyn station.
Here are some technologies coming to a store near you:
Volunteers will take turns reading passages from the novel, start to finish, Friday through Sunday at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
Charlotte Kilroy will appear in an episode set to air on the Food Network Jan. 17.
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Take a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month.
Ground Game
With Carrier, Trump exposes rift between unions and leadersSomehow Donald Trump, who claims a net worth of $10 billion, was standing up for the little guy, against their own union boss.
Design New England
A Gardener?s GardenThe lush landscape around Andrew Grossman?s home and studio is a showcase of possibilities.
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