A Braintree police officer was shot Friday night at Motel 6 on Union Street in Braintree, according to the fire department.
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In his final letter to his fiancee before his apparent suicide last month, Aaron Hernandez told her his fate was preordained.
New details on Aaron Hernandez?s death released in police report Hernandez had no drugs in his system when he killed himself in his prison cell on April 19, according to the police report.
Texas officer faces murder charge in black teen?s death Roy Oliver, a white officer, was fired from the Police Department in Balch Springs, a Dallas suburb.
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Relatives recalled Leezandra Aponte, one of three killed in the crash, as a woman who held her family in the highest regard.
As applications drop, BC High School ponders its future Boston College High School has experienced a sharp decline in applications, prompting trustees to explore ways to reverse the trend.
Elenilson ?Siniestro? Gustavo Gonzalez-Gonzalez, 31, who was deported to El Salvador in 2012, was charged with illegal entry.
Artistic director caught in ?Cuckoo?s Nest? storm at Boston Children?s Theatre Burgess Clark says two board members demanded he cut a nude scene. He refused.
Keezer?s, a Cambridge staple for 122 years, to close The Cambridge institution dressed JFK, the BSO, and generations of Harvard students and professors.
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Boston police are on the scene of an apparent double homicide at an apartment complex at 141 Dorchester Avenue in South Boston, authorities said Friday night.
Macron campaign says ?massive? hacking attack struck on eve of French election On the eve of the French election, Emmanuel Macron?s staff said the campaign had been targeted by a ?massive and coordinated? hacking operation.
Trump has been sued 134 times in federal court since inauguration President Donald Trump has been sued nearly three times the number of his three predecessors combined at this point during their presidencies.
Flynn was warned by transition team about contacts with Russia Michael Flynn was warned by senior transition team members about the risks of his contacts with the Russian ambassador.
The GOP state senator from Tennessee picked by President Trump to be Army secretary has withdrawn his name.
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All smiles as health care flatlines Behind the macho back-slapping and huzzahs, a vein of cruelty slithers through the process to steal health care coverage from our most vulnerable.
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A posting on country music legend Loretta Lynn?s website says she has been hospitalized after having a stroke.
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Patriots gearing up for the Kentucky Derby Expect to see a lot of quarterbacks at Churchill Downs on Saturday.
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Simon, who lives on Martha?s Vineyard, sang the missing lyrics for the first time.
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A surprising statement on Australia?s health care After lauding a US health bill critics say would result in million being uninsured, the president praised Australia?s universal health-care system.
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The week that was: Cruel health care bill, failed Afghanistan policy, and why was the Civil War fought? A roundup of the week?s news.
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The summer that changed Boston The nation was splintering, and Boston wasn?t immune. But something was happening here.
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The tiny fish that has helped unlock the mysteries of human disease Through studying zebrafish, Harvard?s Leonard Zon has found genes that cause human diseases.
Eduardo Rodriguez will be on the mound for the Red Sox Friday night in Minnesota.
Births are cause for celebration at Franklin Park and Stone Zoos.
A Marblehead mansion ? once the set of the 2013 movie ?Grown Ups 2? ? sold for $5,800,000 this week, but was still beat out by a new Back Bay penthouse. The Beacon Street town house sold for $5,950,000. Two three-bedroom Millennium Tower condos also sold ? for $5,450,000 and $5,300,000. Check them out: 474 Beacon St.
The action pushes forward sweeping legislation that would undo much of President Barack Obama?s landmark banking law.
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DMV last month ordered Tesla to "cease all business functions" in Greenwich, but a revised order released Thursday puts that action on hold pending an appeal.
North Korea said the South, working with the CIA, had launched a secret mission to kill Kim with biochemical agents.
Lois Slemp was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2012 and blames her illness on her use of Johnson & Johnson?s talcum-containing products for more than 40 years.
The Grateful Dead frontman?s guitar is called Wolf.
?Buster?s Mal Heart? is about a feral mountain man who is really Jonah, and his story will take you into the belly of the whale, as well as to dreary Montana hotel.
Brighten her big day (it?s May 14!) with pretty presents for Mom.
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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