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Boston Police Department
It?s another example of the unusually secretive process that Mass. uses to consider requests for criminal charges issued in district and municipal courts.
Federal prosecutors said Donald Trump directed the payments to ward off a potential sex scandal that threatened his 2016 campaign.
Manafort lied about Trump administration ties, Mueller says Paul Manafort misled prosecutors in recent debriefings about his communications and a meeting with a Russian associate, according to a court filing Friday.
Opinion | Erwin Chemerinsky
Did Mueller implicate Trump in criminal activities? The crucial question will be how this is handled in a country that prides itself on the principle that no one, not even the president, is above the law.
Tara Sullivan
For Tom Brady, Miami is his house of horrors The Patriots quarterback is 7-9 all time on the road against the Dolphins.
Chad Finn
Red Sox keep band together, but is it the right move? Keeping the roster intact has not been the post-championship mode of operation in previous tenures.
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Black bear spotted roaming through shopping area in Burlington The bear roamed Friday night near retailers, restaurants and a movie theater, police said.
6 dead, dozens hurt in nightclub stampede on Italy?s coast Six people were killed and dozens were injured in a stampede of panicked concertgoers early Saturday at a disco in a small town on Italy?s central Adriatic coast, authorities said.
A patient coughed up this blood clot in the shape of his lung airways ? and the picture is ?remarkable? The image of the cast was published in The New England Journal of Medicine recently, sending people into a tizzy.
Dinner With Cupid
Blind date: ?There were a lot of birthdays that night in the restaurant? Will too many rounds of ?Happy Birthday? kill the mood for these daters?
U-Tron
Two new Boston complexes aim to maximize space in parking garages through automation.
BOB HOHLER
Turner died a year after marrying his nurse, who now gets his NFL pension, but his parents claim he wasn?t mentally fit to make decisions.
Dorchester stores? closures leave working-class families without options Residents wonder what might fill those spots, and whether they?ll continue to offer affordable options for those who live nearby.
BLOTTER TALES
A smart speaker leads to a scare Alexa draws the attention of the police, officers get into a snowball fight with students, and other odd tales from local police blotters.
Overlooked No More: Charley Parkhurst, Gold Rush Legend With a Hidden Identity Charley Parkhurst, a New England native, was a legendary driver of six-horse stagecoaches during California?s Gold Rush ? the ?best whip in California,? by one account.
Leigh Scott
FIELD GUIDE
Peregrine falcons can reach speeds of over 200 miles per hour when in a full dive, or stoop, as it?s called.
Trump confirmed his choices of William Barr as attorney general and Heather Nauert as UN ambassador amid speculation that White House chief of staff John Kelly could soon depart.
Trump says Tillerson is ?dumb as a rock? and ?lazy as hell? Rex Tillerson?s claims that President Trump regularly pushed him to take actions that were illegal infuriated his old boss.
Nestor Ramos
On the Orange Line tracks, three discarded items and the stories they tell Was this an accumulation of a few days? trash, scattered by the passing trains? Or, worse, the leavings of a single sad life?
EDITORIAL
Boston Harbor is clean but could face new threats to marine life: plastics and drugs The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority should monitor new and emerging threats to the marine environment such as plastics and pharmaceuticals.
Opinion | Gerald V. Casale
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Is there any question that de-evolution is real? Forty years after ?Freedom of Choice,? the subversive sound of Devo is more relevant than ever, writes founder Gerald Casale.
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Letters
From bus rapid transit ? in Mexico City and Boston ? to the future of commuter rail, readers weigh in on how we get around.
Globe Magazine
Help was a few feet away. Why didn?t they save her? My wife, Laura Levis, did everything she could to save herself when the asthma attack began. She went to Somerville Hospital and called 911, too. How could she have been left to die just outside the emergency room?
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The Big Picture
Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: a colorful sunrise, Christmas tree lightings, and high school sports.
During their four-game win streak, there has been a jump in their step and a lot more passing.
Members of the State Police Special Emergency Response Team returned to Frey Playground on Friday to continue seeking evidence.
For anyone that?s ever wondered what $25 million can buy in real estate in Massachusetts, look no further than Swain?s Neck on Nantucket, which just earned itself the distinction as the highest-priced, single-family home sale of the year so far.
The South Boston Democrat had been one of 16 in the caucus to sign a letter saying they would not back her bid for speaker.
A jury rejected arguments that James Alex Fields Jr. acted in self-defense during the August 2017 ??Unite the Right?? rally.
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This Corolla is styled to banish any memories of its benignly inoffensive predecessors that delivered the emotional fulfillment of a dishwasher.
The market saw its third weekly decline in four weeks.
Hart told critics that they should ??stop being negative?? after the years-old tweets were uncovered.
Democrats are eyeing a valuable pharma asset: its patents After a midterm election that saw voters focused on drug prices, progressives are decrying pharma?s abuses of the patent system.
Love Letters: Until next year, my sweetheart In a special bonus episode, Meredith Goldstein explores what happens to summer romance when the summer ends, and ?Wet Hot American Summer? creator David Wain shares a girl-crazy memory from his own camp days.
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Are we ignoring ? or outright banning ? an easy affordable-housing fix? Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.
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