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Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
A fire at a casket company factory raged for hours Friday. More than 200 Boston area firefighters were on the scene. Some abutters in Orient Heights were evacuated from their homes because of heavy smoke conditions.
Two people were shot Friday at a home in Alton, N.H. Officials said Lizette Eckert, 50, was found dead at the scene, and James Eckert, 48, is at a Portsmouth hospital in critical condition.
Starts & Stops
The new service is part of plan to improve transportation in the lower Mystic River area following the opening of the Encore casino.
THOMAS FARRAGHER
As children, Steven Em?s parents escaped the bloody Khmer Rouge. On Friday they watched their son achieve a long-pursued dream: success at UMass Medical School.
The president issued the first veto of his two-year term on Friday.
The outcome of the lawsuit could depend largely on competing definitions of an antiquated word: emoluments.The outcome of the lawsuit could depend largely on competing definitions of an antiquated word: emoluments.The outcome of the lawsuit could depend largely on competing definitions of an antiquated word: emoluments.
Saturday begins an expected long stretch of sunny days likely to last through the week, according to the National Weather Service.
Help Desk
From Guinness to step dancers to Irish poutine, these restaurants will make you feel lucky.
Check out these tips for enjoying one of Boston?s biggest (and greenest) events of the year.
Even incremental legislation that aims to make it easier for towns to change their own zoning has proved to be a challenge.
Chesto Means Business
The Senate president told the state?s largest employer group that she wants input as her team tackles the big issues.
NESTOR RAMOS
The latest racist massacre makes one thing clear: The Internet, this thing we all built together, has gotten away from us.
Hiawatha Bray | Tech Lab
It?s far from the first act of violence transmitted over Facebook Live. How is it that a company as smart and as rich as Facebook wasn?t ready for the next one?
Yasir Amin and his father were just 200 meters from the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch on Friday when everything went wrong.
New Zealand?s stricken residents reached out to Muslims in their neighborhoods and around the country on Saturday, determined to show kindness to a community in pain.
Editorial
After Friday?s attack, it?s no longer possible to brush off such events as isolated incidents or to minimize the role of social media companies in enabling them.
Opinion
The real story is all of you who think it is acceptable to buy someone.
Ideas | Amitha Kalaichandran
Bullied and abused, medical residents are taking their own lives at an astounding rate.
Jeneé Osterheldt | Commentary
While we are asking ourselves about the access the wealthy have to education, we also have to look at the worth we assign to academic institutions.
Opinion | Aimee Ortiz
As one of the ?poor kids? who walked Boston University?s campus not too long ago, I can tell you that the wealthy?s gaming of the system does not stop at admissions.
Renée Graham
There?s no greater system of affirmative action in America than the one designed to benefit the wealthy and well-connected, especially if they?re white.
Opinion | Christopher Weyant
When you know your kid needs help, how early is too early to start the college admissions process?
Opinion | Luke O?Neil
You can make a lot of money selling the most vile opinions imaginable in America.
Greater Boston?s first recreational marijuana shop received approval from the state Friday to open its doors to the public next week.
Larry Edelman | Commentary
Bill McGlashan took socially responsible impact investing to the next level with the $2 billion Rise Fund. Now he?s lost his job for allegedly paying $300,000 in bribes to get his son into college.
The team is investigating an incident in which its star receiver, who pled guilty to domestic assault in college, was involved in a battery episode reportedly against his son.
Dan Shaughnessy
Don?t say the Sox fixed things in the 2018 playoffs and can fix things now. Their starters cannot be relievers over a 162-game schedule.
men?s college hockey playoffs
UMass rallied from 3-0 hole to get past UNH in double overtime.
Opinion columnist Michael Cohen takes a candid and no-holds-barred look at the current political moment. Sign up now.
If it?s March, it must be time for the tournament everyone awaits all year: Munch Madness.
Dating in 2019 is?complicated. Frustrating. Sometimes completely exhilarating. In Season 2 of the podcast, Meredith Goldstein goes deep on one of her most-asked questions.
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Read a multi-part investigation into how and why the lives of promising Boston valedictorians didn?t quite turn out the way they expected.
The Big Picture
Students worldwide skipped classes Friday to protest their governments? failure to act against global warming as part of the ?Fridays for Future? movement.
The 21-year-old McAvoy is looking a lot like the franchise-defenseman-in-training the Bruins hope he?ll be.
The fire that killed Worcester firefighter Christopher Roy in December was intentionally set, and a 21-year-old man now faces arson and second-degree murder charges, prosecutors said.
Uncertainty over Britain?s departure from the European Union suppressed interest rates on US Treasury bonds. The average rate on 15-year loans slipped to 3.76 percent.
Here are the first rankings of the 2020 candidates, ordered by their likelihood of winning the first-in-the-nation primary if it were held today.
The manifesto that the presumed New Zealand shooter published expresses similar sentiments as the one written by a Norwegian right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in 2011.
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It?s a major step toward redevelopment of the large tract between Rutherford Avenue and Interstate 93.
Gunn had been fired months ago over old tweets.
Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.
The price of vasopressin spiked in 2015. Now federal judges will decide if a cheaper, compounded alternative is worth the risk.