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Boston to install bike lanes where cycling advocate was struck and killed

The planned changes aim to improve conditions for cyclists, pedestrians and other road users at the busy intersection in Mission Hill where residents have raised safety concerns for years.
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Iconic Cape Cod catering company closing after 40 years

It's "the end of an era." Olive Chase and her team at The Casual Gourmet, who have catered countless weddings on Cape Cod over the past four decades, are hanging up their aprons. The Centerville company closed for good this month, Chase wrote in a Facebook post this week. She...
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Billerica corrections officer indicted in alleged assault on inmate

Prosecutors allege Alexander Tine pushed a prisoner's foot through a cell opening and repeatedly struck the door while the person’s arm was caught inside. A corrections officer at a Billerica jail has been indicted in connection with an alleged assault on an incarcerated person, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan’s office announced.
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Large truck crashes through side of Braintree building

Aerial footage showed firefighters responding to Wood Road, where the front of the large truck could be seen inside the building. Debris surrounded the truck. The building was left with a wide hole extending nearly to the roof. NBC10 Boston has reached out to officials for more information, but has...
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Operation Summer Heat: 176 arrests across New England in violent crime crackdown

The FBI’s Boston division made 176 arrests and seized nearly 50 kilograms of drugs across New England as part of a nationwide initiative targeting violent crime over the summer.
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Medford middle and elementary schools closed Friday after water main break

Two schools in Medford, Massachusetts, are closed on Friday due to a water main break outside the building, school officials said. McGlynn Middle and Elementary School will have no school on Friday "due to an unexpected city water main break outside the school," school officials said in a statement posted to social media just before 8 a.m. They said the building doesn't have any running water, but otherwise all students and staff are OK.
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Woman reported missing in Boston

BOSTON, MA — Boston police are seeking the public’s help in locating a missing 38-year-old woman last seen Friday. Taylor Lyden was last seen on Aug. 28, according to detectives assigned to District D-4. Lyden is described as a white female, approximately 5 feet 3 inches tall and...
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A Boston doctor got three years for Medicare orders on patients she never treated

Dr. Le Thu, 71, of Boston, was sentenced on Oct. 6 to 36 months in prison, three years, for signing Medicare orders for patients she had never treated. She was also ordered to pay over $27 million in restitution. Medicare paid more than $27 million on claims that came from her orders. Orders signed without […]
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Mass General Brigham, nurses stalemate drags as strike nears

Mass General Brigham nurses and hospital management ended Thursday's talks without any indication that they're close to a contract agreement. Why it matters: At this rate, they appear headed toward an indefinite strike starting next week, which would disrupt services at the state's largest hospital system. Catch up quick: MGB nurses and management have been at odds for more than a year over contract negotiations, which union leaders say included pay raises, staff-to-patient ratios and concerns o
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Massachusetts mom found shot to death inside home — son arrested in Vermont after...

A Massachusetts mother was shot to death inside her home as authorities launched an hours-long manhunt to capture her adult son, who had fled to Vermont. Andria Hanafin was found dead from an apparent gunshot wound inside the kitchen of her Reading, Mass., home at around 12:38 a.m. on Thursday, the Reading Police Department said. Hanafin’s husband, Matthew, had discovered his 49-year-old wife when he returned home from work and called 911. Andria Hanafin was found dead of an apparent gunshot wou

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