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Detours, parking restrictions planned for weekend races

Drivers can expect detours and parking restrictions across the city this weekend as thousands of runners take to the streets to finish the last mile of the Boston Marathon, and pay tribute to law enforcement officials killed in the line of duty.
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New company picked to run MBTA commuter rail ferries between Boston, Quincy and Hull

For the first time in more than a decade, a new company will operate the MBTA
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A 16th candidate, Robert Cappucci, says he has gathered enough signatures to run for mayor

Retired police officer Robert Cappucci said Wednesday he has gathered more than 4,000 signatures to support his bid for mayor of Boston, making him the 16th potential candidate ...
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Milford Town Meeting declines to vote on casino resolution

Milford Town Meeting voters declined to take a vote on a nonbinding citizens petition to express opposition to the siting of a casino on 200 acres of land along Interstate 495.
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City Councilor Sal Lamattina Stands in for Mayor Thomas Menino

City Councilor Sal LaMattina stands in for Mayor Thomas Menino during the Mayor's annual coffee hour at the Lamson Street Playground in Jeffries Point ...
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FCC Blocks Ordinance on Satellite Dishes

After City Councilor Sal LaMattina pushed through an ordinance to regulate how satellite dishes are installed in neighborhoods like East Boston, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) blocked the measure last year ...
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EBSB Helping Homeowners with Troubled Mortgages

The East Boston Savings Bank has made a $25 million loan to Boston Community Capital (BCC) that could potentially help 1 in 5 homeowners with troubled mortgages nationwide ...
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Flores Sentenced to 15 Years for Murder

It was a murder that shocked the neighborhood but when the truth behind Marco Tulio Flores' bizarre act of torturing and killing a family friend surfaced many in the neighborhood said they would have probably done the same ...
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Memorial Day

Memorial Day usually is the unofficial start of the all too brief summer in New England ...
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Robert Kraft optimistic on Rob Gronkowski

Patriots owner Robert Kraft is cautiously optimistic that the infection in Rob Gronkowski's left forearm has finally cleared and that Monday's surgery (his fourth) will be the last on the big tight end's arm.
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Boston to hold Memorial Day observances across city

Several Memorial Day observances and services are scheduled in the coming days at public parks and cemeteries throughout Boston.
Your Town

The MBTA: ruining weekends since 1897

The first portion of the subway line that would become the MBTA opened more than 115 years ago, and by the standards of that time, it's doing pretty well ...
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Menino outlines $1.8 billion, five-year plan for capital improvements across city

(Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff) Mayor Thomas M. Menino today at the proposed site of a handicapped friendly park near Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown ...
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East Boston teen to spend 15 years in prison for killing man who sexually abused him

Marco Tulio Flores, now 19, today pleaded guilty to strangling Jaime Galdamez with a dog chain and then setting his body on fire after years of sexual abuse, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports ...
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East Boston residents gather for re-opening of Sumner Lamson Park - East Boston

Dozens gathered under dazzling sunlight at Sumner Lamson Park in East Bostons Jeffries Point section for Mayor Thomas M ...
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Five Logan workers now charged with 53 counts in taxi-bribery scheme

Five Logan Airport "cab starters" arrested in February were indicted yesterday by a Suffolk County grand jury for allegedly taking bribes from cabbies to move them up in the queue at the airport ...
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Who we are and why we fight

At Suffolk Business School's "Build Boston" forum about casinos last Thursday morning, Stephen Crosby, chairman of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, shared a brief, private chat with No Eastie Casino co-chair Celeste Ribeiro Myers ...
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Top 10 best locations to live in Mass.

If you were to move to any Massachusetts community, where should you go? We analyzed and ranked each towns crime rateincluding violent and property crime,the number of public transit options, the number of historical sites per resident, the percentage of acres that are open space, and the number of grocery stores ...
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Cheapest places to live in Massachusetts

Here's a slideshow of the 10 towns with the cheapest home values in Massachusetts ...
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Top 10 Most Fun Places to Live in Massachusetts

How fun is your town? We ranked the top 10 most fun communities in Massachusetts by analyzing the number of restaurants, theaters, and museums, using Tripadvisor and other online sources, per population data provided by the US Census ...
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Top 10 towns with best schools in Massachusetts

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Top 10 hipster places in Massachusetts

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