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DEDHAM — A judge declared a mistrial Monday after jurors deadlocked in the case of Karen Read, a woman accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend by striking him with her SUV and leaving him in a snowstorm, a case that drew outsize...

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BOSTON — The federal government was mostly responsible for a 2019 nighttime collision involving a snowmobiler who nearly died after hitting a Black Hawk helicopter that was parked on a trail in Worthington, a judge ruled in awarding him $3.3 million...

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BOSTON — William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist and supporter of the Black Power movement who worked with Malcolm X and other prominent leaders in the 1960s, has died. He was 87.Strickland, whose death April 10 was confirmed by a...

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BOSTON — More than a decade ago, Kristin Fritz was struggling with pain in her spine and saw a rheumatologist recommended by her doctor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.The visit with Dr. Derrick Todd started normally for the 37-year-old New...

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BOSTON — Jeff Smith was whizzing along on a snowmobile in Worthington one evening a few years back when something dark appeared in front of him. He hit his brakes but he couldn’t avoid clipping the rear tail of a Black Hawk helicopter parked on the...

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BOSTON — The president of MIT has suspended a student group that has held demonstrations against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza as protests over the war continue to rattle universities around the country.In a video statement Tuesday, Sally...

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BOSTON — Dozens of gang members operating mostly out of a public housing developing in a Boston neighborhood have been accused of dealing drugs, targeting their rivals in shootings and recruiting young people with the enticement of appearing in their...

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BOSTON — Two current and two former Massachusetts State Police troopers were among six people charged Tuesday in a scheme to allegedly take bribes including a new snowblower and driveway in exchange for giving passing scores on commercial driving...

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BOSTON — Harvard University announced Thursday that it plans to offer a fellowship to a leading human rights activist after its initial denial sparked widespread criticism.Kenneth Roth, who was the executive director of Human Rights Watch, or HRW,...

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MANCHESTER, N.H. — A bio-research and manufacturing institute that hopes to develop transplant tissues and organs for injured American soldiers and other patients has opened in New Hampshire.The Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute, which...