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BOSTON — Boston's city councilors voted to give themselves a $12,000 pay raise just days before they face voters for re-election — though most are running unopposed. The salary measure, which passed 9-4 on Wednesday, will boost the annual pay for a councilor by 14 percent to $99,500
federal court
Tom Brady's winning ways on the field keep eluding him in the courtroom, where it's still not game over for the saga widely known as Deflategate. Commissioner Roger Goodell's lawyers late Monday filed an appeal of a federal district court judge's decision
crime
HARTFORD, Conn. — An Iranian-American engineer who tried to send sensitive U.S. military documents to Iran received a sentence of more than eight years in prison from a federal court judge Friday, after prosecutors called for him to spend 10 years behind bars. Mozaffar Khazaee, 61 and a former employee
Massachusetts
BOSTON – Staples founder Tom Stemberg died Friday after a long battle with cancer. He was 66 years old and lived in the Chestnut Hill section of Brookline. He had reportedly been diagnosed with cancer in 2013.
Democratic primary
WASHINGTON – Lincoln Chafee ended his Democratic presidential bid Friday after surveys and campaign finance reports showed the former Rhode Island governor failing to gain support either from voters or donors. "As you know I have been campaigning on a platform of Prosperity Through Peace," Chafee told a Democratic
boston
Boston Red Sox Manager John Farrell may be winning his battle with lymphoma cancer. The team announced late Thursday that tests conducted Wednesday showed the disease was in remission after months of treatment. Farrell, age 53, was diagnosed with stage 1 Non-Hodgkin's Burkitt lymphoma on Aug. 14. He
conservatives
Four months after the Supreme Court held in Obergefell v. Hodges that states across the nation must recognize same-sex marriage, conservative opponents of the decision remain divided as to how best to respond, with some encouraging civil disobedience and others insisting on upholding the "rule of law." Earlier
cuba
For Felimina Rotundo, work may be the elixir of life. At 100, she gets up and goes to work almost every day in Buffalo, New York. And not just part-time or even banker's hours. Minnie, as she's known to family and friends, puts in an 11-hour