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Unlike many American cities, Boston's celebration of Columbus Day is a major event. With big parades and brass bands, the city's tributes to Christopher Columbus celebrate Boston's rich Italian-American immigrant history by honoring Italy's most famous explorer. So why is there a
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BOSTON (AP) — A man at the center of Ireland's greatest banking scandal has been arrested in Massachusetts and faces potential extradition to his homeland. The U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. attorney's office said federal agents arrested former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David
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Massachusetts should get its "fair share" of wagering on popular fantasy sports sites, according to House Speaker Robert DeLeo, who said the growing industry could be the subject of legislation or regulation through the executive branch. During a WCVB-TV "On the Record" interview, the Winthrop Democrat
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BOSTON – Boston took a step closer to creating a new transportation plan this week, sketching out a proposed shape of its mass-transit systems for the year 2030 under a draft of the blueprint released Friday. It includes a kind of wishlist based on inputs from city residents and those who
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BOSTON (AP) — The owner of a Massachusetts dumpling restaurant has sued three people she says stole her secret family recipe and opened a nearly identical eatery. Nadia Liu Spellman, owner of Dumpling Daughter in Weston, says in her lawsuit filed in federal court this week that only three people knew
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BOSTON — Gov. Charlie Baker reignited a debate on Thursday that has vexed and divided Democrat and Republican lawmakers in recent years, proposing an expansion of charter schools that would be targeted toward the lowest performing districts statewide. Baker chose the Brooke Charter School in Mattapan, in the district of Education
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STATE HOUSE — Wearing mortarboards and carrying SAT prep books, members of a student immigrant group camped out in Sen. Eileen Donoghue's office on Thursday in hopes of urging the Lowell Democrat to back legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates at public colleges in
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Yesterday on Beacon Hill, advocates for legislation known as the "bathroom bill" lobbied for the "right" to use public restrooms and locker rooms "consistent with their gender identity." When asked how this legislation would impact the right to privacy of biological women forced to
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