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BOSTON – A helicopter equipped with radiation-sensing technology will make several low passes over the 26.2-mile Boston Marathon route later this week to measure naturally occurring background radiation ahead of the 120th annual race next week. Between Tuesday and Friday, the National Nuclear Security Administration will use the chopper to
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BOSTON – Ending nearly a decade of giving Boston the cold shoulder, Verizon Communications said Tuesday it will invest as much as $300 million to install the fiber-optic cables needed to offer its FiOS communications services to city residents, businesses and other institutions. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh hailed the agreement, saying
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BOSTON – Singer-songwriter Peter Wolf became enshrined in Boston Thursday as Mayor Marty Walsh declared April 14 to be the former J. Geils Band frontman's official Day, citing his "indelible contributions to American music." The mayor made his official proclamation at the New England Center and Home
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BOSTON – On Friday, Greater Boston residents will celebrate the second annual "One Boston Day," which Mayor Marty Walsh officially designated in a proclamation on Monday, commemorating the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombings and the public response spurred by the attack. "The camaraderie and spirit of togetherness
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BOSTON – Easing safety concerns among women providing a ride-sharing service in which female drivers only pick up female passengers may seem like a good business proposition. At least, that's what Chariot for Women hopes it will become when it begins operating in Boston in future months. The idea
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BOSTON – To commemorate Patriot's Day, Mayor Marty Walsh joined one of Boston's favorite sons, Mark Wahlberg, Monday morning at the annual reenactment of the famous ride by Paul Revere and William Dawes in front of the city's historic Old North Church. "Patriot'
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BOSTON – In 1982, former Quincy city Solicitor William Golden took a run along Wollaston Beach and came across bits of raw sewage in the sand, prompting him to take action. Quincy soon sued the Metropolitan District Commission and other agencies over discharges of untreated waste from Nut Island, at the
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BOSTON (AP) — An archaeological dig at the boyhood home of Malcolm X in Boston has turned up some surprising findings, but not necessarily related to the early life of the slain civil rights activist. City archaeologist Joseph Bagley said this week that researchers digging outside the two-and-a-half story home have
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