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By Colin A. Young STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE BOSTON — The MBTA gave the team that will design and build the Green Line Extension the go-ahead to begin its work on Thursday, after the federal government released the first $100 million of funding for the trolley line extension.
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On the same day that President Donald Trump signed into law a landmark tax reform bill, Newton Mayor Setti Warren — one of several Democrats angling for the chance to unseat Governor Charlie Baker — laid into the Swampscott Republican for apparently helping his party pass the legislation. 1. Warren's
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Updated 12/20 4:45 p.m. Cardinal Bernard F. Law, the retired archbishop of Boston who resigned at the height of the clergy-sex-abuse scandal, has died in Rome.
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By Rob Shimshock
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Let's stipulate that Cardinal Bernard Francis Law was the worst bishop of Boston in the 209 years of the diocese. The clergy sex abuse scandal mangled the lives of children and their families, shook the faith of devoted Catholics, prevented would-be converts from joining, cost an amazing amount
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BOSTON — An Everett man, found guilty this fall of spearheading a plot to cut off the head of a conservative female blogger who helped organize a controversial "Draw Prophet Muhammad" cartoon-drawing competition in 2015 that ended in violence, landed a 28-year prison sentence on Tuesday, according to federal
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By Joe Simonson
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Cardinal Bernard Law, the long-serving archbishop of Boston who resigned under pressure during the height of the clergy-sex-abuse scandal, is "facing his final illness" at a hospital in Rome, according to a well-connected Vatican journalist. Rocco Palma, who runs the web site Whispers in the Loggia, reported that
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