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T’s late-night service backed at hearing over canceling it

BOSTON – A small crowd that gathered Tuesday evening to weigh in on the potential elimination of the MBTA's late-night weekend transit service spoke nearly unanimously in favor of saving the costly option. Kenzie Bok, who said she is a 26-year-old lifelong resident of Boston's Bay Village,

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Boston’s winter could look a lot like last year

BOSTON – Weather forecasters say Bostonians may be in for a significant snowstorm Saturday and Sunday. For those in the city a year ago, it may sound like déjà vu all over again, as Yogi Berra used to say. Why?

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‘Millionaire tax’ proposal will get airing on Beacon Hill

BOSTON — Legislation that's been dubbed the ''millionaire tax'' is going before a legislative committee on Beacon Hill. The proposed amendment to the state constitution calls for an additional tax of 4 percent on filers with annual incomes of $1 million or more. Supporters say

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T offers incentives to white-collar workers to cut deficit

BOSTON – The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is reportedly offering retirement incentives to hundreds of administrative employees to shave $30 million to $36 million from the projected deficit in fiscal 2017. The program would not offer early retirement, but would rather provide an incentive as about 1,000 of the roughly

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Rail breaks disrupt commuters on heels of fare-hike news

BOSTON – A commuter rail train without any passengers derailed north of the Andover station Tuesday morning, a day after transit agency overseers advanced two options for hiking fares this year by roughly 6.7 percent or 9.7 percent. The Haverhill-bound train was moving to set up for morning service,

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T fare hike scenarios eyed by transit agency

BOSTON – The agency that runs Boston's public transit services is eyeing fare hikes that could punch a hundred-dollar hole in the pockets of regular subway riders over the course of a year, a move one transit advocate likened to "punishing the victim" following recent service failures.

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Munich police warn of imminent terror attack

BERLIN (AP) — Police in Munich warned of a "serious, imminent threat" by Islamic State group suicide bombers wanting to commit a terror attack on New Year's Eve and asked people to stay away from the city's main train station and a second train station

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Ex-Rep’s bank boxes found stuffed with cash, prosecutors say

BOSTON – John George Jr., a former state representative from Dartmouth convicted earlier this year on embezzlement-related charges, concealed more than $1 million in wads of cash in safe deposit boxes after telling a federal judge he had less than $200,000 in available assets, according to U.S. Attorney Carmen