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Higher education leaders lauded Governor Maura Healey’s budget, which would increase spending on public colleges and universities by nearly 25 percent and keep prices flat across four years. → Read More
The stakes are high for the roughly 813,000 Massachusetts residents eligible for loan forgiveness under Biden’s plan, including many young people who are delaying starting a family, buying a home, or entering graduate school because of debt, according to Claudio Martinez, executive director of Zero Debt Massachusetts, a grassroots group that advocates for solutions to the student debt crisis. → Read More
A Cambridge man’s long fight for justice for his gay brother who fell to his death 35 years ago from a clifftop in Sydney, Australia, ended Thursday when a man pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a courtroom in New South Wales. → Read More
One man was fatally shot and another man suffered non-life-threatening injuries in a double shooting near 89 Wilrose St. in Dorchester on Tuesday evening, Boston police said. → Read More
A 28-year-old Lunenberg man is facing a felony charge for allegedly raping a 22-year-old woman at the South Acton train station in 2013, Middlesex District Attorney Marian T. Ryan said. → Read More
Superintendent Kevin Mulvey said the fight took place in the Quincy High School locker room after school on Feb. 13 and was between a junior and senior, one of whom is still on the team, while the other had quit in January. → Read More
Witnesses said a passenger tried to re-open a set of doors as the train began to depart the platform, but within seconds, the emergency braking system activated and the doors closed before the train left the station, the MBTA said. → Read More
A plea of not guilty was entered for both charges against Freda Brasfield, the administration and finance director for the mayor’s office and a longtime city worker, at her arraignment Friday in Woburn Superior Court, records show. → Read More
Colonel Christopher S. Mason will retire next week as superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police, ending a nearly four-decade career in law enforcement after more than three years in the department’s top job, officials said Friday. → Read More
The School Committee said in an e-mail to the Wayland school community that Easy was on leave and that Parry Graham will be acting superintendent “until further notice.” The committee did not provide a reason for Easy’s leave. → Read More
Lynn police responded to a report of a shooting at the Wendy’s on Boston Street at 5:54 p.m.Tuesday, officials said. → Read More
“We sincerely hope to come to a mutual agreement so that our students can return to learning,” Mayor Scott Galvin and the School Committee said in a statement issued late Friday night. “As always, we remain committed to negotiating in good faith and coming to an agreement that is fair to our students, faculty, and community as a whole.” → Read More
The tree came down due to heavy winds on Friday, killing the baby and seriously injuring their mother, a 23-year-old Winstead, Conn. woman, officials said. → Read More
Members of Congress described the nearly 90-year-old Bourne and Sagamore bridges as “vital assets for the Cape Cod economy and surrounding communities” but also “functionally obsolete.” → Read More
Massachusetts law enforcement and elected officials called for justice Friday as Memphis officials released video of the police beating of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who died days after he was pulled over. → Read More
Vanessa Jeising, 28, allegedly contacted a friend after her child, Lily Iorio, was found to be unresponsive in the car early on the morning of Jan. 18, prosecutors said. → Read More
An instrumental arrangement of “Ave Maria” played as hundreds filed into Holy Family Catholic Church Thursday evening to offer prayers and support for the family of Lindsay M. Clancy, a mother who allegedly killed two of her children under age 5 and caused traumatic injuries to her 7-month-old son, at their home earlier this week. → Read More
Logan Clegg, 26, was indicted by a Merrimack County grand jury on charges that included second-degree murder, falsifying physical evidence, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. → Read More
Damien Knighton, 39, of East Boston, was charged with rape and indecent assault and battery after prosecutors allege he assaulted a patient Wednesday at the MGH Back Bay Health Center, the Suffolk district attorney's office said. → Read More
The photos show Brittany Tee smiling as she stands at a store counter wearing a black winter coat, her hair pulled up into a loose bun. The images were taken from a video recorded Jan. 6, four days before Tee’s disappearance, officials said. → Read More