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David L. Ryan/Globe Staff Anjali Patel, a junior at Wellesley College, got comfortable today and had plenty of room for expansive thoughts as she studied calculus in Pendleton Hall.... Full Story »

By Globe Staff Better check the garage and find those snow shovels. While the Boston area is only expected to get a dusting, some sections of Massachusetts may get as much as five inches of snow on Saturday, forecasters said... Full Story »

By Globe Staff State police used an infrared camera mounted in a helicopter to search a night-shrouded forest in the northwestern part of the state and locate an injured hunter. The 62-year-old hunter had entered the forest in Savoy at... Full Story »

By Abbie Ruzicka, Globe Correspondent A female was shot during a home invasion today on Chase Street in the town of Somerset, police said. Police are searching for the suspect, who is described as a possibly Hispanic male standing 6... Full Story »

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By Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff The dusting of snow expected on Saturday night in Boston may bring a meteorological milestone: The latest first frost in some parts of the city in at least 137 years. Frost coated a fallen... Full Story »

By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff The Patrick administration is taking a $9 million footbridge next to Gillette stadium off its list of federally funded stimulus projects, but remains committed to finding other public money for the project, an administration... Full Story »

(David L. Ryan/Globe Staff/file January 2009) Lieutenant Kevin M. Kelley was killed on Jan. 9 when the brakes failed on a fire truck in Mission Hill. By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff Relatives of a Boston firefighter who was killed... Full Story »

By David Abel, Globe Staff Money from a tax settlement agreed to this week by the state Department of Revenue and slightly higher-than-expected tax collections will allow the state to close a budget gap of $120 million without further cuts,... Full Story »

By Globe Staff A 20-year-old Roxbury man was convicted of first-degree murder and other charges today for executing a cold-blooded plan to shoot the first people he and an accomplice encountered as they walked into a Roxbury housing development in... Full Story »

By Globe Staff A man who met with an undercover Worcester police officer and agreed to pay for sex with her fictitious 4-year-old foster child should not have been convicted of attempted rape of a child, the state's highest court... Full Story »

By Andrea Estes, Globe Staff In the interest of shared sacrifice, House lawmakers recently agreed to take five unpaid furlough days, or an equivalent pay cut. At least most of them. There were 22 representatives who missed this week's deadline... Full Story »

By Michaela Stanelun, Globe Correspondent A young man wielding a knife allegedly threatened a group of Bourne Middle School students waiting at a bus stop this morning, police said. Caleb Savage, 22, is accused of driving twice by about a... Full Story »

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By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff Christie's Images Ltd. The author wanted to be known as simply "A Bostonian." But he was no ordinary Bostonian -- and the book is no ordinary tome. An extremely rare first edition of Edgar Allan... Full Story »

The alleged embezzlement of $2 million by a clerk from the Probation Department at Lawrence District Court may have left a trail of victims. The accused thief used a variety of accounting tricks to steal as much as $12,000 a... Full Story »

By Roy Greene, Globe Staff Lesley University Professor Louise Pascale recently returned from Afghanistan, where she spent two months working in classrooms and orphanages as part of the Afghan Childrens Songbook Project, a program she launched in 2006 to preserve... Full Story »

By Globe Staff Two people were shot shortly before 5 p.m. today on Harrison Avenue in the city's Roxbury section, Boston police said. Police said the victims have been rushed to Boston Medical Center. Their condition is not known. The... Full Story »

David L. Ryan/Globe Staff It was a day for flip-flops. Soundtrack of the Day is an occasional feature about the music that fits the mood or daily events around town. By Ben Collins, Globe Correspondent There are people playing... Full Story »

By Globe Staff Thirty-five full-time employees and four contractors were laid off today at the state Department of Environmental Protection, a department spokesman said. The cuts, part of a plan by the Patrick administration to close a massive budget gap... Full Story »

By Globe Staff A long-standing rivalry between small factions in the Cape Verdean communities of Dorchester and Roxbury erupted into violence Wednesday night in Roxbury when a 30-year-old man was shot in the head, shoulder, and thigh, Suffolk County prosecutors... Full Story »

By John R. Ellement and Peter Schworm, Globe Staff SALEM - A former accounting clerk was arraigned today on charges that she stole more than $2 million from the Lawrence District Court's probation department, crafting a massive embezzlement scheme that... Full Story »

(Evan Richman/Globe Staff/file 2008) Fireworks flanked the Boston Common Christmas tree after Mayor Thomas M. Menino threw the switch in December 2008. Menino's wife, Angela, will take his place this evening. By Globe Staff The city's official Christmas tree... Full Story »

By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff The MBTA program that provides bus and van service to disabled people didn't keep close enough track of the payments it made to transportation contractors for gas, the state auditor's office said today. The MBTA... Full Story »

By Alex Beam, Globe Staff Fifty minutes after the end of this week's first televised debate, businessman Steve Pagliuca issued a press release headlined, "Pagliuca Outshines Opponents in WCVB Debate." Hmm. That's not what my audience saw. I brought two... Full Story »