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To pretend that now the House has passed this bill is real progress -- its at the expense of womens access to reproductive rights. ... I refuse to acknowledge that this is the best we can do. Attorney General Martha... Full Story »

By Kathy McCabe, Globe Staff LYNN - Mayor Edward J. Clancy Jr. said today he will file for a recount of the Nov. 3 general election, which the eight-year incumbent lost by 27 votes to challenger Judith Flanagan Kennedy, a... Full Story »

By Matt Viser and Roy Greene, Globe Staff Governor Deval Patrick today assailed the speaking invitation that a group of UMass Amherst faculty extended to a convicted terrorist, despite criticism from state and university leaders. Ray Luc Levasseur, the founder... Full Story »

By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff Boston police made several "missteps" the night they arrested David Woodman, but none of the mistakes contributed to the death of the 22-year-old Celtics fan, according to an independent report released today by former US... Full Story »

By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff A 47-year-old convicted murderer who was released from prison in September was ordered held on $1 million cash bail this morning after his arraignment on charges that he was one of two men who... Full Story »

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The Commandant's Own US Marine Drum and Bugle Corps played on Monday at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for the celebration of the Marine Corps' 234th birthday. (Bill Greene/Globe Staff) Ted Gartland, a dayside photo editor at the Globe,... Full Story »

The following comment came in reaction to the Metro Desk story on the quick-thinking MBTA personnel who saved a woman's life on the Orange Line on Friday: Her last words would have been to me. I was waiting at the... Full Story »

By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff A West Roxbury man today was identified as the person who was stabbed to death in Allston after bars and nightclubs closed early Sunday morning. Gregory A. Phillips was stabbed once in the heart... Full Story »

(MBTA) By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff MBTA Orange Line operator Charice Lewis saw the passengers at North Station flailing their arms. At about the same time, she heard a train inspector on her onboard radio telling her to pull... Full Story »

By Andrew Ryan and Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff In Massachusetts, marriage really still does mean until death do you part -- even after divorce. The Supreme Judicial Court today rejected a push to stop most alimony payments when someone... Full Story »

By Michaela Stanelun, Globe Correspondent All lanes are back open this afternoon on Route 128 in Woburn after a truck carrying scrap metal rolled over. The crash this morning spilled debris and had closed two northbound lanes of the roadway.... Full Story »

By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff Mayor Thomas M. Menino underwent emergency surgery this morning to repair a torn tendon in his left knee, an injury he suffered when he fell at his son's house Sunday evening, his spokeswoman said today.... Full Story »

By Matt Viser, Globe Staff Attorney General Martha Coakley said this morning that she would have voted against the landmark health care bill approved by the House over the weekend because it includes a provision restricting federal funding for providers... Full Story »

Globe staff photo by John Tlumacki Nov. 10, 1989, at the Brandenburg Gate. Twenty years ago, the Globe dispatched photographer John Tlumacki to Germany to capture the fall of the Berlin Wall, as East and West Germans celebrated the... Full Story »

By Michaela Stanelun and Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondents Two armed men robbed a taxi-dispatcher office in the Fenway today and pistol-whipped an employee, police said. A police officer working a nearby detail arrested one suspect just after the robbery, and... Full Story »

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By Globe Staff Two of the Democrats running in the special election for US Senate issued a joint letter today calling for two statewide debates before the primary on Dec. 8. Alan Khazei The letter, signed by Alan Khazei... Full Story »

NEWTON -- Six-year-old Erin Blouin did her best on Sunday to help her father with yard work. (Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff) Ted Gartland, a dayside photo editor at the Globe, has been taking pictures in Greater Boston since 1971. Each weekday,... Full Story »

Globe staff photo by Pat Greenhouse Dr. Astrid Desrosiers (left) assisted by an unidentified woman at Desrosiers home in Belmont today. By David Abel, Globe Staff The psychiatrist stabbed by a patient last month at a Massachusetts General Hospital... Full Story »

By Jeannie Nuss, Globe Correspondent A 24-year-old man was stabbed and killed early this morning in front of a convenience store near a strip of bars in Brighton, Boston police said. A police officer patrolling near Brighton and Harvard avenues... Full Story »

By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff Mal Sharpe, a graduate of Newton High and Boston University, moved out of Boston 50 years ago and lost his accent over a lengthy career in radio. But he still gets a kick out... Full Story »

Steven E. Purcell By Jenara Gardner, Globe Correspondent Liana Farmer, an 18-year-old Massachusetts College of Art student from Jamaica Plain, had the honor of accepting an award from Michelle Obama Wednesday. Liana was chosen to represent Art a la... Full Story »

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By Jenara Gardner, Globe Correspondent A homeless person is missing after a three-alarm fire gutted an abandoned paper mill Friday night in Lawrence. Firefighters responded to the former Merrimac Paper Co. Mill at approximately 7 p.m,.and were there till early... Full Story »