The collapse occurred at a closed power plant in South Boston that is being redeveloped.
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Ex-Patriot loses bid for school committee seat in Massachusetts
Former offensive lineman Matt Light had been critical of school mask mandates over concerns about his son, who has a heart condition.
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New Hampshire hotel damaged by fire had smoke alarms, heat detectors
The wing where the fire broke out did not have an automatic sprinkler system, but current law doesn’t require it.
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Fault in door safety system cited in Boston subway death
Investigators say a train should not have been able to move when a passenger’s arm became stuck in the door.
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Supreme Court rules against Boston over refusal to fly Christian flag
Justice Stephen Breyer wrote that ‘the city’s lack of meaningful involvement in the selection of flags or the crafting of their messages leads us to classify the flag raisings as private, not government, speech.’
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Connecticut looks to bar out-of-state marijuana advertising
Residents living close to the Massachusetts border are complaining to lawmakers about cannabis billboards.
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Former owner of ski resorts gets 5 years in largest Vermont fraud case
He kept up to $37 million intended for the construction of a biotechnology plant, prosecutors say.
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Harvard report brings joy, grief for descendants of enslaved
In its pledge to atone for ties to slavery, the Massachusetts university identified dozens of people who were enslaved by the school’s first leaders and faculty members.
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New Hampshire Senate rejects 2 marijuana legalization bills
A majority of senators maintain their opposition to recreational cannabis use, unswayed by the legal markets in neighboring states.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World, New England
MIT researchers propose fighting Lyme by releasing mice on Nantucket
They want to release hundreds of thousands of native white-footed mice engineered to resist the bacteria that causes Lyme in an effort to slow disease transmission.