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Actor Mark Wahlberg's pardon request remains on the back burner, a top state official said Wednesday.

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The forecast for Fri., April 10, is for lightning – balletic lightning, that is – to strike twice at the Strand Theatre: once in the morning and once in the evening.

That is the day when Boston Ballet returns to ... Read more.

The MBTA, which shoulders significant debt from past borrowing efforts, spent just over half of the amount budgeted for capital projects in 2014, contributing to "chronic underinvestment" and a backlog of unaddressed ... Read more.

The statistical area anchored in Boston was among five of the nation's 12 largest metropolitan areas that recorded employment gains of 2 percent or lower during the one-year period ending in January 2015.

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Carlos Arredondo, who helped those injured during the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing, has established the Arredondo Family Foundation (AFF) with his wife Mélida. The foundation will launch on Monday, April 6 from 6-9 p.m. ... Read more.

The MBTA's unsustainable operating budget is hamstrung by "stagnating" revenues, costs that are growing at twice the rate of inflation, and a fleet that is the oldest among its peer transit systems, according to details ... Read more.

Read this week's issue of The Relay here.

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For three months now, it’s the one question that has vexed local observers— including those of us at The Reporter— more than any other: How much will it cost state taxpayers to fix local roads and MBTA stations (such as ... Read more.

Fast food workers in Boston plan to target McDonald's for criticism Thursday, a day after the franchise announced plans to pay some of its U.S. workers more than the minimum wage.

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Carney Hospital last week unveiled a $2 million state-of-the-art Family Medicine Center located in the Seton Medical Office Building, on the east side of the hospital’s Dorchester Avenue campus.

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Thursday (2nd) – A Conversation with Marty Walsh at the JFK Library. 6-7:30 p.m. Mayor Marty Walsh reflects on his first year in office with CNN correspondent John King. All forums are free and open to ... Read more.

Prosecutors rested their case against Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Monday after jurors in his federal death penalty trial saw gruesome autopsy photos and heard a medical examiner describe the devastating ... Read more.

Presto- chango!

The Government Center T station may be taking its sweet time being rebuilt into a new facility, but steps away on City Hall Plaza the Big Apple Circus (BAC) is setting a much faster pace with its ... Read more.

This week the Dorchester Reporter launches a new feature called The Relay, a weekly newsletter covering the latest news on Boston’s bid for the 2024 Olympic Games. ... Read more.

James Rooney, who has led the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority for more than a decade and before that played a role in assembling the Big Dig financing plan, is leaving the authority to succeed Paul Guzzi as ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports officers responding to a report of gunfire around 11:25 a.m. on Tuesday at 332 Harvard St. first had to wait for firefighters to douse the flames in a first-floor apartment.

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Prosecutors rested their case against Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Monday after jurors in his federal death penalty trial saw gruesome autopsy photos and heard a medical examiner describe the devastating ... Read more.

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