(By Donovan Slack and Matt Viser, Globe Staff)
Boston's voter turnout plummeted to its lowest level in more than two decades yesterday, especially in the city's predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods, a tide of apathy that swept the City Council's only Latino member, Felix Arroyo, out of office.
(By Anna Badkhen, Globe Staff)
Violent crime soared in neighborhoods like Dorchester, Mattapan and Roxbury in recent years. But lost amid the efforts to halt the killings and a flood of press coverage about dead victims is the impact the violence has had
on those who survive.
(By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff)
She juggles her classes, court appearances for the Legal Aid Bureau, and work on a website start-up. It is a full schedule for any Harvard Law student, but Cate Edwards is also trying to help her father get elected president.
(By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff)
Operating room fires have received less attention than other potential hazards such as wrong-site surgery, but fires have seriously injured and even killed patients. And new data show that they are more common than previously believed.
(By David Abel, Globe Staff)
The ban is one of the last of the blue laws — the same code that outlaws frightening pigeons from another person’s property, exhibiting albinos for profit, and kissing in public — and one of the few actually enforced.
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