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This was bound to happen after Starbucks announced that they were closing 600 locations .

All right: Why not bicycle to work? Gas is headed for $5 a gallon, and our government can't bring itself to pass any meaningful climate-change legislation.

Newton, Mass.-FreshAddress Inc., an e-mail database services provider, last week released its 2008 study assessing top e-tailers' ability to catch e-mail registration errors.

NEWTON, Mass. - The credit crunch has arrived at college campuses and many families who qualified for student loans last year could find themselves without loans this year if they wait until August to apply.

New York state has opened a sweeping investigation of two wind power companies, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said.

Newtonites can be justifiably proud of their city's recent lofty rankings in CNNMoney.com's 2008 "Best Places to Live" survey, but they may need to take the honors with a grain of salt.

Playing on the Prudential Center lawn Thursday will be Newton Faulkner , a dread-headed singer-songwriter from the UK, who has opened for Paolo Nutini and John Mayer.

Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, GMZ Energy, Inc., 12A Hawthorn Street, Newton, Massachusetts 02458, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, ...

American Legion Post 440 officials Bob Perruzzi, Frank Campion, Barbara Mooney, and Joseph Sturniolo display samples of Walk of Remembrance bricks, which are being sold to help pay for a project to revamp the ...

In the latest clash in an increasingly public quarrel, Mayor Thomas M. Menino called on Boston College yesterday to increase its voluntary payments to the city to offset tax revenue lost as a result of the ...

Hybrid cars, because they are more expensive to purchase, tend to be bought by older, more affluent consumers.

One in a series of occasional articles on development and transportation pressures facing Route 9. The long-awaited repaving of Route 9 across Brookline to the Newton line started last month and should be ...

The Ardmore apartment complex near Interstate 95 in Wellesley is home to many families and young professionals.

Anyone attending the Lucas Oil NHRA Drag Racing Series regional this weekend at Lebanon Valley Dragway should keep an eye out for the Permatex-sponsored Follow a Dream racing team Top Alcohol Funny Car driven ...

Two Brockton residents face a raft of prostitution charges after state and federal agents swooped down on an alleged brothel in the tony suburb of Wellesley.

Preston voters have chosen Northland Investment Corp., Hartford's largest property owner, as the preferred developer for the 419-acres former Norwich Hospital property.

A jury convicted a Waltham man this afternoon of hiring a hit man to kill his estranged wife's boyfriend in a Newton parking garage in 2006.

An architectural rendering of the gateway to Boston College's plan for its Middle Campus in Chestnut Hill.

Adobe is seeking for an Experience Architect to work with the Adobe Consulting Team to design next-generation, rich client applications for strategic third-party engagements.

Mark Parsons of Newton talks to a neighbor today after a tree fell on top of his house off Albemarle Road.