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Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell speaks in Worcester, Mass. (Michael Dwyer/AP)

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AG Campbell sues Milton over town's failure to comply with state zoning law

The suit, filed Tuesday, makes good on Campbell's threat to take legal action on the town for failing to comply with the law, which requires communities to allow for more housing near MBTA services.

Taylor Avitabile walks into the apartment. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

A landlord's 2-year, $80,000 effort to evict a non-paying tenant

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Former Gardner Museum security guard Rick Abath has died. (Matthew Cavanaugh for The Boston Globe)

Night watchman during notorious 1990 Gardner heist has died

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Young children play with their teacher outside of a child care center in 2022. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Child care sector — essential to Boston’s economy — is struggling to recruit new workers

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Internal Revenue Service taxes forms. (Keith Srakocic/AP)

It's time for taxes. Here's what you need to know

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Elected officials and guests gather round Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Mayor Michelle Wu for a photo at the First Annual Dominican Independence Day Breakfast in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Boston city councilors kick off Dominican Independence Day breakfast, celebrating their rise...

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The author, the first baby born via in vitro fertilization in the U.S. as a newborn with her parents, Judith and Roger Carr. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Essay: First U.S. baby born via IVF feels like 'an endangered species’

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Michael Kaye (Jack), Kate Fitzgerald (Cathleen) and Aimee Doherty (Bridget) in "Thirst" at the Lyric Stage Company. (Courtesy Mark S. Howard)

Review: Lyric Stage centers the dreams of Irish immigrants in 'Thirst'

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Mary Timony's new album carried here through upheaval and loss

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Ukrainian refugees attend a job fair in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Feb. 1, 2023. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

Essay: What gets lost in the immigration debate

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A voter fills out a ballot in Ware, Massachusetts, in 2020. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Voter guide: Super Tuesday primary elections in Massachusetts

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St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, a Steward Health Care family hospital in Brighton, Mass. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Healey doubles down on calls for Steward Health to leave Mass.

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Annette Miller stars as Golda Meir in "Golda's Balcony" presented by Shakespeare & Company. (Courtesy Nile Scott Studios)

Review: 'Golda's Balcony' probes the urgent choices of Israel's first female premier

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Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaking at the CNN Republican presidential debate with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Trump, Haley and the Mass GOP's future is on the primary ballot

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Stacey Raymond (Polly) and Petey Gibson (Carl) in "Becoming a Man" at the American Repertory Theater. (Courtesy Nile Scott Studios and Maggie Hall)

Review: 'Becoming a Man' — the stirring transitional story is center stage

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Lowell's DeevoDaGenius is defining the sound of Mass. hip-hop

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Introducing ‘Beyond All Repair,’ a new podcast about an unsolved murder

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In this handout photo provided by NASA, a Solar and Heliospheric Observatory image shows Region 486 that unleashed a a solar flare (lower left) from Nov. 18, 2003 on the sun. (NASA via Getty Images)

How solar flare increasing on the sun affects Earth

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If you use TikTok, you're used to hearing popular songs remixed and sped up. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Songs are speeding up, and social media is the reason

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Rachel Robinson, widow of Jackie Robinson, is shown at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of the Jackie Robinson Museum, Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in New York. (Julia Nikhinson/AP)

The life and legacy of Rachel Robinson, Jackie Robinson's wife

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Some cognitive skills improve with age, research shows

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Fun between the flurries: Your winter guide to Boston

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A baker fills a cannoli in the kitchen of Mike's Pastry in Boston's North End. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

How iconic bakeries in Boston's North End have made their beloved cannolis for generations

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We discover what bakeries the bakers go to in Boston. In this photograph, a Clear Flour chocolate croissant. (Courtesy Clear Flour Bread)

Here are 8 bakers' favorite pastry shops around Greater Boston

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Good eats, local vibes: Explore 20 Boston neighborhoods

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Listen to 'The Gun Machine'

The surprising origin story of America’s foundational industry.

Ep. 1: The U.S. gun industry's origin story

A culture of fear sells guns. This is how we got here.

Ep. 2: Fear sells guns. Here's how that culture was created

'The Gun Machine' Ep. 3: How the Mass Market Was Won

Ep. 3: How U.S. civilians were turned into gun consumers

‘The Gun Machine’ Ep. 4: Springfield was once the center of the gun industry. Now, many guns on the street are illegal.

Ep. 4: Springfield, Mass. was once the center of the gun industry

'The Gun Machine' Ep. 5: How the police became one of the gun industry’s biggest customers

Ep. 5: How police became one of the industry’s biggest customers

‘The Gun Machine’ Ep. 6: Why it's nearly impossible to sue the gun industry – and the city that still has a case

Ep. 6: Why it's nearly impossible to sue gun companies

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