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Michael Blanding

A smalltime bar brawl in Jamaica Plain spills into the streets.

Drug companies, already under fire for selling medications that don't work, are bribing doctors to prescribe pills you don't need.

The sexual harassment suit against the North End's Pizzeria Regina reveals the fault lines of a changing neighborhood.

Depending on who you believe, a new bioterror laboratory planned by Boston University will be a boon to the city — or a catastrophe beyond imagining.

Even as filmmaker Brad Anderson stands perched on the edge of success with his latest genre-bending horror film, The Machinist, he hasn't lost sight of the independent spirit that marked the beginning of his career in Boston.

The true story of the man who had it all — a house in the suburbs, a good job, five kids — until he went on the Internet to hire a hit man to kill his wife.

Once the Boston equivalent of Martin and Malcolm, two black ministers — and former red-blooded antagonists — have banded together on an unlikely crusade.

Forget about tattooed, black-masked anarchists. Today' anti-globalization protester is just as likely to be the middle-aged, middle-class computer engineer next door.

A year of shootings in the inner city has prompted fears of a return to the bad old days of gang warfare. For the innocent kids caught in the middle, the streets are a mix of temptation, random violence, and dwindling choices. Here’ what their lives

A BU professor fights to publicize his report claiming there's a link between cancer deaths and IBM plants. But Big Blue is doing all it can to stop him.

In a housing market where the very concept of bargain is laughable, which towns are really worth the money? And which are — dare we say it — overpriced?

As Americans question their newly divided world, more and more are turning to one Boston-based religion for the answers.

At MIT, Lori Berenson began a course in social justice that landed her in a Peruvian terrorist prison. Six years and two trials later, she still claims she's innocent.

The Best Places to Live 2005

Ever seen that gun-control billboard on the Mass. Pike showing the smiling faces of kids who were killed by handguns? That's John Rosenthal's work. Now he's about to completely transform the face of Kenmore Square with an 885,000-square-f