Several heavy-hitting Greater Boston districts earned top marks in new U.S. News elementary and middle school rankings.

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New Jersey’s governor declared a drought warning. Black Hawk helicopters scooped water from a lake to dump on a forest fire ...

On Nov. 19, 1978, police discovered Theresa Marcoux, 18 and Mark Harnish, 20, shot to death near Harnish's 1967 green Dodge ...