Grieving family honors Northeastern student's 'rare empathy' and other top stories.

• Grieving family honors Northeastern student's 'rare empathy'

  

  The parents of Northeastern University senior Victoria McGrath are publicly thanking the people of Boston for helping them cope with her sudden loss in an overseas car crash, and recalling how their daughter had comforted so many in the three years since she suffered injuries in the Boston Marathon bombing.“Even as we are working through the pain, we, Victoria’s parents want to share a brief message. It is a message of faith and charity,” Jill and Jim McGrath said in a statement issued through N..

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• Boston's 13 greatest doughnut shops

  

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• Boston Plan Looks To Foster New Middle-Income Housing

  

  Boston Plan Looks To Foster New Middle-Income Housing March 8, 2016  Updated March 8, 2016, 2:15 pm A cluster of homes and buildings in the city's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. The city's new pilot plan calls for the construction of more densely built homes that are affordable to middle-income families in Jamaica Plain, Roxbury and South Boston. (Soe Lin/Flickr)  Updated March 8, 2016, 2:15 pm BOSTON Middle-class homes affordable to build, buy and own: That’s the gist of what Boston M..

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• Former Patriot Jarvis Green brings shrimp business to Boston

  

  Here’s an interesting addition to the list of second careers for former National Football League players: Shrimpmonger. Jarvis Green, the former Patriots defensive end and a two-time Super Bowl champion, is today the owner of Oceans 97, a Louisiana wholesaler of shrimp to restaurants and other retailers in the US and Canada. Advertisement The company — named after Green’s old jersey number — will announce Tuesday it will expand into the Boston area, opening its first office outside Louisia..

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• The three charts that show how Boston area is segregated

  

  Advertisement In a region known for its searing struggles with racial division, another once-secondary form of segregation — income segregation — has become a defining force. Here are the three charts that show how the Boston region is segregated. What do these charts tell us? Blue- and white-collar families who once lived close enough to bump into each other in the aisles of the local hardware store or chat in the pews of the neighborhood church live in much more homogenous places no..

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• Who is Doug Flutie? Boston football legend joining Dancing With the ...

  

  Doug Flutie was born in Baltimore, but moved to Massachusetts as a teenager and went on to become a key figure in local sports history. Now, he'll be competing in a new challenge. ABC confirmed the casting of the sports hero for the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars on Tuesday morning. Flutie attended Natick High School before playing football for Boston College.At Boston College, Flutie rose to prominence in 1984 when he threw for 3,454 yards and 27 touchdowns, leading the Eagles to a ..

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