How Greater Boston's middle class has thinned since 1990 and other top stories.

• How Greater Boston's middle class has thinned since 1990

  Meet the Boston area’s newest endangered species, middle-class parents with kids. Relentlessly rising home prices and rents are driving middle-class families out of Greater Boston, a new report finds. The ranks of middle-class families with children have thinned steadily from Boston to outer suburbs along I-495, dropping 11 percent since 1990, a new report by the Urban Land Institute finds. (Disclosure: The reporter has previously helped compile reports for the Urban Land Institute, but had no ..

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• Missing BC student found 'safe and alive'

  

  The Boston College student who went missing today has been found "safe and alive," Newton police report.Police had been searching the Hammond Pond area in Newton for 23-year-old  Dana Morrissey, who was expected to graduate today and who was last seen at a department store being dropped off by an Uber driver."She was found safe and alive," said Newton police spokesman Bruce Apotheker. "We wish to thank everybody and the family wishes to thank everybody."Newton police and fire, Boston College Po..

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