Bicycle crash numbers up on Cape Cod and islands
Between 2010 and 2012, the yearly number of bicycle crashes increased by nearly 60 percent in the vacation destination.
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Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
Bicyclists at the corner of Somerville Avenue and Beacon Street wait for the green light.
Bike fatalities rise in Greater Boston’s suburbs
The number of reported bicycle accidents has increased in recent years, and fatalities have more than tripled. By Steven A. Rosenberg and Catherine Cloutier
How common are skydiving accident deaths? Not very.
Despite two recent tragedies in Massachusetts resulting in three deaths, only 8 in a million skydiving jumps result in a fatality.
After stagnant MCAS results, 6 more schools ‘underperforming’
Third-graders failed to budge years of low reading scores, with only 57 percent scoring proficient or advanced.
Child poverty continues to climb in Mass.
The issue is partly caused by costly day care and housing and the proliferation of low-wage jobs, specialists said.
Faces of Friday Night
The carefully orchestrated drama that is a Friday night high school football game has its main characters, a supporting cast, and a backstage crew, all of whom play critical roles in putting on the show.
The most (and least) profitable professions in Massachusetts
Massachusetts workers ran companies and classrooms in 2013.
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Paul Swydan | Statistically Thinking
What does the future hold for Dustin Pedroia?
Hitter aging curves developed by FanGraphs offer a glimpse of what may lie ahead for the Red Sox’ second baseman.
MCAS results
How did your district and school do?
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Boston homicide map
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Boston homicides in 2014
Information about victims of homicides in Boston in 2014.
Massachusetts housing prices
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Median prices by town
Median sales prices have climbed above the 2005 peak in more than 60 Massachusetts communities. Compare the numbers for each Bay State city and town.
Shadow Campus
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Tracking the dorm shortfall
Surging enrollment has outpaced schools’ ability to house students both in Boston and nationwide, though some schools point out that not all students want or require on-campus housing.
Address
Next door: Town comparison tool
Choose two Greater Boston communities and see how they stack up against each other.
History of gay marriage
A timeline of same-sex marriage in the US
Several states’ constitutional bans on same-sex marriage have been struck down as unconstitutional. Most of those rulings have been put on hold as the cases go through the appeals process.
Jared Remy
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Jared Remy’s troubled past
Hundreds of pages of public records reveal accounts that Jared Remy terrorized five different girlfriends, and that courts repeatedly let him off with little more than probation.
Violence in schools
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Map of school shootings since 2013
There have been 74 school shootings since the beginning of 2013, according to data compiled by Everytown.org, a group that advocates against gun violence.
2014 Boston Marathon
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Faces of the field
About 36,000 runners arrived in Hopkinton with a single goal: finishing the Boston Marathon.