Raytheon is in the hunt for a $3b space project

Waltham-based Raytheon and Maryland’s Lockheed Martin are locked in a competition to build a first-of-its-kind “Space Fence” to track orbital junk.

Overruns may cost each member of the Belmont Country Club at least $28,000.

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Clubby atmosphere vanishes as costs escalate in Belmont

What began two years ago as an elaborate $18 million clubhouse reconstruction at Belmont Country Club has grown into a nearly $30 million fiasco.

Youth jobs program facing deep cuts in Mass.

Lawmakers are considering deep cuts in funding for a youth summer jobs program even as teen unemployment remains near record levels.

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2 golf bodies ban anchored putting stroke

The move, approved by the US Golf Association, bans the controversial stroke that major winners have used recently. But the PGA Tour has not signed off on it.

Disaster in Oklahoma

Crews search for survivors after tornado kills at least 91

Emergency crews worked early this morning in a frantic search for survivors after a deadly tornado struck near Oklahoma City on Monday.

Rescue workers dug through the rubble of Plaza Tower Elementary School early Tuesday in Moore, Okla.

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Rescue workers dug through the rubble of Plaza Tower Elementary School. At least 20 children were killed in the tornado.

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A mangled in the parking lot of Warren Theatre as a storm cloud passed over early Tuesday in Moore, Okla.

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A stuffed bear amid the rubble in Moore.

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Lightning ripped across the sky in Moore, Okla., on the day after a massive tornado hit the town.

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A child was pulled from the rubble of Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla.

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Rescuers looked for victims amid debris south of Oklahoma City.

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Briarwood Elementary School in south Oklahoma City was also damaged, and people there were injured.

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A boy was pulled from beneath a collapsed wall at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla.

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Police officers in Moore, Okla., dug through the rubble of Plaza Towers Elementary School after a massive tornado struck.

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A woman was pulled from the school.

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The tornado was estimated to be at least a half-mile wide with winds up to 200 mph.

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A woman carried her child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School.

Gomez blasts Markey on safety

Gabriel Gomez unleashed a frontal attack on Representative Edward Markey’s homeland security credentials.

Marathon victims attend BC commencement

Liza Cherney and Brittany Loring, still with some visible wounds and bandages, were among the 4,395 BC students to receive degrees.

Visibility at issue in fatal crash with cyclist

The truck driver that fatally struck an MIT scientist probably did not even see the 36-year-old when the vehicle collided with her bike Sunday afternoon.