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New Hampshire's Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is changing the way it handles knee replacement surgeries based on the results of a data-sharing project aimed at improving health care quality and lowering costs.

For Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it was quite a week -- from birthday, to IPO, to I DO.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status Saturday to "married," a day after the historic Facebook IPO.

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Protesters gathering in Chicago for the NATO summit were gearing up for their largest demonstration Sunday, when thousands are expected to march from a downtown park to the lakeside convention center where President Barack Obama and dozens of other world leaders will meet.

Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending.

Marianne Brouillette lay down one night with two small children the Department of Children & Families left in her care.

For the past six months, state police Trooper Andrew Canata has been pounding the pavement between regional libraries and cemetery plots.

A crash involving two vehicles on Interstate 495 in Haverhill resulted in the death of a 68-year-old woman and injuries to two others Saturday, according to State Police.

Police said they have ruled out foul play in the death of Bridget Gorman, a Bridgewater resident who was found unconscious in a backyard pool Friday evening.

State and federal officials are marking National Safe Boating Week by reminding people to put on life jackets as soon as they step into a boat, and to behave responsibly in the water.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band announced Saturday that they will play a second concert at Fenway Park on Aug. 15.

A bicyclist was involved in a crash with a vehicle in Northampton Saturday night, according to State Police.

A group assembled to find ways to help fishermen survive an 80 percent cut in the yellowtail flounder catch on Georges Bank will meet this week.

A former Bristol County prosecutor was found not guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in a courthouse conference room in 2008.

Enforcement of compulsive hoarding cases can be difficult for local health officials, who must respect the rights of the resident, as well as determine whether their behavior poses a threat to their own or the public’s safety and health. To the frustration of neighbors of hoarders, most of the cases don’t meet that threshold.

Wrentham officials are pushing for a zoning change that would create a new highway commercial district on Route 1 from the Foxborough town line to Thurston Street. The land south of Thurston is already zoned for large commercial developments, but the northern stretch currently has the same zoning as Wrentham’s quaint town center. The proposal – which residents will vote on at a June 11 Town Meeting – is just the latest in a series of zoning changes aimed at accommodating commercial development in Wrentham.

Massachusetts hospitals last year spent more than any other sector on lobbying politicians on a range of issues - $9 million - reflecting both the industry’s size but also the high stakes.

Teachers at Jacobs Elementary School in Hull don’t mind when their students get to class a little sweaty and out of breath. That’s because the youngsters coming from the school’s early-morning exercise class seem better able to stay in their seats for the rest of the day. Inspired by research like that of Harvard Medical School psychiatrist Dr. James Ratey, who describes exercise as “Miracle-Gro for the brain,” the early-morning exercise movement is gaining traction in education circles.