The Standard & Poor’s 500 index came within a single point of its all-time high.
2017
Saco Middle School to reopen after water line break
The school was closed for two days for repairs to several flooded classrooms.
Commentary: Here’s the MVP, and his name’s not Brady
Matt Ryan sometimes gets overlooked in Atlanta, but go check what he’s done this year. He’s worthy.
Still low, but mortgage rates are heading upward
Economists say the trend for 2017 suggests a more challenging year for homebuyers
Decades after murders, Manson family still potent culturally
To many in America, they came to represent an evil side to the cultural shifts sweeping the country in the 1960s.
U.S. auto sales set another record in 2016, but not by much
It was the seventh straight year of growth, a first, but the torrid performance is likely to cool off this year.
First Bishop indicted in Catholic sexual abuses dead at 83
Thomas Dupre was accused of raping two boys in the 1970s but was never tried or convicted.
Lifetime achievement winner continues serving
Mark Johnston is called ‘an even-keeled fellow who plugs along and gets things done.’
Chilled turtles are flown to the Florida Keys for warming up
The endangered turtles were found off Cape Cod and apparently did not go south for the winter.
NASA plans new missions to asteroids
The trips will seek to uncover clues about the early solar system.