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The White House said today that President Barack Obama will meet with Pope Francis during a European trip in March. The meeting will be the first between the two, and a White House press release said, "The president looks forward to discussing with Pope Francis their shared commitment to fighting poverty and growing inequality." 

A video made in 2008 of my 95-year-old father's move to an assisted living residence in Rochester, N.Y. struck a chord with 20-year-old nursing students in Michigan. The video of Alfred G. Scheible is being used in a nursing program at the University of Michigan-Flint.
 

Dozens of pilots who keep their planes at Marshfield Municipal Airport are making alternative arrangements in preparation for a three-month closure resulting from the ongoing $15.34 million improvement and expansion project.

U.S. Rep. William Keating is visiting Russia this week for talks on the Boston Marathon bombing and the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi.

In a new TV series debuting this week, the camera-shy Wahlberg brother, Paul, who lives in Hingham, emerges from his stage: the kitchen. He and his famous brothers, Mark and Donnie, own Wahlburgers.

Hanover entrepreneurs Daryce Morris and Brenda Maver are connected by creativity and community.

The National Weather Service office in Taunton has issued a winter storm warning for 1 p.m.  Tuesday through 1 p.m. Wednesday across eastern Massachusetts and a blizzard watch for southern Plymouth County, Cape Cod and the islands.

The change in name reflects a shift in focus for the organization’s board of directors.

News on the Sochi Olympics, Syria and Martin Luther King Jr.