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Stickers await voters in Dorchester. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

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Your guide to voting in the 2024 election in Massachusetts

The presidential election between Harris and Trump is set for Nov. 5. This is also a chance for many districts to elect new state legislators. Here's all you need to know about your voting options and who's on the ballot.

A view of the front entrance at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum security prison, in Lancaster. (David L Ryan/Boston Globe)

Advocates say Souza prison was deteriorating before violence

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UMass Amherst students stage a sit-in last year inside the Whitmore Administrative Building after presenting demands to the chancellor to end what they called, "UMass Amherst's ties with war profiteers" and add to growing calls on college campuses for a cease-fire in the war in Gaza". (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Mass. colleges move to curtail protests, pivot to school-led 'civil discourse' events

Education

New York City mayor Eric Adams speaks to members of the press at a news conference in New York, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (Seth Wenig/AP)

NYC Mayor Eric Adams charged with taking bribes and illegal campaign funds from foreign sources

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Some of the entrants to this year's NPR's Tiny Desk Contest. (Screenshot/YouTube)

These are the top 21 Tiny Desk Contest entries from Massachusetts

A Joro spider in its web. (Andy Davis at the University of Georgia)

How Boston's first Joro spider likely got here — and why you shouldn't freak out

Aduba dedicates her new memoir to her mother, Nonyem Aduba. "My self-talk, the way that I motivate myself into pursuing this business ... is built out of language that my mother had given me," Aduba says. (Invision/AP)

Uzo Aduba thanks her mom: 'I didn't know how many prayers she sent up to heaven for me'

A dancer from SambaViva taking a photo with an attendee at last year’s Latinx Heritage Night. (Courtesy Tim Correira Photography/ SambaViva)

5 things to do this weekend, including BSO Chamber Players concert

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu during a 2022 appearance before the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce at the Sheraton Boston. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Mayor Wu takes her fight for property tax shift plan to its critics

Nathalie Emmanuel and Adam Driver in Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis." (Courtesy of Lionsgate)

Review: Francis Ford Coppola's messy, maximalist 'Megalopolis'

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Weird and wonderful: This is your Field Guide to Boston

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Here's your ticket to Boston's arts and culture scene

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An illustration of two people harvesting lettuce at a community garden in Boston. (Midoriko Grace Abe for WBUR)

Here's how to find your crowd and make friends in Boston

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An illustration inspired by Nancy Schön's "Make Way For Ducklings" sculpture. The ducklings in the illustration are dressed for autumn weather and events. (Midoriko Grace Abe for WBUR)

The air and apples are crisp: What to know about fall in Boston

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Mayor Michelle Wu greets students arriving for the first day of school. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Mayor Wu 'conflicted' on eliminating MCAS as a graduation requirement

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The author's sons on a visit to Paraguay in 2011. (Courtesy Marjie Alonso)

Essay: I joyfully adopted my sons from Paraguay. I would never do it again

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Food waste to be processed at the Vanguard Renewables Organics Recycling Facility in Agawam. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Mass. is a national leader in keeping food waste out of landfills, study finds

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Storrow Drive and the Back Bay skyline are seen, Friday, Nov 4, 2022, in Boston. (Michael Dwyer/AP)

Chasing fall foliage in New England: Best spots, timing and what to expect

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The front and back cover of Joey Carvello's "The Boston Hustle." (Courtesy Palmetto Publishing)

The heyday of local disco remembered in 'The Boston Hustle'

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A gated entrance is seen in front of the Massachusetts State House in Boston. (Mary Schwalm/AP)

Disapproval of Massachusetts State House jumps in new poll

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Paola Ferrer, Brogan Nelson and Rebekah Rae Robles in "Laughs in Spanish" at SpeakEasy Stage Company. (Courtesy Nile Scott Studios)

Review: SpeakEasy's 'Laughs in Spanish' is a good time in any language

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Busing's Legacy in Boston, 50 years later

Bused Black schoolchildren arrive with police escort at South Boston High School during court-ordered desegregation in 1974. (Spencer Grant/Getty Images)

Timeline: Major events shaping Boston’s school busing era

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The Eliot K-8 Innovation Upper School building on Commercial Street in the North End. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

How Boston's Eliot School desegregated — and resegregated

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The beautiful vision of Boston’s Freedom Schools

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Yang Cao pushes his sons Zhentao and Yiteng on the swings at Menino Park in Charlestown. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Busing turned a Charlestown school into a Mandarin language magnet. Now that program's closing

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Critically endangered red wolf population dwindles

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How to recognize and cope with gambling addiction

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New models of the Apple iPhone 16 are displayed after Apple's "It's Glowtime" event in Cupertino, California, Sept. 9, 2024. Apple announced a new iPhone built for generative artificial intelligence as it seeks to boost sales and show it is keeping up in the technology race. (Nic Coury/AFP via Getty Images)

Apple Intelligence brings AI to iPhone users

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"Right-Field" Will MacNeil and several other A's fans sing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" in the Oakland Coliseum during the seventh-inning stretch of a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on May 1, 2024, in Oakland, Calif. (Michael Liedtke/AP)

Oakland A's play final home game

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Last Seen Season Four: Postmortem, The Stolen Bodies of Harvard

Introducing 'Postmortem'

The former morgue manager of Harvard Medical School in Boston has been accused of stealing and selling body parts. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Episode 1: The crime

Amber Haggstrom's mom, Donna Pratt. (Courtesy of the family)

Episode 2: The victims

Skulls on display in Mike Drake's collection. (Ally Jarmanning/WBUR)

Episode 3: The collectors

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Episode 4: The anatomy lab

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Episode 5: A reckoning

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