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To detect warning signs of heart problems in high-risk patients, some hospitals and health centers use remote blood pressure monitoring. Patients take their readings at home on devices that send their data to medical providers. And MassHealth is now picking up some of these treatment costs.

Founded in 1949 by Otto and Muriel Snowden, Freedom House has supported generations of Bostonians with a mission to “improve the civic, educational, recreational and general welfare of the entire Upper Roxbury community.”

Any pretense we had 25 years ago, about how we might need to contort ourselves to accommodate each other, has given way to understanding and a certain acceptance, writes Cloe Axelson. Your snoring makes me murderous and I really don’t want to snuggle when we sleep, but you’re still my person and I love you.

Monday marks 251 years since the Boston Tea Party. To honor the event, the Old South Meeting House will host a reenactment of a debate that led to it.

Windborne's holiday album "To Warm the Winter Hearth" draws its yuletide repertoire from harmony singing traditions across Europe.

Project STEP provides string instruments and classical music training to youth from kindergarten through 12th grade, at little to no cost to the students. Three students from the program will perform in a Christmas concert this weekend with the professional orchestra and chorus of Emmanuel Music.

Hector Pineiro, an attorney from Worcester, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss the Justice Department report on alleged abuses by the city's police.

Fernandes Anderson, 45, pled not guilty to six felony counts in federal court Friday afternoon. Mayor Michelle Wu and City Council President Ruthzee Louijeune both urged her to resign from the council.

Precincts in Charlestown, Dorchester, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, the South End and West Roxbury ran out of ballots, according to complaints compiled by WBUR from interviews with elected officials, election integrity advocates and voters, as well as public records.

Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart joins WBUR's Morning Edition to give a us taste what's new this season for the iconic holiday show.