High court taking on health law
The move by the Supreme Court could salvage or doom Obama’s signature domestic initiative just months before voters go to the polls to consider his reelection.
Wiqan Ang for The Boston Globe/File 2006
Mass. blue laws derailing stores’ Black Friday plan
Retailers with midnight sales are amending their hours because 17th-century rules prohibit retail employees from working until 12 a.m. after Thanksgiving.
House-Senate panel reaches compromise on casino bill
Legislative conferees agreed on a compromise casino bill that eliminates a provision to allow happy hours at bars around the state.
Feeney, long on council, leaves quietly
Maureen Feeney’s departure from the City Council may have been strategically timed: Feeney will now be in a position to become Boston’s next city clerk.
Northfield Mount Hermon Archives
Much to savor in nation’s oldest race
Some 600 students, faculty, alums, and invitation-only guests will run for both pride and apple pie in the Northfield Mount Hermon School’s Bemis-Forslund Pie Race.
State files No Child waiver with US
Nearly a decade after the passage of the No Child Left Behind law, Mass. moved yesterday to replace some of its strictest provisions with a more flexible system.
Sisters slain in Dorchester apartment
Two sisters were found fatally shot inside a Dorchester apartment yesterday morning, a double homicide that has unsettled police and horrified the neighborhood.
Kevin Cullen
Paying in tears
The slayings D.J. Rudolph is accused of committing are shocking. The dearth of resources available for somebody like him is sadly routine.
“They are sweet, independent, quiet girls. They didn’t party. They didn’t drink. They didn’t smoke. All they did was work hard.”
Wisline Emile, sister of two victims in Dorchester
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Metro
Cape camp in sexual abuse scandal to reopen
The announcement that a Christian summer camp embroiled in a sexual-abuse scandal will reopen on Cape Cod has prompted anger and surprise from alleged victims.
Business
Deal reached on naval air base land
The developer building a mini-city on the former South Weymouth naval air base has reached a deal to buy the remaining 830 acres of the sprawling station from the Navy.
Politics
Giffords puts a hold on going back to Congress
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in her first extended interview since a January shooting rampage, said last night that she will not return to Congress until she is “better.’’
Nation & World
Wall Street protesters ousted from Zuccotti Park
Police cleared New York’s Zuccotti Park early today so that sanitation crews could clean the site Occupy Wall Street protesters have inhabited for two months.
Sports
Players reject NBA proposal
The NBA Players’ Association not only rejected the owners’ latest proposal yesterday, but chose to disband, leaving the season in the hands of lawyers.
Arts
BOOK REVIEW
‘That Is All’ by John Hodgman
The TV celebrity and writer offers random rants in the third of his “tri-pendium’’ of knowledge books.
Lifestyle
alex beam
Much ado about nothing
The quest for the historically correct William Shakespeare, Homer and Jesus Christ is so much sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Special reports
Globe Spotlight Report
Under the influence
Full coverage of the Globe’s investigation into OUI acquittal rates.
Ideas
“It may seem intimidating when we say you are going to help transcribe ancient Greek papyri, but it’s all about pattern recognition, and the brain excels at pattern recognition.”
James Brusuelas, an Oxford classicist who is part of the Ancient Lives team