Walmart grocery stores push north
Walmart Neighborhood Market wants to make its debut in the Northeast in Somerville, promising rock-bottom prices to a region with some of the nation’s highest grocery costs.
Protesters arrested at Greenway
Matthew J. Lee/ Globe Staff
Boston police moved in and began arresting scores of Occupy Boston protesters who refused to leave a large part of the Rose Kennedy Greenway early today.
Recalling 4 killings, Mattapan seeks change
A dozen unlit candles were placed on Woolson Street in Mattapan last week to mark the one-year anniversary of the gruesome quadruple killings that shook the city.
Defense lobbyists warn cuts threaten Mass. jobs
Defense lobbyists are packing a potent weapon in the battle to protect their industry: a warning that more cuts to the Pentagon budget will cost jobs.
Warren, Brown fill their coffers
Elizabeth Warren has raised $3.15 million for her US Senate bid, double what GOP Senator Scott Brown raised over the same reporting period, according to figures.
Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff
N.H. colleges turn primary into students’ learning lab
Local colleges have made the primary part of their curriculum, offering primary-related classes, encouraging hands-on internships, and bringing candidates to campus.
“How can we forget that a mother and her infant child were murdered? An infant child! How can we forget that?’’
Tyler Mitchell, on the quadruple killings in Mattapan a year ago
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Columnists
Metro
Another Lantigua recall effort begins
Opponents of Mayor William Lantigua of Lawrence have launched a second recall effort two months after the initial attempt to place an item on the ballot fell short.
Business
Gateway to enhance Back Bay park entry
Developer Simon Property Group and area residents are discussing construction of a glass gateway or public art display that would boldly announce the entrance to Southwest Corridor Park.
Nation
A divided Congress taking up bills on jobs, China
Congress is embarking on a flurry of votes to show it is trying to do something about creating jobs. The prospects for legislative success, however, are spotty.
World
Libyan official: Khadafy hiding in southern desert
Amid speculation about Khadafy’s whereabouts, an official said he believes the deposed leader is in southern Libya but is not being protected by the Tuareg ethnic group.
Sports
Avalanche 1, Bruins 0
Bruins edged out by Avalanche
The Bruins’ 1-0 loss to the Avalanche served as the smack-in-the-face reminder that the wrong approach often translates to the wrong result.
Lifestyle
Alex Beam
Art as smorgasbord
The MFA seeks serendipity with its “Mixed Taste” series, taking two wildly unrelated topics, mashing them up, and hoping for the best.
Opinion
“Another visible tipping point of the Charles is the wildlife. The river now hosts otters, beavers, fishers, herons, hawks, herring, and migrating loons.”
Derrick Z. Jackson
Ideas
“As engineers, city planners, and ‘road ecologists’ are realizing, we do need roads. We just need better ones.”
Courtney Humphries, on roads of the future