Towns faulted on aid to veterans
Thousands of financially struggling Mass. veterans might not be receiving cash payments and medical reimbursements they are entitled to get.
Barry Chin/Globe Staff/File
Theo Epstein
Farewell, Red Sox Nation
Former Red Sox GM Theo Epstein says goodbye to Boston, and reflects on the ups and downs of his 10 years with the team.
Necco returns to original wafer recipe
Less than two years after going all natural, the Revere company has gone back to its original recipe in hopes of recouping lost sales and loyal fans of the 164-year-old candy.
CALEB KENNA FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
Green card program creates jobs, stirs criticism
The immigrant investor program helps wealthy foreigners obtain green cards while allowing businesses such as Jay Peak Resort to raise the money they need to expand.
Democrats follow GOP on secret donors
Democrats in Congress are embracing super PACs, which can accept checks from nonprofit groups and shell corporations and keep the sources of support secret.
Smith College eats up logic professors’ hoax
Students voiced their opposition to a vegetarian and locavore plan at the school, but the rumor was organized by two logic professors as part of an unorthodox teaching exercise.
Libya agrees to investigate Khadafy killing
Libya’s interim government, under mounting international pressure, said that it will conduct an investigation into the death of Moammar Khadafy.
“Frankly, towns have gotten away with murder for years.”
Richie Girard , 44, the veterans agent in Agawam
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Columnists
Metro
Man, 21, fatally shot in head in Roxbury
Wails from family echoed over a Roxbury neighborhood as police investigated the death of a 21-year-old man who was shot in the head and left in the middle of the street.
Business
Sanofi taps Meeker as Genzyme CEO
The french drug maker has promoted David Meeker as chief executive of its Genzyme division, bringing a measure of continuity to the Cambridge biotech.
Politics
Romney returns to N.H. in the lead
Mitt Romney yesterday once again filed papers to become an official candidate for president on the New Hampshire ballot, while enjoying a comfortable lead in all the N.H. polls.
Nation & World
Turks grieve as quake rescue efforts continue
Distraught Turkish families mourned as rescue workers scoured debris for survivors after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that killed at least 279 people.
Sports
Rangers 4, Cardinals 2
Texas ranges closer to World Series title
Mike Napoli lined a tiebreaking two-run double in the eighth inning that sent the Rangers past the Cardinals, 4-2, last night for a 3-2 edge.
Arts
FRAME BY FRAME
What is unspoken by such a fool?
“Allegory of Folly,’’ unmistakably of a fool, was painted around 1510 when Quentin Metsys was emerging as the leading painter in Antwerp.
Lifestyle
G Cover
Halloween spending expected to soar
The National Retail Federation is predicting that spending on Halloween will hit $6.9 billion this year. That’s up 18 percent from last year.
Opinion
“Most of us agree that we shouldn’t choose a candidate for gender alone. But gender isn’t just an afterthought, either.”
Joanna Weiss
Ideas
“Warren has spent her career trying to coax more legal scholars to conduct the kind of hands-on research that has driven her own work, which remains relatively rare in the field.”
Leon Neyfakh, on the career of Elizabeth Warren