Mass. man charged in Pentagon plot
A 26-year-old Ashland man is charged with plotting to use remote-controlled aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives to damage the US Capitol and the Pentagon.
Florida threatens early primary
Officials in the Sunshine State are targeting Jan. 31 as a primary date, a move that would cause New Hampshire to push its primary into January to remain the first in the nation.
Brian McGrory
These Red Sox not a good fit for Boston
In many ways, the epic September collapse is exactly what we needed to realize just how far the Red Sox have gone astray. This store-bought team never reflected Boston.
Latest Red Sox skid takes us backward into the 1970s
If they fail to make the playoffs, the 2011 Red Sox will join some of baseball’s most infamous teams in the annals of epic late-season implosions.
istockphoto/Heather Hopp-Bruce/Globe Staff
Scot Lehigh
On charter time
The success of charter schools on the latest MCAS should spotlight a crucial education issue: the need for a longer school day.
Sovereign changes its name to Santander
Boston-based Sovereign Bank, one of the country’s largest regional banks, is adopting the name of its owner Santander, the banking giant based in Spain.
Old LouisBoston site gets new tenant
Restoration Hardware, the home furnishings seller that left the Back Bay during the recession, plans to open in the old LouisBoston space near its former Boylston Street location.
“Where they really are is in Dire Straits, a rocky inlet just around the bend from the Bay of Despond.”
Former Globe columnist Ray Fitzgerald, writing about the Red Sox collapse in 1974
Inside The Boston Globe
Columnists
Metro
Cash-strapped T warns of fare increases, service cuts by July
With the MBTA’s financial woes mounting, state transportation officials said that they expect to approve a fare increase in the spring that would take effect July 1.
Business
Shreve, Crump & Low relocating to Newbury Street
The move by the luxury jeweler is the first step in a reorganization that will absorb a separate company owned by Shreve's chief executive and expand its facilities in Chestnut Hill.
Nation
Prosecutors play Jackson audio as case against doctor opens
Prosecutors portrayed Dr. Conrad Murray as an incompetent physician who used a dangerous anesthetic without adequate safeguards.
World
Israel OK’s more building in East Jerusalem
Israel granted the go-ahead for construction of 1,100 new Jewish housing units in east Jerusalem, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out any freeze in settlement construction.
Sports
On football
Secondary in shambles, and it’s Patriots’ own fault
In his weekly Patriots review, Greg A. Bedard says the pressure should be applied to the team’s coaches for the errors in technique and execution on the porous pass defense.
Food and dining
food
Memo from celebrity chefs: Embrace your own kitchen
Fall cookbook roundup: By spreading the simple message of eating good food at home, the season’s newest cookbooks bring a bit of activism to the table.
Arts
TELEVISION REVIEW
BBC’s cop drama ‘Luther’ returns, as spellbinding as ever
Each hour is so intense, you may not realize you’re leaving grip marks on your couch.
Opinion
“Community colleges have a chance to be an engine in Massachusetts instead of a caboose.”
Derrick Z. Jackson
Ideas
“Could it be true, Pinker wondered, that humans had actually become less violent with time, as opposed to more? And if so, how had we done it?”
Leon Neyfakh, on Steven Pinker’s new book about violence in history