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Aerial spraying of 6 communities will be repeated

Massachusetts health officials announced that planes will again take to the skies to spray the communities against EEE-carrying mosquitoes.

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Jared Lee Loughner pleaded guilty to killing six people and wounding 13 others, including then-congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. The plea spares him the death penalty.

Wade M. Page, seen here in this undated photo from myspace.com, served in the US Army for six years.

In postings, Wis. gunman left trail of hate

Wade M. Page posted frequent comments on Internet forums for skinheads, urging members to “stop hiding behind the computer or making excuses.”

Warren backs off demand that Brown release more tax returns

Senator Scott Brown has already released six years of tax returns while Elizabeth Warren has refused to release more than four years of her filings.

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Opinion | Kirsten Greenidge

Home? Sweet.

Small apartments and microliving spaces are challenging notions of how much space a person really needs.

Exclusive Wednesday Preview | Kevin Cullen

Whitey Bulger wants to do it his way

It was always in the cards that Whitey Bulger was going to take the stand in his own defense.

Aly Raisman showed off her gold medal on the podium.

Aly Raisman adds another gold to haul

The Needham gymnast became the first American woman to win the floor exercise after claiming bronze in the balance beam competition.

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Join Globe opinion page editor Peter Canellos, author Michael Grunwald, and former gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker for a discussion on the US presidential race.

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“We don’t get to pick the timing of a global slowdown,” Eric Rosengren said. “If there’s a slowdown and you have an independent central bank, the appropriate response is to act. I think that’s exactly what we should do.”

In rare public plea, Boston Fed chief urges action

Photos

Best images from the London Olympics
Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine chatted with Red Sox Scholar Ben St. Fort at the Dimock Center in January.

Red Sox top charitable giving list
Maryanne O’Hara at the Quabbin Reservoir in Belchertown.

Author revisits a long-submerged piece of Central Mass.
“Hull” by Hyman Bloom

Frame by Frame

From an eviscerated body, spiritualism emerges
Staff at the Children’s Museum in Dover, N.H., helped youngsters and parents create sculptures from cardboard tubes.

BC student’s site taps Amazon sales to help charities
David Byrne of Talking Heads

14 songs in which artists take on television
Usain Bolt leans at the line, crossing in an Olympic-record 9.63 seconds to win the gold ahead of Yohan Blake (5, silver) and Justin Gatlin (6, bronze).

Bob Ryan

Usain Bolt again makes fast work of the 100
Following a car accident involving the band’s original bassist, Deftones are touring again and will release a new album in October.

Deftones bounce back after tragedy strikes
Dianne Reeves performing on Saturday at Newport.

Music Review

Diversity in style, substance at Newport jazz fest
The GLANSER sends location data back to a command post.

Firefighter tracker to be unveiled
Sean Cullen and Elisabeth Waterston in the production.

Stage review

Time passes slowly in ‘A Month in the Country’

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Backed by his owner and GM, Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine responds to a pregame media question about his job safety by giving a thumbs up.

Red Sox stand behind Bobby Valentine

With many calling for Valentine’s firing, John Henry and Ben Cherington offered support and said they weren’t planning to make a change.

Metro

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Whether Bulger can raise an immunity defense before jurors remains an open question.

Bulger plans to take stand in his defense

James “Whitey” Bulger will for the first time address the charges against him, hoping to convince a jury that federal officials once granted him immunity for his many crimes.

Columnists

Farah Stockman

Tea Partiers see UN plot to take over America
Bobby Valentine watched batting practice before Monday’s game.

Dan Shaughnessy

Are the Red Sox really backing Valentine?
The Bulls were not happy that injury-prone Luol Deng (center) played for Britain. “I have no regrets,’’ Deng said.

Bob Ryan

Not all is lost for Great Britain basketball

JULIETTE KAYYEM

The $600,000 budget thorn

james carroll

Dark fantasy in action

Adrian Walker

Alarm bells in Roxbury health center
Usain Bolt leans at the line, crossing in an Olympic-record 9.63 seconds to win the gold ahead of Yohan Blake (5, silver) and Justin Gatlin (6, bronze).

Bob Ryan

Usain Bolt again makes fast work of the 100
First lady Michelle Obama campaigns in Manchester, N.H., Thursday.

opinion | JOAN VENNOCHI

This time, Mass. gives Obama little help in N.H.
Bicyclists and pedestrians travel in Stockholm, where traffic has decreased significantly since the city started charging drivers a fee to enter congested areas.

Derrick Z. Jackson

Finding the cure for traffic

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Dropbox’s tale speaks to a Bay State weakness
Roger Federer put in a long workday, taking more than four hours to eliminate Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro.

Bob Ryan

Federer wins an Olympic classic at Wimbledon

Adrian Walker

Gregory Sullivan, crusading inspector general, calls it a career

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Staff at the Children’s Museum in Dover, N.H., helped youngsters and parents create sculptures from cardboard tubes.

BC student’s site taps Amazon sales to help charities

Dan Sipple, 19, launched Buy For Us, a program that uses Amazon purchases to contribute to charities.

Politics

Mitt Romney’s joint committee — which collects money for his campaign, the Republican National Committee and several state GOP committees — now has $185.9 million cash on hand.

Romney tops Obama in July fund-raising

With a haul of $101.3 million, Mitt Romney’s joint fundraising committee has outraised President Obama’s for the third straight month.

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Composer Marvin Hamlisch dies at 68 in Los Angeles

Marvin Hamlisch, who composed the scores for dozens of movies and won a Tony for ‘‘A Chorus Line,’’ has died in Los Angeles at 68.

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Book Review

Jane Barnes

‘Falling in Love With Joseph Smith’ by Jane Barnes

The details of Barnes’s idiosyncratic pilgrimage will please neither Mormon true believers, nor Christians, nor those skeptical of all unsubstantiated religious claims.

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G Force

Kristen Kelliher at 14,000 feet on Mount McKinley, above Kahiltna Glacier.

Vermonter becomes youngest female to ‘highpoint’ all 50 states

Norwich’s Kristen Kelliher, 18, became the youngest woman to climb the highest peak in every state when she summited Alaska’s Denali in June.

“We don’t want to say, ‘We are not Muslims,’ because that has the implication of, ‘Don’t ­attack us; attack them.’ ”

Harpreet Singh,  a doctoral student in ­religion at Harvard, on American Sikhs

Magazine

The cover for the August 5 2012 issue

Can GPS find you a mate?
The cover for the July 29 2012 issue

Connected, powerful 21st-century moms
The cover for the July 22 2012 issue

25 best burgers around Boston
The cover for the July 15 2012 issue

12 Bostonians Changing the World

Opinion

“Tea Party activists can read between the lines — even lines that aren’t there.”

Farah Stockman 

Ideas

“If Willen is right, then the finger-pointing that’s occurred since the financial meltdown is all beside the point. Instead, we need to accept the frightening fact that when an economic delusion takes hold, none of us may be able to tell.”

Leon Neyfakh, on a Federal Reserve economist bearing very bad news