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Group blasts state’s foster care system

Nearly one in five children in state custody for at least two years has suffered abuse or neglect, according to the advocacy group Children’s Rights.

A victim lay covered on the ground at the scene of the Friday morning shooting.

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Gunman kills 1, wounds 9 near Empire State Building

A disgruntled former women’s accessories designer shot a former colleague and then was killed in a shootout with police that left nine others wounded, officials said.

Abortion opposition group to back Scott Brown

The state’s leading antiabortion group plans to back Senator Brown, potentially undercutting his effort to distance himself from the GOP platform.

Adaliz Rodriguez was struggling financially until a coach from a unique program at The Neighborhood Developers in Chelsea helped her learn new skills.

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Chelsea nonprofit coaches clients to independence

The Neighborhood Developers is helping financially struggling families by pairing them with life coaches to help people out of poverty.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox left picking up the pieces

A week from Saturday is Sept. 1, which will mark the one-year anniversary of the Red Sox stinking.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/08/24/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/back2-2714--90x90.jpg R.I. man to swim for others, right where his life nearly ended

Trent Theroux, who was slashed by the blades of a boat’s propeller in 2002, will attempt a 13-mile swim to raise money for patients with spinal cord injuries.

Ngawng Sangmo fried arancini balls in canola oil at the Whole Foods facilty in Everett, which uses a new system of recycling oil.

Whole Foods recycles canola oil for power

Oil from the commissary’s industrial fryers is burned to run a custom-designed generator to power an Everett facility.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/08/23/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/HonkyPG16_DancingWebb_hi[1].jpg Henry Horenstein behind the lens

Horenstein’s time capsules of country music extend well beyond Nashville.

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Private railroads and horse-drawn streetcar companies served the transportation needs of Boston and outlying towns for decades before the MBTA accepted its first token.

Globe exclusives

“We have some friends who can really wail,” says Beirut’s Ben Lanz. “It’s a happy situation, with everyone giddy to be playing.”

music

Beirut settles in

“Lake View” by William Wegman is part of the “Hello Nature” exhibit at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Art Review

‘William Wegman: Hello Nature’ a dog and irony show
Elie Wiesel’s latest book, “Hostage,” is set in both the mid-’70s and during World War II.

Book Review

‘Hostage: A Novel’ by Elie Wiesel
Leroy McPherson (center) and others huddled after a Teen Police Academy workout.

Police, teens bond at academy

editorial

Obama has been too slow to name federal judges

Abortion uproar may hurt GOP bid for Senate control
Michael Brodeur takes on a 650-pound tractor tire as part of the training during a session at Awesome Camp.

How I got awesome
It was a long night on Tuesday for Scott Podsednik, Jacoby Ellsbury, and Cody Ross (left to right) as the Red Sox lost again.

christopher l. gasper

It’s all over for the Red Sox

Crossword

Complete the daily puzzle online
“With EleVen, I’m trying to make things that look good on everyone,” says Williams.

style

Venus Williams serves up new fashion line
Shrimp and grits at M3.

Dining Out

M3 offers down-home comfort

Tech lab

Samsung’s new Galaxy shoots for iPad, misses

Sports

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Angels 14, Red Sox 13

Sox reliever Alfredo Aceves looks a little shellshocked after watching Kendrys Morales’s homer leading off the Angels’ 10th clear the right-field fence.

Red Sox blow six-run lead, lose slugfest in 10th

The Red Sox were ahead 6-0 in the third inning, fell behind 8-6, and then came back to take a two-run lead in the ninth before losing in extra innings.

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Firefighters battled a hot spot during a three-alarm fire on Columbia Street in Cambridge Thursday.

Cambridge police rescue 3 from blaze

Six police officers rushed into a burning, smoke-filled building Thursday and rescued a man and a woman trapped on the third floor, as well as a man sleeping one floor below.

Columnists

boston capital

Big-box stores are in big trouble
Jackie, Sue, and Lynn as seen in “49 Up,” a 2005 British film that is part of a decades-long series of documentaries.

Joan Wickersham

A study of class captures shape, sweep of real lives

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox left picking up the pieces

SCOT LEHIGH

The GOP’s big tent collapses

Joan Vennochi

Romney made Mass. his stepping stone
Chinese police stand guard at an anti-Japanese protest outside the Japanese consulate in Shanghai last week.

Edward L. Glaeser

Putting China at ease

Tech lab

Samsung’s new Galaxy shoots for iPad, misses

It was a long night on Tuesday for Scott Podsednik, Jacoby Ellsbury, and Cody Ross (left to right) as the Red Sox lost again.

christopher l. gasper

It’s all over for the Red Sox

Scot Lehigh

A familiar face stirs the pot in Maine

Jeff Jacoby

Stingy liberals

Derrick Z. Jackson

Paul Ryan’s red meat in D.C., green jobs at home
Dustin Pedroia went 1 for 5 against the Angels in another demoralizing 5-3 loss as the Red Sox dropped five games under .500.

Dan Shaughnessy

Dustin Pedroia gives his side of the story

Business

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Fannie, Freddie warned to follow Mass. loan law

Under a new state law, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must offer reasonable modifications to avoid foreclosing on some delinquent borrowers, Attorney General Martha Coakley said.

Politics

political notebook

Mitt Romney greeted supporters Thursday in Hobbs, N.M.

Slight gains for Mitt Romney, poll shows

Romney has made slight overall gains in recent weeks, according to a New York Times/CBS News/Quinnipiac University poll published Thursday.

Nation & World

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Anders Behring Breivik was jailed for a maximum term on Friday when judges declared him sane enough to answer for the murder of 77 people last year.

Norwegian killer sentenced to 21 years

The sentencing denied prosecutors the insanity ruling they hoped would show that his massacre of 77 people was the work of a madman.

Arts

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Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent view themselves as a “mom and pop” band, and one that can play both loud and soft.

Shovels & Rope find new life after murder ballads

The husband-and-wife pair Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst are no acoustic, singer-songwriter duo.

Movies

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Movie Review

Robert Pattinson plays Eric Packer, a super rich businessman in search of a haircut in the film version of Don DeLillo’s “Cosmopolis.”

‘Cosmopolis’: When Robert Pattinson wants his hair cut

In search of a haircut, an impossibly rich young man riding in an impossibly elaborate limo tries to cross an impossibly congested Manhattan.

Living Longer, Living Better

Health

JoyceMor, a sleep technologist at Sleep Health Centers in Weymouth, prepares Talia Yourell of Weymouth for a sleep study.

For aging baby boomers, sleep gets harder to come by

As we age, medical conditions can make a good night’s rest elusive. But there are steps we can take.

“This is about people learning to live their lives in a different way, in a way that makes sense.”

Ann Houston,  executive director of Neighborhood Developers

Magazine

The cover for the August 19 2012 issue

Can a Woburn company’s flying car someday be a fix for traffic?
The cover for the August 12 2012 issue

The man who nourished Boston’s literary scene
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

Opinion

“On abortion, [Mitt] Romney has been a weather vane, not a lighthouse.”

Scot Lehigh 

Ideas

“If the bill becomes law, the identities of people who die in Massachusetts--notably those who, like Bill Cosby, have built up bankable personas over the course of their lives--will become pieces of property that continue to exist long after they do.”

 Leon Neyfakh