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Fallen light prompts inspection on Tobin Bridge

Officials assured motorists that the route used by thousands of commuters daily is safe for travel.

Former hospital employee arrested as ‘serial infector’

David Matthew Kwiatkowski was charged in connection with the hepatitis C infection of at least 30 Exeter Hospital patients.

Mitt Romney visited the Middlesex Truck and Coach Company in Roxbury this afternoon.

In Roxbury, Romney hits Obama’s business policies

Mitt Romney, speaking this afternoon at a local company, accused President Obama of misunderstanding the nature of American entrepreneurship.

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Ross smashed a three-run home run over the Green Monster to give Boston the walk-off win.

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Creative impulses help shape our neighborhoods

Carlo Rotella on how places such as neighborhood music schools give form to creativity while helping to turn strangers into neighbors.

Off! is (from left) drummer Mario Rubalcaba, singer Keith Morris, guitarist Dimitri Coats, bassist Steven Shane McDonald.

Classic LA punk lives on in Off!

Even though they’re a musical generation apart, Keith Morris and Dimitri Coats bond over the same influences.

Celtics acquire Courtney Lee from Rockets

The Celtics have traded JaJuan Johnson and other players to the Houston Rockets in exchange for the shooting guard, a source said.

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Pedroia says he and Valentine get along fine

Dustin Pedroia wants you to know that he does not hate Bobby Valentine.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/07/18/BostonGlobe.com/Enterprise/Advance/Images/aquarium005--90x90.jpg The New England Aquarium

The aquarium opened in the summer of 1969 and was part of the waterfront urban renewal plan that transformed Central Wharf.

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Democratic US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren talked during a forum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston on Tuesday.

Warren being considered for DNC keynote

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Penn State should discuss ending football
Brenda Delgado (center) participated in a class at Urban College, which may have to cancel its fall courses.

College faces closure over $250,000 deficit
Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk pointed to marine railways at a stop along the city’s new harborwalk.

Gloucester hopes to lure tourists with high-tech harbor walk
Weymouth in a yellow hi-lo top from Forever21 ($12.50) and red jeans from MadeWell ($88).

Kara Weymouth pursues fashion as blogger TheBostonista

Postal stamp revives the Williams-DiMaggio rivalry
SHIFTBoston ran a competition for ideas to illuminate Copley Square. Here, “Crystal Sun,” a sketch of one the three finalists.

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SHIFTBoston attempts to light up Copley Square
Only about one-third of the candlepins lanes that were available in the late 1980s are still available today.

Candlepin bowling lovers aim for a comeback
A flying leap from the dock at Castle Island was one way to contend with the humidity and 97-degree heat on Tuesday. Many others found respite in air-conditioning on what turned out to be the 110th anniversary of the cooling technology.

Amid blistering heat, quest for air conditioning
W. D. Foster, a disabled Iraq War veteran, called voters from the Obama Alabama headquarters in Birmingham.

Obama camp rallies base in red states
Ryan Overberg plays the Presley-esque singer who thrills the girls in Reagle Music Theatre’s “Bye Bye Birdie.”

STAGE REVIEW

‘Bye Bye Birdie’ sizzles in its 50s
Megan Porter, a college fellow, picks beans with intern Sophie Burnieka.

Cambridge students grow it and cook it

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British Open

Adam Scott was all smiles after his first-round 64.

Adam Scott takes the lead at British Open

In surprisingly calm weather conditions, Scott raced out to the lead at the British Open and almost into the record book.

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On Thursday, officials in Arlington worked to remove trees that fell when an apparent microburst hit the city during Wednesday’s storms.

Arlington cleans up after storm knocks down trees

Hundreds of trees are down, dozens of homes are still without power, and at least eight streets remain closed in Arlington after Wednesday’s storm.

Columnists

Juliette Kayyem

Bachmann’s anti-Muslim paranoia

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The Rev. Michel Louis, (seated left), Lissa Alphonse, and Egyptian tour guide Hithem Mohamed rested at a police station after they were released by their kidnappers in Egypt.

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Kerry, Brown compete for credit after hostage release

Yvonne Abraham

Boston superintendent controversy not a race matter

Bob Ryan

Penn State should discuss ending football

Jeff Jacoby

A book lover’s lament

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Echoes of the Ryan budget
Red Sox lefthander Jon Lester’s season-long struggles — he’s 5-7 — continued with a loss to the White Sox.

Dan Shaughnessy

No excuse for Jon Lester’s frustrating season

Brian McGrory

There’s no way to avoid political ads on TV

farah stockman

Uncertainty on taxes has a high cost for US economy
Kevin Youkilis, left, caught up with ex-teammate David Ortiz before Monday’s game.

Bob Ryan

Kevin Youkilis deserves his comfortable spot

Boston Capital

A struggle for straight answers from Romney

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Ikea says its store in Stoughton is enough for Massachusetts and it intends to sell its land at the Assembly Square site.

Ikea pulls plan for Somerville store

The furniture giant decided against building a store at Assembly Square following more than a decade of discussions and planning.

Politics

Mitt Romney has pledged to release a complete 2011 tax return but said he will end his disclosures after that.

Republicans push Romney to get it over with, release tax returns

Allies say Mitt Romney could score points for transparency and weather a few stormy news cycles about his wealth, but the candidate appears certain the tempest wouldn’t subside.

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Spain approves austerity plan, investors still wary

The conservative Popular Party pushed through austerity measures Thursday, but a bond auction went poorly and Spain’s borrowing costs edged higher.

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MOVIE REVIEW

Christian Bale as Batman.

What a superhero movie is supposed to look like

Christopher Nolans’s Batman trilogy ends with an epic — even majestic — crash in “The Dark Knight Rises.”

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Sara Faith Alterman (the author of this piece) and her husband, Sam Hawes, on their windy wedding day.

Wedding season shows promise

Attending nuptials as a newlywed provides great perspective about the recent past — and the future.

“I won’t know who, you won’t know who, but there are a lot of innocent people out there who won’t be harmed because of this.”

Les ­Gosule,  on the tough-on-crime “three strikes” bill passed by the Massachusetts House

Magazine

The cover for the July 15 2012 issue

12 Bostonians Changing the World
The cover for the July 8 2012 issue

N.Y. vs. Boston: The endgame
The cover for the June 24 2012 issue

A West Falmouth home where sea meets sunset
The cover for the June 17 2012 issue

What if spanking works?

Opinion

“According to the new wave of anti-Muslim accusations, America’s enemy takes the form of a woman in national security who marries a man outside her faith as a decoy to her real intentions.”

Juliette Kayyem 

Ideas

“Iran’s so-called halal Internet will be a kind of anti-Internet—a self-contained loop within Iran’s borders featuring only regime-approved sites, and cut off from the World Wide Web.”

Abraham Riesman,  on bottled, national Internets