Gambling panel didn’t delve into abuse case

The chairman of the state’s gambling commission relied on news reports to vet interim executive director Carl Stanley McGee, who faced sexual assault charges in 2007.

Foxborough casino foes get most financial backing

Candidates opposed to gambling hold a commanding fund-raising lead heading into Monday’s contest for posts on the Foxborough Board of Selectmen.

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Lombardo’s chandelier still a prom tradition

For generations of teens south of Boston, this time of year means striking a pose in front of the three-story twinkling light at the Randolph function hall.

President Obama’s reelection committee has also made significant investments in swing-state party committees as part of a strategy that will put a premium on the fall get-out-the-vote ground game.

Democrats doubling down on swing states

Democrats have already poured almost $25 million into key states where the get-out-the-vote ground game could tip the Electoral College in a potentially tight contest.

A second act for a boy named Trinidad

Two paths diverged in his Cambridge neighborhood — the gang and the stage — and Trinidad Ramkissoon chose both. But now he is following the footlights toward safety.

Choosing the stage over the streets

Cambridge teen Trinidad Ramkissoon is trying to escape gang life through theater.

Bob Ryan

Football tests limits of our conscience

Mounting evidence demonstrates that anyone choosing to play football enters into complete caveat emptor territory. You clearly do so at your own physical risk.

Growing demand for spiritual directors

In Massachusetts, as across the nation, spiritual directors have found more people are seeking counsel and solace outside of the church's walls.

Yvonne Abraham

Big Dig left city with ugly network of tunnels

For ugly, it’s hard to beat the tunnels of Boston — those filthy, unfinished, aesthetically bereft, subterranean blights that are a visitor’s first experience of the post-Big-Dig city.

Boston’s first liaison to gays died in obscurity

A few years after he was appointed by Mayor Kevin White in 1979, Robin MacCormack melted out of public view. On April 6, he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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The New York Times best-selling author discusses his novels “Bringing Down the House” and “The Social Network.”

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Barbara Quintiliani performs Verdi’s Requiem, a signature work in her repertoire. in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Barbara Quintiliani’s most serious challenge yet

Sunday Football Notes

Mental health of retired NFL players needs attention

Power play: the 2012 Summer movies preview

Sunday Baseball Notes

Mariano Rivera’s injury throws curve at AL East teams
Acadia National Park: A peaceful dawn breaks at Monument Cove.

Classic spring landscapes that await your camera

HBO’s “Girls” has been criticized for not featuring any lead cast members of color.

Critic’s Notebook

Struggling with the diversity challenge on TV
Bryn Terfel in “Das Rheingold” at the Metropolitan Opera, which has been rolling out “Ring” productions over the last two seasons.

Arts | third ear

The Met’s digital Valhalla

The Word

Dude, this headline is so meta
Secrets Marquis Los Cabos provides an all-inclusive, adults-only experience for guests.

All-inclusive resorts come of age
Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell received an honorary degree and gave the commencement address.

Powell tells NU graduates world needs them

Reports link Law to crackdown on nuns
Chen Guangcheng (left) spoke with US ambassador to China Gary Locke as they left the embassy for a hospital in Beijing on May 2, 2012.

Dissident’s saga watched by Bostonians

Sports

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Orioles 8, Red Sox 2

The frustration is palpable for David Ortiz, who snapped his bat in two after lining out in the eighth inning of Saturday’s loss.

Red Sox drop fourth in a row

At 11-15, the Red Sox are falling deeper into last place with a lineup left thin by injuries and a pitching staff with a collective earned run average of 5.44, the second worst in the game.

Metro

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Irish leader hails ‘most Irish’ US city

The president of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, visited several sites in Boston Saturday, calling the city “the capital of Irish America.’’

Columnists

JOAN VENNOCHI

Obama’s ex-girlfriends featured in new book
Bill Gates presents what was called a “tablet PC” at Microsoft headquarters in 2000.

jeff jacoby

Thanks, Obama, but wealth is not theft

Yvonne Abraham

Big Dig left city with ugly network of tunnels

Bob Ryan

Football tests limits of our conscience

JOANNA WEISS

Big drama and bigger egos in Edwards’ court
Stephen Perez, Jr. was shot in the Theatre District.

Opinion | lawrence harmon

Boston’s deadliest hour

Dan Shaughnessy

Hawks should be easier prey for Celtics

opinion | Adrian Walker

Getting away for his future

Love Letters

Fool her three times, shame on her?
Bill and Giuliana Rancic star in a reality show that took a very serious turn.

Joan Wickersham

When reality TV collides with reality

SCOT LEHIGH

Brown needs to tackle the big issues

Brian McGrory

Zakim Bridge leaves us blue

Arts

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The Harvard Art Museums will reopen in 2014 after completion of a $350 million project that will bring three museums — the Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger, and the Arthur M. Sackler — under one roof.

Harvard Art Museums delay opening until 2014

The museums won’t reopen until late 2014, a year later than planned and six years after the closing of the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museums for extensive renovation.

Politics

Political Intelligence

Democrat Elizabeth Warren has been fielding questions about her income taxes and ancestry.

Senate candidates’ forthrightness put to test

The leading candidates in the Mass. US Senate race have faced a variety of situations in recent days that offered atypical testimony to their forthrightness.

Business

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ON THE HOT SEAT

Ken Udas, chief executive of UMassOnline

Online schools shaking off second-class reputation

Ken Udas joined UMassOnline, the online education unit of the university, as chief executive in 2009, and sees the Internet as way to increase access to higher education.

Nation & World

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A worker watched a monitor at the Tomari plant, which was shut off. Safety worries have kept other reactors offline.

Japan’s last nuclear reactor shut down

Thousands celebrated Saturday as Japan was without electricity from nuclear power for the first time in four decades when the reactor at Tomari nuclear plant went offline.

Travel

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Jake Jermanok takes an unexpected dip in the Kananaskis River.

A family adventure in the Canadian Rockies

Rafting the rapids and climbing the heights, a family of four finds new paths to adventure in the splendor of Alperta’s alpine wonderland.

Books

Book Review

‘Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens’ by Andrea Wulf

An unlikely saga traces the harrowing adventures of an 18th century global team tracking Venus to determine the dimensions of the solar system.

“I’m doing good things now, because I want to. But I also have connections to my old life, because I have to. But in the end, this theater thing? This is my life.”

Cambridge teen Trinidad Ramkissoon 

Magazine

The cover for the May 6 2012 issue

Homes for sale for $250,000, $500,000, $750,000, and $1 million
The cover for the April 29 2012 issue

Dying wishes expected to be decided on November ballot
The cover for the April 22 2012 issue

144 free things to do around Boston
The cover for the April 15 2012 issue

In an artist’s garden

Opinion

“If Mitt Romney wins the presidency ... he should reserve his deepest gratitude for the Supreme Court.”

Neal Gabler 

Ideas

“Officials deny they’re in competition, but as Asia’s economies expand, the record suggests that they are using space to demonstrate military power, technological might, and political prestige over their neighbors.”

James Clay Moltz