Costs climb in state drug lab scandal

The state’s judiciary said it needs $13.6 million to deal with as many as 136,000 cases in which evidence was allegedly mishandled.

‘High risk’ drug making is at center of meningitis inquiry

Investigators are trying to determine if a Framingham compounding pharmacy, whose contaminated steroids led to an outbreak, violated safety procedures.

Emma Joyce regularly chats with her grandparents, who live in Ohio.

Grandparents cover miles with video chat services

As video chat services like Skype and FaceTime grow more popular, many children think of Nana and Poppa as those people on the screen.

Brian McGrory

A bad sign on the horizon

New outdoor advertising regulations, if approved, would open up highways to a potential onslaught of electronic billboards.

Hurricane Sandy roared through Cuba after taking four lives in Haiti and Jamaica on Thursday.

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Officials, residents gear up for Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy roared through the Caribbean Thursday, and meteorologists warned that the storm could graze or directly hit New England by Monday.

Figures show limits to Tisei’s worth

US Representative John F. Tierney has been trying to portray Richard R. Tisei as a wealthy candidate living the high life while shirking his responsibility to pay his fair share of taxes.

“I think it’s easier to talk about Obama. By and large, the country really doesn’t want his brand of socialism.” - JERRY RUTLEDGE, owner of clothing business

Even unfriendly turf vital to Obama in Colo.

Every vote counts in Colorado, which is why President Obama is contesting even the areas he has no chance of winning.

Dan Shaughnessy

A series of connections to the Red Sox

Even when the Giants and Tigers are playing a thus far memorable World Series, it is always about the Red Sox.

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Fifty years ago this week, the world waited while the US and Soviet Union bluffed and negotiated, a nuclear holocaust growing perilously real.

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Charles Dutoit was the guest conductor at Symphony Hall on Thursday.

Music Review

BSO program a double treat
Morgan Bernhard and Brenna Fitzgerald in “44 Plays for 44 Presidents” at the Boston Center for the Arts.

Stages

‘44 Plays for 44 Presidents’: Bad Habit Productions recaps American history
Rashid Johnson’s “Electric Universe” of black soap, wax, vinyl, wood, book, brass, incense, shea butter, and space rocks.

Art Review

Art review: ‘In the Holocene’
Jimmy Page in Tokyo earlier this month.

Book Review

‘Light & Shade’ by Brad Tolinski
Brooke Loughrin (at the Taj Mahal in India in 2008) has been interested in helping people in other countries since she was in grade school.

The first-ever US Youth Observer at United Nations

Coverage

The meningitis outbreak
Elizabeth Warren and Bruce Mann enjoyed a break from walking Otis at Fresh Pond.

Family long a bedrock for Elizabeth Warren

Taylor Swift and Conor Kennedy split?

Jennifer Graham

Save the church! (kill the organ)
A couple voted Wednesday in Iowa, where early ballots are likely to set a state record as campaigns try to lock in votes.

Obama, Romney wooing early voters
Dennis Lehane latest novels have a historical sweep.

Dennis Lehane widens his world of words
Porkchop is cooling his hooves in the city kennel while his owner tries to find him a new home.

Brockton seizes, bans resident’s wandering pet pig

Sports

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With Tom Brady at the controls, the Patriots have averaged 427.6 yards over the last 16 regular-season games.

Patriots’ offense historically consistent

Every time they play a regular-season game, the team will defer if it wins the coin toss, Tom Brady will throw a for touchdown, and they will have at least 350 yards of offense.

Metro

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Alison Putnam (left) and Meiko Lunetta tended to oxen Bill and Lou, who have become a symbol at Green Mountain College, but are to be sent to a slaughter house.

Vermont college feels heat over oxen’s fate

Green Mountain College’s decision to slaughter the aging animals and serve them as hamburger in the campus dining hall has drawn wide protest.

Columnists

SCOT LEHIGH

Campaign tips for Scott Brown

FARAH STOCKMAN

Iran’s crimes, real and hypothethical
Anh “Joseph” Cao, center, listens to President Obama speak before the signing the Dodd-Frank act in 2010.

opinion | CARLO ROTELLA

The rise and fall of a political idealist

Boston Capital

Internet-era boom icon’s quiet bust
Pablo Sandoval hit his third home run of the game in the fifth inning.

Dan Shaughnessy

Pablo Sandoval steps up big for the Giants
Downtown Aquila, Italy, was decimated in a 6.3 magnitude earthquate in 2009.

Juliette Kayyem

Science and the civic duty

Tech Lab

LG’s smart TV not nearly smart enough

Yvonne Abraham

Celebrating Halloween at home

jeff jacoby

The real George McGovern

scot lehigh

Romney’s hindsight foreign policy

Brian McGrory

Presidential debates were amazing TV
Ben Cherington watched as his new manager, John Farrell, spoke on Tuesday.

Christopher L. Gasper

Now Ben Cherington must prove himself

Business

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Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday that “Windows 8 shatters perceptions of what a PC is now.”

Microsoft debuts Windows 8, a new look operating system

The system and a new tablet computer to run it on were launched as the software giant set a radical new course.

Politics

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In an interview on ‘‘CBS This Morning,’’ Colin Powell said he was ‘‘more comfortable’’ with the president’s views on immigration, education, and health care.

Colin Powell endorses Obama again

Colin L. ­Powell endorsed President Obama’s bid for reelection Thursday and said he was concerned that Mitt Romney was ‘‘a moving target’’ on foreign policy.

Nation & World

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Broken down by age and metro area, the Washington, D.C., area ranked at the top of destinations for young adults in the 2009-2011 period.

More young adults fleeing their parents’ homes

Young adults are leaving college towns or parents’ homes and heading out of state at the highest rate since the height of the housing boom.

Arts

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Critic’s Notebook

Poornima Kirby played Rose in the serial theatrical “Blood Rose Rising.’’

Ambitious ‘Blood Rose Rising’ canceled

On the eve of the third installment, the show closed. It’s too bad, because the project had a lot of promise.

Movies

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Movie Review

Helen Hunt plays a sex surrogate and John Hawkes the disabled man she helps in “The Sessions.”

‘The Sessions’ connects with honest approach

It sounds like a bad joke: A man in an iron lung hires a sex surrogate to help him lose his virginity. But this intensely moving drama clearly portrays a good soul in an inert body.

“The faucet is always open. Whatever that thing is where it’s just spilling out of you, I have it. It’s a gift, I guess.”

Dennis Lehane 

Magazine

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How grocery shopping got personal
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AP classes: A problem for Massachusetts high schoolers?
The cover for the September 30 2012 issue

How will independents factor into the Brown-Warren Senate race?

Opinion

“In this campaign season we’re all sick of politicians cynically looking out for number one, but here’s a cautionary portrait of one who never learned how.”

Carlo Rotella, on the film “Mr. Cao Goes to Washington”

Ideas

“Today we still fall back on the same old format: two people in a room, taking turns answering questions and hardly ever addressing each other directly. It’s hard to imagine this is the best we can come up with.”

Leon Neyfakh  on how to improve the presidential debates.