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Unsanitary practices blamed in outbreak

Visible mold was found inside the Framingham pharmacy, including 83 vials from one lot of a tainted steroid used to treat back pain.

A bid for equity in school choice plan

A committee is weighing whether to give low-income students in Boston a priority to attend better-performing schools in other neighborhoods.

Third-party candidates could tip vote

In hotly contested swing states, their presence on the ballot may alter the course of the election.

Adrian Walker

Remembering Jeanette Boone’s well-lived life

Boone was a housing activist, a champion of troubled youth, a John Kerry confidante, and an unsung heroine of Boston.

Hurricane Sandy, projected to make landfall early Tuesday near New Jersey, brings with it the threat of widespread flooding and power outages to much of the Northeast.

Mass. prepares for Hurricane Sandy

The storm, which has killed at least 40 in the Caribbean, has the potential to pummel New England with torrential rain and high winds.

A pilot’s sacrifice helped defuse Cuban Missile Crisis

The death of pilot Rudolf Anderson, shot down over Cuba 50 years ago today, served as a catalyst for the US and the Soviet Union to cut a deal.

More haunted houses turning to 3-D effects

Attractions have exploited technology — video effects, animatronics, visitor-tracking sensors — to put more fright into the night, 21st-century style.

Dan Shaughnessy

Detroit’s a city worth rooting for

The slow-pitch softball Tigers have been silenced by the Giants so far. Their hungry, humble fans deserve better. Go Tigers. Go Detroit. Go Michigan.

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Cuban Missile Crisis, 50 years ago

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

Globe exclusives

Bill Belichick was the Dour of London on Friday as the Patriots arrived in England to play the Rams.

Christopher L. Gasper

Bill Belichick not a great ambassador

Longtime Locke-Ober employee Alfredo “Butch” Bartolizzi, right, talks with Paul Christopher of Haverhill, left, at the bar in December 1996. In its heyday, the restaurant was a magnet for celebrities as well as local politicians and writers.

Bob Levy| Farewell, Locke-Ober

Serving clients both famous and fussy

Sunday Preview | Magazine

The PANDAS diagnosis, a medical puzzle

Sunday Preview | Ideas

What our most famous evolutionary cartoon gets wrong

Chan Marshall as Cat Power performing in New York earlier this week.

Music Review

Chan Marshall not quite at full Power

Rachel Cossar (left), Emily Mistretta (middle), and Whitney Jensen performed during a Boston Ballet dress rehearsal of Jorma Elo’s “Awake Only.”

Dance Review

Boston Ballet journeys from contemplative to edgy

Sugar maples were ablaze with fall color at Brookwood Farm in Canton as three men took an early afternoon walk.

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week, Oct. 26, 2012

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

Figures show limits to Tisei’s worth

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

Grandparents cover miles with video chat services

Even unfriendly turf vital to Obama in Colo.

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The meningitis outbreak

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Can the Patriots rise to the occasion?

Approaching the midway point of the season, Tom Brady called Sunday’s game against the Rams “critical.’’

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Joe Kinan, with his fiancee, Carrie Pratt, left MGH weeks after a hand transplant.

Station nightclub fire survivor upbeat after hand transplant

Joe Kinan, one of the survivors of the fire that killed 100 people in 2003, left Massachusetts General Hospital today after getting the transplant less than three weeks ago.