Tax questions loom for Tierney, Tisei

As US Rep. John Tierney and Richard R. Tisei gear up for their first debate, each is facing potentially embarrassing questions about his personal tax returns.

A diner in Kissimmee draws many recent immigrants from Puerto Rico.

BRIAN BLANCO FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

Mitt Romney, President Obama courting Florida’s Hispanics

The Obama campaign sees the booming influx of Puerto Ricans in the Orlando area as key to victory in the critical swing state.

In this image from a video filmed by a Democratic tracker, Scott Brown supporters do tomahawk chops and war whoops at a Brown event outside the Eire Pub in Dorchester.

Republican aides shown doing war chants

Elizabeth Warren is decrying the actions outside of a Scott Brown event, where a video shows GOP staffers, including an aide in Brown’s Senate office, performing tomahawk chops and war whoops.

Brian McGrory

Senator Scott Brown’s illusion fades

Brown believed, or at least hoped, his good-guy image would be more important than his Senate record. Not anymore.

Spinners clubhouse manager found serenity

Del “Dogman” Christman nearly committed suicide in 1998 but has been able to overcome a troubled past with his work as the clubhouse manager for the Lowell Spinners.

Dogman puts a positive spin on life

What Del Christman endured would break even the strongest of men.

Ayden Beique, 8, was at Fenway Park for the first time, with his mother, Jill, as his birthday present.

Despite lost season, Red Sox diehards stick it out

The season may have been a lost cause weeks ago, but that did not dampen the spirits of fans who came to Fenway Park for the penultimate home game.

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Annie Dookhan, the woman at the center of the state drug lab scandal, does not have a master’s degree in chemistry from UMass Boston as she claims on her resume, school officials confirmed.

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Roxbury Community College’s board of trustees convened for the first time since the disclosure that a file critical to a federal inquiry had been discovered after past searches failed to turn it up.

Tom Fleming’s “Spirit and Life” (above) sold for more than $3,000.

Copyright case shows art, retail can be difficult mix

Small-town artist Tom Fleming settled a copyright claim with TJX’s HomeGoods, a major retail outlet that was selling unauthorized 6-foot-tall reproductions of his paintings.

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David Byrne & St. Vincent on NBC’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.”

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David Byrne and St. Vincent a dynamic duo at Orpheum
Noah Wilson-Rich of Best Bees Co. tends his hives in the backyard of his building in the South End.

Food

Beekeeping ecologist makes a business of hives
Data show that since mid-September, American has canceled 2 percent of its flights leaving Logan Airport.

Pilot labor dispute dogs American Airlines flights
Ryan McLennan’s “The Crutch,” part of the “Out of the Ruins’’ exhibit at the New Art Center.

GALLERIES

What’s up at Boston-area art galleries
Construction at the Kensington tower on Washington Street in Boston began last year.

Opinion | Paul Mcmorrow

Boston’s new housing boom could have an economic windfall
A white “ghost bike” has been placed along Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester near where a bicyclist, Doan Bui, was struck and killed Sept. 14 by an alleged drunken driver.

‘Ghost bikes’ are haunting reminders of dead cyclists
Officials seemed to indicate opposite reactions to the game-ending play in the Seahawks’ win over the Packers. At left, the official appears to indicate an interception, while the official on the right called a touchdown.

Timeline

How the NFL’s replacement refs have erred
Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren spoke to reporters after debating incumbent Scott Brown last week. Brown has criticized Warren for her role in an asbestos case.

Warren assisted mining company
Mindy Kaling plays an ob/gyn, which was her mother’s real-life profession.

Mindy Kaling’s mother inspired new TV ‘Project’
Our Revival, wearing a fly mask, grazes at a Kentucky retirement home for thoroughbreds after she was rescued from kill buyers.

Suffolk trainer helped save mare from slaughterhouse
Gabriel, shown here in a previous concert, was in Boston Monday.

MUSIC REVIEW

Peter Gabriel replays ‘So’ at TD Garden

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Red Sox leftfielder Daniel Nava was charged with an error when he misplayed this sixth-inning single off the wall by the Rays’ Jose Molina. Centerfielder Che-Hsuan Lin is at right.

Red Sox lose to playoff-hungry Rays

The Rays won their sixth straight as they hope for a wildcard berth while the Red Sox, with one home game remaining, are thinking about next season.

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Marcus Hurd testified in March about a shooting that left him a quadriplegic and four other people dead.

Marcus Hurd talked of new memory at March trial

Hurd told a victim witness advocate that while he was on the stand during the trial for the 2010 Mattapan shooting, he realized that Dwayne Moore generally resembled the shooter.

Columnists

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Obama is the great divider

Scot Lehigh

Scott Brown’s Senate control problem

Brian McGrory

Senator Scott Brown’s illusion fades
The Patriots’ Bill Belichick (above) and the Ravens’ John Harbaugh spent a lot of time Sunday appealing to the refs.

Christopher L. Gasper

NFL’s replacement refs a complete joke

farah stockman

A plea for a new party: Keeping It Real
Kate Middleton, Prince William, and Prince Harry attended the men's team sprint track cycling event at the London 2012 Olympic games.

Joanna Weiss

Royalty and the paradox of publicity

Boston Capital

Stock and bond markets posting big gains
Work continues on the third set of locks during the Panama Canal Expansion project Wednesday.

Juliette Kayyem

Panama’s magic number
The free UberSense app lets coaches mark up video shot on an iPhone or iPad.

Innovation Economy

UberSense offers video sports coaching app

Adrian Walker

Fresh outlook at Fresh Pond
As he often was on Sunday night, Patriots’ Devin McCourty was a step behind as Ravens’ Torrey Smith snares a TD pass.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots defense, running game still struggling
Bill Belichick screams at official Rodney Russell after a first-quarter call went against the Patriots.

Dan Shaughnessy

Replacement refs a nightmare in Patriots loss

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The turnaround plans were announced weeks after Staples disclosed earnings that had fallen 32 percent.

Staples to cut shop space and locations

The office supply chain plans to close US and international stores, reduce the size of existing locations, restructure its overseas business, and shake up leadership.

Politics

Political Notebook

Representative Maxine Waters was cleared of wrongdoing.

Substitute congressional ethics panel blasts regular members

A temporary ethics panel that went in to rescue a troubled investigation of senior Rep. Maxine Waters emerged with a warning: avoid partisan infighting when investigating wrongdoing.

Nation & World

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China’s first aircraft carrier was put into service Tuesday. It will be used only for training and testing purposes.

China launches first aircraft carrier amid much fanfare

China put its first aircraft carrier into service, a move intended to signal its growing military might as tensions escalate between Beijing and its neighbors over islands in nearby seas.

Arts

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“You’ve Been Trumped” follows Donald Trump’s efforts to develop a golf resort near Aberdeen, Scotland.

‘You’ve Been Trumped’ puts the Donald in the rough

Does America have a more laughably contemptible public figure than Donald Trump?

Food & dining

Boston Area Gleaners Helen Palmer and Lynn Langton harvest kale at First Light Farm in Hamilton.

Picking the fields clean to take produce to the needy

Gleaning, in which groups pick fields that have already been harvested in order to catch the last of the crop and take it to the needy, has grown in popularity.

“I still come out, I’ll always be a fan. This is a beautiful place to watch a game.”

Red Sox fan Tony Morgan, 73,  on Fenway Park

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Did Beatrice Munyenyezi lie to get into this country?

Opinion

“Obama’s brutal negativity can’t simply be brushed aside as the inevitable surrender of idealism to realism.”

Jeff Jacoby 

Ideas

“Changing a culture requires finesse, subtlety, and patience. It also requires a certain suspension of optimism about human nature.”

Leon Neyfakh on the art of crowdshifting