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Holder to push for lighter low-level drug sentences

Attorney General Eric Holder is calling for major changes to the nation’s criminal justice system, scaling back harsh sentences for certain drug-related crimes.

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Bulger wants to keep Stanley Cup ring

James “Whitey” Bulger won’t fight to keep $822,000 stashed in his California apartment, but wants to keep the ring, a gift.

Mass. ties community college funding to results

The state’s move to “performance funding” is one of the most ambitious in the nation.

Local government boards feel the sting of incivility

Constituents and officials alike in Mass. are voicing their displeasure in more aggressive, personal terms.

Terrie and Jim Lambert, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, but was found to have a treatable brain disorder.

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Health

A diagnosis turned on its head

A man’s symptoms appeared to signal Alzheimer’s, but doctors found it was something else: a treatable disorder caused by excess fluid on the brain.

Riley Goodwin, 16, recently baby-sat Gabriel McGarry, 8, and his sister Tessa, 6, who played at their home.

Baby sitters’ pay is soaring

Baby sitter rates across the nation have soared, with costs in Greater Boston among the highest.

“We’re still grinding through it,” Bill Belichick said Saturday, a day after the Patriots’ 31-22 preseason win over the Eagles.

On Football

Five things we’ve learned about the Patriots so far

Only three weeks of camp remain before Bill Belichick has to whittle the Patriots roster from 90 to 53 players.

Isaiah Perez was missing for nearly 16 hours.

Abducted 2-year-old found on street in Providence

A boy kidnapped during a double homicide was found wandering the streets last night, apparently unharmed, according to police.

Opinion

opinion | Michael S. Barr

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The record shows that he is an advocate for making the financial system work better for American families.

Globe exclusives

Unions have given $170,000 to Martin Walsh’s campaign, along with a host of volunteers.

Labor lifts Walsh’s mayoral campaign
Curt Schilling gets his 16-and-under team prepared for its game at the USSSA Girls Fastpitch World Series at the Wide World of Sports at Disney.

Schilling has a new lease on life
Edwin Alemany spent stints in psychiatric hospitals.

Alemany’s long spiral down
President Obama greeted well-wishers at the Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs on Sunday, the first full day of his eight-day stay on Martha’s Vineyard.

Names

President Obama and big names on Vineyard
From left, Christina Wilson, Stephen Walter, and Russell Golenberg at work in the Emerson Engagement Game Lab on Boylston Street.

Games become tools of change
The Center for Strategic and International Studies is building a $100 million headquarters in Washington with money raised by a high-powered collection of former senior government officials and titans of industry.

Broken City

Many think tanks players in partisan wars
From left, Charlotte Golar Richie, Linda Dorcena Forry, and Maria Jobin-Leeds at a Women’s Pipeline for Change event.

Women of color strive for firmer political foothold
(From left): Frank McElroy and Toby Leaman of Dr. Dog.

Music Review

Eclectic bill lights up first Nines festival
“I always believed if I gave it everything I’ve got and it wasn’t meant to be, I’d have no regrets,” says the 30-year-old outfielder.

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Daniel Nava, the long shot
Justin Timberlake (left) and Jay Z shared the spotlight Saturday night.

Music review

Timberlake, Jay Z hit it out of park
A worker raked wild blueberries from last week. More than 80 million pounds are expected to be harvested this year.

Racing to save blueberries

Q&A | Fay Gano

Keeping fellow seniors actively engaged

Sports

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Will Middlebrooks isn’t pleased after being called out on strikes in the ninth inning.

Royals knock off Red Sox again

The Royals showed the Red Sox a mix of pitching, power, speed, and good defense in taking three of four games over the weekend.

Metro

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Investigators entered the YWCA on Concord Street in Manchester, N.H., after the double shooting.

Man kills son, self at YWCA in N.H.

A Manchester man shot and killed his young son and then himself at the YWCA, where finances had led to cuts in security officers.

Columnists

A freeway sign warned drivers of people crossing in Chula Vista, Calif.

JAMES CARROLL

Sealing the border is part of problem

Adrian Walker

Mayor’s race hits its stride
Johnny Manziel can’t profit from own name.

Christopher L. Gasper

NCAA needs reform

JOAN VENNOCHI

Mass. officials must investigate Todashev death
The FBI is accused of enabling Whitey Bulger, seen in this mug shot taken in 1955 in Miami Beach.

JEFF JACOBY

Federal overreach — then and now
TJ Hazen (foreground, left) with his Microsoft team.

Innovation Economy

New frontiers in voice recognition
The columnist’s grandchildren Charlotte and Adam, on the first day of school last fall.

Beverly Beckham

Friends can last; siblings are forever

Yvonne Abraham

Commanding failure
Alex Rodriguez looked up toward photographers after leaving a news conference in Tampa in 2009.

Derrick Z. Jackson

Baseball’s integrity still isn’t restored

Opinion | RENÉE LOTH

Trash cash
On Oct. 30, 1948, the main business district of Donora, Pa., was cloaked in smog, the sunlight virtually obliterated by thick low-hanging pollution.

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The haze of history

Kevin Cullen

Waiting for the unknown

Nation & World

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Supporters of Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s ousted president, shouted slogans Sunday in Giza.

Egyptian police put off plans to put end to sit-ins

The Egyptian police appeared Monday to have postponed once again their threat to begin choking off two Cairo sit-ins.

Politics

Charlotte Golar Richie in May. The mayoral candidate’s father died this weekend.

Charlotte Golar Richie’s father dies

The mayoral candidate lost her father, a New York City political figure, on Sunday, her campaign said.

Business

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Bill Aulet says entrepreneurship should be considered a discipline.

Entrepreneurship can be taught, writer says

Bill Aulet, the director of the Martin Trust Center For MIT Entrepreneurship, published a how-to for budding business owners.

Arts

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Music Review

Kelly Clarkson, pictured in Los Angeles last year, had energy to spare in Mansfield.

Maroon 5, Kelly Clarkson perfect at work, play

Maroon 5 and Clarkson proved that some of the best moments at a live concert remain unscripted.

Health and wellness

Daily Dose

Up-to-date vaccinations for college students

Before students head back to college, parents should make sure their kids are up to date on vital immunizations.

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The lake house
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Walter Willett’s food fight
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What happened at Deerfield

Ideas

“The enduring appeal of the books tells us something about how deep the romance with self-reliance runs through American history, and the gaps between the Little House narrative and Wilder’s real life say a lot about the government help and interdependence that we sometimes find more convenient to leave out of that tale.”

Christine Woodside,  on the Little House books as Libertarian fables