Jared Remy arrested in girlfriend’s killing
Jared Remy, in a photo posted on his girlfriend’s Facebook page in 2009.

The son of famed Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy allegedly stabbed his girlfriend to death last night, after being accused of assaulting her earlier this week.

Egypt Islamists stage defiant protest, at least 17 dead

Tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters took to the streets to protest massive bloodshed this week.

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The 73-year-old former tennis star, who was accused of sex abuse in Mass., was charged in decades-old cases.

Great white shark.

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How I survived a shark attack

For the first time in his own words, Chris Myers describes his frightening encounter with a great white in July 2012 off Truro, and his return to the beach one year later.

Northern Avenue is seen during rush hour traffic on Thursday.

Shirley Leung

A snarl in Seaport District’s success story

The area is growing so fast that officials realize it is a transportation crisis waiting to happen.

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Developer Roy MacDowell Jr.’s 28-room home has six bathrooms, four half-baths, a home theater, and a library.

John Lackey is against Alex Rodriguez remaining in the Yankees’ lineup until his suspension appeal is heard. “I’ve got a problem with it. You bet I do. How is he still playing?”

Lackey says A-Rod shouldn’t be playing

“I’ve got a problem with it. You bet I do,” the Sox pitcher said of the embattled Yankees’ third baseman, who arrives at Fenway Park on Friday.

Opinion

opinion | robert pape and david schneyer

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This “franchise affiliate” is deadly within its own borders, but it has not been able to successfully carry out an attack on US soil.

Globe exclusives

Alice Erickson, 88, enjoyed some line dancing at Sandy Island Family Camp on Lake Winnipesaukee earlier this month.

Alice Erickson goes to a YMCA overnight camp -- for 75 years
A number of globes are lined up along the Tremont Street side of the Boston Common as part of the “Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet” exhibit.

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What on Earth?

KEVIN CULLEN

One of the good guys
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie displayed some of his famous in-your-face pugnacity.

Chris Christie addresses RNC in Boston
Robin Williams plays President Eisenhower and Forest Whitaker is White House butler Cecil Gaines in Lee Daniels’s new movie.

Movie Review

What ‘The Butler’ saw
Sergeant Sean Murphy left State Police Headquarters after facing a disciplinary hearing for his role in releasing capture photos of accused Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to the media in July.

Night duty for trooper who released capture photos
Edwin Alemany was arraigned in the murder of Amy Lord at West Roxbury District Court on Thursday. His lawyer said he tried to commit suicide scratching open the arteries on his neck and arms.

Video reveals bits of attack on Amy Lord
People sunbathed Thursday on Marshfield’s Brant Point beach, which has lost a lot of sand.

Winter storms take toll on Marshfield beaches
Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs is one of the few redeeming features of Joshua Michael Stern’s biopic “Jobs,” out on Friday.

Movie Review

‘Jobs’ gets pulped in laborious film
A Chinese worker sat in front of a huge billboard advertising the opening of a fast food restaurant in Shanghai.

Is obesity a form of addiction?
Small cosmetic changes were made to the Forum restaurant’s second floor.

Forum on Boylston Street reopens
A performer from San Francisco’s Robert Moses’ Kin, one of the 35 companies in the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival.

Urbanity Dance and its contemporaries stage a festival

Sports

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Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell (left) took the ball from starting pitcher Jake Peavy in the seventh inning.

Red Sox silenced by Blue Jays

The Red Sox wasted a strong start by Jake Peavy and limped home from a 4-6 road trip with their AL East lead down to 2 games.

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Jane Richard, who lost her older brother Martin and her left leg in the Boston Marathon bombing, is recovering and using a prosthetic.

Martin Richard’s family continues its recovery

Four months after the Boston Marathon bombing killed their youngest son and severed their daughter’s left leg, Martin Richard’s family is doing its best to cope.

Columnists

SCOT LEHIGH

Mayoral lab debate takeaways
Jeffrey Dubuisson specializes in literature, history, and derivatives.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Translate ‘national champions’ into Latin

Yvonne Abraham

Raynham track owner riding on luck
Forum, photographed shortly after Boylston Street was re-opened to the public just over a week after the Marathon bombings. The restaurant is set to re-open Thursday.

Adrian Walker

Getting back to business

SCOT LEHIGH

The GOP’s Obamacare whale hunt
Dan Wolf waits for passengers and baggage to be loaded on his plane before taking off from Provincetown Memorial Airport for Boston in 2007.

JOAN VENNOCHI

There’s not a Dan Wolf ethics exemption

Derrick Z. Jackson

Easing the drug laws

Adrian Walker

Mayor’s race hits its stride
A member of a team from the military’s Human Terrain System conducts an interview in Afghanistan in late 2009.

Farah Stockman

Is social science our silver bullet around the world?
At left, the South Boston waterfront; On the right, James “Whitey” Bulger, center, walking on Castle Island with associates Stephen “Rifleman” Flemmi, left, and Kevin Weeks, right, in an undated photo.

Kevin Cullen

Everything has passed Whitey by
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
Johnny Manziel can’t profit from own name.

Christopher L. Gasper

NCAA needs reform

Nation & World

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Inspectors recovered the flight data recorders Thursday from the scene of the crash of UPS plane in Alabama.

Flight recorders in fatal UPS crash located

The voice and flight data recorders could hold key evidence about what happened as the jet was attempting to land in Alabama.

Politics

Gov. Deval Patrick introduced President Barack Obama during a fundraiser stop in Boston in 2011.

Patrick had dinner with vacationing president

President and Michelle Obama took time from their Vineyard vacation Wednesday to share a meal with Governor Deval Patrick.

Business

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Boston Children’s Hospital chief executive James Mandell was paid a total of $1.5 million in 2011, down from $2 million the previous year.

Boston hospital executives earned up to $2.1m in 2011

The pay packages at Boston’s big academic medical centers were generally in line with those at similar institutions across the country, according to federal filings made Thursday.

Arts

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Adam Bright plays a genie in Double Edge Theatre’s outdoor production of “Shahrazad.”

A magical tale unfolds in the hills of Ashfield

Double Edge Theatre’s outdoor production of “Shahrazad, a tale of love and magic,” features exotic beauty, poetry, mystery, and romance.

Movies

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Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller play high school classmates who fall in love in “The Spectacular Now.”

Young love, told in ‘Spectacular’ fashion

“The Spectacular Now” is a clear-eyed, disarmingly tender teenage romance that bears comparison with the best of its genre.

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Walter Willett’s food fight
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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