Jared Remy held in girlfriend’s murder

Jared Remy, the son of broadcaster Jerry Remy, stabbed his longtime girlfriend, Jennifer Martel, with “great force and great effort,” a prosecutor said.

Benjamin Ray said he tried to get Jared Remy to stop allegedly assaulting Jennifer Martel in the patio of their Waltham residence.

‘I did what I could to stop it,’ neighbor says

A neighbor who tried to help Jennifer Martel as she was allegedly being attacked by Jared Remy said he regrets not being able to save her.

People sunbathed Thursday on Marshfield’s Brant Point beach, which has lost a lot of sand.

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Winter storms take toll on Marshfield beaches

The ocean has been eating away at Massachusetts beaches for years, but last winter’s storms reminded residents how tenuous their relationship with sand can be.

The National Security Agency building at Fort Meade, Md.

NSA broke privacy rules, audit reveals

The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its authority thousands of times each year since 2008, the audit found.

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.

A typical Civil-War era Union ration coffee.

Is drinking too much coffee really harmful? Not likely

There are so many caveats to a finding that drinking more than 28 cups of coffee a week raises the risk of dying young that many medical researchers would call it a fluke.

Opinion

LAWRENCE HARMON

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After years of falling short, a Massachusetts team has taken its rightful place in the Pantheon of Certamen.

Globe exclusives

Seaport Boulevard is seen during rush hour traffic on Thursday.

Shirley Leung

A snarl in Seaport District’s success story
Yemeni security forces stood behind barriers blocking the access to the US Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday.

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Why we shouldn’t be afraid of Al Qaeda in Yemen
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?”

John Lackey says Red Sox should not have to face A-Rod

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

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New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez after striking out in the seventh inning against the Los Angeles Angels Tuesday.

Report: Alex Rodriguez camp leaked players’ names

Associates of Rodriguez leaked names of Ryan Braun and teammate Francisco Cervelli in the Biogenesis scandal, “60 Minutes” reported.

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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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Bob Hewitt holds a plaque from his induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport in 1992.

Bob Hewitt formally charged with rape in South Africa

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

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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Consumers living paycheck to paycheck may be spending money mostly on essentials, with little left over for discretionary items, analysts say.

Tepid US retail sales raising doubts about economy

A lot of Americans are still spending their money only on essentials, highlighting the disparity of the haves and have-nots during the latest economic recovery.

Arts

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Stages

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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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