Jared Remy’s years of trouble

Remy, who is accused of killing his girlfriend Thursday night, had been charged in at least 13 cases since 1998, according to court records.

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Patty Martel, whose daughter was allegedly killed by Jared Remy a day after he left court with an order not to abuse her, says she’s upset that he was not held.

Law enforcement officers representing nine Boston-area police departments took part in a motorcycle ride through Cambridge and Boston.

Police ride remembers fallen comrades, raises money

A solemn procession of police officers was part of an event to remember Sean Collier and raise money for families of officers killed in the line of duty.

Egyptian riot police gained entry to Cairo's Al-Fath mosque where supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi hid overnight.

Violence in Egypt

Security forces storm protester-held mosque

Officers raided the Ramses Square mosque out of fears the Muslim Brotherhood again planned to set up a sit-in, officials said.

Casey Affleck.

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Casey Affleck, the subtle one

As the less famous, more soulful and enigmatic Affleck brother, Casey continues to take on interesting projects — while keeping a low profile.

The Chicago River is a system of rivers and canals that offers a route for touring the city’s world-famous architecture.

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Three days in Chicago

A three-day itinerary in the city that’s said to be the birthplace of the skyscraper takes visitors through world-class museums, a top-notch culinary scene, and vibrant neighborhoods.

Alex Rodriguez comes to the plate for his at bat in the first inning to a chorus of boos and a signs in the stands.

Opinion | Dan Shaughnessy

Alex Rodriguez in state of denial

The Yankees third baseman said he doesn’t know why he inspires such animosity. “It gets old,’’ he said.

Opinion | donald k. stern

Plea deals: A necessary evil

John Martorano’s cooperation led to the prosecution of Whitey Bulger and Stephen Flemmi, writes the US attorney who approved the deal.

Opinion

opinion | Don Gillis and Andy Sum

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Boston’s next mayor must work with communities to identify how to increase families’ social and economic capital.

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Kevin Velasquez (left), Manley Paul, Jeffrey Stephens, and Andrew McCall learned animation.

Teens find their inner Geek
Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree admired a striped bass he caught Thursday.

The big fish he wants to land is the president
Oct. 25, 1969: The Hub’s biggest hole in the ground in 1969 was the Hancock foundation in Copley Square.

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The John Hancock tower
Men carried the statue of the Madonna del Soccorso for a procession around the North End during the Fisherman’s Feast.

Tradition runs deep at Fisherman’s Feast
It all started with the Howard Johnson’s ice cream stand on Wollaston Beach in Quincy

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Memories of Hojo’s
Annie Dookhan, shown at her Jan. 9 arraignment, tested more than 60,000 samples, authorities say.

Former state chemist gets January trial date
Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller play high school classmates who fall in love in “The Spectacular Now.”

Movie Review

Young love in ‘The Spectacular Now’
Great white shark.

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How I survived a shark attack
Seaport Boulevard is seen during rush hour traffic on Thursday.

Shirley Leung

A snarl in Seaport District’s success story
Wendy Whelan and Joshua Beamish perform his “Waltz Epoca” during the “Restless Creature’’ program at Jacob’s Pillow.

Dance Review

Whelan is a ‘creature’ beautifully transformed
A typical Civil-War era Union ration coffee.

Is drinking too much coffee really harmful?
A lone eastern tiger swallowtail fed on a butterfly bush at Mass Audubon’s Boston Nature Center. The usually abundant monarch butterflies are absent this summer.

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Globe photos of the week, Aug. 16, 2013

Sports

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Patriots 25, Buccaneers 21

Tom Brady looked to pass against the Buccaneers during the first quarter.

Tom Brady turns in strong outing

Brady played two stellar series in another successful preseason night for the Patriots.

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Donna Blythe-Shaw of the Boston Taxi Drivers Association urged more oversight of livery vehicles.

After rape in unlicensed taxi, call for increased regulations

City oversight of livery vehicles operating outside the regulation of the Boston police hackney unit remains murky.

Columnists

Opinion | donald k. stern

Plea deals: A necessary evil

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

Nation & World

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Volunteers searched near the damaged cargo ship Sulpicio Express Siete Saturday, a day after it collided with a passenger ferry near central Philippines.

Divers search Philippine ferry for dozens missing

At least 31 were confirmed dead and hundreds rescued after a ferry collided with a cargo vessel and then sunk late Friday.

Politics

Senators John McCain (left) and Lindsey Graham (right) want the Obama administration to suspend US aid to Egypt amid spiraling violence there.

Two GOP senators call on Obama to suspend aid to Egypt

Senators John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said the Egyptian military was taking the country “down a dark path.”

Business

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Developer Roy MacDowell Jr.’s 28-room mansion in Wayland was up for auction Friday, but bids only reached $5.6 million — short of the $8.3 million needed to satisfy a debt MacDowell owed to Suffolk Construction chief executive John Fish.

Mansion auction bids not high enough

Bids for the 28-room Wayland estate only reached $5.6 million, short of the $8.3 million needed to satisfy a debt by its former owner.

Arts

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Book Review

Scott Anderson writes that, during World War I, T.E. Lawrence found himself both fighting the Turks and undermining the British to advance the cause of Arab freedom.

‘Lawrence in Arabia’ by Scott Anderson

In journalist Scott Anderson’s thrilling new book, Thomas Edward Lawrence again takes center stage in an account that moves from London to Cairo to the Arabian peninsula.

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Narragansett releases beer to honor ‘Jaws’ and Captain Quint

Narragansett Beer is releasing commemorative cans featuring the same design and logo made popular by the 1975 thriller “Jaws.”

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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