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Market Basket to distribute $250m to shareholders

A faction in the supermarket chain, split by a bitter family feud among its owners, had complained the company held too much cash.

Survivors, relatives of Afghan massacre unhappy with sentence

A US soldier spend the rest of his life in prison for killing 16 villagers, but the sentence left victims and relatives of the dead deeply unsatisfied.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan.

Fort Hood shooter found guilty

Army Maj. Nidal Hasan was convicted of murder in the 2009 shooting rampage that killed 13 and wounded more than 30.

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Hernandez cousin arraigned on contempt charge

Tanya Singleton was arraigned after refusing to testify before a grand jury in Aaron Hernandez’s murder case.

Tom Evangelou, the treasurer of St. John the Baptist Albanian Orthodox Church in South Boston spent the day trying to recover church items that were damaged in a five-alarm fire on Tuesday.

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South Boston church fire aftermath

A five-alarm fire swept through a South Boston church on Tuesday. A church official surveyed the damage and spent the day Friday trying to recover items.

Alex Rodriguez, left, and Johnny Manziel have both found themselves surrounded by controversy recently.

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Alex Rodriguez and Johnny Manziel: 2 topics, 1 big headache

While it would be nice to discuss actual competition, the Rodriguez and Manziel sagas drone on at the forefront of the sports world.

The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series returns to Boston this weekend at the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Cliff divers prepare for competition at ICA

The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series returns to Boston this weekend, and the athletes had their first training jumps today.

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Who will fight the beauty bias?

It’s deep, unconscious, and surprisingly universal—and means beautiful people get a much better deal. But righting injustice isn’t easy when no one wants to call themselves plain.

Opinion

SCOT LEHIGH

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Martin Walsh’s big haul of union money raises the question of how independent he could be if elected mayor of Boston.

Globe exclusives

New CEO of Friendly’s Ice Cream, John Maguire.

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The plan to save Friendly’s
Druker Co. has proposed an 11-story office and retail building at 80 Berkeley St. in the South End.

Developer proposes 11-story South End building
Hipsters are amassing in Somerville, which claims to be the only city in the country that conducts a happiness survey.

Somerville worries it’s growing too hip

Shirley Leung

A quick way to bypass Southie’s traffic problem
John R. Connolly (left) and Martin J. Walsh.

Boston mayoral race still wide open, poll says
Elise Verdoncq and her horse Omerio performing in Cavalia’s “Odysseo.”

Cavalia performer enjoys ride of her life
Kelley and Joseph Rogers, parents of Sean Collier, were presented with a uniform and badge by Somerville Police Chief Thomas Pasquarello (left) and Mayor Joseph Curtatone.

Officer Sean Collier, Somerville badge 310
The Jim Kweskin Jug Band, (from left) Mel Lyman, Maria Muldaur, Geoff Muldaur, Kweskin, and Bill Keith, at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964.

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Feels like old times
From left: New Michael Ingemi, Noah Britton, Ethan Finlan, and Jack Hanke of Asperger’s Are Us. The local comedy group has gained a following and played in larger venues over the last two years.

A comedy troupe with a tie that binds
A scene from “Chennai Express,” one of the Bollywood movies that has been featured at Apple Cinemas at the Fresh Pond Mall.

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A ticket to India

The Red Sox will get a look at impressive Dodgers rookie Yasiel Puig this week. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Picked-up pieces from San Francisco
A battle between Vice President Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton could rival the 2008 presidential race.

Clinton and Biden jockey for 2016 presidential race

Sports

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Carl Crawford will face the Dodgers for the first time since last year’s trade.

Carl Crawford wants to beat the Red Sox ‘bad’

“I want to win all three games. Bad,” Crawford said of the Dodgers hosting the Red Sox in Los Angeles for a weekend series.

Metro

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Gambling panel stepping into Menino-Wynn spat

The dispute “makes everything look disorganized or suspect or political,” chairman Stephen Crosby said.

Columnists

EDWARD L. GLAESER

A middle way on mortgage subsidies
Since Alex Rodriguez returned to the lineup Aug. 5 — while appealing his 211-game suspension — the Yankees are 11-6.

Christopher L. Gasper

Alex Rodriguez’s appeal is a sham
Jeremy Geidt performed with Cherry Jones in Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts” at the ART in 1982. Geidt died earlier this month in Cambridge at age 83.

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Jeremy Geidt, the actor who mastered paradox
Jennifer Martel and Jared Remy.

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In Remy case, everybody figured wrong

Beverly Beckham

I was the sun, the kids my planets

JEFF JACOBY

How to fix presidential debates
President Calvin Coolidge fished at the home of a friend in Simsburyg, Conn.

SCOT LEHIGH

New England, presidential vacationland

Adrian Walker

Remy case needs independent review
Harold Brown is 88, and he is still doing real estate deals. He is one of the region's biggest landlords with $1.4 billion in his portfolio.

Shirley Leung

Buy or sell? The guru is stumped
Ryan Dempster drew a 5-game suspension from MLB for hitting Alex Rodriguez with a pitch on Sunday.

Dan Shaughnessy

Ryan Dempster deserved to be suspended

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A foolish attempt to purge Howard Zinn
Ho Van Lang, 41, in plaid shorts, and his 81-year-old father Ho Van Thanh, in hammock, are helped out of a forest in Vietnam where they’ve hidden since 1973.

JAMES CARROLL

A nation’s PTSD

Nation & World

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Burned and destroyed cars are seen at the entrance of a mosque, left, which was attacked by a car bomb, in the northern city of Tripoli.

Twin explosions kill 29 in north Lebanese city

The blasts hit amid soaring tensions in Lebanon as a result of Syria’s civil war, which has sharply polarized the country along sectarian lines.

Politics

President Obama met Thursday with students, parents, and educators to discuss education in Rochester, N.Y.

Obama targets high cost of college

Area college presidents are skeptical about tying federal funding to a new performance rating system.

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Steve Ballmer

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire

The world’s biggest software company did not name a successor for Ballmer, who has been CEO since 2000.

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Huey Lewis (left) and the News are performing the band’s biggest album, “Sports,” in its entirety.

Huey Lewis and the News take its classic for another spin

Lewis is taking his band on the road to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their best-selling album “Sports.”

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A scene from “Chennai Express,” one of the Bollywood movies that has been featured at Apple Cinemas at the Fresh Pond Mall.

Fresh Pond Mall theater goes Bollywood

The newly named Apple Cinemas is offering not only a full range of Indian movies but additional foreign-language films for underserved international audiences.

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Sharks Inc.
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Daniel Nava, the long shot
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The lake house
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Walter Willett’s food fight

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“Becoming overly reliant on GPS and letting our natural skills at mental mapping atrophy, new neuroscience research suggests, might actually be bad for our cognitive health.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on what GPS does to your brain