Westfield State urged to rein in president’s spending

Inspector General Glenn A. Cunha found that Evan Dobelle violated school policy on multiple fronts.

John Lackey hugged Jarrod Saltalamacchia after keeping the Orioles at bay and securing the Red Sox’ spot in the postseason.

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Red Sox 3, Orioles 1

Red Sox clinch playoff berth on John Lackey’s two-hitter

Lackey’s best outing of the year allowed the Sox to secure their first postseason trip since 2009.

Kevin Cullen

New book honors Jewish baseball players

Larry Ruttman spent five years researching the book, interviewing not only Jewish baseball figures but also fans like famed attorney Alan Dershowitz.

Campaign signs competed for attention on a fence along Dorchester Avenue on Thursday.

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The mayoral campaign

What are the candidates’ signs really saying?

A font choice can suggest decisiveness, warmth, or a new direction. Color selection hints at which candidate might play it safe and who is a rebel.

Pope Francis waved as he arrived for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square Thursday.

Pope Francis calls on church to change focus

Pope Francis, in an extraordinary interview that electrified the Catholic world, said that the church had become unduly obsessed with hot-button topics.

Shirley Leung

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It is the new working mom’s guilt: breastfeeding until you drop.

House Speaker John Boehner (left) gave in to urgings to tie health care funding to the US spending battle.

No solution in sight to averting shutdown

The dizzying political divides are setting the stage for an especially tense House vote Friday on a plan that would deny funding for President Obama’s health care law.

Opinion

LAWRENCE HARMON

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Her campaign can’t seem to get out of its own way, and Golar Richie has found herself with no clear message to voters.

Globe exclusives

Sixty-six names were added to the Garden of Peace memorial on Beacon Hill on Thursday.

Hundreds watch as new names added to Garden of Peace
Walden Media’s “The Watsons Go to Birmingham’’ is set in the middle of a seminal moment of the civil rights fight: the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963.

Brothers try to restore a family habit
Bryan Cranston is up for his fourth Emmy for his work in “Breaking Bad.”

G cover | 2013 Emmy Awards preview

Gold standard
Greg Bokor with his pencil drawing of an AR-15 rifle, which viewers can erase with erasers stamped with the name of a gun victim.

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Artist hopes to fuels talk about gun violence
Hugh Jackman (center) plays the father of a missing girl. Jake Gyllenhaal (rear) is a detective.

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Prisoners’ is both gripping, grueling
Krista Perry's tattoo.

Memorializing the Marathon in permanent ink
Don Merry (left) and Jason Costa bring empty cages back to their boat on Duxbury Bay, where oyster harvesting has been banned due to an outbreak of bacteria.

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Oyster bed closures leave aquaculturists reeling
Martha Coakley chatted with Berklee students Angelica Franzino (left) and Carly Tefft while campaigning outside Fenway Park, which had become emblematic of her failed US Senate run.

Coakley, seeking 2010 redemption, returns to Fenway Park
A model of the proposed Suffolk Downs casino.

Revenue projection for Suffolk Downs casino disputed
Peter Som was among the design-ers who had models wear flats.

The best and worst of New York Fashion Week
Raking

To Grammar’s House

Time for a fall cleaning

Tech Lab

It’s easier to share files between phones

Boston mayoral race

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Mayoral candidates met in what was probably the last major debate before Tuesday’s preliminary election at the University of Massachusetts Boston Thursday night.

Mayoral candidates talk casinos, police in final debate

The candidates skirmished Thursday night over how city government should manage the prospect of a casino and criticized Police Department leadership.

Sports

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While the Red Sox are happy to make the playoffs, the celebration Thursday was subdued.

Red Sox holding off on big celebration

There was little mention Thursday night of the Red Sox clinching a playoff spot.

Metro

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Sixty-six names were added to the Garden of Peace memorial on Beacon Hill on Thursday.

Hundreds watch as new names added to Garden of Peace

The names of 66 victims of violence were added to the memorial in an emotional ceremony Thursday that included local and state officials.

Columnists

SCOT LEHIGH

Push harder for gun-law changes

JOAN WICKERSHAM

The literature of bullying
artha Coakley and Charlie Baker.

Yvonne Abraham

A second act for Charlie Coakley

Tech Lab

It’s easier to share files between phones

JOAN VENNOCHI

Boston soars, but only for some developers

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Boston needs a chief entrepreneurship officer

JEFF JACOBY

Wellesley faculty back Chinese dissident
At 45 Province in downtown Boston, residents enjoy the use of a rooftop pool; the units offer 85 different layouts.

Shirley Leung

A house hunting trip like no other
Josh Redmond will be sworn in after he graduates from the police academy in November.

Kevin Cullen

A badge of honor
A model wore a wedding dress that featured an antler-like headband holding up the veil, in Paris in July.

Opinion | Farah Stockman

We’re nuts over nuptials

Adrian Walker

Test time for teachers union

Dan Shaughnessy

Could we see Francona’s Indians in playoffs?

Nation & World

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Flags will continue to fly at half-staff around Washington and throughout the nation until sunset on Friday.

Navy Yard shooting exposes checkered system of vetting

The system of background checks and security clearances is so unreliable it’s virtually impossible to adequately investigate applicants, a review by the Associated Press found.

Business

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Fidelity Investments’s Abigail Johnson could buy a bunch of stuff with her $17 billion nest egg.

What $17 billion can get you

With her $17.2 billion net worth, Abigail Johnson of Fidelity Investments is by far the state’s wealthiest person.

Arts

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Stage Review

Erica Spyres and James (Joey) Caverly in SpeakEasy Stage Company’s “Tribes.”

Absorbing ‘Tribes’ speaks volumes about failures to communicate

Actor James Caverly is first-rate in Nina Raine’s play, now receiving its New England premiere in a wholly engrossing SpeakEasy Stage Company production.

Movies

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Movie Review

A scene from Benson Lee’s “Battle of the Year.”

Movie review: ‘Battle of the Year’

It’s one thing for the French to beat us at speed-typing in “Populaire” – but hip-hop?

Globe Insiders

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Attend a book signing and presentation by Qais Akbar Omar, author of the internationally acclaimed memoir.

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Ideas

“If we call something war, the instinct is that the military should really be in charge……But if you say it’s not actually military conflict, it’s not war in any sensible way, then you raise questions about whether the Department of Defense should really be responsible for this.”

Thomas Rid,  on cyberwar