John Connolly turns to donors of losing mayoral candidates

Connolly’s fund-raising haul in the first weeks of the general election was seen as critical to help compete the outside labor spending backing opponent Martin Walsh.

Astrid Osorio (left) and a colleague canvass East Boston on Wednesday to get out the vote for the Nov. 5 referendum.

Many in East Boston can’t vote on casino referendum

Census figures show that as many as 46 percent of the neighborhood’s adults will not cast a ballot on Nov. 5 about the Suffolk Downs plan — or anything else.

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Philip Chism, 14, who is accused of killing his math teacher at Danvers High School, was devastated when his family moved to Massachusetts this year.

Gail Huff.

Gail Huff speaks about sexual assault in 1980

The wife of former Senator Scott Brown revealed she had been attacked while attending Boston University.

Robert De Niro will be featured in television commercials tied to a new Santander product.

Santander aims for US acceptance with a new media campaign

Can a foreign bank with tough-to-pronounce name become a household brand? That’s what Santander, which has rebranded its Sovereign Bank arm, hopes.

World Series Game 3: Red Sox at Cardinals | 8:07 p.m. (Fox)

Kids make their pitch for late World Series bedtimes

With World Series games running into the late hours of the night, young Red Sox fans are negotiating with parents to stay up and watch.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/10/24/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/131023_stl_cardinals_13.jpg In St. Louis, the nice guys finish first

Cardinals fans often are called the best in the game. Interactions with dozens of them in St. Louis this week did nothing to dispute that notion.

Jake Peavy spoke with the media Friday before the Red Sox workout at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.

Jake Peavy gets his first crack at Fall Classic

This is the kind of game the Sox had in mind when they gave up gifted young shortstop Jose Iglesias in the Peavy trade.

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President Obama will deliver remarks from the same spot where Mitt Romney signed the Bay State’s landmark health care law in 2006.

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Getting people to enroll in areas such as Washington County, where 18 percent lacked health insurance, may be tricky, according to the National Rural Health Association.

Opinion

RENÉE LOTH

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Tom Menino has provided steady, effective stewardship with his pragmatic team of “urban mechanics.” Now it is time for some dreamers.

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PATRIOTS NOTEBOOK

Danny Amendola is questionable for Sunday.

Patriots list Danny Amendola as questionable

The wide receiver said “I’m ready to go,” but stopped short of saying he’ll be in uniform on Sunday, or if he’s even been medically cleared to play.

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Repaired health website promised by Nov. 30

The Obama administration said it would fix problems in the federal health insurance marketplace just two weeks before the deadline to sign up for coverage.

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Book REview

Elizabeth Lunday’s “The Modern Art Invasion”

‘The Modern Art Invasion’ by Elizabeth Lunday

”The Modern Art Invasion’’ is the story of the vanguard 1913 Armory Show that forever changed American tastes with its stints in New York, Chicago, and Boston.

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99 Bottles

Dogfish Head’s Palo Santo Marron.

Review of a Dogfish dark

Palo Santo Marron is a brown ale aged in a 10,000-gallon vessel constructed from hard, oily Palo Santo wood from Paraguay.