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Dismal jobless report alarms

Hiring slowed sharply in March, hundreds of thousands gave up job searches, and the percentage of Americans in the labor force fell to its lowest level since 1979.

Gridlock deepens on Mass. transportation bill

Legislative leaders signaled they won’t budge from their $500 million tax package, far shy of Governor Deval Patrick’s $1.9 billion proposal.

Paul Bernon and Sam Slater’s indie comedy “Drinking Buddies” was just picked up for distribution.

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Young Massachusetts film producers finding early success

Paul Bernon and Sam Slater’s indie comedy “Drinking Buddies,” starring Olivia Wilde and Anna Kendrick, was just picked up for distribution.

Company fires some in Attleboro school lunch incident

Several employees who refused to provide lunch to students at a middle school were fired after an investigation.

Keer Deng, 19, was blinded by a slave master, who rubbed chili peppers in his eyes and hung him upside down from a tree.

Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff

From torment in Sudan to a life of hope, promise

Keer Deng, who lives at the Perkins School for the Blind, was enslaved, brutalized, and blinded as a boy, but has found kindness and hope.

N.H. voters OK with Brown, but perhaps not in Senate run

Voters and pundits said former Mass. Senator Scott Brown’s moderate brand of Republicanism would work well in New Hampshire — if he were considered a local.

Lawrence Harmon

No salvation for anyone on the wrong side of Menino

There is plenty of company in the Boston mayor’s boneyard: former political opponents, out-of-favor cops, recalcitrant developers, and Globe columnist Lawrence Harmon.

Does Boston need a CEO as mayor?

Boston’s first open race for mayor in a generation has yet to attract a candidate from the ranks of business.

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Sarah McGowen, 17, at work at Learning Express, a toy store in Needham.

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Summer jobs for teens expected to be hard to find

Guest conductor Ian Watson (shown in a previous concert) presided over the evening of Italian Baroque music from the harpsichord.

Music Review

Handel and Haydn shines on gems from Baroque past

“I wanted to express myself and get some feelings across so that people would know a bit about me through my songs. But then it turned into a really eclectic-feeling album,” Lianne La Havas on recording her debut CD.

La Havas raises her profile without raising her voice

Magazine preview | The Food Issue

The complete guide to Boston’s food trucks

Traffic at an intersection near Suffolk Downs in East Boston.

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Ideas

Boston driving: So bad it needs its own lingo?

A woman walks in front of a Victoria's Secret store in Chicago in January. AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh.

Opinion | The Podium

It’s no secret what they are selling

Participants splashed each other with bright colors for the Hindu holiday of Holi (festival of colors), held by the Braj Mandir Hindu Temple at the South Elementary School in Holbrook.

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week, April 5, 2013

Studies show no direct health effects from flickering shadows of turbines’ blades.

Residents angry over flickering shadows from turbines

Siskel and Ebert were newspaper guys and they took their movie love seriously.

Ty Burr

Ebert democratized movie criticism

Photo Gallery

Seals gather on the Cape

Danielle Miller Mooney is pushing for equality for women in the Mormon Church.

Mormon feminists speak out

Coach Norm Bazin has goaltender Conor Hellebuyck and the UMass-Lowell team in the Frozen Four.

Kevin Cullen

UMass-Lowell hockey is soaring

Spotlight Report: Driven to the Edge

Spotlight Report

A nine-month Globe investigation of Boston’s $1 billion taxicab industry found widespread corruption.

Sports

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Red Sox 6, Blue Jays 4

Mike Napoli drives in the winning run in the eighth inning against the Blue Jays.

Red Sox defeat Blue Jays

Mike Napoli belted a two-run homer and drove in three runs, including the game-winning run.

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Dr. Lauren Smith, the state’s interim public health commissioner, testified at a hearing on the meningitis outbreak on Nov. 14, 2012, in Washington, DC.

Interim Mass. public health chief stepping down

Dr. Lauren Smith, interim public health commissioner, will step down next month after finalizing rules on medical marijuana.

Columnists

Maria Rindenello plays harp with Boston’s Discovery Ensemble.

RENÉE LOTH

The millennial generation, in A flat

Courtney Lewis, 28, is the music director and conductor.

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Discovery Ensemble keeps the music alive

Lawrence Harmon

No salvation for anyone on the wrong side of Menino

Kevin Cullen

UMass-Lowell hockey is soaring

SCOT LEHIGH

What are Markey, Lynch promising to interest groups?

JOANNA WEISS

Jay Leno is my hero

Cleaning workers retrieved the carcasses of pigs from a branch of the Huangpu River in Shanghai on March 10.