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Murray stung by Patrick’s rhetoric on transit bill

Senate President Therese Murray said that she is upset about the way Governor Deval Patrick has condemned the Legislature’s transportation plan.

Gun control bill clears hurdle in Senate

The Senate has rejected an effort by conservatives to block debate on the post-Newtown gun control bill.

Boston City Council president Michael Ross.

Ross announces bid for mayor of Boston

Michael P. Ross, a 41-year-old attorney who lives in Mission Hill, has been a city councilor since 1999.

Bristol-Myers Squibb plans expansion in Devens

The global biopharmaceutical company is planning a $250 million expansion of its facility in Devens, eventually adding about 350 jobs.

There are plenty of good seats available as Red Sox starting pitcher Ryan Dempster fired a first-inning pitch.

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As Red Sox’ attendance streak ends, what’s next?

The Red Sox finally admitted that the streak is no more. Now, could the tradition of singing “Sweet Caroline” be next to go?

Bowdoin president defends school after report

The school’s president called a report by a conservative-leaning higher education advocacy group “mean-spirited and personal.”

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Where New England’s senators stand on gun control

The Globe polled the region’s 12 senators on various aspects of gun legislation.

JOAN VENNOCHI

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One father says the school’s assistant principal ordered middle school students not be served lunch -- and then let four cafeteria workers take the fall in the ensuing controversy.

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On Wednesday afternoon, windows were boarded up and charred debris was outside. Some smoke detectors worked.

A rescue, a death, and a firefighter’s haunting connection

New look planned for Cambridge courthouse
Red Sox television analyst Jerry Remy, 61, first had surgery in November 2008 to remove a cancerous area from a lung.

Remy says his lung cancer returned

UMass Lowell vs. Yale, 4:30, ESPN2

Frozen Four has UMass Lowell campus sizzling
Attorney Brad Bailey (left) sat with Christian Gerhartsreiter after a verdict was reached in Gerhartsreiter’s murder trial.

‘Rockefeller’ faces at least 27 years for murder
Donna Freitas is a religion professor at Boston University.

Book Review

‘The End of Sex’ by Donna Freitas
At his annual budget breakfast in the Eagle Room at City Hall, Mayor Thomas M. Menino had some fun with City Councilor Charles C. Yancey.

Menino tweaks would-be successors
Mark Pollock, who has been blind since the age of 22, was seriously injured in a fall just four weeks before he and his girlfriend Simone George were to be married.

From extreme athlete to spinal-cord injury patient
Quinnipiac built the $60 million TD Bank Sports Center, which was part of the re-launching of the sports program that has delivered its hockey team to the Frozen Four.

Long road for Quinnipiac to Frozen Four
Hall of Famer Wade Boggs, an assistant coach at Wharton High in Tampa, thinks there is a spot at Fenway Park for his No. 26.

Boggs wants Red Sox to retire his number
A Shake Shack cheeseburger with lettuce and tomato.

Food

Rating Boston’s newest burger joints
Pappardelle in a sauce of wild boar, juniper berries, and trumpet mushrooms.

dining out

New ideas steeped in tradition at Giulia

Sports

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Orioles 8, Red Sox 5

The Red Sox infielders were stunned after closer Joel Hanrahan was lifted amid a 5-run ninth inning for Baltimore.

Red Sox blow game to Orioles in 9th

The Red Sox were one batter away from winning when a series of errors by closer Joel Hanrahan led to a 5-run inning for Baltimore.

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Dr. Lauren Smith, the interim public health commissioner, said that her agency has “a lot of operational challenges” to confront before marijuana dispensaries can open.

Cannabis sales are months away

Though regulations are scheduled to be adopted in May, medical marijuana dispensaries likely won’t open for many months.

Columnists

JOAN VENNOCHI

Lunch, denied

JULIETTE KAYYEM

The military’s sexual assault non-solution
Margaret Thatcher spoke at the 1984 Economic Summit in London as, from left, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and President Ronald Reagan listened.

JEFF JACOBY

Democracy’s champion

SCOT LEHIGH

Lesson for a lame duck

Adrian Walker

Don’t let the gun lobby win
It was a picture-postcard day at Fenway Park, where baseball-loving fans filed in to see their Red Sox.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox fans always come back

farah stockman

Three reasons for hope in Afghanistan

Kevin Cullen

The Irish education of Margaret Thatcher
With seven shutout innings, Clay Buchholz earned approval from the Red Sox dugout and Fenway crowd.

Christopher L. Gasper

Red Sox aces key to team’s early surge

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Take burden off Veterans Affairs

Adrian Walker

Making good close to home
A US guard tower overlooks a gate at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

James Carroll

Guantanamo is America’s moral failure

Nation & World

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President Obama’s budget included a new cost-of-living formula that could reduce future increases in Social Security.

A party rift on Obama budget

Senator Elizabeth Warren and other Congressional Democrats oppose the cuts to Social Security and Medicare included in the president’s budget.

Politics

Gomez, Sullivan, and Winslow (left to right) had their testiest exchange over gun safety legislation, a key topic on Capitol Hill.

GOP Senate debate gets personal

The Republican US Senate candidates flung accusations during the primary’s second televised debate.

Business

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The state Public Health Council voted Wednesday to grant a license to transfer ownership of South Shore Hospital in Weymouth to Partners HealthCare System.

Partners’ deal to acquire South Shore Hospital advances

The trend toward consolidation of Mass. hospitals continues as Partners passed the first step to become sole corporate owner of the hospital.

Arts

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Book Review

‘Here I Am’ by Alan Huffman

Huffman investigates the significant life of war photographer Tim Hetherington.

Lifestyle

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Instagram Fashion: Maira Perez

If you happen to step into an elevator at Copley Place and see a woman snapping pictures of herself, it is likely to be this week’s Instagram style star.

Magazine

The cover for the April 7 2013 issue

The complete guide to Boston’s food trucks
The cover for the March 31 2013 issue

The great running experiment
The cover for the March 24 2013 issue

Azores, a perfect destination for Boston travelers
The cover for the March 17 2013 issue

Could rookie Jared Sullinger be the next Kevin Garnett?

Opinion

“It can’t be that hard to figure out who and what prompted the decision to keep kids from their lunch.”

Joan Vennochi 

Globe Insiders

Editorial Event | April 17

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Attend a session on photography and videography with the host of BostonGlobe.com’s “Back Story” series.

Ideas

“Tax season doesn’t have to feel like a root canal. According to a group of tax scholars, Americans could just as easily take pride in paying our share, and the government ought to be trying to help get us there.”

Leon Neyfakh, on the joy of taxes