Little League opens with ceremonies to honor Richard

The Little League season in Savin Hill began by remembering the teammate who was killed in the Marathon bombings, 8-year-old Martin Richard.

Rendering of the proposed International Marathon Center planned for a site at Legacy Farms in Hopkinton.

Gorman Richardson Lewis Architects of Hopkinton

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Push for running center revived

The Marathon bombings have renewed a resolve to build an international marathon center in Hopkinton.

Suspect recorded discussing jihad in 2011, officials say

Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in which Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev vaguely discussed jihad with his mother.

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Patients, including Boston Marathon bombing victim Roseann Sdoia, were moved today to the facility’s new location in Charlestown.

Part of the Back Bay was closed for about a week after the bombing.

US loan aid available to Back Bay stores

Small businesses that suffered financial losses because of the Boston Marathon bombings will be able to apply for federal loan assistance.

Opinion | Michael Craig Miller

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One case is not going to satisfy our curiosity, but we do have an opportunity now to examine important and interesting evidence that is there for the taking.

Boston Muslims gather, saddened and shaken

For many area Muslims, the feeling of being besieged by scrutiny hasn’t lifted since the Marathon bombings.

Jacoby Ellsbury (center) and Stephen Drew (right) bumped fists with Mike Carp as they headed to the dugout after scoring.

Red Sox 8, Astros 4

Red Sox continue streak over Astros

The Sox have won four straight and five of their last six games. At 17-7, they have the best record in baseball.

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There seems to be just one conductor on everyone’s mind in the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s search for a music director: Daniele Gatti.

Capitals 3, Bruins 2 | OT

Bruins lose despite 2-0 lead into 3d

The Bruins allowed three straight power-play goals, two of them in the last period of the game to cause a tie in regulation.

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More coverage of the bombings

Trooper Ed Mathurin, the tactical flight officer the night of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s capture, described the operation at Plymouth Airport Friday.

Copter’s camera could see Boston bombing suspect

The helicopter team searching for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was stunned to see his silhouette in a boat as they flew over Watertown.

Police say the Marathon bombing suspects fired on them in Watertown from behind the SUV they had stolen in a carjacking.

Carjacking victim describes harrowing night

Danny, a 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur, described his 90-minute abduction and escape from the Marathon bomb suspects in an exclusive interview with the Globe.

Opinion on the bombings

Editorial

The bombing suspects stood near an SUV that had been carjacked. The victim had escaped earlier.

Tsarnaevs’ carjacking victim: Quick thinking saved lives

The 26-year-old deserves Boston’s praise and thanks because his calm under pressure may well have prevented further tragedies.

Sports

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New England Patriots' Jeff Demps (42).

Patriots trade Jeff Demps to Tampa Bay

The Patriots have traded running back Jeff Demps and the 229th overall pick in the draft to Tampa Bay for running back LeGarrette Blount.

Metro

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After they were checked into their rooms, patients Randy Clukey, left, and Todd Hicks, got a quick tour of the third-floor gym at the new location of Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown.

Spaulding rehab patients arrive at new hospital building

The new facility, built on the site of the former Charlestown Navy Yard, is designed throughout to make life easier for patients with a variety of disabilities.

Politics

President Obama spoke Friday at a Planned Parenthood meeting in Washington, calling some of the new laws “absurd.”

Obama voices criticism of tough new abortion laws

President Obama assailed conservatives who have sought to restrict access to abortion and contraception, saying “you want to make sure you’re still living in 2013.”

Nation & World

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A close-up view of a plane fragment found wedged between two buildings just blocks from the World Trade Center site.

Workers find possible wreckage from 9/11 plane

A rusted 5-foot-tall piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the hijacked planes has been discovered near the World Trade Center.

Business

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Congress approved legislation Friday ending furloughs of air traffic controllers that have delayed hundreds of flights daily.

FAA says air traffic system to return to full operation

The FAA has suspended all employee furloughs and says air traffic facilities will begin returning to regular staffing levels.

Arts

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Michael Stinnett stands next to the “Cocked Hat” piano that he was hired to restore to its original circa 1861 condition. Top right: details of the restored piano.

Rare piano is restored to its original glory

A Boston-built grand piano is one of the rarest, and oldest, pianos in the United States, but until recently the owner was unaware of its worth.

Opinion

“The days have passed when a quick snapshot of a Boston candidate’s race, gender, ethnicity, or address could be used as a palm card on election day.”

Lawrence Harmon 

Magazine

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Homestead act
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Greetings from Gun Valley
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The complete guide to Boston’s food trucks
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A living room design for grown-ups

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About 1,200 tornadoes strike the United States every year, and while Massachusetts lies outside the “Tornado Alley” of the midwest, we’ve experienced our share of violent twisters.

Ideas

“What we felt this week, the collective vulnerability, is an exact reflection of what makes cities work in the first place, what makes them productive, and vital, and almost unimaginably resilient.”

Stephen Heuser, on the vulnerability of an open city