Gas, cigarette taxes would rise in new state budget

The budget relies on about $500 million in higher taxes on tobacco, gas, utilities and certain computer services that businesses purchase.

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The military’s statement put pressure on President Mohammed Morsi to resign, and there are reports the foreign minister has stepped down.

A jersey honoring the 19 firefighters that were killed in the wildfire in Yarnell, Ariz., hangs in the Arizona Diamondback's dugout before the game against the Mets at Citi Field Monday.

Diamondbacks to honor victims of wildfire

The Arizona Diamondbacks will wear a patch on their uniforms honoring the 19 firefighters who died about 80 miles from Phoenix.

Rendering of the proposed Mohegan Sun Casino in Palmer.

Mohegan Sun releases updated rendering

Mohegan Sun has expanded its Palmer casino proposal to a $1 billion project, as it battles for the sole Western Mass. casino resort license.

“Despicable Me 2” centers on reformed baddie Gru (left, voice of Steve Carell) and his interactions with Anti-Villain League operative Lucy Wilde (right, Kristen Wiig), as well as his Minions.

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Movie Review

Less ‘Despicable,’ but sequel does deliver laughs

Steve Carell’s animated villain Gru shows a near total lack of despicability in “Despicable Me 2,” but this sequel is plenty funny nevertheless.

Colton Iverson (left) and Kelly Olynyk will both play in the NBA summer league for the Celtics in Orlando, Fla.

Colton Iverson and Kelly Olynyk join Celtics

The Celtics rectify their size issues with 7-foot draft picks: Olynyk from Gonzaga and Iverson from Colorado State.

Johnny Depp (left) as Tonto and Armie Hammer as the title character in “The Lone Ranger.”

Movie Review

Who was that masked man? Who cares.

“The Lone Ranger” is like watching an elephant tap dance: Everything gets trampled and the dancing’s not very good.

Trial of ‘Whitey’ Bulger

Ex-FBI agent apologizes to family of alleged Bulger victim

John Morris grew emotional as he apologized for what could have been his “indirect” role in the killing of Michael Donahue in 1982.

Opinion

JAMES CARROLL

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The Constitution pursues not perfection, which is impossible, but the “more perfect,” which always beckons.

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Fireworks freedom
Bidding on eBay for a jersey bearing Aaron Hernandez’s name has reached $227. The piece of Patriots apparel originally sold for $50.

Hernandez jerseys are hot items on eBay
Nina Rossi holding her iPod Touch with a photo Lance Rice took after he robbed Rossi’s house.

Health

Heroin plagues rural Mass. towns
The sketch artists provided their own perspective of the scene in the courtroom when John Martorano testified at James “Whitey” Bulger’s trial.

Sketch artists in their element

Ideas

Revising your writing? Blame the Modernists
The cost of having a baby in the United States is billed item by item, a practice that has spiraled in the last decade.

US childbirth is uniquely expensive
At the Jeremiah Burke High School in Dorchester, a $50 million renovation five years ago has done little to entice students to enroll, and more than half of the seats are empty.

Student decline a strain for city
Jayne Atkinson as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Treat Williams as Henry II in “The Lion in Winter” in Stockbridge.

Stage Review

‘The Lion in Winter’ roars to life
Marathon bombing victim John Odom was escorted across the finish line of One Run for Boston by his daughter Nicole Reis.

One Run ends on heartfelt note
Mormon teenagers followed a muddy path in Auburn, N.H.

Trek of tradition by Mormon teens
Michael C. Hall in “Dexter.”

BUZZSAW | MATTHEW GILBERT

Do uneven TV series become classics?
Divers and staff at the New England Aquarium worked to move a bonnethead shark to its new home in the renovated Giant Ocean Tank.

Aquarium’s giant tank is a renovated marvel

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Antoine Walker says he has nothing left of the roughly $108 million he earned during his NBA career.

Antoine Walker knows path back to NBA won’t be easy

Walker understands his checkered past will keep teams from offering him a job, so he wants to prove he’s ready to shoulder responsibility.

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Ernest Wallace.

Hernandez associate returning to Mass.

A Florida man waived his right to contest extradition, and is expected to be arraigned this week in connection with the death of Odin Lloyd.

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JAMES CARROLL

Our halting progress toward justice
The Franklin Park Zoo’s new Baird’s tapir calf will make her debut in a few weeks and will look similar to this calf, born there in 2007.

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Don’t feed the animals (do feed the zoo)
Abubakar “Bubbles” Suleiman, 15, has made grea t st rides at Ro xbur y’ s Orchard Gardens school af ter moving to Bos ton from Nigeria.

Yvonne Abraham

A graduate’s inspiring story

JEFF JACOBY

Civil-rights generation prisoner to its fears

JOANNA WEISS

Rich for a day, at least until the credits roll
Katie Mattscheck, an employee at In the Pink in Boston, uses Sagamore Retail to determine which items are selling.

Innovation Economy

Technology a hard sell to local shops
Richard Seymour, Robert Kraft, his son Jonathan, Myra Kraft, Tedy Bruschi, and Ty Law performed the Super Bowl victory dance at City Hall Plaza in 2004.

opinion | JOAN VENNOCHI

Without Myra, the Patriots lost their way
As their No. 2 all-time scorer, Paul Pierce’s place in Celtics history is assured.

Christopher L. Gasper

Celtics’ trade hurts, but it was time
Once known for petty crime and drugs, the now-popular Brewer Plaza was renovated and opened last summer.

RENÉE LOTH

Brewer Plaza, reborn

derrick z. jackson

US is a segregated joint on marijuana
Officer David Williams has been fired twice.

lawrence harmon

Do arbitrators give violent cops a pass?

Tech Lab

Where to turn without Google Reader

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Russian President Vladimir Putin

Putin says Snowden must stop leaking secrets

Russian President Vladimir Putin said NSA leaker Edward Snowden will have to stop if he wants asylum in the country.

Politics

Middlesex County Sheriff Peter J. Koutoujian.

Koutoujian launches bid for Markey’s House seat

Middlesex County Sheriff Peter J. Koutoujian, a Waltham Democrat, calls public service his “life’s work.”

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Doron Kempel worked at EMC before starting SimpliVity.

Software company helps firms save on data centers

SimpliVity Inc. aims to save customers money and time by virtualizing entire data centers.

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Book Review

Paul A. Offit is chief of pediatric infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

‘Do You Believe in Magic?’ by Paul Offit

The book is a briskly written and well-researched examination of alternative medicine.

Health and wellness

In Practice

A weighty issue with multiple viewpoints

The question of whether obesity itself is a disease has been controversial.

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Full Globe coverage of the gangster’s ongoing trial, life on the run, and notorious legacy in Boston.

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“To North Korea, the main security threat is not the United States. It is the prosperity, wealth, and prestige of South Korea.”

Sheila Miyoshi Jager,  on the unfinished war between the two Koreas