Police ‘close’ to answer in South Boston slaying

Local officials prepared to hold a community meeting Monday evening to address the fears of residents.

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Bulger begins defense

“Whitey” Bulger’s defense team has 15 people listed as witnesses, including Marion Hussey, the longtime girlfriend of Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi.

Police search lake in Aaron Hernandez’s Conn. hometown

Divers are searching a lake in Bristol, Conn., although police declined to say what they were looking for.

Martin Indyk will be Secretary of State John Kerry’s point man in the Israeli-Palestinian talks, which are set to begin tonight.

Ex-US ambassador to Israel to shepherd peace talks

Martin Indyk will be Secretary of State John Kerry’s point man in the Israeli-Palestinian talks.

Edward Markey, on the Senate subway, is navigating new corridors and customs.

DREW ANGERER FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

New title, familiar elements for Edward Markey

Markey is the longest-serving representative in history to make the leap to the rarefied ranks of the Senate.

Pope Francis said gay clergymen should be forgiven and their sins forgotten.

Pope says he won’t judge gay priests

‘‘If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?’’ Pope Francis asked at a news conference.

Doug Wood inspected a bag of rockweed he harvested off the Maine coast in early July.

Maine’s rockweed harvesters trigger disputes

Harvesters have clashed with critics over the environmental impact and over who actually owns the valuable marine resource.

If there is a suspension, Alex Rodriguez would fight it, a source close to the player told the Daily News.

MLB offers Alex Rodriguez a plea deal

If the Yankees third baseman accepts the deal, he would be suspended for this season and next in exchange for avoiding a lifetime ban.

Opinion

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The suburbs and exurbs are full of people for whom “bleeding heart” is a description, not a meal.

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Jamal Lee, 42, who lost the use of his legs when he was shot at the age of 17, credits his current medical care group with improving his quality of life. “It’s not like dealing with a business,” Lee said. “It’s like dealing with family.”

Health plan for disabled cut back
A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing was rushed to Boston Medical Center.

Attacks spur some changes at hospitals

Adrian Walker

Bold stands hard to come by
David Ortiz follows through while singling to right field during the eighth inning, his fourth hit of the game.

On baseball

This time, Ortiz destroyed baseballs

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Geographic advantages in Boston mayoral race

Mayoral candidates’ signs shout for attention from streets in such contested neighborhoods as Roxbury (above).

Mayoral hopefuls lean hard on neighborhoods
Sandra Rice uses a remote home-monitoring device that sends her blood pressure numbers directly to her doctor’s office.

Health

A 21st century house call

Child in Mind

Sleep and childhood behavior
The Coravin device allows wine lovers to decant a glass from a bottle and still keep the rest of the beverage in pristine condition.

Taking wine from an uncorked bottle
Indie rocker Beck had the crowd on their feet and dancing in his festival-closing set on Sunday.

MUSIC REVIEW

Beck ends Newport festival in style
Jim Rash (left) leads a panel discussion about TV writing on his new show on the Sundance channel.

Jim Rash enters ‘The Writer’s Room’
A battle-tested veteran, controllable in 2014 at $14.5 million, Jake Peavy could help stabilize the Red Sox rotation.

Sunday Baseball Notes

MLB trade deadline certain to create a frenzy

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Red Sox manager John Farrell

Red Sox ramp up as trade deadline approaches

The conversations between Red Sox manager John Farrell and GM Ben Cherington have picked up.

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The Provincetown II had 370 passengers on a country music-themed cruise Saturday when the accident occurred.

Search halted for passenger who fell into Boston Harbor

Despite the efforts of several people to stop him, a man apparently tried to climb a railing on a harbor cruise and fell overboard.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

Pier 4 a savior for Albanians
Celtics executive vice president Dave Gavitt consoles Dee Brown (left) and Rick Fox (right) during a news conference following the death of team captain Reggie Lewis in 1993.

Dan Shaughnessy

It still hurts, 20 years later
Huma Abedin listened as her husband spoke at a press conference Tuesday.

JOANNA WEISS

Kate and Huma, the image-makers
Fareed Mosavat, Chas Wagner, and Jason Jacobs looked at support tickets at RunKeeper, which is jockeying for position in the digital fitness universe.

Innovation Economy

Can more Boston tech firms open up?

Adrian Walker

Bold stands hard to come by

JOAN VENNOCHI

Can state GOP find a winner?

RENÉE LOTH

The sun state
Stevan Ridley left the field after the first day of training camp at Gillette Stadium.

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Patriots’ Ridley visibly needed

Kevin Cullen

Dispelling the myths of Whitey
Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was one of the most famous women in America in the 1920s and ’30s.

JOAN WICKERSHAM

The poet as a rock star

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Traces of the old Southie

Shirley Leung

Summers is too much for Fed to handle

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Benjamin Netanyahu said “tough decisions must be made for the good of the country.”

Israel votes to free 104 Palestinian prisoners

The vote by the Israeli Cabinet cleared the way for preliminary peace talks to begin Monday in Washington.

Politics

Among the candidates are (clockwise from top left) John Barros, Charlotte Golar Richie, Felix G. Arroyo, David James Wyatt, Charles Clemons, and Charles Yancey. Some fear the diverse ballot might fracture the minority vote rather than unite it behind one candidate.

Historic diversity in Boston’s mayoral field

Some fear the diverse ballot might fracture the minority vote rather than unite it behind one candidate.

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Rich Theriault’s tablet had TV listings used in switching from a Red Sox game to a rock station in a game’s commercial break. A MyChoice device can automatically do the switch.

Device gives viewers control over TV ads

The MyChoice Gateway automatically switches stations to avoid advertisements and then goes back to the channel when the ads end.

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Jennifer Kaufman (left) and Karen Mack fictionalized an affair between Sigmund Freud and his wife’s sister.

‘Freud’s Mistress’ by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack

Kaufman and Mack fictionalized an affair between Sigmund Freud and his wife’s sister.

Health and wellness

BOSTON MEDICAL MYSTERIES

MRI similar to Wendy’s, which shows white lesions in the brain.

Why was Wendy suddenly paralyzed?

One Monday morning, 42-year-old Wendy woke up and found she couldn’t walk.

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Walter Willett’s food fight
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What happened at Deerfield
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Kitchen overhaul
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Rethinking the golden years

Ideas

“Alfred Barr’s Wellesley class, small as it was, launched a generation of students into prominent roles in the art world, helping to spread the gospel of contemporary art as curators, journalists, and critics.”

Christopher Shea,  on how a young professor helped invent contemporary art in America