Boston to boost scrutiny of school workers’ records

Boston Public Schools, in a push to beef up background checks on employees, will fingerprint its staff and scour court documents.

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Caregivers taking on more complex medical tasks

Legions of baby boomers are caring for aging parents and shouldering more complicated nursing tasks.

With Cuban help, Kennedy library gets Hemingway trove

Ernest Hemingway’s life in the island nation, much of it obscured during years of US-Cuba distrust, is being illuminated through previously unavailable documents.

Gabrielle Giffords, who left Congress to focus on her recovery after being shot in the head, was honored with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award Sunday in Boston by Caroline Kennedy .

Gabrielle Giffords honored by JFK Library

The former congresswoman received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for crusading for gun control after surviving a 2011 shooting rampage.

Fire filled the sky over Damascus early Sunday in this video, which has been authenticated by Associated Press.

Blasts jolt Syria; blame put on Israel

Four huge explosions just west of Damascus shook the ground, creating fiery mushroom-shaped clouds and brightening the night sky.

Rebecca Murphy, a social worker, helped Marathon bombing victims and their families.

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After bombings, hospitals turn to healing their own

In the weeks since the attack, caregivers have reported persistent anxiety, sleeplessness, or trouble shaking images of the bombings’ aftermath.

Ruslan Tsarni, uncle of the Marathon bombing suspects, spoke to media Sunday outside the Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester.

Cambridge won’t bury Marathon bombing suspect

City officials said they would not allow the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev to be buried in the city’s cemetery.

Marathon bombing response spurs questions

Some minority residents in Boston are wondering why they have not seen a surge of response in their own crime-stricken communities.

Adrian Walker

UMass Dartmouth a shaken campus

Chancellor Divina Grossman, who is completing her first year at the helm of the school, finds herself presiding over an institution in crisis.

Dr. Johanna Lantz discussed her observations with an associate, Matt Northrup.

Northeastern team puts patients first in health tech

Students and faculty are developing devices and apps to monitor patients and give feedback they can act on.

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Cher and Georgia Holt in “Dear Mom, Love Cher.”

Television Review

Cher’s love letter to her mother
“Everybody with autism has some degree of sensory problems,” says author Temple Grandin, “but they’re variable, from minor nuisance to being very debilitating.”

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Expanding her sense of the autistic brain

Album Review | COUNTRY

With darker tone, ‘Golden’ gleams
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society played from its new album at the Regattabar Friday night

Music Review

Secret Society redefines ‘big band’
Caroline “Calle” Cronk (left), who is battling a rare form of brain cancer, at best friend Lilah MaGee’s birthday party in a nail salon.

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Staying grounded

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Greater Boston’s Top Spots to Live 2013
Danny Ainge

On Basketball

Ainge has tough job retooling Celtics
MFA workers in front of “Orpheus Charming the Animals,” which is part of the Rose-Marie and Eijk Van Otterloo collection. It will be on view in a renovated gallery this week.

Masterworks await as an MFA gallery reopens
The development of materials, such as the lithium-ion battery parts an MIT student is tinkering with in the picture above, can lead to new innovative technologies.

Manufacturing may benefit from MIT effort
Jon Feinman (above) started InnerCityWeightlifting in Dorchester (below) where former gangbangers go to work out and maybe find a way to leave the streets behind.

Yvonne Abraham

Building a life after battling on streets
Pitchers who cheat usually compensate for being a little short on velocity. Clay Buchholz has no such problem.

Sunday baseball notes

Buchholz cheating accusations don’t hold any water
Passengers board Bus 111 at a stop in Chelsea. The bus links Chelsea and East Boston with South Station.

Silver Line route mapped out for East Boston, Chelsea

More coverage of the bombings

Christopher Munger (from left), Kevin McManus, Mark Lewis, and Richard Munger marched in Middletown, R.I., Sunday.

Watertown pride and courage were on parade

Four men from the Watertown Police Department were given special attention at the Aquidneck Island National Police Parade.

Sports

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Rangers 4, Red Sox 3

Elvis Andrus is flying high after crossing the plate with the winning run on an Adrian Beltre single in the ninth.

Red Sox swept by the Rangers

The Red Sox faced a test over the weekend with three games against the Texas Rangers and failed.

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Pierreline Romain of Dorchester struck a celebratory pose in Arsenal Park in Watertown Sunday during Project Bread’s 20-mile Walk for Hunger.

Walk for Hunger raises $3.1m, but falls short of goal

Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger was the first large-scale public event in Boston since the Marathon bombings.

Columnists

Christopher L. Gasper

Pro sports lagging where it counts

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Killing without a script
A live-streaming video frame grab from last month shows detainees’ cells at Guantanamo Bay — some cells are empty, while other frames show detainees pacing or sleeping.

JAMES CARROLL

It’s your turn

Innovation Economy

A few start-ups worth keeping on the radar

Adrian Walker

UMass Dartmouth a shaken campus

JOANNA WEISS

The squeamish factor shadows Plan B debate
Phil Kessel (left) finally came back to haunt his former teammates, including Dennis Seidenberg, by scoring the winner.

Christopher L. Gasper

Kessel breaks through against Bruins

JOAN VENNOCHI

Pledge play

Innovation Economy

Elections may have big impact on tech
Jon Feinman (above) started InnerCityWeightlifting in Dorchester (below) where former gangbangers go to work out and maybe find a way to leave the streets behind.

Yvonne Abraham

Building a life after battling on streets
Gabriel Gomez with his wife, Sarah, appeared in February on the US Senate campaign trail for first time.

JEFF JACOBY

Can Gomez buck history?
Will Doc Rivers leave? Will Kevin Garnett retire after 18 seasons?

Dan Shaughnessy

For Celtics, the end of an era

Nation & World

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Supporters heralded a law barring those in top jobs in the old Khadafy regime from taking high posts for 10 years.

Law bars Khadafy-era leaders from government

Supporters heralded a law barring those in top jobs in the old Khadafy regime from taking high posts for 10 years.

Politics

“Yours has become a generation possessed with that most American of ideas — that people who love their country can change it for the better,” President Obama said.

Obama urges graduates not to fear government

The president told Ohio State University graduates to ignore antigovernment movements that “gum up the works.”

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Dr. Michael O’Brien evaluates Brandon Williams at the Sports Concussion Clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital. O’Brien says that the study of concussions is still in its infancy.

Concussion clinics spread as risks worry parents

The specialized youth sports concussion clinic may one day be as common as a mall.

Arts

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Music Review

The Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet sounds a world of different textures and colors.

Berliners play with peerless range at Jordan Hall

The Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet did very nicely with Mozart, Haas, Ibert, Milhaud, and Françaix.

Health and wellness

In practice

Bearing witness to post-traumatic strength

Trauma itself can bring strength, even to people who weren’t very strong to begin with.

Opinion

“Signs of violent extremism may be best identified by the potential assailants’ family, friends, and community — not the CIA or FBI.”

Juliette Kayyem 

Magazine

The cover for the May 5 2013 issue

Greater Boston’s top spots to live
The cover for the April 28 2013 issue

Can’t-miss events
The cover for the April 21 2013 issue

Homestead act
The cover for the April 14 2013 issue

Greetings from Gun Valley

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Traditionally held on May Day, Wellesley College has held a hoop rolling race in spring before graduation since 1895.

Ideas

“The original struggle over Boston’s waterworks reminds us that what is at stake is never just this or that service or amenity, but what a city is, and what kind of urban future we want.”

Carl Smith, on Boston’s water supply