CVS to stop selling tobacco products

The R.I.-based pharmacy chain will stop selling cigarettes, cigars, and chewing tobacco at its 7,600 US stores by Oct. 1.

John L. Allen Jr. | Analysis

UN report on Vatican and sex abuse may hurt reform cause

The scathing report may backfire by blurring the cause of child protection with the culture wars over sexual mores.

Pedestrians crossed Blossom Street  near Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Wednesday.

Storm brings heavy snowfall to state

Police report a number of crashes across Greater Boston as 2 inches of snow per hour is falling in some parts of the state.

A makeshift memorial outside the New York City apartment building where the body of Philip Seymour Hoffman was found.

Investigation of Philip Seymour Hoffman death leads to 4 arrests

Four people were taken into custody on drug charges, the Associated Press reports.

Employees ate lunch in the cafeteria at Google's offices in Cambridge.

Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe

At Google, employees nourish big ideas over lunch

Google’s food program, some say, is a model for how companies should engage employees — and perhaps make them more productive.

Vlada Provotorova and friends place strays wherever they can.

Rescuers mobilize as Sochi tries to kill off stray dogs

The city has hired a pest-control company to kill homeless animals, all in an effort to clean up the streets in advance of the Olympics.

A statue of a sleepwalking man in his underwear was installed on the Wellesley College campus on Monday.

Statue of man in underwear causes stir at Wellesley College

More than 100 students at the all-women’s college signed a petition asking administrators to remove the statue.

On Jan. 21, Irving Fryar and his mother pleaded not guilty of conspiring to steal more than $690,000 inamortgage scam.

Irving Fryar keeps faith, despite latest brush with law

The preacher, a former Patriots All-Pro wide receiver, could be facing his toughest matchup yet in a court in New Jersey.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/02/05/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/0205oped_FPO-1312.jpg Welcome the immigrant driver

State legislators will soon consider a bill to allow undocumented residents the right to drive legally with a state-issued license.

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