Jared Remy pleaded guilty today to first-degree murder.

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Jared Remy pleaded guilty today to first-degree murder.

Jared Remy appeared for a hearing in Middlesex County Superior Court last week.

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Remy appeared for a hearing in Middlesex County Superior Court last week.

Jared Remy stood during an arraignment last October.

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Remy stood during an arraignment last October.

Jennifer Martel had been making plans to leave Remy when she was murdered.

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Jennifer Martel had been making plans to leave Remy when she was murdered.

Defense attorney Peter Bella (left) conferred with Remy last August.

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Defense attorney Peter Bella (left) conferred with Remy last August.

Remy was accused of murdering Jennifer Martel in their Waltham home last August.

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Remy was accused of murdering Jennifer Martel in their Waltham home last August.

Jared Remy pleads guilty to first-degree murder

Remy pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for savagely killing his girlfriend in their Waltham home last August.

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Shanna Shaw pleaded not guilty to obstruction of justice in a crash that left a bus dangling over the Mass. Pike.

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In contrast to the red-hot housing market around Boston, there are still bargains to be had on Cape Cod and the Islands.

Obama wants to keep 9,800 troops in Afghanistan

The two-year plan is contingent on the Afghan government signing a bilateral security agreement with the US.

Pope Francis talked to journalists during a press conference he held aboard the papal flight on his way back to Rome at the end of a three day trip to the Middle East on Monday.

John L. Allen Jr. | Analysis

Perils of a ‘let it all hang out’ pope

There can also be a price for transparency, which Pope Francis neatly illustrated Monday night.

Olin College spent nearly $100 million more than it took in from 2008 to 2011, records show.

Losses soar at acclaimed Olin College

The school in Needham spent nearly $100 million more than it took in from 2008 to 2011.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

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The blame pie is large for the worst-to-first-to-worst Red Sox who snapped a 10-game losing streak with a win over the Braves.

BetaBoston

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One of the Boston area’s fastest growing software companies just collected a heap of cash to continue fueling its expansion.

Opinion

Suzanne Gordon

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Turning veterans over to private sector insurers and for-profit hospitals is not the solution.

Ideas

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Can a few thinkers convince their party that a winning GOP issue is actually a costly, ineffective, anti-life government boondoggle?

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Jose Oliver , the father of Jeremiah Oliver, looked at photos of his son during the funeral services in Fitchburg on May 3. “Lord forgive me,” he said, as he touched his son’s casket. “I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.”

Jeremiah Oliver, failed by all
Mayor Martin Walsh’s administration is considering several steps to boost production, including the designation of more city-owned property for development.

Walsh pushes for middle-income housing
Pope Francis spoke during a press conference on his plane on the way from the Middle East to the Vatican.

Pope will meet with abuse victims
Justin Wesolowski of Greenfield is uneasy with the idea of travel to far-off cities for addiction treatment.

Hunts for help add to addicts’ struggles
“It’s a little expensive, but we thought it would be fun.,” said Roland Brandl of Westchester County, N.Y., before boarding at Cape Cod Duckmobiles in Hyannis with his wife, Uli, and daughters, Annika and Julia.

Cape Cod ushers in summer
Maureen Murray released a snowy owl on Plum Island

Snowy owls finally fly free
Sisters Kyla (left), 10, and Jada Ormsbee, 11, of Sterling, were two of the first people to work on the mural outside the Prudential Center.

Mural creates community of artists

Compact orchards growing in Greater Boston
Avery Miraglia, 13, of Ashfield takes aim at a turkey (he missed on this shot, though). Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff

State program gives teens an early shot at turkey hunt

Music Review

Boston Calling proves a keeper
From left: Eoin Macken, JR Lemon, and Jill Flint in “Night Shift.”

Television Review

Vital signs weak in NBC’s ‘Night Shift’
“It turned into an industrial detective story,” said Robert Crowley, founder of New55 Film project.

Reviving Polaroid’s large-format film

Sports

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Red Sox 8, Braves 6

David Ortiz celebrated with Xander Bogaerts after hitting a three-run home run in the fifth inning.

Red Sox end losing streak

The Red Sox rallied for seven runs in the fifth and seventh innings to overcome a shaky start by Clay Buchholz.

Metro

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State Police responded to the crash in the westbound lane prior to Exit 17 near Newton Corner at 7:48 a.m.

Four-car crash causes rollover on Mass. Pike

All lanes have been reopened since the crash in Newton, but State Police told commuters to expect residual delays.

Columnists

Corporal Elias Reyes Jr., who posed for this photo with his sister, Irene Kaludi, joined the Marines right out of high school.

Kevin Cullen

Taking all from one who gave all

JOHN E. SUNUNU

Time to let go of Tea Party puppy love
Children watched from an apartment window as police investigated a shooting scene in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago last year.

CARLO ROTELLA

Neighborhood has always mattered

Yvonne Abraham

Let Me Go. Please
President Obama.

JEFF JACOBY

Obama fails to show his ‘competence’
Afghan lawmaker Samia Azizi Sadat holds her picture, which hangs on the wall among pictures of Afghanistan’s 249 parliamentarians, in Kabul in March.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Gains, danger spur Afghan women
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Walsh’s erratic efforts for a diverse workforce

Ruth Simmons spoke at Smith College’s 2014 commencement.

KEVIN CULLEN

A debacle becomes a teaching moment
David Ortiz and the Red Sox lost all six games on their homestand.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Maybe these Red Sox just aren’t good

Shirley Leung

Firm’s health care move smells bad

JOANNA WEISS

Same old gender script
People line up to enter the 9/11 Memorial Museum on public opening day Wednesday in New York.

JOAN VENNOCHI

The tragedy trade

Politics

Nicholas Mattiello.

Mattiello takes a sudden path to power as R.I. House speaker

Cranston Democrat Nicholas Mattiello now holds arguably the most powerful position in Rhode Island government.

Nation & World

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Azharuddin Abdul Rahman , director general of Malaysia's Civil Aviation Department, answered questions from journalists at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.

Malaysia releases raw satellite data in jet’s disappearance

The data was used to determine that the flight ended in the southern Indian Ocean.

Business

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Michael J. Widmer

Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation president to retire

Michael J. Widmer said Tuesday he plans to retire close to the end of the year.

Arts

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Frame by Frame

Stuart captures a poet’s blithe spirit

This unfinished work, probably painted around 1802, was discovered in Gilbert Stuart’s studio after his death.

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