//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/08/26/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/freddythehorseasd--90x90.jpg Horse dies after dropping off wedding reception guests

Freddie, a grey Percheron who has pulled wedding couples and children for decades, died outside a Watertown wedding.

Egypt state media announces Israel, Hamas cease-fire

The truce would halt the seven-week Gaza war which has killed over 2,200 people, the vast majority Palestinians.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/08/26/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/license150-1600.jpg Mass. IDs at odds with federal law

Mass. residents can?t get into some federal buildings because the state hasn?t signed on to a law that strengthens security standards.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/08/25/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/lastday1.jpg Boston scrambles to cover school bus routes

Officials got all of its school buses on the road this morning, but some ran as much as an hour late.

Third of three parts

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/08/24/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/web-michaelbourne-day3[1].jpg Desperately guarding a spark of hope

Michael Bourne has decided to stick with his meds. They may save his life, but at the price of not feeling fully alive. It is a cruel calculus, for him and for many.

Steven Syre

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/08/26/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/syre.jpg Market Basket can thrive again

There is good reason to believe the company can again operate in the way that created so much loyalty among customers and employees.

Market Basket employees and customers attend a rally in Tewksbury on Aug. 5.

Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff

Opinion | TOM KEANE

Workers the real winners in Market Basket standoff

The employees made this happen, and did so despite threats to their livelihoods and risks that their tactics might backfire.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/08/19/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/CAAG_1001A.jpg After missteps, Dunkin? Donuts set for Calif. expansion

The coffee chain is taking a first step in a strategy to challenge Starbucks? stronghold on the West Coast.

Peter Abraham | Beat Writer?s Notebook

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/08/26/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/454168542.jpg Time for Red Sox to shut down Koji Uehara for season

The closer is showing signs of fatigue, and the team should let him start preparing for next season now.

Interactive Graphic

The winners at the Emmy Awards

The winners and losers of the night.

Books

book review

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/08/21/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/iStock_000012567984Small.jpg ?The Blue Buick? by B.H. Fairchild

Not since James Wright?s poems of the 1950s Midwest has so much beauty been yoked out of heavy machinery.