Menino meticulously planned funeral, burial

It should surprise no one that in the months before his death, the former mayor left unambiguous instructions.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/10/31/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/tlumacki_meninocondolences_metro314.jpg The last 297 days of a most remarkable life

Friends and observers said Thomas Menino?s last 10 months were lived with new purpose, even as his body failed him.

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?He?s done so much for so many people in the city,? one mourner said. ?He saw no color, no barrier. It?s just a sad day.??

Services, memorials for Thomas M. Menino

Details on the services planned for Boston?s former mayor.

Armed man barricaded in Salem home

An explosion was heard in the house on Meadow Street and a bomb squad was on the scene, officials said.

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Republican Charlie Baker said he got some details of the story wrong, and his rival Martha Coakley criticized Baker.

Thomas Farragher

Baker, Coakley have some explaining to do

The candidates are asking you to consider this question as you approach the voting booth: Don?t you think my opponent is a big fat liar?

Jose Lopez, 23, (left) and his father, Reynabel Lopez, 46, of Allston looked through a dumpster in Brighton for cans and bottles to redeem for cash.
Reynabel Lopez, collecting bottles from a dumpster in Brighton, regularly patrols the city for recyclable cans and bottles. An expanded deposit law would benefit those who collect.

Expanded bottle bill would turn more trash into more cash

The poor would benefit from the ability to collect and redeem more unclaimed bottles for deposits.

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Text ?aye,? matey! The Pirate Party?s push for direct democracy

Leaders of a new movement say we now have the technology for government that is literally by the people. What could possibly go wrong?