Eight developers vying to build tower downtown

A dilapidated garage in the heart of the Financial District has suddenly emerged as the hottest spot in the city?s booming real estate market.

Shirley Leung

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Should a 19-year-old taking the T for a job interview downtown pay the same fare as someone heading to work at a hedge fund?

Alleged sex assault victim wants defendants freed, lawyer says

?The court [system] is treating my friends like [rapists]. That is gross. I miss my friends,? a teen who was allegedly sexually assaulted wrote.

Senate approves changes to how Medicare pays doctors

Republicans and Democrats in Congress united to head off a cut in Medicare payments to doctors.

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The snow melted. That?s how Boston dealt with thousands of complaints about snow piles.

Evan Horowitz | Quick Study

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They want the school to stop investing in fossil fuels. Such campaigns can work, but not the way you?d think.

Bastille Kitchen in Fort Point, a restaurant financed through the EB-5 visa program.

Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe

Creating jobs can speed US visas, for a price

The program has attracted about $6.5 billion to hundreds of projects across the country and supported more than 130,000 jobs

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Conversations with aides, as well as longtime confidants, reveal how tricky the situation is for the secretary of state.

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Clinton made her first public appearance since announcing her candidacy for president on Sunday.

The members of 4.15 Strong met at a support group for survivors at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.

Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff

Two years after bombings, victims ready to run

?It feels like overcoming what happened to me to be able to say: ?You knocked me down but I got back up and ran a marathon,?? Michelle L?Heureux said.

Chicago Cubs President, Baseball Operations Theo Epstein, right, talks with Manager Joe Maddon, left, during batting practice before a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds in Chicago, on Monday, April 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Jeff Haynes)

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

No longer a wunderkind, Theo Epstein retains intensity

Epstein, who built two World Series winners with the Sox and deep-sixed an 86-year curse, is trying to replicate that success in Chicago.

Alex Speier

At Fenway Park, no detail too small for Larry Lucchino

The Red Sox CEO spent the final hours before the home opener making sure everything was just right.

Computer parts purchaesd from a Maine recycling company were sorted at Precious Metals Reclaiming Service in Westwood, which extracts gold from such parts and sells it to refiners.

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State?s exports enjoying a gold rush

Gold is the state?s top export, but who is doing the exporting has stumped even the specialists who study the Massachusetts economy.

Firefighters responded to a blaze at 3 Stillman Place in the North End on Tuesday afternoon.

Marathon bombing responder springs into action in blaze

A police officer who was driving past rushed into a building to save a man and his dog as a building burned in the North End.

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Over two years later, Mario Batali comes to Boston

Famed chef Mario Batali?s Babbo Pizzeria e Enoteca, at Fan Pier, offers pizzas and small Italian plates at affordable prices.

THOMAS FARRAGHER

Deb Goldberg rues decision that cost employee her job

Deb Goldberg told the employee she had to disclose to her employer that she was job hunting.

Bone marrow with mustard sauce and pickled shallots at Eastern Standard.

dining out

Where Red Sox Nation can satisfy its hunger

There are a lot of great places to tame hunger in the Fenway neighborhood.

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Restaurants in the western suburbs are now helmed by chefs with big-city pedigrees.

Marathon trial podcast

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This interactive timeline highlights trial coverage and a podcast featuring Globe columnist Kevin Cullen and WBUR reporter David Boeri.

Opinion

SCOT LEHIGH

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The statute protects the T from the performance-improving pressure of private competition.

The Big Picture

Jim Davis/Globe Staff

the big picture

Opening Day at Fenway Park 2015

With sunny skies and mild temperatures the Red Sox kicked off Opening Day at Fenway Park against the Washington Nationals.