Walpole woman awarded $35.4m in medical malpractice case

Andrea Larkin with her daughter, Alexa, in September 2010. Larkin suffered a stroke after giving birth to her daughter, and a jury on Wednesday awarded a $35.4 million to her in a medical malpractice case.

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A jury awarded Andrea Larkin, who was paralyzed from a stroke that she suffered after labor, $35.4 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit.

Boston Red Sox Executive Vice President and General Manager Ben Cherington, left, listens as manager John Farrell responds to a question during a news conference at the teams baseball spring training facility in Fort Myers Fla., Saturday Feb. 21, 2015. The Red Sox extended manager Farrell's contract on Saturday through the 2017 season, with a team option for 2018. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Peter Abraham | Beat Writer?s Notebook

Ben Cherington, John Farrell face biggest challenges yet

The general manager has to improve the roster and the manager has to improve the pitchers to get the team in contention.

Juan Nieves (right), with Rick Porcello and catcher Ryan Hanigan, took the fall for the troubles of the Sox? pitching staff.

Nick Cafardo | On Baseball

Heat now falls squarely on Red Sox pitching staff

Juan Nieves was the fall guy, but we all know blame belongs to the individual performers.

The cottage is being sold furnished.

Home of the Week

Cottage in Westford resort comes with golf cart

This $170,000 detached condo is in a resort community on spring-fed Long Sought For Pond.

Police looked toward the wreckage of a plane crash on Interstate 285.

Four killed after small plane crashes into busy Atlanta highway

The plane crashed into Interstate 285 after taking off from an Atlanta-area airport Friday morning.

Incoming Boston superintendent Dr. Tommy Chang with his transition team Thursday in the Bruce C. Bolling Building, the Boston Public Schools? new headquarters, in Dudley Square.

Tommy Chang wants to innovate in Boston?s schools

The incoming Boston superintendent is importing the jargon and free-wheeling creativity of high tech into the city?s schools.

A mother and calf side by side off the shores of Duxbury Beach.

David L Ryan/Globe Staff

Right whales spotted close to shore on Cape Cod Bay

About 50 right whales have been spotted unusually close to the coast of Cape Cod Bay, from Duxbury to Sandwich.

Firefighters from multiple communities work to extinguish a 6-alarm fire on East Cambridge St. in Lawrence on Thursday, May 7, 2015. (Scott Eisen for The Boston Globe)

Police make arrest in 5-alarm fire in Lawrence

The fire began at a construction site on Granger Street and quickly spread to a nearby garage and a multi-family home.

City Councilor Michelle Wu quickly became a favorite of progressives and young voters during her first campaign in 2013.

Adrian Walker

A much-wiser Michelle Wu back on the campaign trail

Two years after taking the Boston City Council race by storm, Wu is running under very different circumstances.

This Jan. 30, 2012, photo provided by ESPN Images shows Bill Simmons on the set of NBA Countdown in New Orleans. ESPN has suspended Simmons for three weeks after he repeatedly called NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell a liar during a profane tirade on a podcast. ESPN announced the suspension Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/ESPN Images, Don Juan Moore)

AP

ESPN parting ways with Bill Simmons

The popular ESPN personality will not be back with the network, ESPN President John Skipper announced in a statement.

Tom Brady has good reasons for no wanting to hand over his cell phone.

ben volin | on football

Compelling case can be made for Tom Brady?s defense

A lot of the evidence pointing toward the Patriot quarterback?s knowledge of underinflated footballs can be explained away rather rationally.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/05/08/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/bradysunnies-8550.jpg As barbs fly, lucrative Brady brand put in peril

The damage has been done to Tom Brady and endangers a brand that has made him millions in endorsement income.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/05/08/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/150_jastremski.jpg Low-level Patriots employees suddenly at center of storm

The Wells Report brims with more than 1,000 references to the previously little-known Jim McNally and John Jastremski.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/05/08/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/2015-05-08T141641Z_999763874_TB3EB5813NIRI_RTRMADP_3_USA-POLICE-BALTIMORE.jpg Justice Dept. launches investigation of Baltimore police

The investigation will look for unconstitutional policing practices within the city, such as patterns of excessive force or improper stops.

SJC orders new trial for man who testified after stroke

The state?s highest court has upheld a decision granting a new murder trial for a man who suffered a stroke between his first and second days of testimony.

FDA questions benefits of key Vertex drug

The FDA questioned the effect and contribution of one of the two drugs in a combination cystic fibrosis therapy.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/05/08/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/2015-05-08T074617Z_1373477994_LR2EB580LKUQU_RTRMADP_3_BRITAIN-ELECTION.jpg Leader of British Labour party to resign after election result

Prime Minister David Cameron has won an absolute majority in Britain?s Parliamentary elections.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/05/04/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_tulipsbloom1_met-001.jpg Warmth to continue through early next week, then cooler

Before the cooler air arrives, temperatures are expected to reach the upper 70s and low 80s in most of the state Friday.

Marathon trial podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/02/28/BostonGlobe.com/Special/Advance/Images/podcast.jpg Episode 29: ?Dead Man Walking? nun could close defense case

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

Opinion

editorial

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/05/07/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/471815588-1212.jpg Baltimore prosecutor tries to force broader change

The aggressive charges seem aimed at sending a broader message about how police have been doing their jobs.

The Big Picture

Georgiy Samsonov (L), Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

The big picture

Berlin battleground?70 years later

Decades after the Battle for Berlin, photographer Fabrizio Bensch unearthed pictures by a Red Army photographer that depicted a city at war?s end.