Marchers made their way from Franklin Park during a walk to celebrate Father's Day in Boston.

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Roxbury Father?s Day walk highlights male role models

?We want to go against the stereotype that men of color don?t care about their children,? said one Boston police official.

The changing role of fathers

Across the world, dads are becoming more involved with their children and taking more parental leave.

Beverly Beckham?s father, Larry Curtin, in war-torn Germany, in a 1944 photo

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Beverly Beckham

I called him Dad. But he was so much more

All I have are two stories. My mother told me one many years ago, and my father?s brother told me the other in 2005 shortly after my father died.

Yvonne Abraham

Challah, the staff of life for Sharon family

For Sheldon Kriegel, 90, making challah every week is a father?s gift to his children, and to himself as well.

Jun 21, 2015; Kansas City, MO, USA; Boston Red Sox base runner Mookie Betts (50) rounds third to score against the Kansas City Royals during the sixth inning at Kauffman Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Peter G. Aiken-USA TODAY Sports

Red Sox 13, Royals 2

Red Sox offense comes alive in series finale vs. Royals

Mookie Betts, David Ortiz, and Hanley Ramirez all homered as the Red Sox took 2 of 3 in Kansas City.

?Even as a 17- or 18-year-old, he was a man,? Celtics director of player personnel Austin Ainge said of Marcus Smart (above). ?And his toughness and competitiveness just leapt off the page.?

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Years before drafting him, Celtics eyed Marcus Smart

Smart didn?t know it, but the Celtics had been tracking him since before his time at Oklahoma State.

BEN VOLIN

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Roger Goodell appears to have an open mind about possibly reducing the punishment if Brady can present ?new information.?

Genevieve Kelley had to step away from a 2003 video of her daughter talking about alleged sexual abuse.

A decade later, questions linger in Mary Nunes abuse case

The question at the heart of the case is no longer where the girl was hiding. It?s whether she was saved or stolen away.

Reopening doors sends message ?to every demon?

Parishioners embraced as they attend the first church service four days after a mass shooting.

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Messages of love, recovery and healing were interspersed throughout the service in South Carolina.

Boston Rev. cannot shake ?painful reality? of Charleston

Men and women held hands at the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Jamaica Plain to remember the victims.

Hunt for escaped prisoners moved near Penn. border

Police relocated the command post ater a possible sighting of the men in the town of Friendship.

Sen. Marco Rubio during the Road to Majority 2015 convention.

Divided Nation

Senator Rubio falls silent on immigration

As Rubio runs for president in the Republican primary, he has almost completely purged immigration from his political vocabulary.

Law enforcement searched the St. Roch neighborhood for a man wanted in the fatal shooting of a New Orleans Police officer Saturday.

Suspect arrested after New Orleans police officer killed

The arrest follows a 24-hour manhunt for Travis Boys, who is believed to have shot the officer who was transporting him to jail.

A yearling female bear out in Northampton.

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Not everyone pleased about flourishing bear population

The wildlife management view, generally, is that black bears are here to stay, and it behooves humans to adjust to the new reality.

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Santos Laboy was armed with a 3-foot samurai sword in February 2009 when Boston police officers were summoned to subdue him.

Ground Game

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/04/23/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/tracker-089.jpg Tracking the endorsements of N.H. GOP activists

In the aggregate, endorsements can signal who has the best ground game in the Granite State.

Opinion

Mike Ross

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/06/21/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/WOMEN1-1206--90x90.jpg Running a hospital is a woman?s job

Women, once discouraged from entering medical school, are now, in unprecedented numbers, among Boston?s top hospital administrators.

The Big Picture

A man kneels across the street from where police gather outside the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting on June 17 in Charleston, S.C.

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Shooting at Charleston church

Dylann Storm Roof, 21, allegedly killed nine people at a prayer meeting inside the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C.