State revises count of impoverished students

Under a new formula, less than half of Boston students appear to be impoverished, compared to three-quarters previously.

Activist investor Carl C. Icahn has helped lead attacks on Biogen and Genzyme.

Activist investors increasingly battle biotech execs

The biopharma business has become one of corporate raiders? favorite targets.

New York State Department of Corrections officers search the railroad tracks after a possible sighting of the two murder convicts who escaped from a northern New York prison two weeks ago, Sunday June 21, 2015, in Friendship, N.Y. State police said a woman on Saturday reported spotting two men who resembled the convicts near a railroad line that runs along a county road. (AP Photo/Gary Wiepert)

Hunt for escaped prisoners moved near Penn. border

Police relocated the command post after a possible sighting of the men in the town of Friendship, N.Y.

UNIVERSITY PLACE, WA - JUNE 21: Jordan Spieth of the United States waves to the gallery after a birdie on the 18th green during the final round of the 115th U.S. Open Championship at Chambers Bay on June 21, 2015 in University Place, Washington. (Photo by Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images)

Golf

Jordan Spieth birdies 18 to win the US Open by a shot

The Masters champion claimed his second major championship of the year.

Police investigate stabbing in Allston

The investigation comes after a man was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries Saturday night.

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

Keith Bedford/Globe Staff

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.

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.

A yearling female bear out in Northampton.

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.

Parishioners prayed at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. Sunday morning.

David Goldman/AP

Charleston church defiant in wake of shooting tragedy

Emanuel AME ? shuttered since Wednesday?s massacre ? opened its doors Sunday, but gone were nine familiar faces.

Boston AME churches mourn S.C. victims

An interfaith service in Roxbury capped a day on which local churches tried to make sense of the Charleston attack.

The Tian Tan Buddha is a huge (112-foot-high) tourist attraction.

Travel

The beautiful contrasts of Hong Kong

New direct flights to Hong Kong let Bostonians discover both the traditional and modern sides of the Chinese city.

Mike of ?Monsters, Inc.? in ?The Science Behind Pixar.?

movies

Exhibit tells science side of Pixar?s story

The Museum of Science exhibit, opening June 28, takes a look at the technology and math that go into the films? design.

The dumbest song of the decade is 2010?s ?The Good Life? by Three Days Grace, with a reading level suitable for about age 6, according to a new study.

Are pop songs getting dumber?

Gripes about the brain-rotting, soul-corrupting power of popular music are as old as the form itself.

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.

The Word

There is no ?gay? voice

Our ideas about what sounds gay may have as much to do with who?s listening as with who?s speaking.

Dan Shaughnessy

Batting around some topics before Tom Brady?s hearing

Picked up pieces while packing to cover Brady?s steel cage match with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

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.

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.