Legal specialists can?t pick winner in Brady lawsuit

Some believe Tom Brady has a compelling argument and a chance to have his suspension vacated; others believe he has no shot.

John Tlumacki/Globe Staff

Few, if any, experts consider this a slam-dunk case for No. 12.

Red Sox president and chief executive Larry Lucchino greeted David Ortiz at the Pedro Martinez jersey retirement ceremony last week. Lucchino said Saturday that he?ll retire from those posts at season?s end.

Red Sox CEO Lucchino to leave at season?s end

Lucchino?s departure will break up a famous ownership trio that also includes John Henry and Tom Werner.

Obama to propose stronger cuts to power plant emissions

President Obama called the move the most significant step the US has ever taken to fight global warming.

The Prudential Center (left), the new Millennium Tower in Downtown Crossing (center), and the Marriott?s Custom House have all been granted tax breaks.

Boston Globe Photos

Boston is rife with untracked tax breaks

The city has granted some 140 tax breaks for about 600 parcels of land over the past several decades, a Globe review found.

Yvonne Abraham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/02/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/abrahamy.jpg Shame of methadone use clouds heroin addicts? recovery

They are Elizabeth, Josh, Brian, and Tracey. They are recovering heroin addicts. And they are just like you and me.

Joseph and Anna Trustey, together on the day of her school prom in April, were killed in a plane crash Wednesday.

Trustey Family

Father, daughter drew the world close

Joseph and Anna Trustey, both of Wenham, died Wednesday evening when the plane he was piloting crashed in Milwaukee.

Dorothy Fisher has lived across the street from Puddingstone Park, the site of last week?s deadly shooting, for 60 years.

Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

Residents cower in a neighborhood beset by violence

Shootings are all too common in one Boston area, even as the city sees an overall drop in homicides.

BEN VOLIN I SUNDAY FOOTBALL NOTES

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Let?s step away from the controversy surrounding footballs and go around the NFL.

JOAN VENNOCHI

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/30/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Joan_Vennochi_150px-1283.jpg Say farewell to old Boston

Power shifted from old Boston to new, the day a band of insurgents blocked the Olympic dreams of the city?s elite. It?s about time.

Enid Shapiro was a patient at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who had an unpleasant experience at the hospital, but worked with staff to report it and ultimately change how they handle similar cases.

Boston hospital aims to redefine care and prevent emotional harm

?The words dignity and respect cut very deeply,? said one hospital official.

The Voxel8 3-D printer prototype can produce small objects out of plastic and add circuitry to them as it goes. Voxel8 was created in a Harvard research lab.

Scott Kirsner | Innovation Economy

After shaky start, 3-D printing revolution underway

One expert says sales of 3-D printing products and services will nearly double in the coming year.

Kriss Blevens in her salon at work on client Dorothy Verani.

Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff

N.H. makeup artist puts best face on candidates

No one has been closer to the faces of presidential power for the last 20 years than Kriss Blevens, a Manchester-based makeup artist.

After decline, foreclosures up again in Greater Boston

Foreclosure numbers through May are up compared with 2014, as lenders push through a backlog of delinquent loans.

This Belmont home was once a fire station. The truck bays are now a family room and garage.

Making new homes from old workplaces and more

Converting old churches, schools, firehouses, and office buildings into chic, sleek apartments, and condos has gone from quirky to trendy.

Beverly Beckham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/02/BostonGlobe.com/Regional/Images/Beverly_Beckham_150px-1548.jpg In the thick of hard days, remember what really matters

Every day that someone you love is not in a hospital is a good day. That?s it, plain and simple.

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People have started taking Rick Springfield seriously as an actor.

The Big Picture

A cyclist crossed a bridge in Christian A. Herter Park on the Charles River.

Lane Turner/Globe Staff

Globe photos of the month: July, 2015

Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month including the Fourth of July celebration.

BetaBoston

BetaBoston

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The ?1-Hour Photo? signs have come down outside CVS Pharmacy stores in Boston and throughout the US.

Crux

John L. Allen Jr. | All things Catholic

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/02/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/allen-886.jpg Sainthood cause for victims of anti-Christian pogroms in India stalls

Seeing the martyrs of Kandhamal declared saints is ?my wish and my people?s wish,? said Archbishop John Barwa.