5 killed in night of violence across Greater Boston

Crime scene tape was set up around the parking lot next to Braza Grill & Bar in Everett where a woman was fatally shot early Thursday.

Scott Eisen for The Boston Globe

Boston-area police are investigating separate shootings in Cambridge, Mattapan, Roxbury, and Everett.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/eisen_everett10_081315.jpg Malden woman identified as victim in Everett bar shooting

Ashlee Berryman was shot to death at the Braza Bar and Grill on School Street.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/13/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/brett-big.jpg Changes planned as officials target Seaport traffic jams

The biggest change begins Monday, when officials open the South Boston Bypass Road for a six-month trial.

ty burr

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/13/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/the-fantastic-four-TS0245_v358_0145_rgb[1].jpg A few superheroes we could really use

Troll Hunter, Minor Infraction Man, and Context-O might actually help the world become a better place.

Phil Young, Internet Mainframes Project

brainiac

In a remote corner of the Internet, art sprouts

A collection of mainframe computer login pages shows the beauty of alphanumeric design.

Alex Speier

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/02/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Lee_soxrays12_spts.jpg Is Dustin Pedroia?s play declining?

Pedroia turns 32 next week, an age that lies outside of a player?s conventional prime.

PACKERS AT PATRIOTS, 7:30 P.M., WBZ

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/11/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Tlumacki_patriotspractice_sports078.jpg Play of Jimmy Garoppolo tops things to watch for Patriots

As Deglategate plays out in court, the backup QB?s performance will be key in the exhibition opener against Green Bay.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/2015-08-12T200316Z_212347352_TM3EB8C17O001_RTRMADP_3_NFL-BRADY.jpg Who is the judge presiding over Tom Brady?s case?

A closer look at Richard Berman, the federal judge who could decide the fate of the Patriots quarterback.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/150812_KDB_PARTBERS_0004.jpg Partners HealthCare to launch urgent care facilities

As many as 12 clinics will open over three years in a move that could shake up the market for convenient medical care.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/13/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/wiggs_melrose_161926-4639.jpg The next ?it? place to live in Mass. is . . . Melrose?

In its ranking of the nation?s 10 hottest ZIP codes, realtor.com crowned Melrose number one.

?Sesame Street? has aired for the past 45 years on PBS.

AP/File

?Sesame Street? making its way to HBO this fall

The next five seasons of the educational program will be get a first run on HBO, and then be available on PBS.

Sisters Mia, 15, (left) and Tal Ginsburg, 21, of Los Angeles were on the swings at the Lawn on D in South Boston on Wednesday.

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

Popular Lawn on D may be too costly to keep going

State convention center authority officials are unsure whether they can keep the Lawn open in its current form.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/rathe_saililng_met09.jpg Summer sunshine will stick around through weekend

With expected clear skies, the Perseid meteor showers will also continue to be visible tonight.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/6b742fee7ee042f99a42075f40b610a5-6b742fee7ee042f99a42075f40b610a5-0.jpg John Kasich shows momentum in N.H.

The Ohio governor was a late-comer to the Republican presidential race but is surging in New Hampshire.

Smoke billowed from the site of an explosion that reduced a parking lot filled with new cars to charred remains at a warehouse in northeastern China's Tianjin municipality.

Ng Han Guan/AP

At least 50 dead in huge warehouse blasts in China

Explosions at a warehouse for hazardous chemicals turned nearby buildings into skeletal shells in the port of Tianjin.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Was8949802.jpg LA comfortable with Olympic bid in ways Boston wasn?t

Los Angeles has hosted the Olympics twice previously, while the prospect of having the Games in Boston did not sit well here.

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

Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, and Rand Paul have picked up the most support from top party activists in the Granite State so far.

Opinion & Ideas

Alan M. Dershowitz

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/21bc6306-77b9-4af9-b4f0-51e135d9c361.jpg Obama, Iran deal supporters shouldn?t stifle debate

The president?s bully pulpit shouldn?t be used to bully Americans who oppose the deal into silence.

The Big Picture

Amarion Allen, 11-years-old stands in front of a police line shortly before shots were fired in a police-officer involved shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, on Sunday.

Rick Wilking/REUTERS

Ferguson one year later

Demonstrators returned to Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere in the St. Louis area one year after the death of Michael Brown.

BetaBoston

Betaboston

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/1314580c05dc4b5fa893443fe7f1b0ba-8de9b6d8d7dd466996c85227fa25d14f-0-4554.jpg Verizon tests ultra-fast Internet in Framingham

The company could increase data speeds to 40 or even 80 gigabits per second.

Crux

On Spirituality

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/crux-8666.jpg On being ?doubly othered?

?Doubly othered.? That is how Gina Messina-Dysert describes her life as a faithful feminist and a faithful Catholic.