City?s last tenement an island awash in modernity

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It is an unremarkable building, except that 42 Lomasney Way is utterly amazing, a vestige of another Boston, a witness to history.

Randall Lints faces charges of assault and battery after his son, 7, fell into a coma. He has pleaded not guilty.

7-minute hearing sealed Hardwick boy?s fate

Advocates are questioning a decision that granted a father custody of his son a year before he allegedly put the boy into a coma.

In Auburn, one child dead, another hospitalized

Officials are investigating the death of a child and the hospitalization of another who were taken from an Auburn home Saturday.

Dr. Helen Riess, a psychiatrist who directs the Boston hospital?s Empathy and Relational Science Program.

At MGH, schooling doctors in the power of empathy

Contrary to popular belief, empathy ? or the ability to put yourself in another person?s shoes ? isn?t necessarily something innate.

Former Wausau Paper CEO, Hank Newell, at his Wisconsin home Friday, July 24, 2015. (Nathan Wallin for The Boston Globe)

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Divided Nation

A collision of values in a vintage company town

The rise of activist investing ? a trend that recently played out at a Wis. paper mill ? could affect tens of millions of workers.

Flemming Ornskov has been chief executive of Shire Inc. for two years.

Shire?s CEO sets a bold pace on deals

Shire?s unsolicited $30 billion offer for Baxalta was another example of shrewd global business by the company.

JOHN L. ALLEN JR.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/16/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/allen-889.jpg For Congo church, hand in politics is business as usual

It?s been an eventful few weeks for the Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where roughly half the population is Catholic.

Five wounded in violent incidents in Boston, Chelsea

Four people were injured in two separate shootings and one person was stabbed in Greater Boston Friday night into early Saturday.

Devante Cartagena (left) looked to stop Nvayamo Cherif?s run down the court at the Blackstone Community Center in the South End.

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Basketball league gives an assist to peace

The One Hood Youth Peace Basketball League, launched in 2007, recruits players from rival neighborhoods that share a history of conflict.

A medical examiner's van left the scene on Simpson Road in Stoughton on Friday.

Bones in Stoughton belong to man missing since 2009

Officials do not believe foul play was involved in the death Ilya Lastovkin, who was in his early 20s when he went missing.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/13/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Tlumacki_moseskipsiro_sports336.jpg Ugandan distance runner Moses Kipsiro speaks out

Kipsiro, running in Sunday?s Falmouth Road Race, exposed a Ugandan coach?s alleged sexual advances toward female runners.

Up Close

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/13/BostonGlobe.com/Regional/Images/ProfessorBleakleyPhoto1A.jpg Stonehill professor gets $900,000 grant to study guppies

For Bronwyn Heather Bleakley, staring at fish in a tank is all in a day?s work.

Tom Brady is equally as headstrong as the NFL, refusing to accept a suspension.

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BEN VOLIN I ON FOOTBALL

Deflategate settlement appears to be unlikely

It?s the rare case where both parties can save more face with a loss than a settlement.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/16/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/200_jabaal_sheard.jpg Jabaal Sheard excited to join Patriots, but not showing it

Sheard signed with the Patriots after spending four years with the woeful Browns.

Beverly Beckham | From the archives

I was the sun, and the kids were my planets

Saying goodbye to a child going off to college for the first time is a thing that never changes.

the word

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/14/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/0816athleisure200-569.jpg ?Athleisure,? the awkward word for a comfortable relationship

The love-it-or-hate-it word be an accurate term to describe a long, affectionate coexistence between athletic clothing and fashion.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/16/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/TS-Hkg10202730.jpg China blast zone blocked over contamination fear

Authorities pulled more bodies from a massive blast site in the Chinese port of Tianjin, pushing the death toll to 112 on Sunday.

The Big Picture

Explosions shock Chinese city of Tianjin

At least 104 people died in large explosions in Tianjin, a port city on China?s northeast coast. The explosions are thought to have originated in a warehouse that contained chemicals.

BetaBoston

Innovation Economy | BetaBoston

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/01/11/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/kirsner_new_20150111.jpg On-demand apps creating gigs, but not exactly jobs

A parade of new app-based services are making urban life more convenient. But it can be tough to earn a real living.

Crux

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/14/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/woo150-1371.jpg For Catholic Relief Services? Carolyn Woo, capitalism isn?t all bad

The former business school dean winces a bit when Pope Francis rails against capitalism.