Boston sets record for overseas tourist visits in 2014

A family from Scotland took a break from touring Boston by bicycle in the Public Garden earlier this month.

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Officials say the record proved that new flights between Logan Airport and international capitals are boosting the local travel economy.

As smoke poured from the upper floors of 87 Linden St. in Allston in 2013, two people waited for rescue on a porch roof.

No charges in 2013 fire that killed BU student

Prosecutors have decided not to bring criminal charges against the woman who owned the Allston house where Binland Lee died in a 2013 fire.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/05/21/BostonGlobe.com/BCOM/Images/2015-05-21T162227Z_269258398_TM3EB5L0Y8J01_RTRMADP_3_USA-PATRIOTS-HERNANDEZ-3529.jpg Aaron Hernandez?s lawyers seek dismissal of Fla. lawsuit

Hernandez?s lawyers want a federal judge in Florida to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges he shot a former friend in the Miami area in 2013.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke during his campaign pep rally.

Hundreds line up to see Donald Trump in Alabama

Boasting of his position atop so many polls, Trump said he would like ??to have the election tomorrow.?

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Candidates confront opioid epidemic in N.H.

Addiction has emerged as a central issue on the presidential campaign trail, and candidates are showing empathy but not many solutions.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/29/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/kreiter_citycouncilheadshots12_met.jpg Council president has a new pay raise in mind, despite critics

City Council President Bill Linehan said Friday he would recommend increasing the council?s pay from $87,500 to $105,000 next month.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/19/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/greenhouse_saltvssugar-1_lifestyle.jpg Salt vs. sugar, a nutrition battle royale

Many feel somewhat better about grabbing forbidden snacks that are sweet as opposed to those that are salty.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/22/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/19ee830632cd4b2ba442495d4fd212fe-19ee830632cd4b2ba442495d4fd212fe-0.jpg Dr. Dre apologizes to the ?women I?ve hurt?

Critics charge that ?Straight Outta Compton? ignores Dre?s history of physically abusing women.

Trader Glenn Kessler (left) and specialist Robert Nelson worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday.

Richard Drew/AP

Stocks nose-dive for second straight day

The selling marked one of the most serious setbacks to a stock rally that began near the end of the Great Recession in 2009.

Pallbearers, including Avalena?s biological father, Ronald Green (top right in purple shirt), carried her tiny coffin after the funeral Mass at the Immaculate Conception Church Friday morning.

Funeral held for toddler who died at Auburn foster home

About 40 mourners attended a service for the 2-year-old girl who died in the custody of an Auburn foster home.

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The granddaddy of banking technology, the ATM machine, is getting the hip, mobile treatment.

The newest member of the Boston Police Department K-9 Unit got his official name ? Viggo.

Boston police puppy to be called Viggo

The name for the Belgian Malinois was chosen from among more than 20,000 suggestions sent in by the community.

Dave Dombrowski inherits a team that has finished in last place in two of the last three seasons.

Chance to hire Dombrowski prompted fast action from Sox

With other teams lurking, Red Sox ownership decided quickly that a front office shakeup was warranted.

Boston, MA - 07/04/15 - (9th inning) Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Clay Buchholz (11) pitched the Red Sox to a complete game 6-1 win over the Houston Astros in Game 2 of a three game series at Fenway Park. - (Barry Chin/Globe Staff), Section: Sports, Reporter: Julian Benbow, Topic: 05Red Sox-Astros, LOID: 8.1.1821041706.

Clay Buchholz running out of time for a return this season

The odds are against him pitching for the Red Sox before the season ends in seven weeks.

?Animaris Umerus,? a Theo Jansen Strandbeest on a beach in the Netherlands.

Loek van der Klis

Fantastical Strandbeests take their first steps in Boston area

The kinetic sculptures created by the famed artist Theo Jansen are coming to the Boston area.

Melissa Shook, Ã?Dover, the Orange Line, Washington Street, 1986,Ã?

SUBURBAN DIARY

Taking the long road to his high school diploma

By January, I managed to rack up 30 tardies and 65 absences with no notes from home or a doctor.

love letters | meredith goldstein

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/22/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/goldstein-4040.jpg He was still using the dating app

As I scrolled through his phone, I saw the dating app that we had met on in the spring.

The Issue of Food

JOAN VENNOCHI

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/21/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Joan_Vennochi_150px-1320.jpg Prepping the next generation of cooks

Future Chefs is a nonprofit dedicated to connecting urban kids with an interest in culinary arts to jobs.

Ground Game

Ground Game

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/20/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/9bdd9fc2c8394a69b5a5c3849f72127f-eba2e57227444bd68fbb7b6a006b33ba-0.jpg But how does Bernie Sanders win Ohio?

Since 1980, Democratic voters have faced a choice: the candidate they love versus the person they know can win.

Opinion & Ideas

opinion | Stephen Kinzer

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/21/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/crop-kinzer2-1329.jpg Blame pepper for imperialism, bananas for misery

History would be very different had Western Europe not developed a taste for spices and exotic fruit.

The Big Picture

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The big picture

Pork chops and politics

The Iowa State Fair was a top destination this week for the vast array of presidential candidates.

BetaBoston

beta boston

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/21/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/schefter-big-4700--90x90.jpg Adam Schefter mistakenly ?terminated? by ESPN

With both of his phones, a laptop, and an iPad deactivated, Schefter went 14 hours between tweets ? an eternity by his standard.

Crux

ON SPIRITUALITY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/crux.jpg Jimmy Carter, full of grace

The former president offered us a model for facing where we?re all heading: death.