Most school districts can?t put brakes on bus fees

Lexington is one of many school districts that charge fees for riding the bus.

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School officials say bus fees are needed to cover the rising cost of transportation amid continuing budget shortfalls.

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday.

REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Foreign stocks? drop creating a world of worry

China, the global economy?s reliable engine of growth for much of the past decade, is sputtering.

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?The gunman never said a word,? one of the Americans said.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/22/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/fire_spot[1].jpg No charges in 2013 fire that killed BU student

Prosecutors will not to bring criminal charges against the woman who owned the Allston house where Binland Lee died.

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

Boston sets record for overseas tourist visits in 2014

Officials say new flights between Logan Airport and international cities are boosting the local travel economy.

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Hernandez?s lawyers want a judge 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.

Donald Trump draws his largest crowd yet in Alabama

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

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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Candidates struggle with answers to opioid crisis in N.H.

Few presidential hopefuls have provided policy proposals ? as voters recall harrowing personal stories.

Judge Richard M. Berman has set Aug. 31 as the next court date in the Tom Brady dispute.

Transcript details judge?s comments to NFL, NFLPA

At Wednesday?s hearing, Judge Richard Berman emphasized that he wants both parties to resolve the case on their own.

Dave Dombrowski will make the final call in Red Sox personnel decisions, not whoever becomes the team?s general manager.

NICK CAFARDO | SUNDAY BASEBALL NOTES

Who will Dave Dombrowski hire as Red Sox GM?

The GM will take a back seat to Dombrowski, as the Sox? power structure will resemble the Cubs? under Theo Epstein.

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

In this Sunday, July 12, 2015 photo released by the Brooks Running Company, Scott Jurek, of Boulder, Colo., climbs to the summit of Mount Katahdin near Millinocket, Maine, before completing the Appalachian Trail in what he claims is record time. Jurek, winner of several ultramarathon races, began at Springer Mountain in northern Georgia on May 27. (Luis Escobar/Brooks Running Company via AP)

Kevin Paul Dupont | On Second Thought

Appalachian Trail getting a promotional boost

An upcoming movie brings Hollywood to the hiking trail that runs nearly 2,200 miles from Maine to Georgia.

?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.

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.

Starts & Stops

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/24/BostonGlobe.com/BCOM/Images/dina%20rudick,%20tremont.jpg Project digs deep into how pedestrians, motorists, cyclists use Boston spaces

A local urban designer wants to collect data on how people are moving around downtown Boston.

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.

//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.

Ground Game

Ground Game

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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

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//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.