Real estate lending?s pace raises red flags

The competition for deals is so fierce that banks are relaxing lending standards and waiving standard protections.

Council President Bill Linehan (left), who has been the public face of the battle for six-figure salaries, attended 15 percent of hearings, the fewest of anyone on the 13-member body.

Many Boston councilors attend few hearings

The councilors pushing hardest for significant raises have had the poorest attendance at City Council hearings, a Globe analysis shows.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/31/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/judge150-8774.jpg Recusal call clouds Sampson case

Concerns over Judge Mark Wolf?s interactions at a film festival have disrupted one of the most high-stakes federal cases in Boston.

Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack at her office.

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Pollack finds herself on other side of Green Line debate

Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack for years had pressured officials to uphold their commitments to such projects.

Stephen Zrike, receiver for Holyoke public schools, took a selfie with a group of students at the Care Center education program.

Holyoke begins school year with an air of hope

Despite resistance to a state takeover of the city?s schools, some are cautiously optimistic about the system?s new leader.

Fixes set for deadly Back Bay intersection

New striping will be painted and flexible posts will be installed at the intersection where Anita Kurmann was fatally struck.

Inspectional Services chief William Christopher and spokeswoman Lisa Timberlake examined a dwelling on Chester Street in Allston where inspectors found more than 30 violations on Sunday.

Dina Rudick/Globe Staff

Inspectors scan housing as students move in

Tenants of one rental said they haven?t had a stove for two months, and the building manager told them cooking is overrated.

P.F. Chang?s stabbing victim fled violence in Brazil

The restaurant employee stabbed in Peabody was a hardworking immigrant who moved here to escape violence and start a family.

Elijah Gonzalez wore a Pikachu hat at a game in New Bedford.
Newcomer Joseph Rebello, 10, played a game of Pokémon Friday at New Bedford?s Global Learning Charter school.

Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff

Pokémon game lures all ages to its lifestyle

The arrests this month over an alleged plot against the Pokémon World Championships in Boston has raised questions.

The New Bedford terminal received and stored wind turbine components from manufacturer Gamesa for its wind farm in Plymouth.

$113m New Bedford marine terminal sits largely idle

The site, built with state bonds to be a staging ground for a wind farm in Nantucket Sound, sits unused after Cape Wind cancelled its lease.

Wes Craven.

Horror master Wes Craven dies at 76

Craven, whose ?Nightmare on Elm Street? and ?Scream? made him one of the most recognizable names in the genre, has died.

United States Federal Judge for the Southern District of New York, Richard M. Berman, exits the Manhattan Federal Courthouse in New York August 12, 2015. Judge Berman on Wednesday fired tough questions at a National Football League lawyer about whether New England Patriots quarterback TomBrady's four-game

Ben Volin | On football

Brady, Goodell due back in court Monday for Deflategate suit

Tom Brady?s lawsuit against the NFL is hitting the final stretch ? maybe.

President Barack Obama on Sunday said he's changing the name of the tallest mountain in North America from Mount McKinley to Denali.

White House says Mount McKinley to be renamed Denali

The move comes after Alaskans sought to change the name amid opposition from those from McKinley?s home state of Ohio.

Jesse Metzler, 19, of Newton, Mass., who goes by the trail name

Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via AP

Appalachian Trail partying raises ire

When one hiker set out to tackle the Georgia-to-Maine footpath, he anticipated solitude in wilderness ? not a monthslong frat party.

Donald Trump with his father, Fred Trump, after graduating from Wharton in 1968.

Donald Trump was brash and blunt even in college

Trump stood out early at college: as a bonfire of vanity, talent, and natural swagger, a millionaire, a student not quite as great as he recalls.

BetaBoston

EMC battles calls for a break up

If an activist investor gets its way, EMC?s days as the pillar of New England?s tech sector could be numbered.

JEFF JACOBY

Something worse than the IRS awaits greedy televangelists

Comedian John Oliver has been calling attention to such swindlers and is rightly appalled.

The Big Picture

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10 years after Hurricane Katrina

President Obama visited New Orleans to mark progress the city has made before the anniversary of the hurricane.

BetaBoston

Innovation Economy

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/28/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/kirsner--90x90.jpg Is the tech party coming to an end?

Investors have had a rollicking time putting money into tech and biotech startups. Are they getting ready to split?

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JOHN L. ALLEN JR. | ALL THINGS CATHOLIC

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/30/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/allen-899.jpg In Nigeria, a chance for fellowship

The fellowship of suffering in the New Kuchingoro camp illustrates one of the least appreciated aspects of the Boko Haram story.