Samer Shkeer, a Syrian refugee, prayed after crossing the channel.

Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff

Making the risky crossing

Migrants, many of them war refugees, pour onto a once-tranquil Greek island in hope of reaching a land where they can start life anew. By Maria Sacchetti

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/14/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/484797712.jpg Donald Trump strikes a chord ? with evangelicals

National polls show Trump trouncing candidates who have much more actively courted Christian voters.

Steven Syre | Boston Capital

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From Boston Beer?s sudsy success to star managers, IPOs, and favorite rogues, here?s a 20-year retrospective by a columnist writing his last Boston Capital column.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/27/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/chin120214GreenLine_metro2.jpg Process blamed for Green Line extension?s soaring cost

The method allows a contractor to name a maximum price at each stage of construction, instead of agreeing to a fixed price.

Demand for local foods helps Mass. farming find its footing

Acreage of land farmed and total number of farms has increased slightly from 2002 to 2012, according to federal data.

KEVIN CULLEN

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/14/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/cullen-8737.jpg A very inconvenient truth

Websites say that John Kerry is in the tank with Iran because his son-in-law is an Iranian with connections to the nation?s regime ? but he was born here and doesn?t have those connections.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/15/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/200_cap_gown_cash.jpg Which Mass. college graduates make the most after 10 years?

Business- and health care-oriented schools boasted generally higher salaries among their former students.

Travis Shaw hit 10 home runs in his first 45 games ? something Red Sox greats Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski never did.

NICK CAFARDO | ON BASEBALL

Travis Shaw playing his way into Red Sox? plans

Until August, nobody really knew much about Shaw, except that he was on the organization?s ?B? list of prospects.

Betaboston

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The ride-hailing service says that more than a fifth of Boston?s 6,400 licensed taxi drivers have signed up.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/15/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/200_jeb_bush.jpg Jeb Bush super PAC ads begin in Boston, N.H. on Tuesday

Right to Rise plans to advertise for at least six months, until a month after the New Hampshire primary.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/14/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/shaughnessy1-7887.jpg After Patriots, AFC East is still a trio of zeros

Don?t be fooled by those undefeated teams; the division will be a cakewalk for New England. Again.

Kevin Bacon, Dakota Johnson, David Harbour, Julianne Nicholson, Peter Sarsgaard, Rory Cochrane, Scott Cooper, Johnny Depp, and Joel Edgerton attended the ?Black Mass

Jason Merritt/Getty Images

Names

?Black Mass? actors get into their characters

The stars discussed the people they?re playing during a news conference Monday.

Names

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/15/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/1200_spotlight_in_toronto.jpg ?Spotlight? cast pictured with real-life characters

The film?s stars joined the Globe reporters and editors they?re playing at the Toronto International Film Festival.

State greatly widens licensing fraud investigation

Ten professional boards have started reviewing the work of a Nashville firm that?s hired to check applicants? backgrounds.

Jennifer De Leon

DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF

Jennifer De Leon finally sees her work catch fire

The Boston teacher and fiction writer?s piece was chosen as the city?s One City One Story read.

Wheelock official resigns after she used others? words

Shirley Malone-Fenner was the top administrator in charge of overseeing incidents of student plagiarism at the small college.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/04/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/HOME-HEATING-OIL-DELIVERY-7446911.jpg Heating oil prices at their lowest since 2009

The price is down more than 30 percent from August of 2014.

Body discovered at Suffolk Downs, reports say

The discovery was made overnight in the horse track?s parking lot, according to media reports.

Ground Game

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/11/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/97d29f535cbe4f999be2c5aac9659429-97d29f535cbe4f999be2c5aac9659429-0.jpg Some Democrats question debate schedule

Calls to add additional Democratic presidential debates have gained some traction in the past week.

Opinion & Ideas

Mary Gordon

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/14/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/2015-08-19T103401Z_1047667431_GF10000176300_RTRMADP_3_POPE-VATICAN.jpg How Pope Francis is and isn?t different

This change in tone is the pope?s greatest achievement, but it would be a mistake to make of him something he?s not.

The Big Picture

Keith Bedford/Globe Staff

The Big Picture: Seeking cultural connections

In July, Globe photographer Keith Bedford visited Boston teacher Nathan Eckstrom during his month-long trip to Haiti.

BetaBoston

BetaBoston

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/11/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/iOS9-iPhone6s-3Up-Wallet-PR-PRINT.jpg Apple takes on carriers with iPhone lease plan

Apple?s new program allows customers to keep paying by the month, and get a new iPhone once a year.

Crux

Crux

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/14/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/d07bf0db405545c1afde023372fffea1-4de18dc798eb43c8be75ecf75dcdba97-0[1]--90x90.jpg Take in refugees or pay property taxes, pope tells religious orders

Pope Francis issued a blunt warning to any religious orders in Europe that spurn his recent call to open their doors to refugees.