A drive to rethink incarceration

Jordan Evans, 23, worked in a carpentry class at South Bay House of Correction.

Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff

The South Bay House of Correction reflects moving attitudes toward drug abuse and drug-related crimes.

The untold cost of the opiate epidemic: elder abuse

Reports of suspected elder abuse in Massachusetts have surged over the past five years, according to state figures.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/05/15/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/falmouth-missing-teen[1]-10903.jpg Falmouth police searching for missing teen

Theodore Giosan, 16, was last seen at his home in Falmouth on at 10 o?clock on Friday night.

Senator Elizabeth Warren addressed graduates at Bridgewater State University on Saturday.

Elizabeth Warren to graduates: embrace the unexpected

Warren said her life story is replete with ?mistakes and twists and turns and failures? and encouraged the Class of 2016 to embrace who they are.

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OPINION | SHERYL SANDBERG

It?s the hard days that determine who you are

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg discusses her husband?s death for the first time in a commencement address at the University of California, Berkeley.

Springfield teen dies after being runover, dragged 300 feet

A Springfield teenager who was lying in the street died after he was run over and dragged early Saturday.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/05/15/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/duckboat-10889.jpg Woman killed in duck boat crash remembered for quirky humor

Mourners gathered in Grace Chapel to remember Allison Warmuth, recalling her contagious smile.

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Even in her terrifying final moments, Patricia Slavin was guided by the faith and love that had defined her life.

Photo illustration by Globe staff

Out of the spotlight, some say there is a softer side of Trump

Interviews with those who have known him say there is a jarring juxtaposition between the Trump they know and the Trump on TV.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/05/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/160513_WALKER_01gravity_5094x.jpg The journey of the chirp that proved Einstein right

An MIT scientist?s 50-year obsession led to the first detection of gravitational waves from the collision of black holes.

Opinion | David M. Shribman and John R. Price

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/05/11/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/0515_shribman.jpg How Nixon targeted the Trump electorate

The rise of Donald Trump is 50 years in the making.

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But what he going to get Gronk for his 27th year? Another Super Bowl ring? A cake? How about a later curfew?

Boston, MA - 05/14/16 - (4th inning) Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Clay Buchholz (11) fires to first base to hold the runner during the fourth inning. The Boston Red Sox take on the Houston Astros in Game 3 of a four game series at Fenway Park. - (Barry Chin/Globe Staff), Section: Sports, Reporter: Peter Abraham, Topic: 15Sox Astros, LOID: 8.2.2933426785.

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Nick Cafardo | On baseball

In Ortiz?s farewell season, he?s not the one who should go

At some point, the Red Sox brass is going to have to have a conversation about dealing Buchholz.

BLOTTER TALES

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/05/11/BostonGlobe.com/Regional/Images/IMG954606A.jpg Doggone it! How?d he get on the roof?

Animals show up in unlikely places, a woman finds a threatening sock monkey on her doorstep, and other odd tales from local police blotters.

summer arts preview

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/05/12/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/Sundayartsfront-band.jpg What to see and do this summer

From dance to music, TV to art, there?s a lot going on in Boston and beyond.

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The melancholic tune about Josef Stalin?s 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars was crowned the winner of the international song contest.

Ground Game

Capital

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/05/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/hassan.jpg The N.H. race that no one is talking about

There are a few reasons why this highly competitive race has flown under the radar.

The Big Picture

Avian adventures

Photographers around the world have been documenting birds during this busy time of year migrating, building, defending and hatching.

Globe investigations

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/05/09/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/spotlight9090-10654.jpg Private schools, painful secrets

More than 200 victims. At least 90 legal claims. At least 67 private schools in New England. This is the story of hundreds of students sexually abused by staffers, and emerging from decades of silence today.