Boston Park Plaza Hotel unveils $100 million makeover

The Plaza?s redesigned lobby has a modern, chic feel.

Boston Park Plaza

All of its 6,000 TripAdvisor reviews will vanish, giving the hotel a chance at a higher ranking. It?s now at 74 on a list of 82 Boston hotels.

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Jill Bourne, city librarian for the San Jose Public Library in California, cited personal reasons.

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What we know about the DiSarro case

The revelation that Steven A. DiSarro?s body was discovered has reawakened memories of a dark past in Boston.

AMHERST, MASS. -- Nov. 21, 2006 --The 22-story University of Massachusetts W.E.B. Du Bois Library is shown across from the campus pond. There have been renovations at the library, which now includes a cafe near the entrance and, on the lower level, an area called the Learning Commons with lounge chairs, computers, a writing center, study rooms and academic advising. -- PHOTOGRAPH BY NANCY PALMIERI

UMass gets $15m for cybersecurity program

The MassMutual Foundation will donate the money over 10 years, with $12 million going to the university?s Center for Data Science.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/05/04/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/greenhouse_05scher-1_metro.jpg Man facing perjury charges refuses to come into courtroom

Court officers at the Suffolk Superior Courthouse put handcuffs on David Scher and hauled him in to be arraigned.

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The state?s wealthiest residents have a combined wealth of at least $118 billion.

Matt Adamowski lays flowers at a statue of Gordie Howe at the Sasktel Centre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Friday, June 10, 2016. Gordie Howe, the hockey great who set scoring records that stood for decades, has died. He was 88. Son Murray Howe confirmed the death Friday, June 10, 2016, texting to The Associated Press:

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KEVIN PAUL DUPONT | ON SECOND THOUGHT

Gordie Howe?s grace off the ice belied his ferocity on it

On skates he was intimidating, even frightening, but otherwise he was everyone?s favorite uncle.

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 11: Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) listens during a news conference to discuss the rhetoric of presidential candidate Donald Trump, at the U.S. Capitol, May 11, 2016, in Washington, DC. Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on Thursday near Capitol Hill. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Opinion | Marcela García

Sorry, Elizabeth Warren. Hillary needs a Latino Veep

Democrats need minority voters to overwhelmingly support them in November.

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Elizabeth Warren sat down with Hillary Clinton Friday morning, hours after she endorsed the presumptive nominee.

MICHAEL A. COHEN

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Thanks to Trump, Americans have a true choice next fall.

DANTE RAMOS

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/10/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/dante_ramos-1795.jpg The period is dead ? but so what?

The New York Times says periods at the ends of sentences are going out of style Don?t worry about it

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/10/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/1e130b89-cc55-410a-a118-945ceb7b7f24.jpg Hikers found shivering by a rock rescued from N.H. mountain

Two hikers, suffering from hypothermia, were rescued Thursday on Mount Lafayette.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/09/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_shootingaftermath7_met.jpg At Burke High School, graduation comes in the shadow of tragedy

The normally joyous rite of passage comes this year just two days after 17-year-old Raekwon Brown was fatally shot.

Jimmy Wong, 87,  pitches during a slow pitch softball game in Wayland.

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The fiercest 87-year-old pitcher you?ll ever see

Jimmy Wong is not only the EMASS senior softball league?s oldest player ? he?s also one of its best.

book review

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In ?Kingdoms in the Air: Dispatches from Far Away,? Bob Shacochis?s restlessness and recklessness, all couched in maximalist prose, are impossible to resist.

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When the boxing legend is laid to rest today, he will be buried in a casket made by the New England Casket Co.

FILE - In this Monday, March 21, 2016, file photo, Hulk Hogan, whose given name is Terry Bollea, left, looks on in court moments after a jury returned its decision in St. Petersburg, Fla. Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel has been secretly funding Hulk Hogan?s lawsuit against Gawker Media for publishing a sex tape, according to reports in Forbes and The New York Times. (Dirk Shadd/The Tampa Bay Times via AP, Pool, File)

Gawker Media files for bankruptcy

The company says it plans to sell itself to publishing company Ziff Davis.

Opinion & Ideas

Opinion | Alan Berger

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/10/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/0611berger.jpg Why did the US take out Mullah Mansour?

The killing of the Taliban leader illustrates the incoherence of US foreign entanglements.

Nation & World

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Ground Game

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/09/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/trumpnh.jpg Knock-knock. Is anyone home at Donald Trump?s N.H. campaign?

Many New Hampshire Republicans are concerned about Donald Trump?s nearly non-existent Granite State campaign.

Globe investigations

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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.

The story behind 'Spotlight'

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?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

Design New England

Design New England

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Keith Leblanc and Kelly Monnahan create a haven for themselves, family, and friends in the piney hills of outer Cape Cod.