National Weather Service confirms tornado hit Concord

The EF-1 tornado packed 100-mile-per-hour winds as it downed trees and created power outages earlier this morning.

8/22/16 - Concord, MA - Crews from the Concord Light Department were out since the pre-dawn hours cleaning up downed trees and fallen power lines on Hawthorne Lane and Lexington Road in Concord, MA on Monday morning, August, 22, 2016. Severe weather moved through eastern Massachusetts in the early hours Monday, leaving damage in its wake. Photo by Dina Rudick/Globe Staff8/22/16 - Concord, MA - Crews from the Concord Light Department were out since the pre-dawn hours cleaning up downed trees and fallen power lines on Hawthorne Lane and Lexington Road in Concord, MA on Monday morning, August, 22, 2016. Severe weather moved through eastern Massachusetts in the early hours Monday, leaving damage in its wake. Topic: 23storm. Photo by Dina Rudick/Globe Staff

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Photos: Cleanup in Concord after storms hit

A powerful weather system ripped through eastern Mass., spawning a tornado and leaving behind downed trees, power outages, and some flooding.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/22/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/storm_01.jpg ?It was ungodly?: Concord residents describe powerful storm system

No injuries were reported after a tornado struck Concord early Monday, but the storm system still meant business.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/04/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/WALKER_1600804_05wynn_10465x.jpg Somerville drops Wynn casino fight

The city and Wynn Resorts have reached an agreement to end Somerville?s opposition to the planned Everett casino.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/12/10/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/122015LocationPics06.jpg Leaked letters from Smith College faculty stir tempest on race

The e-mailed letters follow a year of slow-burning unrest at the Northampton college.

An All Electronic Tolling (AET) gantry on the Mass. Pike.

Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe

Gantries can instantly alert authorities to a car?s location

The system includes a ?hot list? capable of sending law enforcement instant alerts, one officials say would be used rarely.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/22/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/521324137e32442a8d76de2afd0a8a69-521324137e32442a8d76de2afd0a8a69-0.jpg Donald Trump calls for Clinton Foundation to be shut down

Trump labeled Hillary Clinton?s family foundation ?the most corrupt enterprise in political history.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/17/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/AFP_F27YN.jpg Donald Trump wants to come up with ?fair but firm answer? on immigration

The GOP candidate said he is not flip-flopping on a plan to deport the 11 million people living in the US illegally.

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The decision comes after Texas and 12 other states challenged the Obama administration?s directive as unconstitutional.

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France?s former conservative president is running for the office again in next year?s elections.

Full Olympics coverage

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Speedo drops sponsorship of Ryan Lochte

Speedo is the first major company to drop its sponsorship of the Olympic swimmer after he lied about being robbed in Rio de Janeiro.

Shira Springer | Postcard from Rio

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Candy vendors on Rio de Janeiro?s streets during the Olympics have a pretty amazing way of making their pitch.

Vanessa Young (left) and Crystal Young.

Quincy police

2 women charged with stealing nun?s rosary

The suspects tried to snatch the Quincy nun?s satchel before settling for the rosary beads.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/greenhouse_21lewiston-1a_metro.jpg High school soccer players plant the seeds of harmony

Amid the heated political rhetoric, the Africans who dominate Lewiston High?s squad are helping to build ties between newcomers and longtime residents.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/22/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ping_pong_file.jpg Ping-Pong controversy opens racial wound in Malden

A simmering dispute revolves around the most seemingly innocuous of topics: a game played at the senior center.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/22/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Boston_SF_Day1_Dwyer_01.jpg They?re not bad ? for Muggles. Boston takes quidditch championship

Boston?s best quidditch players didn?t need flying broomsticks to become the best team in the country.

Love Letters

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/22/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/Meredith_Goldstein_150px-5173.png ?No one in his life even knows I exist?

I understand that people have to come to these things in their own time, but it?s no fun feeling like someone?s secret girlfriend.

Alex Speier

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/21/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/528524574.jpg Lack of starting rotation depth major concern for Red Sox

Henry Owens?s struggles on Sunday spotlighted the organization?s razor-thin pitching depth.

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Forensic pathologists are given extraordinary freedom to make and and change their rulings, at times leaving trails of heartbreak and doubt.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/22/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/NE%20Travel%20-%20WilliamstownC-5642333-DWAH.jpg More colleges rethink requiring the SAT subject tests

Amherst College, Dartmouth College, and Williams College have dropped the requirement in the past year.

Tamed/Untamed

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/22/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/23tamed.jpg The trouble with animal anthropomorphization

One gets more from a dog?s companionship if one looks for the dog?s adult qualities.

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The boards of both companies have approved the deal, which is targeted to close later this year.

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Dion Lewis needs surgery again, Shaq Mason has a broken hand, and Sebastian Vollmer could be headed to IR.

Globe investigations

Private schools, painful secrets

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/14/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/160607_BH__ErikaSchickel3.jpg The unexpected price of reporting abuse: retaliation

The Globe found 15 instances of retaliation at New England private schools against students or employees who raised concerns about sexual abuse by staffers.

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.

The Big Picture

FOR BOARDWALK PHOTO ESSAY 07/02/2016 - Old Orchard Beach, ME- Jenny Gouthro (cq) , 12, of Salem, NH, practices her gymnastics while visiting at Old Orchard Beach with her mother, Melissa (cq) , in Old Orchard Beach, ME on August 02, 2016. Melissa watches her daughter,

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Globe Magazine

Family fun and nostalgia on New England?s beaches

From the spin of skee balls to the smell of fried dough, the region?s beachside arcades and amusement parks remain the stuff of childhood memories.