Fired Gloucester chief will be allowed to retire

Gloucester officials had fired Police Chief Leonard Campanello amid accusations he destroyed evidence tied to an investigation into his conduct.

Pat Lena and Frank Capano (bottom) put up hurricane shutters as they prepared a Delray Beach shop for Hurricane Matthew.

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Matthew gains fury as it bears down on Fla.

Hundreds of thousands of people were fleeing Florida?s coast Thursday as the storm barreled closer to shore.

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The storm is one of the strongest Atlantic tempests in recent memory.

Possible criminal activity found at RCC?s foundation, athletic center

The state auditor?s office was brought in by the college to review the Reggie Lewis Center and the foundation.

Deposition of Sumner Redstone on hold in Viacom lawsuit

A judge granted a request by attorneys for Redstone to halt evidence gathering until he rules on a motion to dismiss the complaint.

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MBTA officials say the move will replace the union employees currently assigned to the counting room, saving as much as $8.6 million in the first year.

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Federal investigators said the train?s engineer hit the emergency brake less than a second before the crash.

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The college is hoping move beyond the turmoil surrounding the ouster of former president Margaret McKenna.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/03/29/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/01252009_29puzzle-7125677.jpg Ben & Jerry?s supports Black Lives Matter

?All lives do matter,? said the company in a statement. ?But all lives will not matter until [b]lack lives matter.?

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It?s now a virtual tie in the Granite State, according to a Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/05/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/eisen_fatalbike5_100516.jpg Bicyclist killed in Porter Square identified as 60-year-old Lexington man

Bernard Lavins, 60, of Lexington, was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer while he was riding his bicycle in Cambridge on Wednesday.

ALDS: Red Sox at Indians

Boston, MA - 9/18/2016 - Boston Red Sox Hanley Ramirez reacts as he rounds the bases on his three run home run against the Yankees during the fifth inning at Fenway Park in Boston, MA, September 18, 2016. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: RedSox-Yankees

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Hanley Ramirez has a message for Red Sox fans

The Red Sox? first baseman expressed some thoughts for fans on The Players? Tribune.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/02/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/davis_bostorpre6_spts.jpg It?s official: Bridge near Fenway named after Big Papi

Governor Baker signed into law a bill that includes the provision designating the span over the Mass. Pike the David Ortiz ??Big Papi?? Bridge.

PATRIOTS NOTEBOOK

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The receiver was not on the report Wednesday, but appeared Thursday with a foot problem.

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The Mets pitcher?s reaction to a loss in Wednesday?s wild-card game was priceless.

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Ben Affleck will NOT miss Brady?s return

The actor will be in Iceland but promises to find some way to tune in to watch the star quarterback?s first game for the Patriots.

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Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso had a disagreement over comments Vonn made about snowboarders.

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The show?s writers are taking ?a David Ortiz-sized swing? in an episode packed with local references.

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Fox Searchlight Pictures

Movie review

?Birth of a Nation? is powerful, but not perfect

Nate Parker?s film offers both a meaningful dramatization of overlooked history and a clichéd gloss on it.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/27/BostonGlobe.com/Travel/Images/CliffHouseAerial5.jpg I haven?t stayed in every Maine hotel, but this has to be one of the most beautiful

The Cliff House is modern, incredibly well designed, and perched on one of the most scenic ocean-view outcroppings in the state.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/04/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/Gild_xxtuftsmovie01_biz.jpg Two Tufts grads decided to make a documentary. Then things got weird.

When Phil Toledano and Joshua Seftel ran into each other on a New York City street a few years back, their conversation eventually turned to death.

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Yisrael Kristal, 113, was the only member of his extended family to survive the Holocaust.

THINGS TO DO

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Top picks for everything fun to do in Boston and beyond.

Globe investigations

The desperate and the dead

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Behind the fragmented state of mental health care lies a political system failure that spans decades ? and continues.

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

A woman cries amid the rubble of her home, destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Baracoa, Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016. The hurricane rolled across the sparsely populated tip of Cuba overnight, destroying dozens of homes in Cuba's easternmost city, Baracoa, leaving hundreds of others damaged. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Hurricane Matthew

The most powerful Atlantic storm in nearly a decade left a path of destruction over the Caribbean and is heading towards the US.