Mass. ballot questions

Know before you go: Your cheat sheet to Mass. ballot questions

Massachusetts voters are deciding on a second slots parlor, charter schools, confinement of farm animals, and marijuana legalization.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/03/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/candidates_1024.jpg N.H. poll shows Trump, Clinton tied

A new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll of New Hampshire suggests Hillary Clinton no longer has a lock on the Granite State.

People lined up during lunch last month to vote early.

Just over 800,000 voters have cast early ballots in Mass.

?It?s looking like it was pretty popular,? a state official said.

Johnny Damon at a rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Orlando, Fla., earlier this week.

NAMES

Johnny Damon comes out swinging for Donald Trump

The former Red Sox centerfielder says Trump ?likes everything to be great.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/03/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Bedford_161103_IVANKA_032.jpg Ivanka Trump talks about child care, pay gap in New Hampshire

Donald Trump?s daughter talked up his plans to make child care more affordable and promised he?ll make ??radical leaps?? on eliminating the wage gap.

Ground Game

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/03/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/AFP_HO14X.jpg What?s Donald Trump doing in all those blue states?

While many Republican strategists and Trump supporters have been confused and frustrated, there is some logic to it.

Boston, MA 10/10/16 Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz pitches in the third inning. Game three of the ALDS between the Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians at Fenway Park. (Barry Chin/Globe Staff)

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RED SOX NOTEBOOK

Red Sox exercise option on Clay Buchholz

The righthander will be back for 2017 with a salary of $13.5 million.

Names

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/03/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/miranda150-4968.jpg ?The Hamilton Mixtape? will blow your mind

Here?s how to get a copy.

THINGS TO DO

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/24/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/Interlocutor-Tambo-Bones.jpg The Weekender: Beautiful ?Moonlight,? deadpan Newhart, and raw power

Everything fun to do in Boston and beyond.

That I-95 closure? It?s days away

The last remnants of the old Highland Avenue Bridge over Rt. 128 will be demolished this weekend.

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Both sides of the highway will be closed to make way for workers to demolish the ?old? Highland Avenue Bridge.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/03/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/sampson2005.jpg During Sampson trial, victim?s son-in-law says he saw ?a hand sticking in the air?

The son-in-law of Philip McCloskey described for a jury how he found the body, and how he ran to his wife to ?prevent her from seeing what I had seen.?

Mailer targets state lawmaker: ?He is allowing boys to shower in girls locker rooms?

The piece attacks state Representative Michael Day?s vote in favor of a measure protecting transgender people from discrimination in public accommodations.

 Hope Coleman held photos of her son Terrence Coleman, who was shot and killed by Boston police on Sunday.

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?Drop the knife! Drop the knife!? EMT recalls harrowing encounter

The account of Boston?s EMS chief bolsters assertions from police that technicians and officers feared for their lives before Terrence Coleman was fatally shot.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/03/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Kevin_Turner_Pass_Receptio-9521.jpg Former Patriot Kevin Turner died from CTE, not ALS

Turner?s father cited the findings as evidence that the NFL needs to do more to protect its players from brain damage.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/03/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Sinacori2_met.jpg Mother whose police informant son died of overdose sues UMass

Francesca Sinacori alleges UMass police and administrators should have told in her in 2012 that her son was a heroin addict.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/17/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_tides6_met.jpg The supermoon is coming, and more king tides with it

On Nov. 14, the moon will make its closest pass to the earth since January 1948.

China?s hottest grandpa is a star ? with and without his shirt on

Wang Deshun is 80, and his physique is causing a national sensation.

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