Longtime TV journalist Clark Booth dies at 79

Clark Booth.

Courtesy of WCVB Channel 5

Booth worked at WCVB-TV for 25 years. He had also worked at WBZ-TV.

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The plan stirred concern among patients and advocates that the decades-old hospital, which serves children, might close entirely.

The Johnston Gate at Harvard Yard in Cambridge.

Harvard says admissions lawsuit based on ?deeply flawed? analysis

Harvard says the group suing the school over alleged admissions discrimination has created ?900 paragraphs of supposedly undisputed facts ? many of which are neither undisputed nor even facts.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/violin-18662.jpg A $200,000 violin turns up at a Somerville pawn shop

A pawn shop in Somerville recently acquired a $200,000 violin for $50. But it turned out to be stolen.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Chin071918WeatherFeature_Met1.jpg Severe thunderstorm watch for Western, Central Mass.

Western and Central Massachusetts are in the bull?s-eye as showers and strong thunderstorms are expected to rumble through the region.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/AdobeStock_157105224.jpg Studies show we?re a long way from the land of the free

A flurry of studies this week show America divided by supremacy and rife with misogyny. Should we just curl up in a ball and cry now?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/2bdaf2da-093c-46bd-b308-e84a6aefea22.jpg An odd couple at a D.C. airport: Mueller and Trump Jr.

Special counsel Robert Mueller and Donald Trump Jr., son of President Trump, were both spotted at an airport gate in Washington, D.C. on Friday.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/handout_28straws_001.jpg Fifth-graders press Dunkin? Donuts to reduce use of plastic straws

Sophia Cukras and Amanda He are urging the Canton-based chain to adopt a policy that would make plastic straws available to customers upon request only.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/unnamed-resize-18656.jpg Man found dead on a Dorchester street; homicide detectives investigating

A police spokeswoman said she couldn?t say whether the man showed any external signs of trauma.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/17/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/97e8f04b1a7c4b8ba207a28a25de18e5-a225f028d2074dca9382e184ae9e31c0-0.jpg Mueller plans to call 35 witnesses in Paul Manafort trial

Special counsel Robert Mueller?s office says it plans to call 35 witnesses in the upcoming trial of President Donald Trump?s former campaign chairman.

Health alert issued after child with measles visited Boston

People who were at the Tasty Burger on Boylston Street on July 19 or Logan Airport Terminal B on July 20 may have been exposed.

Boston, MA., 07\27\18, Massachusetts 54th Regiment reenactors posed in front of the Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial after an event marking a signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly restore the memorial. The National Park Service, the City of Boston, Friends of the Public Garden, the Museum of African American History formed a partnership to restore the Shaw Memorial on the Boston Common across from the Massachusetts State House. A longstanding tribute to African-American soldiers who fought in the Civil War, the Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial is getting a restoration.

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Facelift for Civil War memorial on Boston Common sparks conversations on race

A longstanding tribute to African-American soldiers who fought in the Civil War, the Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial is getting a restoration.

Nestor Ramos

/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Nester-18666.tif The audacity of hopelessness

Trump?s latest indignity could be the one that finally leads to indictment, impeachment, even arrest. It must be. It has to be. Well, it isn?t. It never is.

BOB RYAN

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/180326_ON_028.jpg From the archives: Reggie Lewis touched the lives of thousands, and it came to him naturally

You fell in love with Reggie because you saw grace, beauty, effort and, somehow, dignity in his performance.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/02/09/BostonGlobe.com/BCOM/Images/Elbridge-gerry-painting%20(1).jpg US Supreme Court weighs in: We?ve all been pronouncing ?gerrymander? wrong

Think Gary Coleman. Not Jerry Seinfeld.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/regularblank-8424-khLF--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg How to stop your smartphone from tracking you

Here are some steps you can take to help stop companies from knowing exactly where you are all the time.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/clark_taylorswift_072619_04.jpg Taylor Swift reportedly donates concert tickets following Weymouth police sergeant?s death

Swift performed at Gillette Stadium Thursday and is slated to headline Friday and Saturday as well.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/8be4446b-941e-41c8-91a3-99738475dd77.jpg CBS CEO faces inquiry over misconduct allegations

The CBS board of directors said Friday that it would investigate allegations of misconduct against the company?s chief executive, Leslie Moonves

Evan Horowitz | Quick Study

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/4a24c2c3c32540c99cdee37f314d267e-4a24c2c3c32540c99cdee37f314d267e-8476-U832996319084ktF--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg It?s not a fluke: This economy is really strong

This isn?t just the story of a few good months. Friday?s release reached back in time and made the first quarter better, too.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/1006309640.jpg 3 women paid ?hush money? for Trump relationships, Avenatti says

Michael Avenatti, the attorney for porn actress Stormy Daniels, said Thursday that he now represents three additional women who he says had relationships with President Trump and were paid ?hush money? before the 2016 presidential election.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/tlumacki_patriotstrainingcampday2_sports779.jpg Bill Belichick praised Stephen Gostkowski for how he handled replacing Adam Vinatieri

?I think he showed an incredible amount of maturity and poise his rookie year,? said Belichick.

Buzzsaw | Matthew Gilbert

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/24/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/WHOISAMERICA_PRArt_02.R.jpg Sacha Baron Cohen puts the punch in punch line

With his Showtime series ?Who Is America?,? he appears to have nothing less in mind than ridiculing the extremism, ignorance, polarization, and fame-a-holism now at this country?s heart.

Dinner With Cupid

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/26/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/729Cupid.jpg Blind date: ?We had a lot of nerdy things in common?

Will this charming salesman help her get over her ex?

Opinion & Ideas

Dante Ramos

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/ramos-1605.jpeg Relax ? the bikes and scooters don?t bite

Instead of freaking out over dockless bikes and electric scooters, we should be welcoming them.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/20/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Commuting_print.jpg The target: you and your every move

How companies use geolocation data to target you ? and everyone around ? in ways you?re not even aware of.

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Two years after saying they?d consider licensing new suppliers of marijuana for scientific purposes, none has been approved.

Globe event

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Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan spoke at a Globe event on how innovation is shaping our world, and she?s in high demand among the hundreds of mayors gathered in Boston.

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A true-crime podcast about the most valuable ? and confounding ? art heist in history: the theft of 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

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Pittsburgh sees hands-on restart of Uber's self-driving cars

Uber officials say the company has taken the first step toward relaunching its self-driving cars on Pittsburgh area streets four months after a fatal accident involving one of the cars in Tempe, Arizona