From Boston 25 News
A bulletproof vest may have saved the life of one officer. Another officer was grazed on the back of his head.
Family of 2-year-old killed in crash expresses appreciation The family of 2-year-old Colin Thomas McGrath thanked the community for expressions of sympathy, but asked for privacy to grieve.
Longtime TV journalist Clark Booth dies at 79 Booth worked at WCVB-TV for 25 years. He had also worked at WBZ-TV.
Rain is possible today, followed by a sunny Sunday More rain may hit the region Saturday, with strong winds and temperatures in the 80s.
JEFF JACOBY
Nations don?t trade with each other, and trade is not a war The United States and Canada are not competing firms. Trade is conducted by individuals, not by countries.
Don Treeger/The Republican via AP
Stewart Weldon, who lived at a Springfield home where authorities found bodies of three women, was linked by DNA to sexual assaults reported earlier but never charged.
Prelate resigns from College of Cardinals over sex scandal Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of disgraced prelate Theodore McCarrick from the College of Cardinals.
?It opened a great wound inside of me?: Nuns report abuse by priests An Associated Press analysis shows that cases of abused nuns have emerged in Europe, Africa, South America, and Asia,.
Texas authorities say five people have been killed following separate shootings that included a nursing home in a Corpus Christi suburb.
New Hampshire, 94 percent white, asks: How do you diversify a whole state? New arrivals often find themselves isolated and alone, without the comfort and support of a built-in community.
Commentary
Studies show we?re a long way from the land of the free A flurry of studies shows America divided by supremacy and rife with misogyny.
Craig F. Walker)/Globe Staff/file 2017
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.?
3 women paid ?hush money? for Trump affairs, Avenatti says Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels?s lawyer, said he now represents three more women who had relationships with President Trump and were paid ?hush money.?
Barry Chin/Globe staff
Red Sox 4, Twins 3
Mookie Betts lifted the Red Sox with a walkoff home run after Craig Kimbrel blew a save situation in the ninth.
PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL
This was one heck of a Red Sox win, but ... One thing was evident in an entertaining victory: the bullpen needs an arm to get the Sox from the seventh to the ninth inning.
Joan Wickersham
Meghan Markle, duchess of Rorschach Why do people project so many different meanings onto Meghan Markle, as if she were a living Rorschach test, begging to be interpreted and analyzed?
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.
Calif. wildfire destroys 500 structures, nearly levels community In the small northern California community of Keswick, only a handful of homes remain.
Legislators drop proposed plastic bag ban Representative William ?Smitty? Pignatelli said the conferees simply could not find consensus.
Police charge ?notorious? graffiti taggers with felonies In the past two weeks, Boston police arrested three high-profile graffiti taggers ? all three are charged with felonies.
WEST OF BOSTON
Newton group pushes to ban pot shops Newton voters could face two ballot questions in November asking whether to limit or ban recreational marijuana businesses within city borders.
John Tlumacki/Globe Staff/File
A sampling of local police departments suggests people who smoke pot in public have little to fear.
A new public art installation puts the ruins of a Gilded Age ballroom by Kenmore Square Liz Glynn?s new public art installation evokes the treasures of an unequal age.
RITES OF SUMMER
Say tomato (and corn) at 100-year-old Verrill Farm The Corn & Tomato Festival comes as the Concord farm celebrates its centennial.
Summer on the slopes: zip lines, ninja courses, and human foosball When warm weather arrives New England ski resorts become adventure parks.
Children of the cone: Ice cream lover?s guide to Cape Cod Seven suggestions for family favorite ice cream shops on Cape Cod.
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.
Connections | Magazine
How my grandmother?s last choice, where to be buried, was for us, not her She always wanted to be buried with ?her people.? The way she defined that term changed, and changed me.
Evan Horowitz | Quick Study
The US economy grew 4.1 percent during the second quarter, a healthy clip that suggests the recovery may be accelerating.
Dante Ramos
Relax ? the bikes and scooters don?t bite Instead of freaking out over dockless bikes and electric scooters, we should be welcoming them.
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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DEA wanted new suppliers of research marijuana. Nothing changed Two years after saying they?d consider licensing new suppliers of marijuana for scientific purposes, none has been approved.
Seattle?s mayor talks growing pains that offer some lessons for Boston 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.
More about Last Seen: The Largest Unsolved Art Heist ever 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.
Mookie Betts lifted the Red Sox with a walkoff home run after Craig Kimbrel blew a save situation in the ninth.
No injuries were reported in Upton, where power is out to about 19 percent of the community.
Called Lucknow, it offers 75-mile views across Lake Winnipesaukee and the mountains.
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.
A handful of nuns have come forward recently on an issue that the Catholic Church has yet to come to terms with: The sexual abuse of religious sisters by priests and bishops.
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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
The Commerce Department reports that the gross domestic product, the country?s total output of goods and services, posted its best showing since the third quarter of 2014.
Accusations of plagiarism arose in June over a story chosen by the Boston Book Festival for its One City One Story program.
Tourists update the concept of the mid-century roadside motel, paying homage to the days when the Mohawk Trail was one of the most traveled scenic highways in the Northeast.
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Spring House Hunt: Should parents buy property in a college town? As the spring house hunt gets underway and National College Decision Day nears, thoughts are turning to campus housing.
Danny Lawson/AP
The Big Picture
The summer heat is here. Take a look at animals cooling off with water or in their aquatic environments.
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