There were red flags before State Police scandal, but they were ignored

Records show leaders were repeatedly confronted not only with remarkable amounts of OT, but also suspicious sick time claims and sloppy record-keeping.

A blue tarp hung in front of the Alewife garage.

Joanne Rathe/Globe Staff

Alewife garage reopens and is deemed ?safe for use?

Overnight parking won?t be allowed this week, though, and the garage will shut down over the weekend for additional work, the MBTA said.

Evan Horowiwtz | Quick Study

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There are two kinds of indicators to watch: Worrisome economic trends and excessive optimism. It?s not hard to spot both right now.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Rex_White_supremacists_march_on_anni_9788291AG.jpg ?Unite the Right? rally was underwhelming

Organizers expected as many as 400 participants in the sequel to last year?s deadly gathering in Charlottesville, Va., but a fraction of that showed up.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/RinaldiLynnFlooding02-19177.jpg In a soaked Lynn, ?it was a few hours of complete craziness?

Rain pounded the region early Sunday, and Lynn saw more than 8 inches. Closer to the city, numerous roads were closed thanks to flooding.

Governor Charlie Baker signed the first-in-the-nation legislation on Alzheimer?s into law last week.

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A landmark law hopes to improve Alzheimer?s care in Mass.

Half of people with Alzheimer?s haven?t been diagnosed, and half those with a diagnosis don?t know.

Adrian Walker

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/walker%20(3)-19164.jpg In Mass., we?re still waiting for the wave of change

Will 2018 be a year of political change in our state, or simply a close call for the status quo?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/08/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Chin080818SuffolkDADebate_Met8.jpg In race for Suffolk DA, residency questions swirl

Among political operatives, it?s an open secret, the subject of a months-long whisper campaign. On occasion, it has spilled into public view.

Iraq War veteran Maura Sullivan, a Democrat who is running for Carol Shea-Porter?s seat in Congress, moved to the state in July 2017, three months before announcing her campaign.

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She moved to the state last year. Now she?s running for Congress. Can she win in N.H.?

Maura Sullivan moved to the state three months before announcing her campaign, and she otherwise has almost zero ties to New Hampshire.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/10/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/rev.jpg Boutique hotel to open soon at former South End YWCA and hostel

Mount Vernon Co. said it will open the Revolution Hotel later this year, turning the former YWCA at 40 Berkeley St. into a 164-room hotel.

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The meeting will be held in September in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, officials said.

Mr. Sipe died last week in San Diego at the age of 85.

Nathan Lambrecht/Associated Press/File 2017

Appreciation

Richard Sipe helped uncover pattern of clergy sex abuse

Sipe, who died Wednesday, explained that the clergy abuse horrors the Globe?s Spotlight team was discovering were quite likely part of a pattern throughout the church.

National security experts say Omarosa Manigault Newman?s recordings made in the Situation Room were a severe breach of protocol.

Omarosa?s Situation Room recordings alarm security experts

Critics denounced the recordings as a serious breach of ethics and security. Said a former Obama administration official: ?This is unprecedented.?

Nick Cafardo | On Baseball

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/1015676018.jpg It?s OK, Red Sox fans. Chris Sale was brilliant in his first game back from DL

The ace showed no signs of rust after two weeks of rest with 12 strikeouts, one hit, and 68 pitches over five shutout innings.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by ERIK S LESSER/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (9788363n) Tiger Woods of the US reacts after making a birdie putt on the eighteenth green during the final round of the 100th PGA Championship golf tournament at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 12 August 2018. Woods finished in second place. PGA Championship golf tournament in St. Louis, USA - 12 Aug 2018

Tiger Woods: Is he back? PGA performance would suggest so

The 42-year-old, who finished second, had his best closing round in a major with a 6-under-par 64.

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Shirley Leung

Tom Brady?s agent speaks: ?We hadn?t made much progress since the ?70s?

Don Yee addressed the February incident in which WEEI host Christian Fauria used a mock Asian accent to mimic Yee, of Chinese descent.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/b08280033716436ca1df7ea6ea8198fe-b08280033716436ca1df7ea6ea8198fe-0.jpg ?Beautiful? and ?Lovely?: Trump tweets reflect fixation on women?s appearances

When President Trump took to Twitter to complain about two women with connections to the Russia investigation, he affixed special descriptions to both.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/AFP_1695J3.jpg Somerville?s mayor joins Jim McGovern on trip to El Salvador, Honduras

McGovern and Joseph Curtatone want to show that living conditions in the countries are too dire to force immigrants to return.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/partners-19176.jpg Boston-based Partners in Health receives $15 million grant

The gift represented the largest donation in the Wagner Foundation?s 13-year history.

John Gintell, 79, and Robert Coren, 72, at the gender-free contra dance at the First Church in Jamaica Plain.

?A 30-second romance?: Gender-free contra dance offers non-judgmental queer space

In a church auditorium, dancers from the queer community come to flirt, unwind, and dance together to the tune of high-stepping live folk music.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walker_081118_14DefJourney_0002x.jpg An arena-rock triple play from Journey, Def Leppard, and Cheap Trick

Despite their aesthetic differences, the shared classic-rock pedigree of the bands made for a natural fit at Fenway Park Saturday night.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/AFP_18B5B6.jpg His name is Idris Elba, but will he be first black Bond?

The British actor stoked speculation he may take over the role of James Bond when Daniel Craig steps aside.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/14/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/282ef09cb0254143ba65d93c4b3fda43-282ef09cb0254143ba65d93c4b3fda43-0.jpg Isaiah Thomas apologizes after using Trumpian language regarding Cleveland

The former Celtics star said playing in Boston ?was all love? before calling Cleveland a ?s---hole? in an Instagram live video.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/21/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/200_john_oliver(3).jpg John Oliver says ?astroturfing? is ?serious threat to our public discourse?

Oliver called the tactics ?sophisticated, effective, and dangerous.?

From the Sunday Boston Globe

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/25/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/1JM_5730_xxstanford.jpg The hospital that doesn?t really look like a hospital

Lucile Packard Children?s Hospital at Stanford is billed as the hospital of the future. Could it offer clues about the future of Boston Children?s?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/11/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Walker_040618_07mountida_0278x.jpg New England?s smallest colleges are struggling

A Globe review of federal data shows that many small, private colleges in New England are struggling to meet expenses as their tuition revenue has declined.

Opinion & Ideas

Opinion | Margery Eagan

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/09/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/RubbleSprout.jpg ?Everything in the country is broken?

Politicians used to put the country first and do the right thing. Who believes that anymore?

Special reports

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Air marshals are conducting a new domestic surveillance program, tracking people as they fly and move through airports. It might be illegal.

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Meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier could soon become the country?s top-ranking scientist.

Globe event

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/08/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/SeattleTimes_10kirsner02_biz.jpg 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.

Podcast

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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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