Groups demand BPS interim superintendent be barred from permanent job

Roxbury, MA - 9/12/2018 - Boston School Committee meeting, and interim supt. Laura Perille. - (Barry Chin/Globe Staff), Section: Metro, Reporter: James Vaznis, Topic: 13bps, LOID: 8.4.3152225354.

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Laura Perille, the former head of the Boston nonprofit EdVestors, has never run a school system before and never worked as a teacher or principal.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/28/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/kreiter_storrowdriveoverpass4_met.jpg A Boston bridge has had a zero rating for 17 years. No long-term fix is in sight

The bridge along Storrow Drive has held a score of zero out of 100 for nearly two decades.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/04/24/BostonGlobe.com/Wires/APOnlineImages/2014-04-24/0704daec0e943c10520f6a7067002c8d.jpg The FDA issues a warning: Teen vaping is ?an epidemic?

The Food and Drug Administration gave the five biggest vaping manufacturers 60 days to say how they will address teen use or face removal of their products from the market.

Safiya Wazir, a 27-year-old refugee from Afghanistan, reacted Tuesday in Concord, N.H., after learning she defeated four-term incumbent State Representative Dick Patten in the Democratic primary for New Hampshire's District 17 state representative seat.

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In N.H. election stunner, a onetime refugee knocks off entrenched incumbent

When the tally from Tuesday?s Democratic primary in Concord, N.H., was announced, even Safiya Wazir said she was astounded.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/05/06/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/BrasserieJOBostonEntranceA[1].jpg Brasserie Jo to close next month after 20 years

The French restaurant opened at The Colonnade Hotel in 1998 and was named for chef-owner Jean Joho, who served hearty Alsatian food in a raucous room.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Rinaldi13citizens02.jpg In poignant ceremony, 207 become new Americans

The new US citizens naturalized Wednesday at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum hail from more than 60 countries.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/BEDFORD_20180531_HARRISON_VERDICT_001.jpg Suffolk DA Conley to step down later this month

Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley is resigning to take a position at a Boston law firm.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/12/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/AFP_19210I.jpg Detention of migrant children has skyrocketed to highest levels ever

Population levels at shelters for migrant children have quietly shot up more than fivefold since last summer.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/03/22/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/JohnDowd.jpg Trump?s former lawyer wrote a letter to a Cape Cod newspaper to complain about sharks

John M. Dowd, who resigned as the president?s lead counsel, wrote a letter to a Cape Cod publication about the seal population and presence of sharks.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/72016_RickGreen_ClevelandOhio-2[1]-20525.jpg Mass. congressional candidate swims in Merrimack River as recount looms

The fact that the Republican candidate is beginning a full-fledged campaign is notable because Democrats are still waiting to see who officially won the party?s primary in the district.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/wiggs_Science_01-001.jpg To find life on other planets, scientists are exploring submerged volcanoes on Earth

Scientists, working from the University of Rhode Island, have been overseeing an expedition to survey the remote netherworld of the Pacific Ocean.

Boston, MA: 9-12-18: Framed by the legs of Toronto firstbase coach Tim Leiper, Red Sox starting pitcher David Price fires a seventh inning pitch. The Boston Red Sox hosted the Toronto Blue Jays in a regular season MLB baseball game at Fenway Park. (Jim Davis/Globe Staff)

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Red Sox 1, Blue Jays 0

100 and counting: Red Sox beat Blue Jays for milestone win

David Price shut down Toronto, helping Boston win 100 games in a season for the first time since 1946.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/12/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/MARINERS%20PINIELLA-583919.jpg Putting a 100-win season into historical perspective

It is a rare feat in baseball, and admirable in and of itself, but it guarantees nothing in the postseason.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/13/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/davis_torbos9A_spts.jpg Fenway fan hit in head by Devon Travis? thrown bat

A man sitting in the box seats at Wednesday night?s Red Sox game was hit on the forehead by a bat that slipped out of Devon Travis? hands in the eighth inning.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/12/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/4thld-repeat-5408a3fe-b61f-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253-3549-U843065322708LMB--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg Florence weakens to Category 2 but is still expected to be a dangerous hurricane

Hurricane Florence put a corridor of more than 10 million people in the crosshairs Wednesday as the monster storm closed in on the Carolinas.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/12/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Clipboard-7460[1].jpg These maps shed light on Hurricane Florence?s new projected path

Hurricane Florence?s projected track shifted somewhat south and west on Wednesday, with forecasters predicting that it could throw Georgia into peril.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Clipboard-20662.jpg ?Phenomenal? 83-foot wave detected in Hurricane Florence

Satellite radar picked up the image Wednesday between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m., when Hurricane Florence was located about 660 miles southeast of Wilmington, N.C.

The Globe?s front page on Sept. 13, 1960.

58 years ago: Hurricane Donna wreaked havoc in New England

Hurricane Donna killed five people in New England and left thousands homeless.

Apple CEO Tim Cook discussed the new iPhone models at during an event Wednesday in Cupertino, Calif.

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A big screen and other impressive tweaks to iPhone

With bigger screens, and more powerful processors and sensors, Apple?s new generation of phones and watches keeps a firm grip on the high end of the market.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/12/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/shaughnessy-22056.jpg My niece who played on the WTA Tour says Serena Williams was not mistreated

Meghann Shaughnessy, a 19-year tennis pro, believes the umpire did nothing wrong at the US Open.

Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively in ?A Simple Favor.?

Movie Review

Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively encounter trouble in ?A Simple Favor?

Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively play young mothers in Paul Feig?s thriller, ?A Simple Favor.?

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/10/BostonGlobe.com/Travel/Images/AdobeStock_192993220%20[Converted].jpg Had sex on a plane? Who?s most likely to get drunk on a flight? It?s the wonderful, clickable world of travel surveys

There are studies released nearly every week about some of our most despicable travel habits, and they?re impossible to resist.

Opinion & Ideas

Editorial

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/31/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_Tfacilities11_met.jpg Fifteen years? Figure out a faster way to fix the T

Massachusetts deserves better. Reliable transit is ? and will be ? a key to the region?s continued success.

Real Estate

Recent home sales south of Boston (Sept. 12)

NORTON: 14 Talbot Drive; One-family Colonial, built in 1997, 2,894 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, on 37,244-square-foot lot.

Love Letters: The Podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/29/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/200_love_letters_bonus.jpg Until next year, my sweetheart

In a special bonus episode, Meredith Goldstein explores what happens to summer romance when the summer ends, and ?Wet Hot American Summer? creator David Wain shares a girl-crazy memory from his own camp days.

Listen:   Apple Podcasts   |   Stitcher   |   RadioPublic

 

Real Estate

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/10/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/adobestock1.jpg Fall House Hunt: Tips for making that winning offer

Buyers who know what sellers want can craft a winning offer in a crowded field without putting themselves at risk.

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

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/18/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/FlfQGTy9_585.jpg 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.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

Globe staff photos of the month, August 2018

Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: staying cool in the summer heat, installing a new police commissioner, spotting sharks on the Cape, campaigning politicians on the trail, and flipping gymnasts at the US championships.

Crossword

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/21/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/crossword.jpg Play the crossword

Puzzled? Keep trying your hand at our interactive crossword and see if you can triumph.