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Mass. coronavirus death toll surpasses 6,000 as state reports 128 new fatalities, 1,045 new cases
However, several key metrics, including the seven-day weighted average of positive test rates, have continued to decrease, according to state numbers.

Rhode Island coronavirus deaths are now at 538 Maine reports 78 new coronavirus cases CDC quietly releases more reopening guidance

The latest coronavirus numbers from Massachusetts

Town-by-town coronavirus data in Massachusetts
The Department of Public Health released new town-by-town data for coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the sixth set of such data showing how the virus has ravaged individual communities throughout Massachusetts.

Despite uncertainty, five college presidents say they?re planning for some on-campus classes
?We are going to have to be more flexible than we?ve ever been in the way that we offer education,? said Boston University President Robert Brown.

Boston College intends to hold classes on campus, as other colleges wrestle with decisions on fall semester

Malden?s city council president hosted a large birthday gathering for her daughter. Now some people want her to resign
More than 130 people have signed an online petition calling for the resignation of Malden City Council President Jadeane Sica.

How to stay safe from coronavirus as you venture out during Mass. reopening

Two studies suggest COVID-19 antibodies provide immunity
Research teams led by a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center vaccine specialist have published two studies of monkeys that suggest the answer is yes ? antibodies do provide protection, whether they are triggered by an infection or a vaccine.

Cambridge biotech Moderna?s potential COVID-19 vaccine stirs hope ? and criticism

Wife allegedly killed by Dover surgeon got help from the legal system but her husband 'manipulated her,? police chief says

The first homicide in 25 years in Dover has shaken the town?s police chief who said his officers pursued domestic violence charges against Dr. Ingolf A. Tuerk but they could not stop him from allegedly manipulating his wife, Kathleen McLean, into removing legal protections before she was killed.
What we know about the case of a Dover woman allegedly killed by her surgeon husband

Suffolk DA Rollins: Child abuse reports have dropped amid coronavirus pandemic, but there could be more victims

Michael Taylor arrested, faces extradition to Japan on charges of orchestrating escape of former Nissan CEO
The US Marshals Service?s Special Operations Group and deputy marshals arrested Taylor, 59, and his son Peter, 27, on a provisional warrant based on charges brought in Japan earlier this year,

Oxford gym stays open, despite warnings from town officials
The owner of an Oxford gym that opened ahead of schedule is not backing down.

Opinion

Anatole Manzi

As long as the coronavirus remains unchecked anywhere in the world, it?s a threat everywhere
Joan Vennochi

No surprise: Joe Kennedy is running for Senate like a Kennedy
MICHAEL A. COHEN

Is Joe Biden a feminist?
Sean Cahill

Gender identity and sexual orientation should be included in COVID-19 testing
'THE MECHANIC' BY BEN MEZRICH

Start at the beginning of ?The Mechanic?

Read all the available chapters for the fictional thriller that entwines a card shark, the legacy of Paul Revere, and the Gardner art heist.

A note from Ben Mezrich

When The Boston Globe first approached me with the idea of writing a serialized novella that would run for 15 days in the paper and online, I was both excited and terrified.

Comfort Zone

Tips on keeping love (and respect) alive while isolating with your partner

Wrapping myself in k.d. lang?s homesick paean to Canada

John Krasinski and ?Some Good News? say goodbye (for now)

5 entertaining picks to pick up your feet for running

obituary
Raj Marphatia, first non-white Harvard Law Review president who was known for his brilliance and kindness, dies at 60
As a lawyer, Raj Marphatia "had an uncanny ability to combine extreme intellect with a practical approach," a Ropes & Gray colleague recalled.

On a matter of faith, a different higher power helped guide Baker: the courts
Governor Baker's decision this week to allow houses of worship to immediately welcome congregants back was rooted not in faith. Rather, aides say, it was a calculation of two threats: the virus and a lawsuit.

A CDC study shows why caution is needed is houses of worship reopen

RESTAURANTS
Coda in the South End and Artu in Beacon Hill join running list of Boston-area restaurants that have closed amid COVID-19
COVID-19 is transforming the restaurant industry. Here?s an inside look at restaurants that have shut down due to the economic impacts of coronavirus.

Trump threatens funding for Michigan, Nevada over absentee ballot program
President Trump on Wednesday incorrectly accused Michigan?s Democratic secretary of state of mailing ballots to all of the state?s registered voters, falsely claiming that it was illegal, as he escalated his assault against mail voting.

Supreme Court blocks House from Mueller grand jury material
The court's unsigned order keeps previously undisclosed details from the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election out of the hands of Democratic lawmakers at least until early summer.

Pompeo refuses to say why he wanted inspector general fired

movie review | ty burr
?The Painter and the Thief? paints a remarkable real-life tale of crime, art, and forgiveness
The fascinating documentary focuses on the Oslo-based artist Barbora Kysilkova?s friendship with Karl-Bertil Nordland, a heroin addict who stole two of her paintings from a gallery.

Television review: Dockery and Martell shine in ?Defending Jacob? Movie review: In ?The Trip to Greece,? Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are on the road again

More Recent headlines

Fire causes $200,000 in damage to waterfront home in Mattapoisett

Office park in Andover sold, to get expansion

Republicans just lost two of their six seats in the Massachusetts Senate

On StatNews.com

Vaccine experts say Moderna?s Covid-19 data leave big questions

Opinion: Trump?s hydroxychloroquine hype puts my lupus treatment ? and himself ? at risk

Coronavirus resources

The latest coronavirus numbers from Massachusetts

Boston is still running

Town-by-town coronavirus data in Massachusetts

A list of layoffs and furloughs in Massachusetts (so far) due to coronavirus

Elegies for those lost to coronavirus

GROUND GAME
Biden?s biggest decision might be about Florida, Florida, Florida
Jumping into Florida with its 10 television markets would be a risky $100 million decision for Joe Biden. And making that call might be the most pressing question for Biden?s campaign, outside of who to pick for vice president.

Ex-Bloomberg campaign workers sue billionaire in Mass., claiming he broke hiring promise
Former Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign staffers sued Bloomberg in Massachusetts state court on Wednesday, arguing that he promised to keep them and thousands of others employed into the fall, only to lay them off just as the COVID-19 pandemic began crippling the economy.

4,000 flags planted at Worcester cemetery by volunteers in honor of fallen veterans
Thousands of flags were planted at the gravestones of fallen soldiers in St. John?s Cemetery in Worcester Wednesday morning, continuing a tradition that stretches back over seven decades as Memorial Day approaches.

Boston gives $4 million in cash grants small businesses
Boston has distributed about $4 million to help small businesses amid the unprecedented novel coronavirus pandemic, authorities said Wednesday.

Recommended Reads

She was on the brink of death from COVID-19 while pregnant with twins. Doctors had to make a crucial decision

Experimental COVID-19 treatments weren?t helping Lisseth Hernandez. Her heart raced to twice the normal rate. She had to breathe almost every second. After she was put on a ventilator, a team of 26 medical personnel successfully delivered her twins.

My neighbor is running the London Marathon. In Newton
Like everything else ? Grandma?s birthday, kindergarten, your annual physical ? the road races runners love have gone virtual. Run when you want, where you want.

TOM FARRAGHER
Love blossoms amid pandemic?s roar
As a global death toll climbs, as fear heightens, as COVID-19?s economic wreckage is measured in the billions, there is a blessed universality in the marriage story of Geslin and Guo.

Rhode Island

Raimondo to Rhode Islanders: Please don?t party in big groups on Memorial Day

Even with two state beaches set to reopen on Memorial Day, the governor said residents should avoid large gatherings this holiday weekend so that the state doesn?t see a spike in coronavirus infections several weeks from now.

URI president began his tenure amid one crisis and is winding it down amid another

How long will Governor Raimondo?s new popularity last?
Newton

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Sean Cahill

Gender identity and sexual orientation should be included in COVID-19 testing
MICHAEL A. COHEN

Is Joe Biden a feminist?
RENÉE GRAHAM

It?s Trump vs. Obama 2020
Sandra L. Fenwick

What we know ? and don?t ? about the new child inflammatory syndrome linked to coronavirus
LETTERS

Postcards from the pandemic
IDEAS | Jeff Howe

A letter from the summer of 2020

VISUAL STORIES

Patriots defensive end Chase Winovich may be confined, but he?s hardly at a standstill

Photos: Celebrating Mother?s Day, from a social distance

A funeral home copes with the surge during the coronavirus pandemic

Boston Globe staff photographer Erin Clark named Feature Photography Pulitzer finalist for 2020

metro

Are the annual motor vehicle inspections required by the state beneficial?
Read two views and vote in our online poll.

BLOTTER TALES

Now that?s one big lizard

A 4-foot-long lizard is found in someone's driveway, a man gets locked in handcuffs and then can't find the key, and other odd tales from local police blotters.

Gloucester teachers jump in to produce face shields for essential workers

Teachers and a lab coordinator from the high school and O?Maley Innovation Middle School volunteered to help create plastic face shields using the two schools? approximately 40 3-D printers.

With daily jokes, Bridgewater-Raynham schools turn frowns into smiles

MBTA drivers want mask requirement for riders strictly enforced

sports

Boston College names JM Caparro interim AD, starts search for new leadership

Caparro has been at the school since 2015 and currently serves as senior associate athletics director for external affairs.
ben volin

Just how feasible is it for the NFL to play this fall?

Teams will have to completely reinvent the way they do business, but some medical experts believe it can be done.

Jack Studnicka showing Bruins he has the right stuff

In his first season in Providence, the rookie displayed the talent that could land him a full-time gig with the big club.
Michael Silverman

Latest on talks between MLB and the players on starting the baseball season
tara sullivan

The idea of NFL draft capital as an incentive for minority hiring is simple bribery

Patrick Chung and Patriots agree on two-year extension

STAT

Infect volunteers with Covid-19? A proposal lays bare a minefield of issues

Experts question Facebook?s approach to combat Covid-19 misinformation

Covid-19 has shuttered labs. It could put a generation of researchers at risk

Stay up to date with STAT?s Covid-19 Tracker

An interview with the CDC director on coronavirus, masks, and an agency gone quiet

Business

CDC quietly releases more reopening guidance
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention placed the information in a 20-page appendix to a document previously posted on its website. The document has advice for childcare facilities, schools, day camps, mass transit systems, restaurants, bars, and other businesses.

Apple, Google release technology for pandemic apps
Apple and Google on Wednesday released long-awaited smartphone technology to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus.

Bidding wars are back in housing market stung by pandemic

Johnson & Johnson to stop selling talc-based baby powder in US, Canada

Asian-American doctors and nurses are fighting racism and the coronavirus

?This is not how you do science?: Cambridge biotech Moderna?s potential COVID-19 vaccine stirs hope ? and criticism

Politics

Supreme Court blocks House from Mueller grand jury material

Trump threatens funding for Michigan, Nevada over absentee ballot program

Biden?s biggest decision might be about Florida, Florida, Florida

Marijuana

Healey joins group of bipartisan attorneys general to tell Congress to pass marijuana banking as part of coronavirus bill

15-year-old charged in fatal shooting of Wisconsin teen over alleged marijuana robbery
magazine
Cover story

The 5 scariest ways scammers try to rip us off
Class of 2020

The 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' author has a special message for this year's graduates
Cooking

Quick and easy asparagus recipes
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do online, May 11-17

sports

In his brief tenure, Martin Jarmond ?was a breath of fresh air? for Boston College athletics

WNBA teams to cut rosters down to 12 by May 26

Horace Grant calls Michael Jordan a liar, says ?The Last Dance? was mostly ?B.S.?

metro

Are the annual motor vehicle inspections required by the state beneficial?

Now that?s one big lizard

Gloucester teachers jump in to produce face shields for essential workers

Nation

Democrats open investigation into replacement of acting Transportation Department inspector general

The latest coronavirus numbers from Massachusetts

Pompeo refuses to say why he wanted inspector general fired

World

Local officials push back against Mexico reopening

Taliban suicide bomber kills 7 troops in eastern Afghanistan

COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria is just one of Africa?s alarming hot spots

politics

Trump threatens funding for Michigan, Nevada over absentee ballot program

Biden?s biggest decision might be about Florida, Florida, Florida

Joe Biden wins Democratic presidential primary in Oregon

business

CDC quietly releases more reopening guidance

Apple, Google release technology for pandemic apps

Bidding wars are back in housing market stung by pandemic

lifestyle

#letteringforlove brings uplifting messages to the windows of local storefronts

Mount Auburn emergency physician authors apocalypse-era comic book

Jenny Slate encourages young writers during 826 Boston livestream event

marijuana

Healey joins group of bipartisan attorneys general to tell Congress to pass marijuana banking as part of coronavirus bill

Real estate agent pleads guilty in marijuana farm scheme

Oklahoma may be first to implement marijuana breathalyzers

opinion

As long as the coronavirus remains unchecked anywhere in the world, it?s a threat everywhere

No surprise: Joe Kennedy is running for Senate like a Kennedy

Gender identity and sexual orientation should be included in COVID-19 testing

food & dining

An unfussy cocktail you can make at home

Jody Adams, a star in Boston?s culinary scene for years, takes on a new role: activist

COVID-19 has created a society of adventurous chefs, with mixed and often hilarious results

travel

Renew your passport without leaving the house, and stay dry on the go with a raincoat that fits in a fanny pack

How to get road-trip ready

Science class al fresco: Take the kiddos to these outdoor beauty spots

Books

Chapter 21: An ending and a beginning

Chapter 20: Eagle of the Seas

A note from Ben Mezrich

Movies

In ?Military Wives,? it?s a case of keeping the home front singing

?Lucky Grandma?: older, maybe wiser, most definitely wilder

?The Painter and the Thief? paints a remarkable real-life tale of crime, art, and forgiveness

Television

Verdict?s in: Dockery and Martell shine in ?Defending Jacob?

Book goes behind the scenes of ?Modern Family? casting

This week?s TV: The legacy of soap operas, ?Homecoming? returns, Gloucester goes fishing

music

With virtual choirs and celebrity guests, Boston Children?s Chorus keeps young singers connected

These masked singers are way ahead of the (flattened) curve

From the Alan Lomax Archive, hope amid ?Hard Times?

Theater/Dance

Streams of innovation in an interactive ?State vs. Natasha Banina?

In isolation, theater couples entertain new ideas ? and each other

Gloucester Stage cancels summer season

globe local

Are the annual motor vehicle inspections required by the state beneficial?

Now that?s one big lizard

Gloucester teachers jump in to produce face shields for essential workers

Obituaries

Raj Marphatia, at 60; first non-white Harvard Law Review president was known for his brilliance and kindness

Michel Piccoli, star of French stage and screen, at 94

Phyllis George, trailblazing sportscaster, dies at 70