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A photo of Elijah Lewis was on display during a vigil at Watson Park in Merrimack N.H.
The last days of a 5-year-old: Medical experts say Elijah Lewis appears to have been ‘tortured’
Medical experts say the recent autopsy findings suggest that Elijah Lewis, a shaggy-haired little boy from Merrimack, N.H., suffered a level of abuse that went far beyond what they typically see.

A boy was dead and his mother jailed. ‘What the hell was happening in that home?’

In Rhode Island, Barrington High parents and students are pressing school to take action after shooting threat

In a statement posted on the police department’s social media account, Barrington Police Chief Michael Correia said, “if you live in town and own a firearm, please physically account for it today and ensure it is stored safely and securely."

Danvers suspends wrestling team after alleged racist incident, report of ‘hateful’ language on social media

The incident, which possibly parallels the allegations facing the 2019-20 boys' hockey team, comes as the school district remains troubled by racially charged disturbances.

This rendering shows the vision for a new Marketplace Center, with seven stories of offices on top of the existing three story building.
There’s a new office building proposed between Quincy Market and the Greenway
The owners of Marketplace Center are hoping the building will soon stand out when compared to its more famous neighbor, Faneuil Hall Marketplace.

Larry Edelman
Developer Les Otten stood on the grounds of the closed Balsams resort in Dixville Notch, N.H. in 2016, early in his quest to redevelop the property. Otten is close to winning Coos County approval for a new plan to finance a construction of a hotel and conference center.
Les Otten lines up new financing for his Balsams resort reboot
Provident Resources Group, a Louisiana nonprofit, will seek to raise up to $125 million for the New Hampshire project through the sale of tax-exempt bonds.

Spotlight Fellowship

Michael Grimshaw’s son Roderick helped him to put his boots on, a task that has become more difficult for Michael since he suffered a stroke last winter. Michael is among the last commercial lobstermen on Long Island Sound.
The Lobster Trap

One of Connecticut’s last lobstermen sticks with it, despite his near empty hauls

The bounteous catch that brought wealth to fishing families is declining, as climate change warms the Gulf of Maine. A way of life is on the line, but lobstermen can't, or won't, imagine another.
Read Part 1: Where lobster is king Read Part 2: Protests and prayers About this project
Cathy Watt broke down after learning of the new regulations, including a seasonal closure for offshore lobstermen on Aug 31. “These kids did it right. The men who are offshore did it right. They work their way up. They work hard. And then someone comes and just flips it upside down on you... You’re out of a job, that’s it. You’re too high for the birds.”
Insurrections loyal to Donald Trump rioted outside the Capitol on Jan. 6.

‘He needs to stop this now’: Read the texts Mark Meadows received as the Capitol insurrection unfolded

The text messages provide the first glimpse at the wave of pleading messages received by one of the president’s closest aides as Trump’s supporters overtook the Capitol building in a violent siege that left multiple people dead and injured.
Dogfish waiting to be off-loaded at the Chatham Fish Pier in 2015.

Can dogfish and skate save the Cape’s fishing industry?

Both species are still relatively abundant in Cape waters but, despite their popularity in Europe, have never appealed to local diners.
Organizers Ash O’Neill (left) and Kylah Clay outside the Allston Starbucks. Some Starbucks stores locally may try to unionize.

Employees at two Boston-area Starbucks move to unionize

More than two dozen baristas in Allston and Brookline are part of a growing coalition of Starbucks employees looking to unionize the country’s largest coffeehouse chain.
Opinion
A person wearing a mask emerges from a shop in Provincetown on July 30.
EDITORIAL

Massachusetts needs another mask mandate

At best, a statewide mask mandate could make a meaningful difference — life or death for some — to stymie the current COVID surge. At worst, it may present a minor inconvenience. The choice for Gov. Baker should be clear.
Former president Donald Trump
SCOT LEHIGH

The truth will come out on the Jan. 6 insurrection
French actresses Catherine Deneuve, left, and Dominique Lavanant chat at Fouquet's brasserie in Paris in 1983. Would you call them "guys"?
IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: Tackling the ‘you plural’ problem
Member of the New Democracy Coalition and the Indivisible Massachusetts Coalition gathered to support voting rights at Nubian Station last month, creating a giant letter urging President Biden to pressure the Senate to bypass its filibuster rules and pass the Freedom to Vote Act.
EDITORIAL

Why aren’t all New England’s senators unified to end the filibuster for voting rights?
Tents line Southampton Street near the intersection known as Mass. and Cass in Boston, on September 29.
Joan Vennochi

The tents at Mass. and Cass should come down
Mya Pol is a advocate for those with disabilities and a fourth-year student at UMass Amherst.
A Beautiful Resistance | Jeneé Osterheldt

Disability should not mean invisibility

Mya Pol, a student disability activist, is fighting for equity and joy for disabled folks. Living with chronic pain, she has learned to navigate her way to feeling good. Access should not be a barrier to being joyful.
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Governor Charlie Baker.
Baker urges lawmakers to get cracking on compromise egg legislation
The governor is pressing the Legislature to shore up the state’s egg supply.

Maine woman is killed in Brighton crash after other driver allegedly ran red light and tried to escape carrying his dog
A 53-year-old Maine woman was fatally injured in a two-vehicle crash in Brighton on Monday night when the driver of a rented SUV ran a red light at a high rate of speed, hit the woman’s car broadside, and then tried to run away from the scene with his dog, State Police said.

A view of a Chick-Fil-A restaurant in California.
Chick-fil-A will open its first Boston restaurant in Copley Square
The fast food chain will occupy the space at 596 Boylston St. It has been nearly a decade since the company first tried to open a Boston location and was rebuffed.

Attorney General Healey says she will appeal judge’s decision to dismiss charges against former Holyoke Soldiers’ Home leaders

“The tragic loss of life at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home broke the promise that our Commonwealth would honor these men who bravely served our country,” Attorney General Maura Healey said Tuesday.

Nina, left, and Samantha hang out in a parking lot across the street from the Roundhouse hotel near the Boston intersection known as Mass. and Cass.
Hotel proposed for transitional housing near Mass. and Cass has a long history of transformation
Mayor Michelle Wu has announced plans to use the six-story building, the currently closed Best Western Roundhouse hotel, for temporary housing and addiction treatment.

Senate votes to raise debt limit by $2.5 trillion, avoiding default

The 50-49 party line vote came just one day shy of a deadline set by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who warned last month that she was running out of maneuvering room to avoid the nation’s first-ever default.

Best of the holidays

People under the holiday lights on Boston Common.

9 places around Boston where you can get into the holiday spirit (for free)

Every holiday season comes with a gamut of things to do and gifts to buy, and it can take a toll on the old wallet. That got us thinking about some activities in and around the city where you can revel in the holiday spirit for free.
Boston is dressed in its wintery best. Here’s where to see Christmas trees, menorahs, and other decorations 20 family-friendly events to put you in the holiday spirit
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For children who feel excluded, Globe Santa is a source of comfort

Families need help for a lot of reasons, but everyone who writes Globe Santa has the same concern. They want their children to feel included during the holidays.

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Devin McCourty and Ruben DaSilva.
PERSPECTIVE

Devin McCourty and Tito SantosSilva: We have the ability to end gang violence in Boston now

Growing up in neighborhoods riddled with crime, poverty, and a gross lack of resources can feel like being backed into a corner. We know this firsthand.

Air Force Sergeant Charles Cornacchio was deployed to the Middle East in early 2019 when a Billerica storage company he paid to store his belongings sold everything at auction.
Moulton, Trahan seek tougher penalties against storage companies who sell belongings of servicemembers
On Tuesday, Representatives Seth Moulton and Lori Trahan introduced a bill that would subject anyone who illegally enforces a storage lien, after a previous conviction for the same offense, to a maximum of three years in prison.

John DiNatale and his brother Richard DiNatale look over a detailed diagram of murder victim Sophie Clark's apartment that was drawn up by their father, Phil DiNatale, who was a Boston police detective and one of the lead investigators in the Boston Strangler case.
New ‘Boston Strangler’ movie will hit close to home for victims’ families, those connected to the case
After the first strangling happened in Boston in June 1962, and slayings continued into 1964 and the body count grew, a feeling of terror gripped the city.

Anthony D'Ambrosio, left, is a Revere school committee member running against Boston city councilor Lydia Edwards, right, in the special election for an open state Senate seat.
Voters head to polls for special state Senate contest between Lydia Edwards and Anthony D’Ambrosio
Voters will have their say Tuesday in a sharp-elbowed Democratic primary for a Massachusetts Senate seat that, for the third time in 14 years, will be decided in an off-the-radar special election.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Dawn Simmons and Jazzmin Bonner of Stage Source, at a pre-pandemic NAAC/Boston reception.

ArtsBoston program pairs emerging BIPOC arts administrators with sponsors and mentors
Vanessa Hudgens appears in "The Princess Switch: Switched Again."

10 HEA holiday rom-com movies you’ll fall in love with
"A Christmas Story: The Musical" will be playing the Boch Center Wang Theatre Dec. 7-19. Actor Sam Hartley with Reba and Jethro, who are in the show.

‘A Christmas Story: The Musical’ bloodhounds are stars of the show

A still from the film "All the Lonely People," a documentary about the impact of social isolation. Shown here is a statue in Liverpool of Eleanor Rigby, the fictional subject of a 1966 Beatles song.

‘All the Lonely People’ documents worldwide isolation and its cures

Special Projects

The 2021 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts

Is your employer among the 150 companies to make the list?
Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.
Special Report

In Harm’s Way

Vehicle rammings against protesters are on the rise, but the justice system often sides with drivers

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

French actresses Catherine Deneuve, left, and Dominique Lavanant chat at Fouquet's brasserie in Paris in 1983. Would you call them "guys"?
IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: Tackling the ‘you plural’ problem
Member of the New Democracy Coalition and the Indivisible Massachusetts Coalition gathered to support voting rights at Nubian Station last month, creating a giant letter urging President Biden to pressure the Senate to bypass its filibuster rules and pass the Freedom to Vote Act.
EDITORIAL

Why aren’t all New England’s senators unified to end the filibuster for voting rights?
Tents line Southampton Street near the intersection known as Mass. and Cass in Boston, on September 29.
Joan Vennochi

The tents at Mass. and Cass should come down
Graves listen carefully. They never interrupt. They take it all in, endlessly receptive. Something in their silence makes a person want to talk.
Elissa Ely

‘Death ends a life. It doesn’t end a relationship.’
Tim Reardon, Rachel Heller, and Jesse Kanson-Benanav

Bold guidance for MBTA communities
Tourists observe the lava flow from the Cumbre Vieja volcano on Spain's La Palma island.
IDEAS | Boštjan Videmšek and Matjaž Krivic

Here come the catastrophe tourists

Metro

Coronavirus Live Updates

Mass. reports new breakthrough COVID-19 data

The latest news and guidance on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic in New England and beyond.

Michelle Wu visits the White House and delivers a message that Boston is prepared to show how federal funding can fuel recovery

Boston's new leader was 10 mayors elected this year who met with Biden administration officials.

The last days of a 5-year-old: Medical experts say Elijah Lewis appears to have been ‘tortured’

Medical experts say the recent autopsy findings suggest that Elijah Lewis, a shaggy-haired little boy from Merrimack, N.H., suffered a level of abuse that went far beyond what they typically see.

A Boston lawyer accused of rape by as many as a dozen women has avoided conviction since 1996. Now, prosecutors are trying a different tack.

Women have come forward to allege lawyer Gary Zerola raped them in nearly indistinguishable assaults dating to 1996, court records show.

Sports

Odell Beckham Jr. had six catches for 77 yards and a touchdown in the Rams' win at Arizona Monday night.
NFL notebook

Odell Beckham Jr. among nine Rams sent to COVID-19 reserve list

The Rams shut down their training complex for at least two days under the NFL's intensive protocols.
The Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary was due to host five straight Flames home games beginning on Thursday, but the first of those was among the games postponed by the NHL due to the team's burgeoning COVID-19 outbreak.
COVID-19

COVID-19 is once again wreaking havoc on the sports world, around the world

The NHL has postponed four games this week due to COVID concerns, nearly doubling the league's total for the season, with the NBA pushing back multiple Chicago Bulls games and other facing similarly growing concerns.
Through 13 games, Patriots safety Adrian Phillips has 64 tackles, 7 passes defensed, and 4 interceptions, including a pick-6.
Patriots

Why the bye week came at just the right time for Patriots safety Adrian Phillips

Phillips came off the field late in the Dec. 6 win over the Bills because of pain in his knee, but he said, "Everything checked out pretty well."
NFL

Phillip Adams, the journeyman NFL player who fatally shot six people, had severe form of CTE
GIRLS' HOCKEY | PLAYERS TO WATCH

EMass girls’ hockey: Austin Prep’s Lauryn Hanafin, Canton’s Carolyn Durand headline Players to Watch
GIRLS' HOCKEY NOTEBOOK

MIAA’s two-division alignment for girls’ hockey has some co-ops, parochial teams punching above their weight

Business

Businesses face payroll, scheduling woes after ransomware attack on Kronos

The attack has knocked offline the payroll and scheduling systems of businesses and organizations ranging from retail chains like Target, Staples, and Whole Foods to commuter rail contractor Keolis.

Company holiday parties return, sort of

Amid the recent surge in COVID cases, the end-of-year company bash comes with questions once more.

Senate votes to raise debt limit by $2.5 trillion, avoiding default

‘I don’t know if I’ll ever recover.’ Lawmakers urge more funding for struggling restaurants

STAT

Dr. Monica McLemore, Associate Professor in the Family Health Care Nursing Department at UCSF, stands for a portrait at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on Friday, September 10th, 2021 in Oakland, Calif.
‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities
A STAT investigation shows that researchers with little or no background or training in health equity research are rushing in to scoop up grants and publish papers.

Covid winter illustration
Winter is coming, again: What to expect from Covid-19 as the season looms
STAT spoke with infectious disease experts and others about what to expect from Covid-19 as the seasons change.

Funeral goers sing during a service for Daisy Pace at New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in January 2021.
DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South
Photographer Bethany Mollenkof spent six months documenting the impact of Covid-19 on residents of rural Black communities in the South.

Boston, MA -- 05/12/21 -- Dr. Matthew Carty examines patient Jerry Majethic at Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital on May 12, 2021, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real
The procedure aims to restore proprioception, the ability to sense where our limbs are in space and how fast and forcefully they’re moving.

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Top Places to Work

The 2021 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts
Top Places to Work

Employees share why they love being at these Top Places to Work
Senior director of sales engineering at Rapid7, David Bosquet, sets up his computer at the desk he picked the night before.
Top Places to Work

Getting into the office sure isn't as easy as it used to be
Kate Booth of Vertex Pharmaceuticals watches over daughter Lila’s online art class, paid for by her employer.
Top Places to Work

How some companies are helping parents and other caregivers

metro

Danvers High School has launched a full investigation into the latest racial episode at the school and reported the incident to Danvers police.

Danvers suspends wrestling team after alleged racist incident, report of ‘hateful’ language on social media

4,039 confirmed cases and 61 deaths. See today’s COVID-19 data from Mass.

On the ice, pandemic stresses briefly melt away

sports

Danvers High School has launched a full investigation into the latest racial episode at the school and reported the incident to Danvers police.

Danvers suspends wrestling team after alleged racist incident, report of ‘hateful’ language on social media

MIAA has a logistical challenge: locating venues for winter swimming and diving championships

In a season that’s been anything but predictable, here are four Patriots predictions with four games to go

business

Organizers Ash O’Neill (left) and Kylah Clay outside the Allston Starbucks. Some Starbucks stores locally may try to unionize.

Employees at two Boston-area Starbucks move to unionize

OJ Simpson a ‘completely free man’; parole ends in Nevada

There’s a new office building proposed between Quincy Market and the Greenway

politics

Mayor Michelle Wu of Boston speaks with a reporter after attending meetings at the White House in Washington on Tuesday.

Michelle Wu visits the White House and delivers a message that Boston is prepared to show how federal funding can fuel recovery

House debates holding Mark Meadows in contempt in Capitol insurrection probe

‘He needs to stop this now’: Read the texts Mark Meadows received as the Capitol insurrection unfolded

Nation

Mayor Michelle Wu of Boston speaks with a reporter after attending meetings at the White House in Washington on Tuesday.

Michelle Wu visits the White House and delivers a message that Boston is prepared to show how federal funding can fuel recovery

Pfizer says its COVID pill will protect against severe disease, even from Omicron

Mass. reports new breakthrough COVID-19 data

World

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at a press conference at the Fairmont Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia on December 14, 2021.

Europe, US frustrated with Iranian stance in nuclear talks

As Olympics open, Uyghurs set to take rights case to court

New Australian plant could make 100 million vaccines a year

opinion

Chickens mill about at Brown's Farm, which produces sustainable eggs for NestFresh, in Gonzales, Texas in May.

Legislature must get cracking on egg reform

The country’s mental health crisis: A pandemic within the pandemic

Congress should step up in global fight against COVID

lifestyle

A view of a Chick-Fil-A restaurant in California.

Chick-fil-A will open its first Boston restaurant in Copley Square

ArtsBoston program pairs emerging BIPOC arts administrators with sponsors and mentors

OJ Simpson a ‘completely free man’; parole ends in Nevada

food & dining

A view of a Chick-Fil-A restaurant in California.

Chick-fil-A will open its first Boston restaurant in Copley Square

Sweet Tree Creamery’s plant-based frozen treats are cool all year long

The coupe gets a modern update

travel

Gurney’s Newport Resort & Marina’s Stay and Skate package includes unlimited skating with skate rentals.

A stay-and-skate package in Newport, a museum of miniatures in Tucson, and a dash cam to go

New England ski resorts with throwback charm and (relatively) retro prices

White Elephant, a Nantucket mainstay, opened a sister hotel in Palm Beach. We had to meet her

Arts

Dresses from the Apple TV+ show "Dickinson" that were donated to the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst.

Amherst’s Emily Dickinson Museum receives hundreds of set pieces from ‘Dickinson’

ICA announces name, details of US exhibition at Venice Biennale: ‘Simone Leigh: GRITTIN’

Painter Katherine Bradford and weaver Diedrick Brackens pair up in exhibition at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

Books

“I wrote novels about people who are shut out of life for various reasons,” Ms. Rice wrote.

Anne Rice, author of vampire novels, dead at 80

A new work from a Maine-based illustrator Jamie Hogan and Ralph Culver’s first full-length collection

Author readings for Dec. 12-18

Movies

The filming of Hocus Pocus 2 began on Federal Hill, on Atwells Avenue in Providence on Friday, Dec. 10, 2021. It will continue through the weekend. The Sanderson sisters, played by Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy were expected to be on set at some point during the weekend filming a flying broom scene. Here, film crew members set up a night scene on Atwells Avenue.

🧙🏻‍♀️The latest on ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ in Rhode Island

Golden Globes announces nominations to a skeptical Hollywood. Here’s the complete list

‘Drive My Car’ big Boston Society of Film Critics winner

Television

Jeremy Strong in "Succession."

Jeremy Strong of ‘Succession’ is fully committed — and that worries some

Peloton claps back at ‘And Just Like That’ moment with viral ad — and an assist from Ryan Reynolds

Golden Globes announces nominations to a skeptical Hollywood. Here’s the complete list

music

Megan Thee Stallion.

Megan Thee Stallion graduated from college Saturday, and the outpouring of support was real

R.E.M., Coltrane, Buena Vista Social Club, and more: 10 of the best reissues, box sets, and archival releases of 2021

The sounds of 617: Local music aficionados choose their favorites of the year

Theater/Dance

Soneka Anderson and Davron Monroe in Moonbox Productions' "Passing Strange."

Rising to the challenge of ‘Passing Strange’

For Eugene Mirman’s holiday show, the more the merrier

At the Orpheum, a Louis C.K. reboot

globe local

Wenham Museum train curator Rob Flanagan (left) and railroad volunteer Walt Meibaum pose with one of the seasonal train layouts.

All aboard for holiday fun at the Wenham Museum

Should the state impose a tax on high-sugar drinks?

A car drives into a swimming pool in Norwood

Obituaries

Juliet Relis Bernstein set up a GoFundMe so she die in her home. CHATHAM, MA - 6/24/2021 Juliet Bernstein sits in the bedroom of her Chatham home on Thursday afternoon. Juliet, who will be 108 in July, doesn’t want to leave her home for care and is raising money online to pay for the cost of home care so she can continue to live independently. Erin Clark/Globe Staff

Juliet Relis Bernstein, activist who set up a GoFundMe so she could die in her home, passes away at 108

Billy Chin, who brought Boston’s Chinatown ‘into the mainstream,’ dies at 92

Rev. C. Herbert Oliver, civil rights activist, dies at 96