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Julia Young, 62, has agreed to pay $83,000 for an unproven cancer vaccine that is being offered outside a clinical trial by a nonprofit foundation with roots in Boston. She has had ovarian cancer for more than 11 years and began taking the shots in November.

Foundation stirs controversy by charging cancer patients $83,000 for unproven but promising experimental drug

Unlike most people who receive medications yet to be cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, none of these patients are getting the vaccines as part of a clinical trial.

Enslaved potter David Drake searched for his family. More than 150 years later, they’ve found him.
‘He was sending these messages,’ said Daisy Whitner, David Drake’s great-great-great-granddaughter. ‘He wanted people to know: I’m a human being; treat me as such.’ At the MFA, his poem jars are part of an exhibition of enslaved potters’ work.

Saturday’s winter storm causes power outages, makes driving dangerous, and snarls air travel in New England
A mess of a storm continued into Saturday, causing thousands of power outages across the state, treacherous roads, and flight cancellations. Snowfall was heaviest in the western and northern parts of Massachusetts.

These maps show how much snow Southern New England received from the storm

Map: Snow totals in New England

How much snow fell during the recent storm? See updated snow totals.

AJ Dybantsa is rebranding St. Sebastian's as a basketball powerhouse.

Christopher L. Gasper

Meet AJ Dybantsa, who could be the biggest Massachusetts high school basketball sensation since Patrick Ewing

Dybantsa was the No. 1-rated eighth-grader in the nation last year, and is viewed by several basketball sites as the presumptive No. 1 player in the Class of 2026.

COVID outbreak at South Yarmouth nursing home leaves five dead

The state Department of Public Health has ordered Pittsfield-based Integritus Healthcare, which operates Windsor Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in South Yarmouth, to cease admissions of new residents while officials respond to the outbreak.

Passenger dies of injuries suffered during severe turbulence on plane

“NTSB investigators have removed the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder and are continuing to gather information from the flight crew, operator and passengers about the circumstances of the event,” a statement said.

As DeSantis makes their child a target, a family decides to relocate her to Massachusetts

A mother and her 13-year-old transgender daughter will move from Florida to Massachusetts to flee anti-trans policies.

‘The future of restaurants’: How kitchen fees are meeting the economic moment
More restaurants are adding extra fees to your bill in a bid to close the long-standing gap between the take-home pay for those who serve food and those who prepare it.

Massachusetts Convention Center Authority discriminates against Black employees, vendors, and convention guests, employees charge

Four Black employees recently filed formal complaints with the state attorney general charging racial discrimination in hiring, promotion, and working conditions at the agency that runs the state's convention centers.

Bruins 4, Rangers 2

Newcomers sure make Don Sweeney look good, and the Bruins beat the Rangers for 10th straight win
Tyler Bertuzzi, Dmitry Orlov, and Garnet Hathaway contributed in their own ways against shorthanded New York.

Person seriously injured in Roxbury shooting, police say

Somerville man found guilty of charges related to Jan. 6 Capitol riot

Several Chiefs players said head trainer Rick Burkholder, who has been with Andy Reid since they joined the Eagles together in 1999, doesn’t treat players “fairly or consistently, or with personal care.”

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

How do teams really treat their players? The best nuggets from the NFL Players Association’s anonymous survey.

The NFLPA said 1,300 players contributed to the survey, which evaluated treatment of families, nutrition, weight room, strength staff, training room, training staff, and locker room, and travel.

What is wide receiver Jakobi Meyers worth on the open market?

Jorge Alfaro's ability to play multiple positions, as well as a contract that would allow him to leave the Sox if another team offered him a major-league spot, gives him an inside track to making the team out of Fort Myers.

Peter Abraham I On baseball

Injuries add clarity to a second projection at Red Sox Opening Day roster

New issues for Brayan Bello, James Paxton, and Connor Wong, plus Garrett Whitlock's recovery from hip surgery, thin the chases for spots on the 26-man roster.

Kenley Jansen speeds through first outing of pitch-clock era

The depth and talent of the starting rotation is what attracted Skip Schumaker to join the Marlins as manager after Don Mattingly stepped down.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Are things actually looking up for the Miami Marlins?

“There are some ballplayers in this clubhouse,” said Matt Barnes, the former Red Sox closer who was traded to Miami in January. “The people here want to win and we think we can."

Opinion

Students walked the Brockton campus of Massasoit Community College.

Community college grant program shows early success

Programs to retain students are desperately needed, given Massachusetts’ dismal rate of community college completion — particularly among minority students.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Haitians are desperately looking for sponsors in Boston

The natural beauty of natural hair

Joan Wickersham

Whose garden is it?

A national divorce would solve nothing

A protester holds signs in support of supervised injection sites in Philadelphia.

The Emancipator

The Black opioid crisis reveals that barriers to treatment must come down

Urban Black communities are now ground zero for overdose deaths, yet Black people don’t get the same access to life saving medication. Systemic racism in healthcare is making this epidemic deadlier.

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photo illustration of David Sabatini. photo by Jonathan Wiggs /Globe Staff

Spotlight Report: Fate and the fallen star

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

Members of the 2001 Patriots team that won the franchise’s first title.

Darkness on the edge of the Patriots dynasty

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Tara Sullivan

Their Red Sox-loving son died too soon. His writing, recently discovered, brings comfort to his grieving parents.
Peter Bandel's family was cleaning out his apartment after his death when they discovered a piece he wrote in 2003. His words, 20 years on, remind his parents of their son's enduring hope.

Milton officials say demolition of stairs will proceed at MBTA station Monday over town objections

The town objects to the demolition plan and sued the MBTA over it last fall because the transportation agency doesn’t intend to replace the stairs immediately after the detoriated staircase is removed.

Fiery tanker crash kills driver, burns Maryland homes
A tanker truck hauling a flammable liquid crashed on a Maryland highway Saturday and caught fire, killing the driver and damaging several homes and vehicles, authorities said.

Board grants parole for Ramadan Shabazz, convicted of murder in 1971
The decision comes after Shabazz, 73, has spent decades in prison, time that he dedicated to betterment, education, and mentoring, according to the state parole board.

‘It’s disgusting’: The con artists who exploit mass shootings
“Con artists are going to strike when the iron is hot, so when there’s an emotional moment — a disaster, a horrific shooting, an earthquake — they’re going to see it as an opportunity to siphon off hard-earned dollars to their ends,” said Bennett Weiner, chief operating officer of the Better Business Bureau’s Wise Giving Alliance.

In federal lawsuit, New York woman alleges her L.L. Bean boots weren’t waterproof as advertised
The lawsuit alleges that L.L. Bean, which is based in Maine, mislabeled the boots as waterproof, exposing Linda Lenzi to “water leakage” that seeped into the footwear on an “inclement weather day.”

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Peter’s quality of life was gone, but, still sharp, he chose to end his own suffering. Legalized physician-assisted suicide in Massachusetts would have given him a far more merciful death.

Want to know what Boston’s electeds text each other? Good luck.
In response to a Globe public records request seeking texts from and to Mayor Michelle Wu from Jan. 20-27, the city did not produce a single one, claiming the mayor “does not conduct official City business via text message and does not retain text messages.”

At CPAC, election deniers thrive and the Trump train chugs ahead
The Conservative Political Action Conference is unfolding on the banks of the Potomac River at a delicate moment for Republican politics.

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Higher education leaders lauded Governor Maura Healey’s budget, which would increase spending on public colleges and universities by nearly 25 percent and keep prices flat across four years.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

The King and Queen of Beacon Hill currently command salaries higher than their counterparts in almost every other kingdom in the land.

Beacon Hill’s royals enjoy exalted raises

Rule No. 1: Don’t listen to anyone’s idiotic travel stories (“and then they de-iced the plane for the SECOND time!”) unless they involve a direct confrontation with a a yeti, Sasquatch, or Bigfoot.

Attack of the new rules

Boston Debate League debaters argued the security risks posed by emerging technologies at the BDL STEM Affinity Tournament at Dearborn STEM Academy in December 2022.

IDEAS | STEPHANIE BYTTEBIER

An antidote to the vitriol in public discourse

Management culture of the mid-20th century began to standardize creativity as a stand-alone discipline.

IDEAS | ELIZABETH SVOBODA

The surprisingly short history of creativity

A family walks on the street around restaurant barriers where a FedEx truck is parked illegally blocking two-way traffic on Hanover Street in Boston's North End on Aug. 11.

Fairness demands a better solution to North End outdoor dining

IDEAS | KAT ROSENFIELD

The illusion of a frictionless existence

Metro

Massachusetts Convention Center Authority discriminates against Black employees, vendors, and convention guests, employees charge

Four Black employees recently filed formal complaints with the state attorney general charging racial discrimination in hiring, promotion, and working conditions at the agency that runs the state's convention centers.

Higher ed advocates laud Healey proposal, call for more effort to make college affordable

Higher education leaders lauded Governor Maura Healey’s budget, which would increase spending on public colleges and universities by nearly 25 percent and keep prices flat across four years.

As DeSantis makes their child a target, a family decides to relocate her to Massachusetts

A mother and her 13-year-old transgender daughter will move from Florida to Massachusetts to flee anti-trans policies.

Saturday’s winter storm causes power outages, makes driving dangerous, and snarls air travel in New England

A mess of a storm continued into Saturday, causing thousands of power outages across the state, treacherous roads, and flight cancellations. Snowfall was heaviest in the western and northern parts of Massachusetts.

Sports

The pitch clock was no resistance to Kenley Jansen in his Grapefruit League debut with the Red Sox on Saturday, the longtime closer throwing a scoreless inning.

RED SOX NOTEBOOK

Kenley Jansen speeds through first outing of pitch-clock era

Jansen, one of the slowest workers in baseball last year, never was too concerned about MLB’s new rule, spending much of the offseason adjusting to it.

St. Sebastian's senior guard Trevor Mullin (above) scored 12 points in a 63-48 NEPSAC Class A victory over Williston Northampton on Saturday in Needham to eclipse 2,000 career points. He joined his sister, Maddie, a senior at Brown who scored 2,142 at Beaver Country Day, as the first set of siblings in Massachusetts basketball history to join the 2,000-point club.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

All in the family: St. Sebastian’s Trevor Mullin joins his older sister, Maddie, as the first set of siblings in Massachusetts basketball history in the 2,000-point club

The 5-foot-9 senior guard scored 12 points in a 63-48 NEPSAC Class A victory over Williston Northampton to give him 2,001. He joined his sister, Maddie, a senior at Brown who scored 2,142 at Beaver Country Day, in the 2,000-point club.

Jakobi Meyers (left) will soon be free to look around, but he has said he wants to return to the Patriots.

What is wide receiver Jakobi Meyers worth on the open market?

Projections have Meyers earning $12.5 million annually over four years, but that number could climb into the $18 million range, depending on whom you ask.

Peter Abraham I On baseball

Injuries add clarity to a second projection at Red Sox Opening Day roster

Saturday’s spring training report: Nick Pivetta struggles with location in tie with Astros

Red Sox pitcher James Paxton has Grade 1 hamstring strain, likely won’t be ready at start of season

Business

‘The future of restaurants’: How kitchen fees are meeting the economic moment

More restaurants are adding extra fees to your bill in a bid to close the long-standing gap between the take-home pay for those who serve food and those who prepare it.

Foundation stirs controversy by charging cancer patients $83,000 for unproven but promising experimental drug

Unlike most people who receive medications yet to be cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, none of these patients are getting the vaccines as part of a clinical trial.

Global race to boost electric vehicle range in cold weather

Whiskey fungus fed by Jack Daniel’s encrusts a Tennessee town

magazine

An alleged drug trafficker, a detective trying to take him down, and the woman caught in the middle

The strange story of the man behind the popularization of ‘resilience thinking’

My brother can't stop joking around. It's hard to talk to him.

This week's daters: Fran and Liz

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘It’s like she reads the whole newspaper and I just read the sports section’

metro

A pedestrian on the Commonwealth Avenue pedestrian mall carried an umbrella against the rain on Feb. 28.

More snow is here. But it won’t stick around long in Boston.

Vermont bishop testifies against clergy reporting bill

Photos: Maple syrup, a sweet sign of spring in New England

sports

Boston College's Zay Flowers ran an unofficial 4.42 in the 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine Saturday.

Here’s 10 prospects every Patriots fan should keep tabs on at the NFL Combine

Newcomers sure make Don Sweeney look good, and the Bruins beat the Rangers for 10th straight win

Alaska’s arduous Iditarod kicks off with ceremonial start

business

Signs mark an HOV lane on Interstate 65 in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. Southern states are more frequently turning to pay-to-use express lanes as a way to address highway congestion without raising taxes. Republican Gov. Bill Lee wants to consider them in Tennessee, one of 16 states without any toll roads. (Andrew Nelles/The Tennessean via AP)

Paid express lanes grow more popular in once-reluctant South

Labs at the mall? Why not. Top floor of CambridgeSide set to become lab space

Businessman Perry Johnson announces 2024 presidential bid

politics

Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson speaks at a the Faith, Politics and the Common Good Forum at Franklin Jr. High School, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa.

Marianne Williamson opens long shot 2024 challenge to Biden

In dry West, farmers balk at idling land to save water

Election conspiracies fuel dispute over voter fraud system

Nation

Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a tanker fire on Saturday, March 4, 2023 in Frederick, Md.

Fiery tanker crash kills driver, burns Maryland homes

‘It’s disgusting’: The con artists who exploit mass shootings

In Southern California, snow has trapped people for days

World

A soldier from a Ukrainian assault brigade walked along a muddy road used to transport and position British made L118 105mm Howitzers last week near Bakhmut, Ukraine.

With Ukraine under pressure in Bakhmut, fight becomes a battle over roads

In Chernobyl’s stray dogs, scientists look for genetic effects of radiation

Athlete dead in shipwreck left Pakistan to help disabled son

opinion

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward J. Markey (pictured at an October 2022 hearing in Boston) urged the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities last month to green-light cities’ and towns’ proposals to create community choice aggregation programs.

What will it take for DPU to stop lagging in push for clean energy?

Mass. does more than post a hotline to promote responsible gambling

TikTok tick-tock for young users is a welcome curb

lifestyle

Utopia, a horticulture and epicurean festival, will be held at Flynn Cruiseport Boston from March 2-5.

Specialty food and drink, plant and culinary workshops, and vast horticultural displays at Utopia festival

My wife won’t go back to work

March is a popular divorce month. Here’s what to know if you’re considering a breakup

food & dining

Employee Fernando Zambrano working in the kitchen at Democracy Brewing. A little over a year ago, Democracy Brewing instituted a 3.5 percent kitchen appreciation fee, which goes toward padding the wages of back-of-house workers.

‘The future of restaurants’: How kitchen fees are meeting the economic moment

Back Door Donuts to open Boston pop-up on Lansdowne Street

At Tonino, thoughtful Italian food for the neighborhood

travel

Carmen Santos thought she lost her engagement ring in an Enterprise rental.

$452 bill charged after requesting help for lost engagement ring

Cool classes on the Cape, a winter fest in Portland, and personal alarms for travel and daily life

Howie Day on Alaska, not living in a bubble, and how to make easy iced coffee on the road

Arts

Joseph Mallord William Turner’s “Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway,” 1844, was painted as London's skies were being choked by industrial smog.

An early climate warning lies in the paintings of JMW Turner and Claude Monet, new research shows

At the MFA, a small photography show leaves a big impression

Intimate moments of self-reflection in seemingly ordinary spaces in Helena Wurzel’s solo exhibition

Books

In ‘Liliana’s Invincible Summer,’ Cristina Rivera Garza gives a searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact

Jenny Odell on breaking free of the ultimate tyranny in ‘Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock’

NoViolet Bulawayo on horror stories and talking animals in Zimbabwe’s culture

Movies

Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film "Raging Bull."

Our movie critic is a sucker for boxing movies. Here are 5 favorites.

‘Return to Seoul’ is a patience-testing trip

New documentary ‘American Bolshevik’ looks at the vilification of the coyote

Television

Kathy Bates, pictured in her previous stint as a TV lawyer in "Harry's Law," will play Madeline Matlock in the "Matlock" reboot.

Reboot trend heads back to court with ‘Matlock’

‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ goes its own way just enough to avoid being secondhand news

With ‘The Last of Us,’ the waiting is the best part

music

Wayne Shorter, the saxophonist and composer, at home in Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 8, 2013. Shorter, the enigmatic, intrepid saxophonist who shaped the color and contour of modern jazz as one of its most intensely admired composers, died in Los Angeles on March 2, 2023. He was 89.

Saxophone legend Wayne Shorter embodied the tension between the form and freedom of jazz

BSO amplifying ‘Voices of Loss, Reckoning, and Hope’ with March festival

Weyes Blood examines contemporary life in times of crisis

Theater/Dance

Scott Miller, Marcus Adolphy, Clare Perkins, and the company of "The Wife of Willesden."

A free spirit soars beyond convention in ART’s ‘The Wife of Willesden’

Broadway In Boston announces 2023-24 season

Hoops and history converge in Lyric Stage’s ‘The Great Leap’

globe local

Bay State Banner founder and publisher, Melvin B. Miller, sold the 58-year-old paper to two longtime Black media journalists, Ron Mitchell and André Stark.

With new ownership comes new beginnings for Bay State Banner

The show must go on — outdoors

The questions I wished I’d asked my father

Obituaries

Actor Tom Sizemore

Tom Sizemore, intense actor with a troubled life, dies at 61

John Olver, politician and ‘a person of conscience,’ dies at 86

Jerry Richardson, who founded and owned the Panthers until a scandal forced him to sell, dies at 86