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Shortage of primary care physicians in Mass.

Boston restaurateur Barbara Lynch under fire

The unique design of a BU building

Sign for the times.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

Where Mass. home prices are hot — and not

Pockets of weakness in single-family home prices are already apparent, and they may spread in the months ahead.

ANALYSIS

Abortion emerging as single most important issue of the 2024 campaign
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer, reversing 50 years of precedent, abortion rights have clearly been the biggest driving factor in American politics.

Supreme Court to issue abortion pill ruling on Friday. Here’s what to know.

Five months ago, she was about to be taken off life support after a traumatic brain injury. This week she finished the Boston Marathon.
As Rachel Foster embarked on a grueling rehabilitation, she set her sights on a seemingly impossible goal — to run the Boston Marathon in April.

Who were the most-tracked runners in the 2023 Boston Marathon?

Author Stephen King said on Twitter Thursday that he had not paid for the app's Twitter Blue service, despite a blue check next to his name that indicated he had. Elon Musk has claimed he is paying for the Maine horror writer's subscription himself.

Stephen King’s blue check on Twitter was apparently an unwelcome gift from Elon Musk

Is the "King of Horror" being trolled by Elon Musk? It appears that way.

Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown are in their sixth season (and sixth postseason) as Celtics teammates.

dan shaughnessy

No excuses for Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown this time, and other thoughts

Everything is in place for the Celtics, and it's time for the two lottery picks to deliver an NBA championship.

Raptors fire coach Nick Nurse; Ime Udoka is expected to be considered for the job It’s time for a Garden Party: Sign up for your newsletter companion for the playoffs

Coast Guard suspends search for fourth missing fisherman; identifies three other men recovered at sea

Crews from the US Coast Guard suspended their search on Friday for a fourth fisherman reported missing out of New Hampshire, a day after the bodies of three other men were pulled from the ocean off Gloucester near their overturned vessel, officials said.

‘It’s now on their plate’: With Healey’s new hires comes new responsibility for the MBTA’s problems

Transit advocates and politicos applauded her appointments Friday, with many especially heaping high praise on her decision to make Thomas P. Glynn chairman of the MBTA board.

Jail officials responding to ongoing ‘incident’ at Bristol County facility

The sheriff’s office said they were trying to move inmates to different units Friday morning, but some inmates "did not want to move, leading to the current incident.”

Truck driver killed after fuel tanker rolled over, causing massive fire on Conn. bridge
The driver of a fuel tanker truck was killed Friday morning after the truck rolled over on Connecticut’s largest bridge, spilling about 2,200 gallons of oil and causing a massive fire that sent plumes of black smoke into the air, officials said.

Home in Truro destroyed after fiery explosions Thursday night
Photos from the scene show a massive debris field with a charred center.

After shootings of young people spark outrage, gun violence experts decry self-defense laws

A spate of recent shootings, all involving young people and innocent misunderstandings, have spurred a national outcry and put a spotlight on self-defense laws.

Woburn woman charged with leaving swastikas in Jewish woman’s yard

Kathleen M. Collins, 52, was charged last week with a civil rights violation and two counts of intimidating a witness, police said.

The Go John Trail, just after sunrise.

Wine, coffee, hikes, hot tubs, and reunions in Arizona’s gorgeous desert

Before Lara had moved to California and Ashley to Colorado, before we’d accumulated two divorces, plenty of loss, challenges with kids, jobs, economics, family, distance, and a weary world, we’d planned to meet up somewhere, anywhere, together. Finally we made it happen.

Soaking up history and sun on this girlfriends’ getaway to Pensacola, Fla.

Patriots owner Robert Kraft is looking to this draft "to make a difference."

Ben Volin | On football

Why the stakes are especially high for the Patriots in this draft

The last few drafts have been underwhelming, the offense in particular needs help, and the owner is getting restless.

NFL suspends five players for violating gambling policy

This week's daters: Merrick and Mary

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We both go to the same university’

Will this researcher and a psychology student from the same school pass the test?

Opinion

Senator Tim Scott, Republican from South Carolina, on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

Tim Scott’s folly

The Senate’s only Black Republican wants to be president. He’s never going to be president.

Feinstein resignation holds key to Biden’s judicial nominees

US needs to protect Ukrainian refugees in the United States

IDEAS | MILES HOWARD

Making too little to get affordable housing — and other problems with trying to stay in Boston

Don’t leave it to TV stars to address gun violence

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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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Ex-Celtic Ernie Barrett, beloved at Kansas State, dies at 93
A forward with Boston, Ernie Barrett previously starred at Kansas State and spent a total of 75 years at the school as an athlete, coach and administrator.

Massachusetts Legislature, hostile to rent control, includes more landlords than renters
As the Legislature mulls a slate of proposals aimed at addressing the housing crisis, the body includes more lawmakers who could lose income from the return of rent control than lawmakers who would benefit from its protections, a Globe investigation found.

Tell us: Should there be a limit to how many properties someone can own in one region?

Forecast | Dave Epstein

New England needs some rain and just might get some this weekend
Showers on the way this weekend are important — they're always significant in the spring but especially this year, which has been exceedingly dry.

A Mass. company woke up millions of Floridians with a false phone alert. The state fired them.

Everbridge was supposed to send the test alert only to television stations at 4:45 a.m. but instead set off a loud tone on the mobile phones of anyone who subscribed to the state’s Wireless Emergency Alerts system.

Patrice Bergeron is scratched for Games 3 and 4 but likely for Game 5
Linus Ullmark also was not present at the morning skate before the Bruins took on the Panthers again.

An 1880 copy of ‘Little Women’ inscribed by Louisa May Alcott goes up for auction
The book comes with a card Alcott wrote to her cousin, Boston native Lucy Ellen Sewall.

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A guide to 36 communities where home buyers are flocking — and prices are surging.

New Hampshire real estate: How people from Mass. drive up prices Will real estate prices on Cape Cod and the Islands ever come back to earth?

At Barbara Lynch’s restaurants, growing concern over a toxic culture
Two deaths on the staff at Menton, and the famous chef’s response, are triggering a reckoning in one of Boston’s best-known restaurant groups.

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Jeneé Osterheldt

There is no pro-life in a country that shoots its kids
American violence is eating our children, from Ralph Yarl and Payton Washington to Kaylin Gillis and beyond.

BAA says it ‘did not deliver’ on promise of inclusive Marathon after police interaction with racially diverse run clubs
Members were cheering near Heartbreak Hill when a large group of Newton police officers blocked the spectators from interacting with runners.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Cambridge, MA - Harvard students and activists stage a protest at Harvard Art Museums against the university’s affiliation with the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma. (Ben Roberts)

Students, organizers protest Sackler name at Harvard Art Museums

Dorchester native, acclaimed author, and TV writer Dennis Lehane.

With ‘Small Mercies,’ Dennis Lehane is telling the Boston story he’s always wanted to tell

From left: Jonathan Grunert as Professor Henry Higgins, Madeline Powell as Eliza Doolittle, and John Adkison as Colonel Pickering in the national tour of "My Fair Lady."

Ultimately, this ‘My Fair Lady’ is quite ‘loverly’

From left: Kathy Bates, Judy Blume, Kelly Fremon Craig, Abby Ryder Fortson, and Rachel McAdams.

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

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president, April 19 at the Boston Park Plaza.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vax 2024 presidential campaign

Tennessee state Representatives Justin Jones and Justin J. Pearson during a demonstration in support of gun control laws sponsored by Voices for a Safer Tennessee at Legislative Plaza on April 18 in Nashville.

Oppression is on the march, but young people are pushing back

Fox News becomes the first cog in the disinformation machine that undermined the 2020 election to pay a significant price for its actions.

Fox News pays the price for its election lies

The author, left, with Father John Predmore, after completing the 127th Boston Marathon.

IDEAS | MICHAEL LEVIN

On coming in (almost) last in the Boston Marathon

Too many young men are forging their identities online. Their avatars veer into perversity and extremism, with women and minority groups often the target of their conspiracies and bile.

Jake Auchincloss

Too many young men are failing online

The author's blood sugar at mile 7 of the 2022 Boston Marathon was at a 137 mg/dl, right in his performance zone.

IDEAS | HILMAR SCHMUNDT

Techno-doping my way through the Boston Marathon

Metro

Truck driver killed after fuel tanker rolled over, causing massive fire on Conn. bridge

The driver of a fuel tanker truck was killed Friday morning after the truck rolled over on Connecticut’s largest bridge, spilling about 2,200 gallons of oil and causing a massive fire that sent plumes of black smoke into the air, officials said.

City of Pawtucket supports Attorney General’s intervention on Memorial Hospital

“We welcome the Attorney General’s participation in this foreclosure procedure that we presented to the court,” said Michael Mota, the founder of Memorial Real Estate Group LLC. “We all have to be on the same team if this building is going to work for everyone in the state.”

‘It’s now on their plate’: With Healey’s new hires comes new responsibility for the MBTA’s problems

Transit advocates and politicos applauded her appointments Friday, with many especially heaping high praise on her decision to make Thomas P. Glynn chairman of the MBTA board.

Bud Shuster, unabashed ‘asphalt king’ of Congress, dies at 91

A former longtime Republican congressman from Pennsylvania, Bud Shuster funneled billions of dollars in gasoline tax revenue to his Appalachian district for highway construction.

Sports

Mac Meissner opened the Lecom Suncoast Classic with a 71 and was just hoping to make the cut before shooting 59.

Mac Meissner, a second-year pro, becomes eighth player to break 60 on the Korn Ferry Tour

Meissner made a 15-foot eagle putt Friday on his final hole for a 12-under-par 59.

The Lions drafted Quintez Cephus in 2020.

NFL suspends five players for violating gambling policy

Three were suspended for betting on NFL games in the 2022 season, and two others were punished for betting from an NFL facility on non-NFL games.

Bruce Arena (shown during the 2022 Revolution season) is no stranger to sharing his thoughts about officials.

Revolution coach Bruce Arena fined for his criticism of officials in Columbus

The 10-men Revolution surrendered a one-goal lead on the final play of Saturday's match, sparking a torrent from their rarely bashful head coach.

Defending Stanley Cup champion Avalanche avoid falling into 2-0 hole against Kraken

BOYS' VOLLEYBALL NOTEBOOK

The genuine support for St. John’s (Shrewsbury) boys’ volleyball on and off the court is growing

red sox at Brewers | 8:10 p.m. (NESN+)

Game 21: Red Sox at Brewers lineups and pregame notes

Business

NFL suspends five players for violating gambling policy

Three were suspended for betting on NFL games in the 2022 season, and two others were punished for betting from an NFL facility on non-NFL games.

It took 3 years, but the state now has more jobs than before the pandemic

March employment exceeded the February 2020 level by 14,000 jobs, according to data released on Friday.

A Mass. company woke up millions of Floridians with a false phone alert. The state fired them.

Stephen King’s blue check on Twitter was apparently an unwelcome gift from Elon Musk

magazine

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston 2023

Will real estate prices on Cape Cod and the Islands ever come back to earth?

A billboard from Stop Handgun Violence, a Massachusetts based organization, in 2018.

The brutal calculus of life expectancy and where you can afford to live

This week's daters: Merrick and Mary

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We both go to the same university’

metro

Budding trees surround the Robert Sherman Windmill, built in 1812 in Warren, R.I.

New England needs some rain and just might get some this weekend

Coast Guard suspends search for fourth missing fisherman; identifies three other men recovered at sea

In Providence, a push to house people instead of things

sports

Giannis Antetokounmpo was injured in Game 1 and the Bucks lost that game, but they are 12-8 since the start of the regular season without him.

Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo’s availability for Game 3 against the Heat remains uncertain

Ex-Celtic Ernie Barrett, beloved at Kansas State, dies at 93

Why the stakes are especially high for the Patriots in this draft

business

President Joe Biden speaks at the fourth virtual Major Economies Forum on energy and climate, Thursday, April 20, 2023, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington.

Biden to sign order prioritizing ‘environmental justice’

In Cambridge, a bid to keep local news alive

Where Mass. home prices are hot — and not

politics

A demonstrator in favor of access to abortion pills places signage on Friday outside the Supreme Court in Washington.

Abortion emerging as single most important issue of the 2024 campaign

Elizabeth Warren’s income slightly down, tax rate steady in latest disclosures

Supreme Court to issue abortion pill ruling on Friday. Here’s what to know.

Nation

FILE - Elyane Stefanick held her daughter Amara, 7, at a growing memorial for victims of the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Jan. 25, 2023.

Frequent shootings put US mass killings on a record pace

Tennessee gun-control push at crossroads as proposal stalls

After shootings of young people spark outrage, gun violence experts decry self-defense laws

World

Qin Gang, China's foreign minister, spoke during the Lanting Forum in Shanghai, China, on Friday.

China foreign minister: Taiwan, foreign supporters ‘playing with fire’

UN’s weather agency: 2022 was nasty, deadly, costly and hot

Even with US tanks, Ukraine’s allies are struggling to meet weapons pledges

opinion

Fox News becomes the first cog in the disinformation machine that undermined the 2020 election to pay a significant price for its actions.

Fox News pays the price for its election lies

Too many young men are failing online

Low unemployment is the cheapest anti-poverty program

lifestyle

I was rude and I want to apologize

He won’t introduce me to family and friends

The Silver Unicorn Bookstore hosts its first children’s graphic novel festival

food & dining

Charcoal grilled street corn at Loco Taqueria in Boston.

Mahaniyom team plans a new restaurant; Soleil comes to Boston Public Market

At Central Square’s Shōjō, Chinatown favorites and bold new flavors

At Barbara Lynch’s restaurants, growing concern over a toxic culture

travel

Fly fishermen fill the Battenkill River near the Arlington Green Covered Bridge in Arlington, Vt.

Can Norman Rockwell and fly fishing revive tourism in this tiny Vermont town?

David Rubenstein is thinking about Fenway Park (but not the fun snacks you find there). And he’s always working.

Tauck requires a COVID vaccine to cruise, so I require a refund!

Arts

Gioacchino Altobelli, "The Piazza of Santa Maria Maggiore With a Photographer," 1860s.

When in Rome . . .

Galleries: Making magic at Fountain Street Gallery

After decades in the dark, Paul Goesch’s architectural fancies are finally seeing the light of day

Books

Author Stephen King said on Twitter Thursday that he had not paid for the app's Twitter Blue service, despite a blue check next to his name that indicated he had. Elon Musk has claimed he is paying for the Maine horror writer's subscription himself.

Stephen King’s blue check on Twitter was apparently an unwelcome gift from Elon Musk

With ‘Small Mercies,’ Dennis Lehane is telling the Boston story he’s always wanted to tell

In Dennis Lehane’s latest novel, ‘Small Mercies,’ a Southie woman searches for her missing daughter in a Boston on the brink of change

Movies

“BlackBerry” will be shown May 2 at the Somerville Theatre during Independent Film Festival Boston.

The Independent Film Festival Boston marks 20 years

In ‘Ghosted,’ starring Chris Evans and Ana de Armas, rom-com becomes bomb-com

Phoenix still rising

Television

Gaten Matarazzo, left, as Toby in the Broadway revival of “Sweeney Todd.”

From ‘Stranger Things’ to ‘Sweeney Todd,’ Matarazzo has what it takes

The Nicholas Alahverdian story gets the ‘Dateline’ treatment tonight

The unvarnished villainy of Logan Roy

music

South African soprano Golda Schultz performing Sibelius's tone poem "Luonnotar" in Symphony Hall on Thursday night.

At BSO, a high-flying homage to Sibelius

‘Iphigenié en Tauride’ is mythological melodrama at its finest

Despite his name, Louis Prima Jr. wasn’t always a hep cat, and that’s no jive

Theater/Dance

From left: Jonathan Grunert as Professor Henry Higgins, Madeline Powell as Eliza Doolittle, and John Adkison as Colonel Pickering in the national tour of "My Fair Lady."

Ultimately, this ‘My Fair Lady’ is quite ‘loverly’

Taylor Mac on ‘Joy and Pandemic,’ the play he’s been thinking about his whole life

In ‘And So We Walked,’ DeLanna Studi follows the footsteps of her ancestors along the Trail of Tears

globe local

Brothers Brian Worrell (left), District 4 Councilor, and state Representative Chris Worrell just opened a district office on Erie Street.

Worrell brothers, one a councilor and one a state representative, open joint Dorchester office for ‘top-notch constituent services’

Fire destroys multiple homes along beachfront in Scituate

Reading harpist returns to hometown for performance with the US Air Force Concert Band

Obituaries

Representative Bud Shuster presided over a hearing on airline safety on Wednesday June 19, 1996 on Capitol Hill.

Bud Shuster, unabashed ‘asphalt king’ of Congress, dies at 91

Jessica Burstein, whose camera captured New York, dies at 76

Ex-Celtic Ernie Barrett, beloved at Kansas State, dies at 93