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Manhunt continues in Maine for shooting suspect

Follow the latest updates about the shootings in Maine

Live Updates

At least 18 killed in shootings

6:05 a.m.
Some Maine schools closed for another day as search for shooting suspect continues
12:56 a.m.
Watch video of police outside Bowdoin home
10:50 p.m.
Deaf Community of Maine holds online vigil to mourn four victims

Artist Miia Zellner, who lives in Lewiston, nailed hearts she made to trees on Main Street.

After the shock of the shootings in Lewiston, an excruciating wait for news about loved ones

For some, an eye-popping message from a neighbor: Active shooter in our neighborhood.

A high-tech manhunt underway Map: Shelter-in-place advisories More coverage

‘The time has now come’: Maine congressman flips assault weapons stance

How the shootings in Lewiston unfolded

The suspect and his troubles are well known in community

Just-In-Time bowling alley, site of shooting

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‘We cannot let that stand’: Wu moves forward with plan to clear ‘Mass. and Cass’

Wu framed the coordinated effort as a permanent and empathetic solution to the prolonged humanitarian crisis at the intersection known as Mass. and Cass, widely considered the epicenter of the region’s opioid abuse and homeless crisis.

Boston College swimmers and divers lose bid for injunction to lift suspension for alleged hazing
A judge preliminarily ruled against the 37 swimmers and divers seeking the injunction on every element of their lawsuit.

After tense debate, Arlington adopts new housing plan
The town is the largest yet to approve a plan required by a 2021 state law that mandates denser housing in communities served by the MBTA.

They lost to Chris Sununu. Now they agree on who should take his place.

Three of the past four Democratic gubernatorial nominees in New Hampshire are backing the same candidate in the 2024 race.

Biden will face a primary bid from Representative Dean Phillips, who says Democrats need to focus on future

Lindsay Clancy pleads not guilty to killing her children during arraignment at hospital, ordered held without bail

A Palestinian man sat in his wheelchair as people milled around along a partially destroyed street following the ongoing Israeli bombardment of Khan Yunis and other areas of the Gaza Strip on Oct. 27.

Israel strikes outskirts of Gaza City during second ground raid in as many days

US warplanes, meanwhile, struck targets in eastern Syria that the Pentagon said were linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard after a string of attacks on American forces, and two mysterious objects hit towns in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

US fighter jets strike Iran-linked sites in Syria in retaliation for attacks on US troops

dan shaughnessy

Theo Epstein’s fingerprints are all over the Craig Breslow hire, and other thoughts
It’s not going to be easy, but if the Red Sox allow their new chief baseball officer to spend while he rebuilds, this could be Theo 2.0.

Buddy Teevens (15) and Tim Murphy (70) played together at Silver Lake, and each began their coaching careers as assistants at Boston University.

Harvard’s Tim Murphy grew up with Dartmouth’s Buddy Teevens. Now, he continues on without him.

“I looked to him as a brother and it was mutual,” said Murphy of Teevens, with whom he grew up in Pembroke. “His mother was like another Mom to me. I probably ate more meals at their house than I did at my own.”

Mary Logue, 90, surrounded by her four of her six grandkids — Brendan (top left), Amanda (top right), Catherine (bottom left), James (bottom right) — on the front stoop of the Dartmouth Street house.

Beyond the Gilded Gate

One house, one family, and the fading dream of homeownership

Within 100 years, a Watertown family has watched the seams of the American Dream coming apart — one stitch, one generation at a time.

Tell us your family’s Greater Boston homeownership story

Explore the project

This week's daters: Chris N. and Colleen K.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘He shared his love of Halloween’

Will a construction supervisor and a social worker find love this spooky season?

Tourists take in the view at Grindelwald First in the Swiss Alps.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

Our travel writer has found a new favorite destination, and it’s in Switzerland

Once you learn to sidestep the tourists, Grindelwald in the Swiss Alps is breathtaking place.

The day I grew to really appreciate my son started with a Disney tantrum — mine

At the theme park, frustrations can end in tears. But not usually for the adults.

Opinion

IDEAS | GRACE RUBENSTEIN

The next frontier in baby-making

More successful IVF, egg cells from men, and sperm cells from women? Biotech researchers aim to greatly expand reproductive opportunity.

Help people with disabilities live in the community

IDEAS | Leslie McCall & Jennifer Sherman

It’s time for an expansive new labor movement

Who is to blame for the state of the nation? Mitt Romney.

Maine’s gun laws need common-sense updates

More recent News

Taking stock of the Patriots: Who is trending up and who is trending down?
Demario Douglas and Michael Onwenu have become valuable contributors, but DeVante Parker and JuJu Smith-Schuster are struggling.

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

October stalwart Nate Eovaldi gets the ball as Rangers hope competitor can set the tone against Diamondbacks in the World Series
Eovaldi is 4-0 with a 2.42 ERA in four postseason starts this season, and could make two World Series starts and perhaps another relief appearance as Texas seeks the first championship in franchise history.

Hasan Minhaj calls New Yorker story ‘misleading’ in response video
In a 20-minute clip, the comedian responds to assertions that that he embellished and invented stories in his stand-up act.

In Boston’s District 3, candidates have similar priorities, different answers
Despite their diverging political philosophies, candidates John FitzGerald and Joel Richards largely both agree on the main issues facing Dorchester-based District 3.

For musicians on the way up, nonprofit’s support hits all the right notes
Founded by former Berklee president Roger Brown, the Salt Lick Incubator provides grants, production guidance, marketing strategies, and much more.

Otis’ stunning turn to monster Pacific hurricane kills at least 27 in Acapulco
Hurrican Otis turned from mild to monster in record time, and scientists are struggling to figure out how — and why they didn’t see it coming.

Recommended reads

One family scammed the lottery for $20 million. Then their luck ran out.

A Watertown father and sons cashed more than 14,000 winning tickets, but something just didn’t add up. Inside the largest lottery scheme in Massachusetts history.

Inside the movement to legalize magic mushrooms in Massachusetts
A growing number of recreational users of psilocybin mushrooms in New England are attempting to turn their passion for the fungi into a broader movement, while campaigning for local measures that would legalize the use and cultivation of the plants.

‘Tick tock’: Now that the House has a speaker, Congress has a big to-do list and not much time to act
Lawmakers face a federal government shutdown deadline on Nov. 17 and a White House call for more than $160 billion for immediate national security and domestic priorities.

A $2 million effort to ‘level up’ Downtown Boston
The initiative aims to recalibrate downtown, and the the business improvement district’s work within it, to a post-pandemic reality.

Culture & Lifestyle

Cicely Carew's work installed for the 2023 Foster Prize at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston.

At the ICA, a vital view into the Boston art scene

From left: Canadian folk singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, strumming her guitar outside The Revolution club in London, 1968; Mitchell performing in “Joni Jam,” a concert honoring her at Gorge Amphitheatre on June 10, 2023 in George, Wash.; Mitchell at a soundcheck prior to her performance in a concert in Berlin on July 21, 1990.

Celebrating Joni on her 80th

Richard Roundtree (as John Shaft) in the 1971 film "Shaft," directed by Gordon Parks.

A tribute to cinema’s bad mother-shut-your-mouth

Trae Crowder

‘Liberal Redneck’ Trae Crowder knows what you think about Southerners

Special Projects

Photo Illustration

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.

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

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Creating things in the OctoStudio app from the MIT Media Lab involves graphical coding blocks.

IDEAS | MITCHEL RESNICK

Transforming screen time: Kids can use smartphones to enhance their creativity

Muslim community members mourned Wadea Al-Fayoume at his grave in La Grange Park, Ill., Oct. 16, 2023. A Palestinian American woman seriously injured in a suspected hate crime that left her 6-year-old son dead in a suburb of Chicago is asking the public to “pray for peace” as she recuperates from her injuries.

Passionate debate over the Israel-Hamas war is fine. Violence is not.

A police officer stood next to a victim of Russian missile strikes on a mail depot in the village of Korotych, Kharkiv region, on Oct. 21. The strikes killed at least six people.

IDEAS | Boštjan Videmšek

‘If we stop fighting, we, Ukrainians, will be gone.’

Say it again, Supremes: Forced union dues in government are illegal

This aerial view shows demonstrators unfurling a giant banner against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a rally against the Israeli government's judicial overhaul plan near Azrieli Mall in Tel Aviv on Sept. 23, 2023.

Israel must maintain its democracy despite war with Hamas

A dog named Ducky demonstrated FluentPet's communication buttons during the Pepcom Digital Experience before the CES tech show in January.

IDEAS | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

If your dog could speak, would you like what it said?

Metro

Lewiston shootings

Search for Lewiston mass shooting suspect continues. Follow live updates.

At least 18 people are dead in shootings in Lewiston, Maine, according to officials. Authorities identified a Bowdoin man, Robert Card, as a suspect.

Amid lockdown, search for Lewiston shooter suspect to continue

The search for a Maine man suspected of fatally shooting 18 people in Lewiston Wednesday night, and injuring 13 more, is expected to enter its third day on Friday as much of Central Maine remains in lockdown.

They lost to Chris Sununu. Now they agree on who should take his place.

Three of the past four Democratic gubernatorial nominees in New Hampshire are backing the same candidate in the 2024 race.

Law enforcement search home in Bowdoin as part of their investigation into the Lewiston shootings

Law enforcement search home in Bowdoin, Maine, as part of their investigation into the Lewiston shootings that killed at least 18 people.

Sports

Buddy Teevens (15) and Tim Murphy (70) played together at Silver Lake, and each began their coaching careers as assistants at Boston University.

Harvard’s Tim Murphy grew up with Dartmouth’s Buddy Teevens. Now, he continues on without him.

“I looked to him as a brother and it was mutual,” said Murphy of Teevens, with whom he grew up in Pembroke. “His mother was like another Mom to me. I probably ate more meals at their house than I did at my own.”

Theo Epstein built two World Series champions in Boston, then another one with the Cubs.

dan shaughnessy

Theo Epstein’s fingerprints are all over the Craig Breslow hire, and other thoughts

It’s not going to be easy, but if the Red Sox allow their new chief baseball officer to spend while he rebuilds, this could be Theo 2.0.

After absorbing a tough division loss to the Patriots last Sunday, Josh Allen rallied the Bills to a 24-18 victory over the Buccaneers Thursday night in Orchard Park, N.Y.

Bills 24, Buccaneers 18

Josh Allen gets Bills off to fast start in win over Buccaneers

After a week of questions about his “low-energy” approach and Buffalo’s slow-starting offense, Allen came through for the Bills (5-3), throwing for 324 yards on 31-of-40 passing in a 24-18 win over the Buccaneers.

US women's soccer

Alex Morgan misses penalty and US women settle for a scoreless draw with Colombia in exhibition

Thursday's HS football roundup

AJ Pinet (315 yards, 6 TDs) runs wild in Dedham’s Tri-Valley League romp over Millis

Ducks 4, Bruins 3 (OT)

Bruins coach Jim Montgomery calls his team’s first loss of the season ‘inexcusable’ after three late goals by the Ducks

Business

Will Ivanka Trump have to testify at her father’s civil fraud trial? Judge to hear arguments Friday

Days after former president Donald Trump got a taste of the witness stand, his New York civil business fraud trial is turning to the question of whether his daughter Ivanka will have to testify, too.

ARPA-H director, visiting Cambridge hub, sees the agency spawning health care ‘moon shots’

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health opened its hub in Kendall Square Thursday, and Renee Wegrzyn, the head of the new federal agency, has high hopes for it.

Home of the Week: The man who built ‘This Old House’ lived here

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried testifies outside jury’s presence as judge decides what he can say

magazine

I am enjoying my current flings, but wonder about a real relationship

Abby Chin and Mike Gorman

Mike Gorman, the legendary voice of the Celtics. And my dear friend.

Smashed Potatoes With Chili-Lemon Vinaigrette

Skip the mashing and try smashing for a standout potato side dish

Join the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston for a program Tuesday.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Oct. 23 - Oct. 29

metro

Heavily armed police marched into the yard of the father of suspect Robert Card on Meadow Road in Bowdoin Thursday night.

Lewiston locked down for second night as manhunt continues

‘Frightened for the community,’ new president leads Bates College through ongoing lockdown

Robert Card, and his troubles, well known in his community

sports

Torey Lovullo opened the news conference prior to his first World Series as a manager by snapping a photo of assembled media “just to break the ice.”

Diamondbacks, underdogs again in the World Series, savor the slights

October stalwart Nate Eovaldi gets the ball as Rangers hope competitor can set the tone against Diamondbacks in the World Series

Astros manager Dusty Baker confirms retirement, assures his next step is ‘going to be good, whatever it is’

business

Arlington Town Hall.

After tense debate, Arlington adopts new housing plan

Meta to ignore ethics board’s advice on drug-post oversight

UMass says it generated billions in economic activity

politics

The al-Tanf military outpost in southern Syria on Oct. 22, 2018. Two U.S. officials told The Associated Press that the al-Tanf garrison, where US troops have maintained a presence to train forces as part of a broad campaign against the Islamic State group, was attacked by drones on Oct. 19.

US fighter jets strike Iran-linked sites in Syria in retaliation for attacks on US troops

Amo leads Leonard in R.I.’s First Congressional District race, new poll shows

Judge tells Georgia to redraw voting maps

Nation

Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., speaks with reporters after a Democratic caucus meeting on Capitol Hill, Oct. 1, 2021, in Washington.

Biden will face a primary bid from Representative Dean Phillips, who says Democrats need to focus on future

1,935 confirmed cases and 28 deaths in a week. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

New US House speaker tried to help overturn the 2020 election, raising concerns about the next one

World

A Palestinian man sat in his wheelchair as people milled around along a partially destroyed street following the ongoing Israeli bombardment of Khan Yunis and other areas of the Gaza Strip on Oct. 27.

Israel strikes outskirts of Gaza City during second ground raid in as many days

Israel strikes outskirts of Gaza City during second ground raid in as many days

Israeli officials, military split on ground invasion

opinion

Members of former president Donald Trump's legal team, including Sidney Powell, left, and Jenna Ellis, center, spoke during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters on Nov. 19, 2020, in Washington.

A week of flips: Trump election-theft plotters admit their crimes

State, Boston police caught using high-tech surveillance gadgetry without a warrant

What do single mothers really need? Hint: It isn’t marriage.

lifestyle

I’m cynical about love

How to talk to kids about gun violence

Your ultimate guide to Halloween Week in Salem: from tricks to treats

food & dining

Tavern on Main is on Main Street in the village of Chepachet, R.I. Paranormal researcher Tom D’Agostino has more than 80 accounts of hauntings at the tavern.

Ghost stories — and unearthly encounters — feed curious guests at this Chepachet, R.I., tavern

Hyde Park’s Roundhead Brewing is turning 1 and ready to party

In Rhode Island, a hunt is on to understand the decline of the state’s iconic quahog clam

travel

Tourists take in the view at Grindelwald First in the Swiss Alps.

Our travel writer has found a new favorite destination, and it’s in Switzerland

Feeling down? Welcome to the ‘happy place’ of the happiest people in the world

Puzzling a way out in Indigenous Connecticut

Arts

Cicely Carew's work installed for the 2023 Foster Prize at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston.

At the ICA, a vital view into the Boston art scene

Robert Irwin, artist of fleeting light and space, is dead at 95

Institute of Contemporary Art director Jill Medvedow to retire

Books

Three horror novelists tell us what their favorite spine-chilling tale of terror is. Now it’s your turn.

The awe of horror; or how I learned to stop worrying and love the rep

Author of new biography of Mitt Romney based his book on ‘the whole truth’

Movies

Mr. Roundtree, in 2019.

Richard Roundtree, star of ‘Shaft,’ dies at 81

A tribute to cinema’s bad mother-shut-your-mouth

‘Anatomy of a Fall’: a murder mystery that casts shadows of doubt

Television

Hasan Minhaj attends Sony Pictures' "No Hard Feelings" premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on June 20, 2023 in New York City.

Hasan Minhaj calls New Yorker story ‘misleading’ in response video

On the viewing menu for November: the return of Max's Julia Child comedy

In ‘Fellow Travelers,’ a gay couple on the wrong side of history

music

From left: Canadian folk singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, strumming her guitar outside The Revolution club in London, 1968; Mitchell performing in “Joni Jam,” a concert honoring her at Gorge Amphitheatre on June 10, 2023 in George, Wash.; Mitchell at a soundcheck prior to her performance in a concert in Berlin on July 21, 1990.

Celebrating Joni on her 80th

For musicians on the way up, nonprofit’s support hits all the right notes

Podcast: Folk singer Chance Emerson on building his music career in New England

Theater/Dance

Dennis Trainor Jr. and Jennifer Rohn rehearse a scene from "How I Learned to Drive" at the Charlestown Working Theater in Charlestown. The Actors' Shakespeare Project production opens at the Calderwood Pavilion on Nov. 3.

‘How I Learned to Drive’ burrows deep into the murky memories of trauma

‘Liberal Redneck’ Trae Crowder knows what you think about Southerners

An unflinching ‘Sweeney Todd’ at Moonbox

Health

Signs posted in the windows of Rhode Island Hospital in Providence serve as a send-off to the military medical team that helped the hospital through some of the pandemic’s darkest days. (Bill Murphy/Lifespan)

Lifespan, largest hospital owner in R.I., could change name in expanded partnership with Brown University

CVS Health pulls some cough-and-cold treatments with ingredient deemed ineffective by doctors

Neil Steinberg, former CEO of Rhode Island Foundation, to chair R.I.’s new life sciences agency

Obituaries

Mr. Irwin would transform empty rooms with minimal gestures, challenging patrons' perceptions.

Robert Irwin, artist of fleeting light and space, is dead at 95

Terry Dischinger, college basketball star and Olympian, dies at 82

Bertie Bowman, revered aide who got start sweeping Capitol steps, dies at 92