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Nightmare in Mission Hill | Chapter One

The untold story of the Charles and Carol Stuart shooting

You may have heard the story. You may think you know what happened. But you don’t.

Israeli warplanes hit targets in Gaza as it resumes offensive, warning of attacks to come in south

The renewed fighting came a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli officials and urged them to do more to protect Palestinian civilians as they seek to destroy Hamas.

Israel knew Hamas’s attack plan more than a year ago

DeSantis and Newsom lob insults and talk some policy in a faceoff between two White House aspirants
In an alternate reality, the prime-time showdown between California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom and Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis could have been a preview of a 2024 general election debate.

Five takeaways from the DeSantis-Newsom debate

‘The only eulogy to Henry Kissinger worth reading’: Anthony Bourdain’s scathing comments about diplomat resurface
“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands,” the chef wrote in his memoir.

Kissinger’s ties to Harvard date back to the 1940s

Mass. lawmakers reach deal on delayed $2.8 billion spending bill with shelter funding, but its fate remains unclear amid GOP objections

The deal would pour $250 million into the struggling emergency shelter system and mandate that the state create overflow sites for families with nowhere else to go.

This is Bill Belichick's 24th season as Patriots coach. Could it also be his last?

dan shaughnessy

Imagine if you will a Bill Belichick job interview, and other thoughts

The notion of Belichick coaching another team next season has taken on steam. But how would that hiring process go?

Patriots-Chiefs gets flexed out of Monday night slot on Dec. 18 Although it still remains a secret, Bailey Zappe in line to start for the Patriots on Sunday

MATTHEW GILBERT

The 10 best TV shows of 2023
A sibling rivalry for the ages. A road-rage incident. A restaurant’s struggles. A chaotic cross-country journey. And many murders in many buildings. They all add up to a rewarding year for television viewers.

Around New England with Kevin Cullen

In Vermont, a mother and father marvel at a son who will not be stopped by bullets
Elizabeth Price and her husband, Ali Awartani, have been bolstered by their son Hisham’s resilience, and his determination to stay strong for other Palestinians.

After friend was shot in Vermont, Palestinian student at Brown says America is ‘no safer’ than home

Opinion

A team of veterinarians, scientists, and volunteers attempt to turn a tranquilized 7-ton wild African elephant that had collapsed on his belly onto his side in preparation for an elaborate and messy procedure that will collect the animal's semen.

IDEAS | Boštjan Videmšek with photographs by Matjaž Krivic

How to collect a sperm sample from an elephant

Fertility rates of the majestic creatures are in decline, both in the wild and in captivity. Frozen Dumbo 3 aims to reverse that.

Start talking now about postwar Gaza

A new name for members of a Grand Old Party

Trump recycles his health care hokum

If you can’t trust your barber, who can you trust?

Fireworks went off during the 82nd annual Boston Common Tree Lighting Thursday evening. The event drew a large, joyous crowd to kick off the holiday season.

Holiday tree brings glowing joy to Boston Common

The annual tree lighting on Boston Common Thursday evening drew a joyous crowd of all ages who rang in the holiday season drinking hot chocolate, munching fried dough and singing Jingle Bells.

Former representative Liz Cheney.

Six takeaways from Liz Cheney’s book assailing Trump and his ‘enablers’

Former Wyoming representative Liz Cheney's new book offers a rare peek inside the Republican cloakroom at what she heard from her colleagues about “the Orange Jesus,” as one wryly called Donald Trump.

Representative George Santos.

Representative George Santos is facing a vote on his expulsion from Congress as lawmakers weigh accusations

The first-term Republican congressman is at grave risk of becoming just the sixth member of the House to be ousted by colleagues.

The Revolution currently play in Foxborough, but their owners would like to move to Everett.

Everett soccer stadium for Revolution hits legislative roadblock — again

The project faces an unclear future after legislative leaders failed to lift the industrial designation from a key property.

Single family garage

Beyond the Gilded Gate

Reimagining an American ideal

California is trying to tackle its housing crisis by rethinking the traditional single-family home. Why isn’t Massachusetts?

Explore the project

More recent News

Celtics learned to floor it when needed, but can they do so again when it really counts?
The NBA In-Season Tournament might have been derided by some, but Boston could apply a valuable lesson from it for the rest of its season.

Bruins 3, Sharks 0

This time, Sharks sighting is just what the Bruins needed
The Bruins (15-4-3) snapped their three-game losing streak by shutting out their toothless visitors from San Jose, 3-0, Thursday night at TD Garden.

Worcester Red Sox owners reach agreement to sell the team to Diamond Baseball Holdings
The Diamond group already owns the Single A Salem Red Sox and Double A Portland Sea Dogs among its 26 other minor league teams.

Massive clock projection at MIT uses local twist to track climate crisis
During COP28, the MIT Climate Clock Team will project a countdown to the projected date and time that Earth will have warmed 1.5 degrees Celsius — a limit on global temperature increase that the planet is projected to hit in May 2024.

Woman killed in apparent murder-suicide in Marlborough came to US ‘seeking the American Dream,’ friend says

Kethlen Paula Alves Trindade DaRocha, 28, was a hairdresser who started her own salon in Brazil before moving to the United States while her family kept the shop running, said Junior Dantas, a family friend.

Senate Democrats authorize subpoenas in the Supreme Court ethics probe. GOP won’t back enforcement

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have voted to authorize subpoenas for two prominent conservatives who arranged luxury travel and other benefits for Supreme Court justices.

Globe Santa

Grandparents lament they are ‘a little old for the task’ of raising children
Grandparents, ideally, can often offer a safe home with unconditional love. But for many it comes at a cost, and often this cost is financial.

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Top Places to Work in Massachusetts 2023: Explore the winners lists and more

Discover the 175 companies with the happiest employees in the state.

RFK Jr.’s campaign spending is as unconventional as his run for president
Running for president as a political neophyte, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign has been financed by millions in donations from a motley group of supporters that include a sizable group who share Kennedy’s vaccine skepticism.

bob ryan

A message to all the LeBron James haters out there, and other thoughts
Once again, it’s time to empty out that Desk Drawer of the Sports Mind.

‘Hypervisible and invisible’: Olin College president discusses journey as a Black woman in engineering
"I’ve gotten accustomed to entering spaces where I am the first, or the only," said Gilda Barabino.

Culture & Lifestyle

Judy Song (left) and Jenna Agbayani in Lloyd Suh's "The Heart Sellers," now at the Huntington.

Alone together in a new world

Jeremy Strong attended "An Enemy of the People" Conversation & Press Conference at The Edition Hotel on Nov. 15, 2023 in New York City. The actor will play Roy Cohn in the upcoming Donald Trump biopic "The Apprentice."

Jeremy Strong cast as Roy Cohn in new Trump biopic ‘The Apprentice’

Lakecia Benjamin comes to the Berklee Performance Center on Friday.

With ‘Phoenix,’ jazz saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin soars to a new realm

These recent titles deliver juicy plots that will keep you reading.

A dozen thrilling new page-turners to give you goosebumps this winter

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

Students participated in a protest outside the Columbia University campus on Nov. 15.

IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Rejecting students who support terrorism isn’t cancel culture

The advent of the 2023 Advent calendar extravaganza

The inescapable conundrum of anonymous speech

Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges, pictured, was charged with felony domestic assault by Los Angeles County prosecutors after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend in front of their two children in 2022.

IDEAS | JOSHUA PEDERSON

Don’t draft horrible people for your fantasy sports team

Lights adorned a Marshfield home. Attorney General Andrea Campbell and Governor Maura Healey have called for the end of the state’s residential electricity retail program. But Massachusetts should fix rather than nix the residential retail program.

Giving consumers a choice when buying their electricity

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

The untold story of the Charles and Carol Stuart shooting

This is a story of Mission Hill, the Charles and Carol Stuart shooting, and the people who got caught up in it and never managed to get free.

Share your thoughts on this story: Manhunt

Share your thoughts on the second installment of our Nightmare in Mission Hill series.

Share your thoughts on this story: Shooting

Share your thoughts on the first installment of our Nightmare in Mission Hill series.

Share your thoughts on this story: Crackdown

Share your thoughts on the third installment of our Nightmare in Mission Hill series.

Sports

This is Bill Belichick's 24th season as Patriots coach. Could it also be his last?

dan shaughnessy

Imagine if you will a Bill Belichick job interview, and other thoughts

The notion of Belichick coaching another team next season has taken on steam. But how would that hiring process go?

Cowboys cornerback DaRon Bland comes up with his league-leading eighth interception of the season on a pass intended for the Seahawks' Tyler Lockett.

COWBOYS 41, SEAHAWKS 35

Cowboys’ victory was anything but bland as they set up big NFC showdown with Eagles

Dallas won a back-and-forth affair and improved to 9-3 ahead of its home game against NFC-leading Philadelphia (10-1).

Milton captain Josh Ricciardi (74) is all smiles after helping the school secure its first Super Bowl title.

MIAA Super Bowl live updates: With six straight touchdowns, Milton is Super Bowl champs for the first time

Follow along as 16 schools from across the state vie for the ultimate crown here in Foxborough, starting with Division 8 on Wednesday evening.

PWHL teams trim rosters to 27 players

D3 SUPER BOWL: Milton 42, Walpole 21

Patrick Miller (4 TD passes) rallies Milton from slow start with strong finish vs. Walpole to win program’s first Division 3 Super Bowl title

Bruins 3, Sharks 0

This time, Sharks sighting is just what the Bruins needed

Business

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

Cumberland Farms scion George P. Haseotes bets big on St. Regis condos

Haseotes, who has locked down 10 units in the Seaport tower, appears to believe that the market will turn around as mortgage rates decline.

Top world leaders will speak at UN climate summit. Global warming, fossil fuels will be high in mind.

International climate talks turned to a power game as dozens of world‘s leaders including the Saudi crown prince and India’s prime minister were to speak, though two of the world’s most powerful men — President Biden of the US and President Xi Jinping — were glaringly absent.

Musk blasts companies that have stopped advertising on X

Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge shows price pressures continuing to cool

magazine

Top Places to Work in Massachusetts 2023: Explore the winners lists and more

The Globe’s film critic picks 6 holiday movies that are actually good

What 52 bandannas say about my late son’s life

My in-laws helped repay my student loan. How do I thank them?

metro

A photo of the Boston Globe from January, 1990 is projected at a basketball court the in the Mission Hill neighborhood, the former neighborhood of the Bennett family.

Share your thoughts on this story: Legacy

R.I. reaps millions in first year of recreational cannabis sales

Share your thoughts on this story: The doubt

sports

West Boylston's Connor Muldoon (No. 20) had 11 carries for 62 yards in the Division 8 Super Bowl triumph over Carver on Wednesday at Gillette Stadium.

Success in the MIAA Super Bowl is no secret for running teams: ‘Get off the football, knock the sled back, drive blocking every day.’

King Philip uses a balanced attack in cementing a perfect run with its Division 2 Super Bowl win over Marshfield

In his first event since the Masters, Tiger Woods has a sloppy finish for a 75 in his return in the Bahamas

business

Even with the consortium’s latest move to reduce output, analysts speculate that prices may not rise considerably at a time when inventories are flush and nations outside OPEC have expanded production capabilities.

OPEC Plus cuts production further to blunt falling oil prices

Autoworkers strike cut Ford sales by 100,000 vehicles and cost company $1.7 billion in profits

‘Hypervisible and invisible’: Olin College president discusses journey as a Black woman in engineering

politics

Representative George Santos.

Representative George Santos is facing a vote on his expulsion from Congress as lawmakers weigh accusations

DeSantis and Newsom lob insults and talk some policy in a faceoff between two White House aspirants

Senate Democrats authorize subpoenas in the Supreme Court ethics probe. GOP won’t back enforcement

Nation

Florida Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis speaks in the spin room following a debate held by Fox News, in Alpharetta, Georgia, on Nov. 30.

Five takeaways from the DeSantis-Newsom debate

Belief death penalty is applied unfairly shows capital punishment’s growing isolation in US, report says

Don’t eat pre-cut cantaloupe if the source is unknown, CDC says, as deadly salmonella outbreak grows

World

Palestinians visit their houses destroyed in the Israeli bombings in Al-Zahra, on the outskirts of Gaza City, on Nov. 30.

Israeli warplanes hit targets in Gaza as it resumes offensive, warning of attacks to come in south

Japan expresses concern about US Osprey aircraft continuing to fly without details of fatal crash

Ukraine’s Zelensky says the war with Russia is in a new phase as winter looms

opinion

Author Ben Mezrich at his Newton home in the room where he often writes.

Ben Mezrich’s new book is on Elon Musk and how Twitter broke the billionaire

Latino disproportionality in DCF points to need for language access, cultural competency

The advent of the 2023 Advent calendar extravaganza

lifestyle

She says she won’t date men

Why extended warranties aren’t necessary

With White House holiday decorations, Jill Biden wanted holiday visitors to feel like kids again

food & dining

Exterior of the Kowloon at dusk.

Four people charged in connection to Thanksgiving Eve brawl at Kowloon Restaurant

Somerville’s Wade BBQ promises smoky meat with a Boston spin; june bug opens from the Field & Vine team

In Harvard Square, the Painted Burro is a stylish replacement for the Border Cafe

travel

The essence of a Saint Lucia getaway: piton views, the sea, and a hammock (in your own private villa).

We’ve visited St. Lucia 10 times. Here’s what we’ve learned.

How to eat your way around San Juan

What we learned on our multigenerational trip to Disney World

Arts

Installation view of "Like Magic" at MASS MoCA. Foreground: Gelare Khoshgozaran, "U.S. Customs Demands to Know", ongoing. Courtesy of the artist. Background (from left): Raven Chacon, "Compass," 2021. "Score," painted on wall. Courtesy of the artist. Raven Chacon, For Zitkála-Šá, 2017–2020. Courtesy of the artist.

In ‘Like Magic,’ 10 artists conjure shadowy refuge at MassMoCA

Sylvia Plath’s botanical interests offer a fresh perspective on the poet’s life and work in a Smith College exhibit

The rooms where it happened: A new MFA show looks at photographers’ studios

Books

Elena Palladino (”Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley: Drowned by the Quabbin”) will discuss her book Thursday at noon at the State Library of Massachusetts.

Author readings around Boston through Dec. 9

Local bestsellers for the week ended Nov. 26

Six takeaways from Liz Cheney’s book assailing Trump and his ‘enablers’

Movies

Joel Kinnaman in "Silent Night."

In John Woo’s ‘Silent Night,’ all is neither calm nor bright

‘The Last Detail’: How Hal Ashby’s 1973 Navy movie gave me a portal into my Pops’ past

Jeremy Strong cast as Roy Cohn in new Trump biopic ‘The Apprentice’

Television

The 10 best TV shows of 2023

‘Slow Horses’ cast hits its stride in season 3

Frances Sternhagen, Tony Award-winning actor who was familiar maternal face on TV, dies at 93

music

Darren Criss brings "A Very Darren Crissmas" to the Emerson Colonial Theatre Dec. 7.

Darren Criss is having himself a merry little ‘Crissmas’

Why has ‘Messiah’ been so popular for nearly 300 years?

With his rebel spirit, Shane MacGowan fought ‘to make Irish music hip’

Theater/Dance

Judy Song (left) and Jenna Agbayani in Lloyd Suh's "The Heart Sellers," now at the Huntington.

Alone together in a new world

In his chaotic live shows, Eric Andre detonates a comedy ‘explosion’

‘Chicago’ holds up a mirror to its times, and to ours

Health

Dr. Elizabeth Benz is the director of the Samuels Sinclair Dental Center in Providence.

In R.I., there’s a lack of dentists caring for patients with special needs. This program is trying to change that.

R.I. attorney general sues Prospect Medical Holdings, says his concern for its hospitals is ‘greater than it has ever been’

‘I never realized what people go through’: Doctor and former hospital CEO with Stage 4 cancer calls for greater empathy in medicine

Obituaries

Greek author Vassilis Vassilikos posed for a photo in Athens in November 2022.

Greek author Vassilis Vassilikos, whose political novel inspired award-winning film ‘Z,’ dies at 89

Julius Becton, Army general who led FEMA and D.C. schools, dies at 97

Frances Sternhagen, Tony Award-winning actor who was familiar maternal face on TV, dies at 93