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Four current and former State Police troopers, two civilians charged in corruption conspiracy, prosecutors say

Four current and former State Police troopers and two civilians are accused of accepting bribes to give some applicants passing scores on commercial driving license tests, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Man who allegedly killed woman whose body was found in Logan Airport garage arrested in Kenya
Authorities in Kenya on Monday arrested a man who fled to that country in November after allegedly killing a woman in Massachusetts and leaving her body in a car at Logan International Airport, officials said Tuesday.

News of shelter at Roxbury center reverberates through community: ‘Maybe we could get a little heads up’

As the Globe first reported, Healey administration officials said late Monday that the Melnea A. Cass Recreational Complex will begin serving as a temporary overflow shelter for families starting on Wednesday, with space to hold up to 400 people.
Healey to open overflow shelter for migrant families at Roxbury recreational center

‘There’s just a lot of vilification going on’: The teachers strike is divisive — and tearing Newton apart

Discord is rife on social media, in group chats, and across email chains. Newton schools will be closed for an eighth day on Tuesday.
Newton schools remain closed for 8th day on Tuesday These are the areas keeping Newton teachers and School Committee from an agreement to end the strike

21-year-old man injured in ice-climbing accident in Bartlett, N.H.

Ryan Cooper fell about 30 feet onto Cathedral Ledge and suffered a “really bad fracture of his lower leg," officials said.

Former Celtics guard Rajon Rondo arrested on gun, drug charges

Man gets 40 years to life for shooting bishop and assaulting bride and groom at N.H. wedding

Sections of Green Line reopen after 16 slow zones removed

Your Instant Pot is too useful to sit on a shelf. Here are some quick tips to finally get started.

For the Pot-curious who have held off out of uncertainty or confusion, we're here to help. Be sure to share your own tips in the comments.
WHAT SHE'S HAVING | SHERYL JULIAN

Meatballs are irresistible on Game Day or any day

Rich, succulent little albondigas, rounds of pork and beef in tomato sauce, are a popular Spanish tapa.

Jason Santos will close Citrus & Salt in the Back Bay, expanding to roomier digs in Fort Point

The celebrity chef plans a March expansion.

More than 20 skiers had to be rescued from the Killington, Vt., backcountry. But how did they all get lost?
Christopher Campanella wound up being one of 20 guests, along with a longtime ski instructor, who’d wandered off the sprawling 1,500-acre resort, requiring a five-hour, multi-agency rescue effort to bring them all to safety.

Globe Magazine
Boston restaurant economics are punishing. $600,000 liquor licenses make it worse.
A shortage of licenses makes for a system stacked against small businesses and Black entrepreneurs. Can it be fixed?

sports business

Tom Brady’s TB12, Brady Brand merges with athletic apparel company NOBULL

This will make Brady the second-largest shareholder of the Boston-based company behind BodyArmor founder Mike Repole, who purchased it in July 2023.

How to convert your home into a small power plant, and make your money back doing it

Mathew Tuttelman is building a net-zero home, a structure that produces the same amount of energy it consumes. Here’s how he’s almost reached his goal.
MOVIES

Black History Month Film Series comes to Boston

Through a partnership between Showcase Cinemas and the Museum of African American History Boston & Nantucket, five select films will be screening in the Greater Boston area and select Showcase locations in New York and Ohio.
ANALYSIS

In South Carolina, Haley’s biggest immediate problem comes from Biden — not Trump

Can she convince Trump-loathing Democrats to skip their presidential primary and wait to vote in the Republican one a few weeks later?
Trump stays on Illinois’ ballot as election board declines to ban him over insurrection amendment

Investigators had all but given up on tracking down Kaitlin Armstrong. Then they put out an ad for a yoga instructor.

Armstrong was convicted of killing professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson. In a new episode of “48 Hours,” investigators shared new details about how they caught her.
Opinion
EDITORIAL

Newton teachers should end illegal strike

There’s a mediation procedure in Massachusetts law for public sector unions and municipal employers to resolve their differences. The teachers in Newton should use it, instead of leaving students in the lurch.
Andrea Joy Campbell and Michelle Wu

Massachusetts should ban third-party electric suppliers
Gerald Chan and Steve Zrike

Learning to love school: A blueprint for student engagement
IDEAS | EVAN SELINGER

We can get more imaginative about what we imagine
LETTERS

What ails us: private equity in health care

More recent News

A new start for Faneuil Hall? New operator takes over historic marketplace.
A new landlord is taking over Faneuil Hall Marketplace, raising hopes at City Hall that long-awaited improvements could be finally coming to a high-profile tourism destination that draws millions of visitors every year.

Kendall Square is no longer the area’s only biotech hotspot
The next miracle drug for lung cancer or epilepsy is just as likely to emerge from Arsenal Yards in Watertown or the shadow of Fenway Park.

Elon Musk says the first human has received an implant from Neuralink, but other details are scant
Musk said that the patient received the implant Sunday and was "recovering well."

Jay Leno files conservatorship petition over wife’s estate
Jay Leno filed a petition requesting a conservatorship over his wife’s estate on Friday within the Los Angeles Superior Court.

Israeli undercover forces dressed as women and medics storm West Bank hospital, killing 3 militants

Israeli forces disguised as civilian women and medical workers stormed a hospital in the occupied West Bank, killing three Palestinian militants in a dramatic raid that underscored how deadly violence has spilled into the territory from the war in Gaza.
Millis man charged with threatening to kill Jewish people in message left with Attleboro synagogue

UPS to cut 12,000 jobs 5 months after reaching union deal as revenue outlook for year disappoints
Last year union members at UPS voted to approve a tentative contract agreement, putting a final seal on contentious labor negotiations that threatened to disrupt package deliveries nationwide.

Fatal Maine accident highlights the dangers of thin ice amid warmer winters. Here’s how to stay safe.
When it comes to determining whether ice is safe, “there are no guarantees,” according to MassWildlife officials.

Beth Teitell
Is Taylor Swift going to the Super Bowl? Or is the Super Bowl going to Taylor Swift?
The star’s planned appearance in Vegas is big news. Airlines are giving flights Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce-themed numbers. Fans are expecting a marriage proposal. Conspiracy theorists are going bonkers.

Ayo Edebiri drops out of new Marvel movie ‘Thunderbolts’
The Dorchester native is the second star to depart the superhero movie over scheduling conflicts.

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AS I SEE IT

‘He never has a bad day’: Adversity tests college hockey player

Smiley was 22 when he was paralyzed on his right side after collapsing at hockey practice on Feb. 21, 2022.

Critic's Notebook
US museums have reached their moment of reckoning with Indigenous culture
With new federal regulations in place, museums from New York to Cambridge to Chicago are abruptly closing or removing displays. It’s about time.

Brothel ring that catered to wealthy people in Greater Boston, Virginia highlights exploitative industry, advocates say
Activists said the women involved face the difficult challenge of “stepping out” from a violent, abusive industry that controlled their lives and from the people who exploited them.

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS
Could Mass General Brigham be a savior amid the Steward Health Care financial mess?
Mass General Brigham may be the only Massachusetts health system big enough to absorb Steward Health Care’s hospitals.

Culture & Lifestyle

Any way you slice it, indie band Hush Club’s pizza giveaway paid off

Nina Yoshida Nelsen appointed Boston Lyric Opera’s new artistic director

Sundance breakout performances: five under 25 — and two over 80

‘Oh, Didn’t They Ramble’ traces Rounder Records’ influence back to the label’s Somerville roots

Special Projects

Lost in a World of Words

Learning to read is the greatest gift a school can give a child. And yet, in Massachusetts, outmoded teaching methods leave thousands of students struggling to gain this critical skill.

Beyond the Gilded Gate

People in and around Boston are being challenged, in ways never before, to address the region's unprecedented housing crisis.

Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

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

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

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

MARCELA GARCÍA

A small bit of good news for the children of missing East Boston woman

EDITORIAL

Fernald School: Waltham is letting a historic property fall apart
Max Page and Deb McCarthy

Teachers unions have no rights if they have no leverage to exercise those rights
Jim Stergios

Teachers strikes hurt the students
RENÉE GRAHAM

A shady conservative group wants to make Biden’s Black support go up in smoke
Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

News of shelter at Roxbury center reverberates through community: ‘Maybe we could get a little heads up’

As the Globe first reported, Healey administration officials said late Monday that the Melnea A. Cass Recreational Complex will begin serving as a temporary overflow shelter for families starting on Wednesday, with space to hold up to 400 people.

Four current and former State Police troopers, two civilians charged in corruption conspiracy, prosecutors say

Four current and former State Police troopers and two civilians are accused of accepting bribes to give some applicants passing scores on commercial driving license tests, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Sections of Green Line reopen after 16 slow zones removed

Crews replaced nearly 10,800 feet of rail and removed 16 speed restrictions.

21-year-old man injured in ice-climbing accident in Bartlett, N.H.

Ryan Cooper fell about 30 feet onto Cathedral Ledge and suffered a “really bad fracture of his lower leg," officials said.

Sports

women's college basketball notebook

Sharpshooting Sharn Hayward has come a long way for Stonehill women’s basketball — from Tasmania

The 5-6 junior guard, who hails from the island state off Australia, has made a successful transition to the US college game.
sports business

Tom Brady’s TB12, Brady Brand merges with athletic apparel company NOBULL

This will make Brady the second-largest shareholder of the Boston-based company behind BodyArmor founder Mike Repole, who purchased it in July 2023.
dan shaughnessy

‘These expectations are a compliment:’ Joe Mazzulla loves the pressure on his Celtics

The Celtics coach sat down for a one-on-one conversation with Dan Shaughnessy.

Former Celtics guard Rajon Rondo arrested on gun, drug charges

Red Sox

Red Sox reportedly lose free agent Justin Turner to Blue Jays on one-year deal
kevin Paul dupont | on hockey

As Bruins hit All-Star break, the question remains what they might do before the trade deadline

Business

Elon Musk says the first human has received an implant from Neuralink, but other details are scant

Musk said that the patient received the implant Sunday and was "recovering well."

Massachusetts startup Inari raises equity at $1.65 billion value

Based in Cambridge, Inari uses technology to develop corn, soybean, wheat and other seeds that require less water, land and fertilizer.

UPS to cut 12,000 jobs 5 months after reaching union deal as revenue outlook for year disappoints

RI HEALTH CARE

Prospect Medical Holdings wants to sell its 2 R.I.-based hospitals. Here’s what a proposed deal could look like, executives say.
magazine
CONNECTIONS

From supermarket checkout girl to tenured professor, my mother has reinvented herself like a monarch butterfly
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Jan. 29-Feb. 4
GLOBE MAGAZINE

The NBA’s hottest prospect is a 17-year-old from Maine. Meet Cooper Flagg.
Globe Magazine

‘Death doulas’ and the audacious act of dying well in America

metro

Gamm Theatre’s ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ is a perfect coalescence of play, production, and performance

These are the areas keeping Newton teachers and School Committee from an agreement to end the strike

N.H. Seacoast grappling with damage from extreme weather

sports

‘I know that I can contribute’: Feeling healthy after hip surgery, ex-Red Sox reliever Matt Barnes pitches for another job

Watch: Holy Cross swim team tries to distract Boston University free-throw attempt

Pacers at Celtics: Winner takes all — or maybe just the season series

business

Vertex says its experimental painkiller works as well as opioids for acute pain — without risk of addiction

Kendall Square is no longer the area’s only biotech hotspot

Timeline: Proposed sale of Rhode Island hospitals preceded by years of regulatory fights, funding problems

politics

House Republicans taking a key vote toward impeaching Mayorkas as border becomes 2024 campaign issue

Trump stays on Illinois’ ballot as election board declines to ban him over insurrection amendment

A thinned-out primary and friendly voting structure clear an easy path for Trump in Nevada

Nation

Space Shuttle Endeavour hoisted for installation in vertical display at Los Angeles science museum

Five suspects arrested in California desert killings in dispute over marijuana, sheriff’s officials say

Illinois election board to consider whether to boot Trump from ballot over insurrection amendment

World

Israeli undercover forces dressed as women and medics storm West Bank hospital, killing 3 militants

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan gets another prison sentence ahead of elections

Northern Ireland political party agrees to end 2-year boycott that caused the government to collapse

opinion

Court fight pitches a different vision for Shawmut housing proposal

Harvard bid for morgue case dismissal is one more indignity to donors

Taiwan is showing the world how democracy can prevail

lifestyle

Jay Leno files conservatorship petition over wife’s estate

We have a fundamental clash of values

In ‘Red,’ Boston-area author Annie Cardi reinterprets Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘The Scarlet Letter’ for Gen Z readers

food & dining

Up your Super Bowl snack game with crowd-pleasing chili and garlic shrimp

Jason Santos will close Citrus & Salt in the Back Bay, expanding to roomier digs in Fort Point

Recipe: Stir cooked brown rice into the dough for this delicious, chewy homemade wheat bread

travel

Hey, Cupid: Which is more romantic, Cape Ann or Cape Cod?

The 6 most romantic resorts for a winter getaway in New England

Sauna culture is gaining steam in New England — including a new spot right here on the Greenway

Arts

University of New Hampshire shutters Museum of Art on Durham campus

An underappreciated American art form conjures Black history from the void

At MoMA, An-My Lê's photos show the presence, and continuing power, of the past

Books

‘Oh, Didn’t They Ramble’ traces Rounder Records’ influence back to the label’s Somerville roots

N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner and giant of Native American literature, dead at 89

H.W. Brands reminds us that the nation was ever thus

Movies

Black History Month Film Series comes to Boston

Ayo Edebiri drops out of new Marvel movie ‘Thunderbolts’

Sundance breakout performances: five under 25 — and two over 80

Television

Is Taylor Swift going to the Super Bowl? Or is the Super Bowl going to Taylor Swift?

This week’s TV: ‘Capote vs. the Swans,’ Donald Glover’s new series, and the end of ‘Curb’

Dakota Johnson says ‘Madame Web’ is like if AI made your boyfriend’s perfect movie, talks history of not taking interviews seriously on ‘Saturday Night Live’

music

Any way you slice it, indie band Hush Club’s pizza giveaway paid off

Is Taylor Swift going to the Super Bowl? Or is the Super Bowl going to Taylor Swift?

Singer-songwriter Lyn Lapid isn’t the ‘situationship’ type

Theater/Dance

‘Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight’ defies definition, and that’s a very good thing

Playwright Samuel D. Hunter ponders ‘The Existence of God,’ and the existence of hope

At Central Square, a play that explores a tricky father-son-robot relationship

Health

Prospect Medical Holdings wants to sell its 2 R.I.-based hospitals. Here’s what a proposed deal could look like, executives say.

Timeline: Proposed sale of Rhode Island hospitals preceded by years of regulatory fights, funding problems

Incel culture and its rise in the modern dating world

Obituaries

N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner and giant of Native American literature, dead at 89

Jimy Williams, who managed Red Sox from 1997-2001, dies at 80

Ann Maguire, groundbreaking LGBTQ leader and breast cancer research advocate, dies at 80