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Governor McKee declined offer to help with Washington Bridge legal case, R.I. attorney general says

Attorney General Peter Neronha said he made the offer to help with the case one day after McKee promised a “day of reckoning” would come for those responsible for the bridge.

Mold cleanup forces all families out of Catholic Charities Inn
Homeless families and migrants are being relocated from one of the state's emergency shelters.

Lenox Apartments, Boston’s first housing development for Black residents, receives long-awaited renovations
The 85-year-old public housing development underwent sweeping renovations over the past five years.

Stark divides heard over scale of Shattuck Hospital expansion plan during City Council hearing

“This is a topic that we recognize people feel passionately about,” Robert Koenig, vice president of strategic programs at Boston Medical Center, said at Thursday’s hearing.

Judge will implement 200-foot buffer zone around courthouse during Karen Read trial

Judge Beverly J. Cannone said she will file a written ruling laying out the details of the buffer zone by Friday.

Watch: Who's who in the Karen Read case

Plan to move Whittier Tech to Northern Essex Community College campus proposed

After losing a vote for a new building, Whittier Tech is exploring a move across Haverhill to the college campus, which Governor Maura Healey announced on Thursday.

Former Weymouth police officer charged after allegedly punching a man in custody 13 times, officials say

Woman dead and 11-year-old injured after explosion and fire in Derry, N.H., Thursday, officials say

Israel to add Gaza aid routes as Biden hinges support on civilian protection

Larry Lucchino knew his way around a ballpark, whether it was on the East Coast or West Coast, major league or minor league.

dan shaughnessy

Boston baseball was well-served by Larry Lucchino, and other thoughts

He was a Pittsburgh guy who made his baseball bones in Baltimore and San Diego, but he instantly understood the Boston Baseball Experience.

Flutist Elizabeth Rowe landed the dream job of a lifetime at 29. At 49, she’s walking away.
Rowe, the BSO’s principal flutist for the past two decades, will leave the orchestra in August to pursue a full-time career as a leadership coach.

What’s left in the tank for this nor’easter? Here’s a timeline of how the storm will play out.
Conditions will improve nearly everywhere by midday Friday, but the unsettled weather doesn’t stop there.

Tree falls in historic North End burying ground, damaging four cars Superstitious New Englanders blame themselves for spring nor’easter: ‘Please forgive me’

Power outages

See where power is out in New England

Runner Meredith Knowles, wades through the flooded causeway on Edward Foster Rd during a nor’easter in Scituate on April 4.

Nor’easter leaves hundreds of thousands without power and the ground soaked

Graupel are soft, small pellets formed when supercooled water droplets freeze onto a snow crystal, a process called riming.

Graupel? Thundersnow? Yep, this storm had it.

At left: An example of using a large print in a small space from a Jess Cooney design project. At right: A picture is hung at just the right height above a couch in a Kasie DiNella project.

Your Home: Renovations

Eight common interior design myths and mistakes, and how to fix them

Boston-area design pros to demystify common issues people encounter when trying to update their homes — and explain how to fix them.

Rafael Devers is just 3 for 18 since sitting out consecutive games during the season-opening series in Seattle.

What have we learned so far about the Red Sox during their season-opening road trip?

The Sox have gotten off to a solid start, splitting a four-game set with the Mariners then sweeping the Athletics.

Moving to shortstop is just the latest amazing accomplishment for Mookie Betts

Toast your favorite graduate with the Baobab Express at Comfort Kitchen in Upham’s Corner.

PARENTING UNFILTERED

Where to celebrate graduation season in Boston and beyond

Next month, toast your favorite scholar at one of these 10 essential tables.

David Pastrnak went top shelf on Hurricanes goalie Frederik Andersen to give the Bruins a 2-0 lead.

Bruins 4, Hurricanes 1

Bruins end successful road trip by beating Hurricanes

Boston scored three first-period goals, including the 400th of Brad Marchand’s career.

Bruins captain Brad Marchand nets 400th career goal

Opinion

Some dietary supplements are valuable health aids. But supplements are not harmless. An estimated 23,000 Americans visit the emergency department annually due to adverse effects from dietary supplements, according to a 2015 report.

An ‘utterly unregulated Wild West’: FDA needs more oversight of dietary supplements

Weight loss pills have been laced with dangerous drugs, and other dietary supplements have been found to have inaccurate labels.

Michael R. Bloomberg and Gina McCarthy

The end of the coal era, the beginning of a cleaner era

William McNulty and Drew Lewis

To save US lives, Congress should provide aid to Ukraine

IDEAS | EVAN SELINGER

The powerful aura of throwback places that defy the algorithms

Holy moly, Trump has made his campaign a religious experience

More recent News

Right whale found dead off Virginia coast died from a vessel strike, experts say
After a necropsy was completed April 2, experts found “catastrophic injuries” and a “complete dislocation of the whale’s spine and fractures to all vertebrae in the lower back.”

Judge rejects Trump’s First Amendment challenge to indictment in Georgia election case

The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others rejected arguments by the former president that the indictment seeks to criminalize political speech protected by the First Amendment.

Judge rejects Trump request to dismiss classified documents prosecution

Study highlights how nighttime gun violence impacts sleep for residents in Boston, other cities
“The number of gunshots that go off are larger than we thought, and they’re predominantly happening at night when we all need space and time to heal and recover,” one of the study's authors said.

Ukraine fires more than 50 drones against Russia in one of its biggest air attacks of the war
Moscow defense officials say Ukraine have fired more than 40 drones into Russia’s bordering Rostov region in what appeared to be one of its biggest aerial attacks in the war and as Kyiv’s forces step up their assaults on Russian soil.

UConn removes light poles on campus in preparation for March Madness Final Four games
Last year, when the UConn men’s basketball team won the NCAA championship, revelers caused more than $550,000 in damage on campus, officials said. Light posts will be “reinstalled later” at the same sites.

Esther Perel hits Boston for one night to talk love, sex, and relationships
Before her stop at the Wang Theatre, the popular psychotherapist and podcaster chatted about touring, post-pandemic intimacy, and polyamory bylaws in Somerville.

Recommended reads

Stephen King

On the 50th anniversary of ‘Carrie’, Stephen King talks about how his first horror novel came to be

“Tabby literally picked it out of the wastebasket and brushed off the cigarette ash. She read it in bed and said, ‘This is good, you should go on.’”

Watch: How Stephen King’s ‘Carrie’ changed horror fiction

Two public radio stations. Two different business models. One future of public radio in Boston hangs in the balance.
Both WBUR and GBH are facing financial challenges and have warned that staff layoffs may be coming.

Enrollment is plummeting. Can the state’s regional public colleges compete?
Can these economic engines of the middle class adapt in the face of punishing market changes, and offer a new generation of students, including many immigrants and first-generation college entrants, a path to social mobility?

A love letter to the local cinema scene: Globe readers share their movie-theater memories
From recalling “Rocky Horror Picture Show” midnight madness to recommending where to get the best popcorn, readers had a lot to share on the subject of cherished cinemas, past and present, in Boston and beyond (and, in a couple of cases, way beyond).

Culture & Lifestyle

Britney Coleman and the cast of "Company."

At the Opera House, the pleasure of Sondheim’s ‘Company’

The Beatles play Boston Garden in September 1964, the year they dominated the charts.

There’s something in the way other artists cover Beatles songs

A scene from "Labyrinth" starring Jennifer Connelly is reflected on glass in the projection booth at Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, April 19, 2022.

A love letter to the local cinema scene: Globe readers share their movie-theater memories

Jovana Raphaeo watches the solar eclipse through protective glasses in Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 21, 2017. North America will experience its second total solar eclipse in seven years on Monday, April 8.

Ways to savor the solar eclipse if you’re hungry or thirsty

Special Projects

Ashfield, MA 06/13//2023, At Sanderson Academy, books in a fourth-grade classroom.

Suzanne Kreiter\Globe staff

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.

stuart landing page illustration

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, 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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

This illustration made available by NASA depicts the Solar Orbiter satellite in front of the sun.

It’s time for serious study of climate engineering

Singer Lauryn Hill performed in Atlanta in 2019.

Lauryn Hill deserves to be more than a social media punchline

Last week, after more than a year of controversy, the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority halted plans for the development of two parcels of MCCA-owned land near the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

Governor seeks role for convention centers that goes beyond putting ‘heads on beds’

Migrants waited to be processed by US Customs and Border Protection after they crossed the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Oct. 19, 2023.

IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Biden’s border bungle is souring America on immigration

Conflicting poll results about the presidential candidates are causing political whiplash.

Why polling is so often wrong

Heather Hopp-Bruce/Globe staff; Adobe

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Forecast | Ken Mahan

Overcast skies with slivers of sun will end the week in Boston area

Scattered light rain and snow showers move in Friday night, with northern areas getting 1-4 inches of additional snow.

Hundreds of couples will tie the knot in the path of darkness on eclipse day

Throughout the country and right here in New England couples are electing to marry at the moment of totality, calling it the perfect time to formalize their unions.

Boston’s defense against rising seas leans on private development. What happens when the money dries up?

Several flood-protection projects like sea walls, berms, and elevated land are tangled up in large developments that now face slowdowns.

She paid $150 more — per ticket — to avoid flying Boeing. And is leaving at 3:30 a.m. — with a preschooler.

As Boeing’s troubles mount, fliers are willingly paying hundreds of dollars in change fees, buying more expensive tickets, or traveling at inconvenient times to avoid flying on a 737 Max or other Boeing aircraft.

Sports

Larry Lucchino knew his way around a ballpark, whether it was on the East Coast or West Coast, major league or minor league.

dan shaughnessy

Boston baseball was well-served by Larry Lucchino, and other thoughts

He was a Pittsburgh guy who made his baseball bones in Baltimore and San Diego, but he instantly understood the Boston Baseball Experience.

Needham's Luke Lorence rises to drill one past Natick's block.

BOYS' VOLLEYBALL | NEEDHAM 3, NATICK 1

Natick puts a scare into Needham boys’ volleyball, but Rockets rally to extend win streak to 76 matches

Luke Lorence (19 kills, 3 blocks), Brian Cloonan (17 kills, 1 block), and Devin Dellamarggio (51 assists) had big nights for Needham (3-0).

David Pastrnak went top shelf on Hurricanes goalie Frederik Andersen to give the Bruins a 2-0 lead.

Bruins 4, Hurricanes 1

Bruins end successful road trip by beating Hurricanes

Boston scored three first-period goals, including the 400th of Brad Marchand’s career.

Boys’ lacrosse roundup: Hunter Grafton notches 200th goal in 4-goal, 8-assist effort for Abington

What have we learned so far about the Red Sox during their season-opening road trip?

COLLEGE BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK

No surprises here: Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, South Carolina’s Dawn Staley take home top AP awards

Business

Boston’s defense against rising seas leans on private development. What happens when the money dries up?

Several flood-protection projects like sea walls, berms, and elevated land are tangled up in large developments that now face slowdowns.

Yellen calls for level playing field for US workers and firms during China visit

The U.S. treasury secretary has called for a level playing field for American companies and workers as she opens a five-day visit to China in a major industrial and export hub.

US jobs report for March is likely to point to slower but still-solid hiring

Boeing pays Alaska Airlines $160 million in compensation for the blowout of a panel during flight

magazine

When you’re lost, remember your red helicopter — what you once knew as a child

I’m not sure if we should invite an angry relative to my son’s wedding

Whole-Wheat Pasta With Chard, Potatoes, and Fontina

Fuel up for the Marathon with hearty, healthy meals

Lexi, the writer’s pup, is a frequent tail wagger.

Hear me out: Humans should have tails

metro

The carcass of the North American right whale was found scavenged by sharks, wind, and weather off the coast of Virginia.

Right whale found dead off Virginia coast died from a vessel strike, experts say

Nor’easter leaves hundreds of thousands without power and the ground soaked

Governor McKee declined offer to help with Washington Bridge legal case, R.I. attorney general says

sports

Bruins captain Brad Marchand slips the puck through the legs of Hurricanes goaltender Frederik Andersen for his 400th career goal in the opening minutes of Thursday's game in Raleigh, N.C.

Bruins captain Brad Marchand nets 400th career goal

Bruins forward Morgan Geekie has fond memories of his days in Carolina

Boston Butchers, the newest addition to the Team Combat League, plan on putting on a boxing show sure to attract a following

business

Shifts in the radio news business model have forced WBUR and GBH to try to find new audiences and spurred questions about whether Boston can still sustain two NPR news stations — a rarity even in the nation’s largest cities.

Two public radio stations. Two different business models. One future of public radio in Boston hangs in the balance.

Ford slows its push into electric vehicles

Woburn-based battery maker raises $78 million

politics

Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) and European Commission Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis attended the US-EU Trade and Technology Council in Leuven on April 5, 2024.

Blinken says Israeli offers to increase flow of aid to Gaza are welcome but may not be sufficient

Biden is touring collapsed Baltimore bridge where recovery effort has political overtones

Americans think a president’s power should be checked, new poll finds — unless their side wins

Nation

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announces book detailing her rapid rise in Democratic politics

Judge rejects Trump request to dismiss classified documents prosecution

Environmental Protection Agency gives $20 billion in ‘green bank’ grants

World

Families mourn over the flag-draped coffins of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards members who were killed in an airstrike in Syria.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard commander vows retaliation for strike that killed top generals

Yellen calls for level playing field for US workers and firms during China visit

UN human rights body calls for halt to weapons shipments to Israel as concerns about Gaza war mount

opinion

Last week, after more than a year of controversy, the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority halted plans for the development of two parcels of MCCA-owned land near the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

Governor seeks role for convention centers that goes beyond putting ‘heads on beds’

Public health’s new frontier: unlocking the exposome

My six-step plan for a two-state solution

lifestyle

Toast your favorite graduate with the Baobab Express at Comfort Kitchen in Upham’s Corner.

Where to celebrate graduation season in Boston and beyond

Esther Perel hits Boston for one night to talk love, sex, and relationships

He’s still married

food & dining

An Italian in Paris sandwich at Eve & Murray’s, a specialty cheese shop in Acton. They'll open Silver Girl this fall.

Ziggy Bombs opens in Brookline; Nightshade Clam Shack prepares for summertime in Lynn

Lawson’s Finest Liquids in Vermont made a special eclipse beer. (You have to make a special trip to get it.)

No more bright lights, big ziti: Stella, once a South End staple, is all grown up and living in Newton

travel

The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford offers evening social programs on the first Thursday of the month.

Keep a fresh eye: Six strategies for visiting some of New England’s art museums

Britney Coleman on Oprah, energy bars, travel agents, and getting back to Boston

Disabled people advocate for more accessibility, and the travel industry is listening

Arts

Firelei Báez, "Truth was the bridge (or an emancipatory healing)," 2024. The mural, made for the ICA as part of Báez's first-ever museum survey, is installed in a space overlooking Boston Harbor.

At the ICA, the powerful, personal histories of Firelei Báez

The National Black Doll Museum celebrates 20 years and a new home, in North Attleborough

At the Gardner, the riotous maximalism of Raqib Shaw

Books

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announces book detailing her rapid rise in Democratic politics

In ‘Mania,’ Lionel Shriver skewers the present anti-intellectual moment in a not-so-alternative account of the past

In a memoir about navigating an ‘emotional learning disorder,’ Patric Gagne shows sociopathy in a new light

Movies

Melvil Poupaud and Lou de Laâge in "Coup de Chance," directed by Woody Allen. ©2022 Gravier Productions, Inc.

‘Coup de Chance’: Woody Allen revisits one of his go-to themes: men getting away with murder

Don’t mess with Dev Patel in ‘Monkey Man’

A love letter to the local cinema scene: Globe readers share their movie-theater memories

Television

Larry David in "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

The fine whine of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ was vintage Larry David

Propping up ‘The Regime’ required more than Kate Winslet

In ‘Ripley,’ the menace behind the mask

music

BSO principal flute player Elizabeth Rowe is making an unusual career move by leaving the orchestra after 20 years to pursue a full-time career as a leadership coach.

Flutist Elizabeth Rowe landed the dream job of a lifetime at 29. At 49, she’s walking away.

There’s something in the way other artists cover Beatles songs

The BSO 24-25 season is full of Andris Nelsons’s favorite things

Theater/Dance

Britney Coleman and the cast of "Company."

At the Opera House, the pleasure of Sondheim’s ‘Company’

Playwright Christopher Durang mastered the art of misbehaving

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre’s ‘Driving in Circles’ proves to be an engrossing journey

Health

Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, R.I.

Centurion Foundation was the ‘only viable’ buyer for Roger Williams, Fatima hospitals, CEO says

Agent Orange exposure damages the brain in ways similar to Alzheimer’s disease, new study says

R.I.’s largest hospital system may no longer take Cigna health insurance

Obituaries

Mr. Barth (right), with writers (from left) John Gardner, Kurt Vonnegut, and Bernard Malamud at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1975.

John Barth, who expanded the boundaries of postmodern writing, dies at 93

Maryse Condé, ‘grande dame’ of Francophone literature, dies at 90

Barbara Rush, prolific actress known for ’50s melodramas, dies at 97