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Ambulance service stretched thin in communities served by closed Steward hospitals

Patients and medical responders alike are now reckoning with longer transport times after Carney Hospital in Dorchester and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer closed their doors.

Steward CEO de la Torre skips hearing; Congress poised to hold him in contempt More coverage of the Steward Health Care crisis

In Sandra Birchmore case, questions emerge about why outside investigators weren’t brought in from the start

The case has reignited questions over whether State Police detectives assigned to district attorneys’ offices should investigate local police-involved incidents.

One shot, one arrested at pro-Israel demonstration in Newton
A Framingham man is due to be arraigned Friday in Newton District Court on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, law enforcement officials said.

Driver charged with killing NHL’s Johnny Gaudreau and his brother had .087 blood-alcohol level

The driver told police he had five or six beers that day and admitted to consuming alcohol while driving, according to the criminal complaint.

CVS pharmacists now prescribing birth control in Massachusetts
The new offerings, which started Thursday, aim to make receiving hormonal birth control methods faster, simpler, and more accessible.

Too many texts from Trump or Harris asking for money? There’s an app for that.

A local entrepreneur has launched a free app for iPhone users to delete unwanted texts based on keywords.

Trump campaigns in Western states as Harris focuses on critical Pennsylvania More updates from the 2024 campaign trail

Former senator Dean Tran ‘devastated’ by COVID unemployment fraud conviction

Tran, who took the stand in his own defense during a six-day trial, insisted he was innocent of the charges and said he plans to appeal his conviction.

CEO of Point32Health, state’s second-largest health insurer, announces departure

R.I. Democrats poised to pick Lori Urso as replacement for Senator Sandra Cano on Nov. 5 ballot

Layoffs hit Thundermist Health Center, salaries slashed for remaining staff

Fall Arts Guide

Dance group Malevo from Argentina performs at Berklee Performance Center in October.

90 fun things to do in and around Boston this fall

From theater and dance performances to comedy shows and concerts, see what’s on the calendar around the Hub this fall.

20 new and returning TV shows to watch as the leaves turn this fall

Brad Pitt and George Clooney in "Wolfs."

Fall forward with these 39 movies

Alfred Hitchcock in a trailer for "The Birds."

Local theaters are serving up cinematic scares for the season

Singer Meghan Trainor performed at NBC's Today show at Rockefeller Plaza on June 7 in New York. She returns to the Bay State this month as part of her "Timeless" tour.

After more than seven years, Meghan Trainor is back on tour — and loving every minute of it

Ahead of her tour’s stop in Mansfield this month, the Nantucket native opens up about motherhood, her new album, and 10 years of “All About That Bass."

See the complete Fall Arts Guide

When fantasy players slide into Patriots players’ DMs, nobody wins
The popularity of fantasy football, combined with the rise of social media and online sports betting, has created a situation in which players are subject to unhealthy feedback from fans.

Robert Kraft (left) was on hand in Canton, Ohio, when former Patriot Randy Moss was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2018.

dan shaughnessy

Bob Kraft seems to be hurting his own cause with the Hall of Fame, and other thoughts

Kraft has been a good owner for the Patriots, but the push over the last decade to get himself inducted apparently is backfiring.

On Football: As they come to Foxborough, the Seahawks look an awful lot like the Patriots Unconventional Preview: Should the Patriots beat the Seahawks on Sunday, it will be time to adjust our expectations even more

While more than 60 million children and adolescents participate in organized sports, 70 percent of youth athletes drop out of these sports by age 13.

PARENTING UNFILTERED

So your kid was cut from the team. What now?

All positive spins about resilience aside, it really burns. We talked to some local athletes who still feel the sting.

Starting Point

Revisiting busing in Boston

We look at Boston's traumatic busing effort to desegregate schools 50 years ago, featuring a conversation with one of the Black parents who sued the School Committee for equal treatment.

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Busing at 50

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‘You tried to break us, and you didn’t’: One family relives busing in new audio documentary

Earline Pruitt, and her daughter Denise, describe the start of school desegregation in this Globe audio documentary.

Your memories of Boston's busing era Perspective: The busing crisis divided Boston. But playgrounds brought kids like me together.

Ryan Johnston takes over Bruins play-by-play on 98.5 The Sports Hub.

Ryan Johnston named Bruins’ radio play-by-play announcer, replacing Judd Sirott

Johnston, the play-by-play fill-in on the station since 2010 and a 98.5 voice since 2009, gets his shot to call games full time.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We didn’t have loads in common, but the conversation was flowing regardless’

Will these two travel-loving daters hit the trail?

Brian Hankerson from Mansfield held an apple he picked off the ground while apple picking at the C.N. Smith Farm in East Bridgewater in 2022. After a few difficult seasons due to drought and frost, 2024 is expected to be a good year for apple picking in Massachusetts.

‘There’s nothing perfect in this world of growing apples.’ Extreme weather, warmer temperatures could complicate future harvests.

10 of the best orchards for apple picking in New England this fall

Address | Fall House Hunt

Despite what you may see on social media, sixty-seven percent of residents rate their community association experience as positive, according to the Community Association Institute.

Hate your HOA rules? There may be a way around them.

It can be a bitter awakening when the dream of homeownership becomes a nightmare, and through freak disasters, owners can find themselves cleaning up a huge mess — sometimes literally.

Flushed with anger: When the American dream becomes a stinky nightmare

A lack of candor or outright misinformation can rear its ugly head in real estate listings.

To tell the truth: Some realtors skirt ethical lines on listings

"A lot of realtors and others connected to the business will purchase things in quarter four,” said Annie Bauman of Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty in Needham.

Why realtors say the fall of an election year is the best time to buy a home. It’s when they do it.

Opinion

IDEAS | JACK SHAFER

The anti-mainstream media election

Trump and Harris are stiff-arming national TV networks and newspapers,. It's a sign that this election is ultimately more about personality than policy.

EDITORIAL

Give us late-night trains, but not yet

Eitan Hersh

The continued polarization over Israel on college campuses

Alex Beam

What’s the next big thing?

SCOT LEHIGH

JD Vance fogs up the school safety debate

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BOLD TYPES

Boston buildings were bathed in blue light this 9/11 to show solidarity with NYC
Boston Properties’ Prudential Tower and its towers at Atlantic Wharf, 100 Causeway St., and 100 Federal St. were all lit up, among others.

Recount drama comes to a close in Cambridge: Decker ends with narrow win over challenger MacKay
The Democratic primary recount came after graduate student Evan MacKay declared victory over incumbent state Representative Marjorie Decker.

A fan’s guide to the Big E: What you need to know about this year’s fair
From food to music and everything in between, here’s what you need to know as the Big E returns this weekend.

R.I. man admits to schemes that took $70,000 in COVID unemployment assistance and $80,000 from Alabama company
A Rhode Island man has admitted to his part in two international fraud schemes: One that raked in about $70,000 in federal COVID-related unemployment funds, and another that took $80,000 from an Alabama-based property title company, prosecutors said.

Jayson Tatum talks his new children’s book, plus other highlights from his ‘Tonight Show’ appearance
Tatum took on Jimmy Fallon in a rap battle and gave his MVP prediction for the 2024-25 season.

Maine Celtics name Tyler Lashbrook new head coach

BLOTTER TALES

A wrong-way driver is caught on video, and high school photo shoot goes too far

A raccoon's head gets stuck in a jar in Methuen, a high school senior's photo shoot gets the attention of police in Sandwich, and other odd tales from local police and fire departments.

Treasurer indicates allegations that O’Brien made racially ‘inappropriate’ comments helped prompt her firing

"We cannot honestly tolerate that in someone who is one of the leaders of what is a social equity agency," state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg said Thursday.

BU’s Black first-year student enrollment falls to 3 percent, Northeastern to 5 percent
The university's president called the drop “concerning and disappointing.”

Defense looks to challenge genealogy approach in case of Matthew Nilo, accused of sexually assaulting eight women in Boston
Whether courts agree or disagree, the case could create precedent around the use of forensic genetic genealogy in Massachusetts.

‘I’m still here’: Before Alzheimer’s, he prided himself on his intellect. Can a new treatment curb his decline?
Tony Downs is one of the first patients in the country to take Leqembi, a newly approved drug. He and his wife are hoping it will help slow his downhill path.

Culture & Lifestyle

Cuban band Clave & Blues will return to perform at the second annual Fiesta en la Plaza.

City Hall Plaza welcomes another free ‘Fiesta’ for Latinx Heritage Month

Composer Mary D. Watkins, right, reviews music with opera singer Deborah Nansteel at the home of co-librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs during a rehearsal for the new opera "Is This America?," about civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer.

For Mary D. Watkins, activist Fannie Lou Hamer’s story is operatic

Hannah Gadsby’s got something special to say

Dianne McIntyre Group will appear in Boston this month for the first time.

Still creating at 78, choreographer Dianne McIntyre brings her company to Boston for the first time

Special Projects

Illustration of Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Derrick White along with other NBA greats for the 2024 Finals preview.

Where do the 2023-24 Celtics stand among the greatest teams in NBA history?

Data show that these Celtics are truly extraordinary, a team of uncommon prowess on both ends of the court

Lauren Friel (left) owner of Rebel Rebel, chatted with customers while working at her wine bar in Bow Market in Somerville. The restrictive Boston liquor license system has pushed throngs of innovative chefs to neighborhood towns with laxer laws, including Brookline, Somerville, and Cambridge.

HIGH & DRY

Priced out: How Boston’s broken liquor license system drives chefs from the city

A stubbornly high price tag for serving alcohol hurts thousands of hospitality workers, aspiring restaurateurs, and the city itself.

Interactive map

Pothole season is upon us. See which neighborhoods have the most reports

Boston’s 311 data provides a day-by-day look at the condition of the city’s streets and sidewalks, which neighborhoods are hit hardest, and just how fast repairs are made.

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

This AI-generated image was created in Adobe Firefly with the prompt "computer, smashed on sidewalk in city, science fiction style."

IDEAS | PETER COHAN

Generative AI is looking like a big dud

James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll in a publicity shot from the 1974 film, “Claudine.”

RENÉE GRAHAM

James Earl Jones was more than just a singular voice

Shannon O'Brien, center, was in Suffolk Superior Court with her attorneys, William Gildea, left, and Max D. Stern on Dec. 4, 2023. On Monday, Treasurer Deb Goldberg fired O’Brien after a process that dragged out for a year.

EDITORIAL

Was Shannon O’Brien really guilty of ‘gross misconduct’?

GLOBE OPINION

‘All he had to do was not look crazy’: 6 writers weigh in on the Harris-Trump debate

Jalda, the Filipov family's 16-foot sailboat, docked at Hough's Neck, in Quincy, circa 1969. From left, the author, his brother Jeff, mother Loretta, and brother Allan.

IDEAS | DAVID FILIPOV

Sailing Boston Harbor with — and without — my father

IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

CONNECTIONS

My grandmother taught me many things. How to cook, however, was not one of them.

I feel like a failure when I try to cook my abuela’s food. It also brings her back to me.

CVS pharmacists now prescribing birth control in Mass.

The new offerings aim to make receiving hormonal birth control methods faster, simpler, and more accessible.

RI POLITICS

R.I. Democrats poised to pick Lori Urso as replacement for Senator Sandra Cano on Nov. 5 ballot

Urso, president and CEO of the Old Slater Mill Association, previously worked for General Treasurer Diossa and served on the Westerly Town Council.

Ambulance service stretched thin in communities served by closed Steward hospitals

Patients and medical responders alike are now reckoning with longer transport times after Carney Hospital in Dorchester and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer closed their doors.

Sports

Jade Rose represented Canada at this year's Summer Olympics.

colleges

Watch the Harvard women’s soccer goal that was ‘SportsCenter’s’ top play Thursday

Rose, a senior from Ontario, scored her first goal of the season from an exceedingly difficult angle.

Celtics majority owner Wyc Grousbeck announced in July that a stake in the team was going up for sale.

beat writer's notebook

What we know about the pending Celtics sale, and other nuggets on the team

The process hasn’t revved up yet because banks are still combing through the assets and liabilities to paint a full picture for prospective buyers.

Seattle star receiver DK Metcalf had just three catches for 29 yards in Week 1, but he is capable of breaking a game open.

seahawks at patriots | sunday, 1 p.m. (fox)

Five things to watch when the Patriots take on Seattle in their home opener

Both teams are coming off solid victories in Week 1, and the Patriots' rushing attack again will be a key focus.

Driver charged with killing NHL’s Johnny Gaudreau and his brother had .087 blood-alcohol level

Red Sox at Yankees | 7:05 p.m. (Apple TV+)

Game 148: Red Sox at Yankees lineups, notes and wild-card standings

Celtics

Maine Celtics name Tyler Lashbrook new head coach

Business

CEO of Point32Health, state’s second-largest health insurer, announces departure

Point32Health, which was formed in 2021 by the merger of Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, has suffered serious setbacks recently.

CVS pharmacists now prescribing birth control in Massachusetts

The new offerings, which started Thursday, aim to make receiving hormonal birth control methods faster, simpler, and more accessible.

BOLD TYPES

Boston buildings were bathed in blue light this 9/11 to show solidarity with NYC

Ambulance service stretched thin in communities served by closed Steward hospitals

magazine

Xiomara Perez (left) and her grandmother Elicenia Puerta in Everett.

My Boston History | The Power of Now

The underestimated, misunderstood, enormous voting power of Latino Americans

MISS CONDUCT

I am constantly asked to justify being an atheist

Thaddeus Miles, founder of the Black Joy Project.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Sept. 9-15

The writer playing her “new” second-hand piano.

CONNECTIONS

How a stranger’s piano brought me solace in dark moments of my illness

metro

Police officers helped get a jar off the head of this raccoon outside of Methuen City Hall.

A wrong-way driver is caught on video, and high school photo shoot goes too far

In Sandra Birchmore case, questions emerge about why outside investigators weren’t brought in from the start

Summer keeps hanging on as Friday boasts the warmest day of the week

sports

Ryan Johnston named Bruins’ radio play-by-play announcer, replacing Judd Sirott

Should the Patriots beat the Seahawks on Sunday, it will be time to adjust our expectations even more

When fantasy players slide into Patriots players’ DMs, nobody wins

business

Entrepreneur Paul English has released an iPhone app that blocks unwanted spam messages.

Too many texts from Trump or Harris asking for money? There’s an app for that.

China hands PwC a 6-month ban and fine over audit of the collapsed developer Evergrande

Boeing factory workers go on strike after rejecting contract offer

politics

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at the Greensboro Coliseum Sept. 12, 2024 in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Trump to hold news conference in Los Angeles; Harris campaigns in Pennsylvania

How stump speeches by Harris and Trump differ (and don’t)

Trump campaigns in Western states as Harris focuses on critical Pennsylvania

Nation

Justin Timberlake, center, walked into court for his arraignment on Friday in Sag Harbor, N.Y.

Justin Timberlake pleads guilty to impaired driving in New York

Longtime Mexican drug cartel leader pleads not guilty in New York

After bomb threats and political vitriol, Ohio mayor says enough

World

A Taiwan national flag flutters near the Taipei 101 building at the National Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, on May 7, 2023.

Germany sails two warships through Taiwan Strait for the first time in two decades

China hands PwC a 6-month ban and fine over audit of the collapsed developer Evergrande

Two men charged with stealing a famous Banksy image from a London art gallery

opinion

James Earl Jones was more than just a singular voice

Was Shannon O’Brien really guilty of ‘gross misconduct’?

Generative AI is looking like a big dud

lifestyle

So your kid was cut from the team. What now?

A fan’s guide to the Big E: What you need to know about this year’s fair

How do empty nesters keep the marriage going?

food & dining

The Jahunger noodles, hand-pulled and tossed with beef, onions, chiles, and chives.

Jahunger brings hand-pulled noodles, spicy lamb, and other Uyghur specialties to Cambridge

A Southern supper parlor comes to the Porter Square Hotel; Mr. H brings Shanghainese specialties to the Seaport

Brews, bites, and big screens: Here’s what’s on tap at the Great American Beer Hall in Medford

travel

A late summer crop of onions at The Farm at Weston fills a bin. You’ll find fall produce for sale at farm stands throughout southern Vermont.

A late-summer, slow sojourn in southern Vermont

When reserving an extra seat on United, don’t forget to do this

Jason Bowen on playing a prince, finding fun on vacation, and weighing his luggage

Arts

Édouard Manet, "Madame Auguste Manet," about 1866.

At the Gardner this fall, Manet and family

In Salem, a new exhibit summons the spirits at Peabody Essex Museum

Mayor Michelle Wu says city working to extend free Sunday museum program to all school-aged children in 2025

Books

Cleyvis Natera is part of this year's Provincetown Book Festival.

Provincetown Book Fest, a new novel of Maine, and celebrating trees in verse

Arlie Russell Hochschild’s ‘Stolen Pride’ mines white rural shame

Amanda Becker’s profile of America after the fall of Roe

Movies

Fall forward with these 39 movies

Local theaters are serving up cinematic scares for the season

‘Look Into My Eyes’: A skeptic makes a documentary about psychics

Television

20 new and returning TV shows to watch as the leaves turn this fall

Kathy Bates in the courtroom

The Emmys are Sunday. Who should win? Who will win? A critic’s predictions.

music

After more than seven years, Meghan Trainor is back on tour — and loving every minute of it

For Mary D. Watkins, activist Fannie Lou Hamer’s story is operatic

Frankie Beverly, exuberant singer-songwriter for Maze, dies at 77

Theater/Dance

Rudy Pankow as Romeo and Emilia Suárez as Juliet in ART’s "Romeo and Juliet."

At ART, a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ that’s both moving and in motion

In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard gets personal

Two new productions that poke fun at old stereotypes

Health

Lifespan signed a purchase agreement to take over Morton Hospital in Taunton.

Why is Lifespan buying hospitals in Massachusetts instead of saving two in Rhode Island?

R.I. Life Science Hub still in negotiations to develop lab incubator space: ‘In the business world... things moved a lot faster’

What happens when AI picks your medical coverage

Obituaries

Washington Capitals' Stephen Peat punches Pittsburgh Penguins' Krzysztof Oliwa as linesman Dan McCourt attempts to break it up, Dec. 21, 2001.

Ambulance service stretched thin in communities served by closed Steward hospitals

In Sandra Birchmore case, questions emerge about why outside investigators weren’t brought in from the start

One shot, one arrested at pro-Israel demonstration in Newton A Framingham man is due to be arraigned Friday in Newton District Court on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, law enforcement officials said.

Driver charged with killing NHL’s Johnny Gaudreau and his brother had .087 blood-alcohol level

CVS pharmacists now prescribing birth control in Massachusetts The new offerings, which started Thursday, aim to make receiving hormonal birth control methods faster, simpler, and more accessible.

Too many texts from Trump or Harris asking for money? There’s an app for that.

Former senator Dean Tran ‘devastated’ by COVID unemployment fraud conviction

CEO of Point32Health, state’s second-largest health insurer, announces departure

R.I. Democrats poised to pick Lori Urso as replacement for Senator Sandra Cano on Nov. 5 ballot

Layoffs hit Thundermist Health Center, salaries slashed for remaining staff

90 fun things to do in and around Boston this fall

20 new and returning TV shows to watch as the leaves turn this fall

Fall forward with these 39 movies

Local theaters are serving up cinematic scares for the season

After more than seven years, Meghan Trainor is back on tour — and loving every minute of it

When fantasy players slide into Patriots players’ DMs, nobody wins The popularity of fantasy football, combined with the rise of social media and online sports betting, has created a situation in which players are subject to unhealthy feedback from fans.

Bob Kraft seems to be hurting his own cause with the Hall of Fame, and other thoughts

So your kid was cut from the team. What now?

Revisiting busing in Boston

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‘You tried to break us, and you didn’t’: One family relives busing in new audio documentary

Ryan Johnston named Bruins’ radio play-by-play announcer, replacing Judd Sirott

Blind date: ‘We didn’t have loads in common, but the conversation was flowing regardless’

‘There’s nothing perfect in this world of growing apples.’ Extreme weather, warmer temperatures could complicate future harvests.

Address | Fall House Hunt

Hate your HOA rules? There may be a way around them.

Flushed with anger: When the American dream becomes a stinky nightmare

To tell the truth: Some realtors skirt ethical lines on listings

Why realtors say the fall of an election year is the best time to buy a home. It’s when they do it.

The anti-mainstream media election

Give us late-night trains, but not yet

The continued polarization over Israel on college campuses

What’s the next big thing?

JD Vance fogs up the school safety debate

More recent News

BOLD TYPES Boston buildings were bathed in blue light this 9/11 to show solidarity with NYC Boston Properties’ Prudential Tower and its towers at Atlantic Wharf, 100 Causeway St., and 100 Federal St. were all lit up, among others.

Recount drama comes to a close in Cambridge: Decker ends with narrow win over challenger MacKay The Democratic primary recount came after graduate student Evan MacKay declared victory over incumbent state Representative Marjorie Decker.

A fan’s guide to the Big E: What you need to know about this year’s fair From food to music and everything in between, here’s what you need to know as the Big E returns this weekend.

Jayson Tatum talks his new children’s book, plus other highlights from his ‘Tonight Show’ appearance Tatum took on Jimmy Fallon in a rap battle and gave his MVP prediction for the 2024-25 season.

A wrong-way driver is caught on video, and high school photo shoot goes too far

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BU’s Black first-year student enrollment falls to 3 percent, Northeastern to 5 percent The university's president called the drop “concerning and disappointing.”

Defense looks to challenge genealogy approach in case of Matthew Nilo, accused of sexually assaulting eight women in Boston Whether courts agree or disagree, the case could create precedent around the use of forensic genetic genealogy in Massachusetts.

‘I’m still here’: Before Alzheimer’s, he prided himself on his intellect. Can a new treatment curb his decline? Tony Downs is one of the first patients in the country to take Leqembi, a newly approved drug. He and his wife are hoping it will help slow his downhill path.

Culture & Lifestyle

City Hall Plaza welcomes another free ‘Fiesta’ for Latinx Heritage Month

For Mary D. Watkins, activist Fannie Lou Hamer’s story is operatic

Hannah Gadsby’s got something special to say

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Generative AI is looking like a big dud

James Earl Jones was more than just a singular voice

Was Shannon O’Brien really guilty of ‘gross misconduct’?

‘All he had to do was not look crazy’: 6 writers weigh in on the Harris-Trump debate

Sailing Boston Harbor with — and without — my father

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

My grandmother taught me many things. How to cook, however, was not one of them.

CVS pharmacists now prescribing birth control in Mass.

R.I. Democrats poised to pick Lori Urso as replacement for Senator Sandra Cano on Nov. 5 ballot

Ambulance service stretched thin in communities served by closed Steward hospitals

Sports

Watch the Harvard women’s soccer goal that was ‘SportsCenter’s’ top play Thursday

What we know about the pending Celtics sale, and other nuggets on the team

Five things to watch when the Patriots take on Seattle in their home opener

Driver charged with killing NHL’s Johnny Gaudreau and his brother had .087 blood-alcohol level

Game 148: Red Sox at Yankees lineups, notes and wild-card standings

Maine Celtics name Tyler Lashbrook new head coach

Business

CEO of Point32Health, state’s second-largest health insurer, announces departure

CVS pharmacists now prescribing birth control in Massachusetts

Boston buildings were bathed in blue light this 9/11 to show solidarity with NYC

Ambulance service stretched thin in communities served by closed Steward hospitals

One shot, one arrested at pro-Israel demonstration in Newton
A Framingham man is due to be arraigned Friday in Newton District Court on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, law enforcement officials said.

CVS pharmacists now prescribing birth control in Massachusetts
The new offerings, which started Thursday, aim to make receiving hormonal birth control methods faster, simpler, and more accessible.

When fantasy players slide into Patriots players’ DMs, nobody wins
The popularity of fantasy football, combined with the rise of social media and online sports betting, has created a situation in which players are subject to unhealthy feedback from fans.

BOLD TYPES

Boston buildings were bathed in blue light this 9/11 to show solidarity with NYC
Boston Properties’ Prudential Tower and its towers at Atlantic Wharf, 100 Causeway St., and 100 Federal St. were all lit up, among others.

Recount drama comes to a close in Cambridge: Decker ends with narrow win over challenger MacKay
The Democratic primary recount came after graduate student Evan MacKay declared victory over incumbent state Representative Marjorie Decker.

A fan’s guide to the Big E: What you need to know about this year’s fair
From food to music and everything in between, here’s what you need to know as the Big E returns this weekend.

Jayson Tatum talks his new children’s book, plus other highlights from his ‘Tonight Show’ appearance
Tatum took on Jimmy Fallon in a rap battle and gave his MVP prediction for the 2024-25 season.

BU’s Black first-year student enrollment falls to 3 percent, Northeastern to 5 percent
The university's president called the drop “concerning and disappointing.”

Defense looks to challenge genealogy approach in case of Matthew Nilo, accused of sexually assaulting eight women in Boston
Whether courts agree or disagree, the case could create precedent around the use of forensic genetic genealogy in Massachusetts.

‘I’m still here’: Before Alzheimer’s, he prided himself on his intellect. Can a new treatment curb his decline?
Tony Downs is one of the first patients in the country to take Leqembi, a newly approved drug. He and his wife are hoping it will help slow his downhill path.