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Getting to not guilty
How a driver who told police after an accident, “I was driving, I’m drunk, and it’s all my fault,” was found not guilty by a Massachusetts judge.
Spotlight report
For drunk drivers, a habit of judicial leniency
Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe
When state judges hear OUI cases without a jury, they acquit the vast majority of defendants, no matter how blatant the alleged offense. It is one more way Massachusetts stands out nationally — for all the wrong reasons — on this crime.
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Police report details 2008 car crash
A doctor reported after a 2008 crash that one of the drivers was “highly intoxicated.” The driver ended up getting a not guilty verdict. Read the police report from the crash.
Globe Spotlight Report
Leniency for drunk drivers
Massachusetts stands out nationally — for all the wrong reasons — on drunken driving.
Lucchino a constant with the Red Sox
Controversial, brilliant, combative, and ever-lawyerly, Red Sox president and CEO Larry Lucchino represents the past, present, and future of the 21st century Red Sox.
1 death as potentially record snow hits
A potentially record-breaking nor’easter expected to dump as much as 2 feet of snow on parts of Massachusetts overnight took the life of a Springfield man.
STEVE LANAVA/Worcester Telegram and Gazette
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Chelsea housing chief’s pay draws fire
Michael E. McLaughlin makes $360,383 a year to oversee 1,415 apartments for low-income people. It’s nearly twice the salary of the housing chief in New York City.
College aid — the daunting calculus
In accordance with a federal mandate, all colleges now offer tools on their websites that help students assess the price of their degrees.
“We absolutely are not wrong 85 and 90 percent of the time.’’
Northborough Police Chief Mark K. Leahy
Inside The Boston Globe
Columnists
Metro
State of fear: Four haunting Mass. tales
It’s the season when the spirits come alive, and Massachusetts abounds in scary tales. Here are four of them.
Business
Flat tax, fat cats, and you
Corporations and individuals supporting a simpler “flat tax’’ system had better be careful what they wish for. They may find that it simply costs them more.
Politics
Gary Johnson pins hope on N.H. in presidential race
For a campaign that’s low on money and poll numbers, Gary Johnson has turned to a political commodity he has in abundance: tenacity.
Nation & World
Syria’s military kills 3 as Arab League voices ‘disgust’
Syrian troops shelled a restive district and conducted sweeping raids yesterday, killing at least three people one day after 40 were reported to have died, activists said.
Sports
Canadiens 4, Bruins 2
Bruins caught in act
Like in many of the previous losses, the Bruins struck iron early (hitting two posts). They got frustrated, committed uncharacteristic defensive mistakes, and then lost control.
Travel
Travel | Sarasota
The circus inheritance
In 1927, John Ringling’s circus empire made Sarasota, Fla., its winter home. Today, while headquarters have moved to Virginia, Ringling’s legacy is all over Sarasota.
Books
By The Book
‘Resurrecting My Childhood Ghosts’ by Chris Bohjalian
It’s a paperback that cost 45 cents when it was brand new.
Opinion
“We have our critical faculties, but the research suggests that they are not as critical as we think.”
Gareth Cook
Ideas
“The only thing we may know about education is that inquisitive kids respond to it.”
Paul Nix, on exam schools