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Judge sends message of deterrence in texting case

Aaron Deveau of Haverhill received a sentence that will send him to jail for a year for a fatal texting-while-driving crash.

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Four stabbed in downtown Boston

The stabbing occurred near the Omni Parker Hotel, leaving one person with life-threatening injuries.

Stocks surge on Europe hopes

Reports that Europe may take action on Spain’s hobbled banks propelled the Dow Jones industrial average up 286 points, its best day of the year.

Orioles 2, Red Sox 1

Red Sox fall to the Orioles again

The Red Sox lost their seventh straight game to the Orioles at Fenway, spoiling Josh Beckett’s five strikeouts in eight innings.

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Tim Thomas charts his own path, leaves his team in the lurch

If and when the Bruins goalie sits out next season, he will be choosing personal commitments over professional ones. Yet his decision comes as a significant blow to his team.

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Birth control fight is still being fought

Thursday marks the 47th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to make birth control legal in the United States, but the case is still being argued.

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Who will bust the filibuster?

With the US Senate race in full gear, it’s time to explore which candidate, Senator Scott Brown or challenger Elizabeth Warren, is more intent on making the Senate work.

Noomi Rapace plays scientist Ellie Shaw in Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus.”

Thursday Preview | MOVIE REVIEW

‘Prometheus’ follows an ‘Alien’ path

Ridley Scott’s return to the “Alien” franchise is impeccably produced but increasingly scattered.

A shaky Web connection at home fueled Andrew Blum on his Internet exploration.

Book Review

‘Tubes’ by Andrew Blum

The Wired writer traces the physical network of the Internet.

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An LG 3D video wall at SID Display Week. TV makers have tried spurring sales and boosting prices with new technology.

TV makers try new tricks to restore market’s prices
Lauren Kalman’s inkjet print “Hard Wear, Tongue Gilding,’’ up at the BCA’s Mills Gallery.

Galleries

Saliva flows, mud thrown in ‘Pretty Ugly’

MBTA to quiz rail car maker on delays

Photos

The transit of Venus

Malcolm X moved into this house in Roxbury as a teenager in 1941. It was owned by his half-sister.

A house of Malcolm X added to endangered list
Dave Matthews, shown in Tennessee in 2010, led his band Tuesday through its unique brand of progressive pop at the first of two shows.

Music Review

Dave Matthews offers predictable yet fiery mix

Chef and restaurateur Michael Leviton of Lumiere and Area Four in his Newton restaurant.

Food

10 things every cook should know

ALBUM REVIEW | ROCK

Patti Smith mixes pop, poetry, memory

Dining out

At L’Espalier, new designs on classic foundations

A pilgrimage for Nathaniel
Monument Cove in Maine's Acadia National Park.

The Podium

What are the oceans telling us about climate change?

Charles Steinberg is the maestro of Red Sox magic

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On baseball

Daniel Bard’s exit from Sunday’s game looks like his last appearance for the Red Sox for a while.

Daniel Bard’s next step is uncertain

Bard’s inability to throw strikes consistently led him to a minor league demotion. And there’s no guarantee he can return to the starting rotation.

Metro

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“We don’t need a casino,” said Kelsey Baker, (right) 22, of Dorchester with her sister, Kayla. “Leave those in Las Vegas.”

Not everyone’s all-in on Suffolk casino plan

On the tired streets near the track in East Boston and Revere, the concept of building a casino was generally embraced, though some residents worried about an increase in crime.

Columnists

Brian McGrory

The dreamer and the mathematician
Coach Doc Rivers and veterans Paul Pierce and Ray Allen celebrated as the final horn sounded.

Bob Ryan

Celtics stun Heat with biggest win of season

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Who will bust the filibuster?

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With Walker win, Republicans see new opportunity

Joanna Weiss

Identity politics affects more than Elizabeth Warren

Farah Stockman

Elizabeth Warren’s Wetumka roots

Opinion | JULIETTE KAYYEM

Advice to women writers on the fifth ‘F’

Derrick Z. Jackson

Confident Wis. GOP looks ahead to Nov.

Boston Capital

Stock market feels like 2011 replay

JEFF JACOBY

Tax-avoidance emigration is logical, lawful
Mitt Romney was the governor of Massachusetts from 2003-2007.

SCOT LEHIGH

What Romney did and didn’t do for Mass.

Boston Capital

Perils of health care price controls

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Mass. may tell Amazon to charge sales tax

The move would raise prices for online shoppers, but generate as much as $45 million in annual revenue for the state, according to people briefed on the matter.

Politics

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

Senate majority leader Harry Reid, accompanied by Lilly Ledbetter, right, the woman who has become the symbol for the workplace equality movement, and advocates said wider protections were necessary.

Senator Brown casts vote against wage bill

The bill would have expanded the rights of working women to challenge employers on pay discrimination.

Nation & World

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US school districts refusing to order beef with ‘pink slime’

All but three states participating in the National School Lunch Program have opted to order the product that doesn’t contain lean finely textured beef.

Arts

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Galleries

Lauren Kalman’s inkjet print “Hard Wear, Tongue Gilding,’’ up at the BCA’s Mills Gallery.

Saliva flows, mud thrown in ‘Pretty Ugly’

Saliva plays a dominant role in “Pretty Ugly: Deviant Materialism,” now up at the Boston Center for the Arts Mills Gallery.

Food & dining

Ripe strawberries

Pick-your-own strawberry farm list

The following list, organized by town, offers some pick-your-own strawberry farms.

“[The Suffolk Downs casino plan] leaves the city of Revere with a parking lot, horse stalls, higher car insurance rates, more traffic, and more headaches than it is worth.”

Revere city councilor Brian Arrigo 

Magazine

The cover for the June 3 2012 issue

40 ideas for your New England summer weekends
The cover for the May 27 2012 issue

What does it take to become a Disney star?
The cover for the May 20 2012 issue

Best beaches guide for New England
The cover for the May 13 2012 issue

At a tiny Provincetown house, a sweet terrace

Opinion

“Warren vows that she would vote for filibuster reform. And that’s why it’s fair to say she’d play a more substantial and systemic role when it comes to fixing the broken Senate.”

Scot Lehigh  

Ideas

“To screen soldiers for PTSD, some experts believe, is to pretend war is something it’s not.”

Paul Kix