Cambridge approves Google expansion in Kendall Square

The plan includes new park space to make up for the reduction in size of a popular rooftop garden.

Mattapan jury reaches verdict on 10 of 19 charges

The jury foreman wrote it “does not appear there is a path to meaningful dialogue” with the lone holdout on the remaining nine charges in the murder trial against two men.

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Tanicia Goodwin, who is accused of slashing the throats of her two children, said she planned to kill them and then herself, a prosecutor said.

Group: Localities saved $80 million after curbing benefits

A taxpayer group said state cities and towns saved $80 million on health care since a law last year forced municipal employees to give up some of their collective bargaining rights.

Amazon buys robot maker Kiva for $775m

Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to buy warehouse robot maker Kiva Systems Inc. of North Reading, in the second-largest acquisition ever made by the giant e-commerce firm.

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Life lessons in Central Square

Youth Underground offers teens the chance to blossom in its ensemble theatrical productions in Cambridge.

Three-year-old Dennis Flores went for a dip in the water at Memorial Beach in the Mystic River Reservation in Winchester on Monday, the last official day of winter.

Boston hits 73 degrees, sets another record for warmth

The mercury is expected to keep rising this week, with temperatures near 90 degrees possible on Thursday.

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Romney called the president’s policies an “assault on freedom,” speaking just steps from Obama’s house, and on the campus where he used to teach.

Milan Lucic screened Maple Leafs goalie Jonas Gustavsson on a goal by Zdeno Chara in the second period that put Boston ahead 6-0.

Bruins 8, Maple leafs 0

Bruins roll over Maple Leafs

The Bruins completed a six-game season sweep of the Maple Leafs with a resounding win at TD Garden Monday night.

Celtics guard Rajon Rondo drove around Hawks guard Jeff Teague (0) and center Zaza Pachulia in the first half of Boston’s win in Atlanta.

Celtics 79, Hawks 76

Celtics hold on in Atlanta

The Celtics ran away from the Hawks in the fourth quarter, and then had to hang on as the Hawks closed to within one point in the waning seconds.

“In order to do our job well — the main job of making decisions on up to three casinos and a slot parlor — we have a huge amount of work to do.”

Stephen Crosby,  Massachusetts Gaming Commission

Globe Insiders

To Grammar’s House

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Grammar’s House can get a bit cluttered sometimes, often with rules that are capricious, spurious, or flat-out erroneous.

Inside The Boston Globe

Daily Dose

Skinnier versions of your favorite cocktails

Jon Lester to start Opening Day for Red Sox

Reality shows vying for Southie’s attention
The GOP’s Richard Tisei is expected to give eight-term Representative John Tierney (above), a Democrat, a tougher race than he faced in 2010.

GOP sees Tierney as wounded, beatable

Mass. casino law filled with tight deadlines
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has vowed to commit at least 4 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product to defense spending.

Mitt Romney’s defense budget target is lofty
Yvette Freeman as the singer title role of Huntington Theatre Company’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’’ a play by August Wilson.

STAGE REVIEW

Wilson’s voice rings clear, strong in ‘Ma Rainey’

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Challenges behind prenatal exams
Wynton Marsalis (center) performs with his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at Symphony Hall.

MUSIC REVIEW

Marsalis, elite jazz orchestra missing a spark

Debo Band branches out from Boston roots
Josh Crary (left) will run one leg of the Marathon with guide Doug Trudel.

Runners in it for the long haul

From Sunday’s Globe

For the Kennedy clan, he is Generation Next

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Nahid Yazdi and Josue Payano, 9, one of a half-dozen students that Yazdi counsels at the John F. Kennedy school in Boston.

Schools turn to private therapists for troubled students

In Boston and other cities, school officials are increasingly importing private clinicians to to help behaviorally troubled students.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook

Apple to pay dividend, buy back $10b in stock

The company, which for years had resisted calls to reward shareholders directly, is introducing a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share.

Columnists

Will Bill Belichick spend his draft picks this year on defenders to help support Tom Brady?

Tony Massarotti

Still no answers if Patriots have improved

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Start-up charts speed of 3G wireless carriers
A glass tunnel connects the new Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum wing to the original Gardner mansion.

Juliette Kayyem

Gardner’s narrative of resiliency

Bob Ryan

Kentucky’s run came out of the blue
Encyclopaedia Britannica editions on display at the New York Public Library.

JAMES CARROLL

An era, shelved

Yvonne Abraham

The road to wisdom

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Not all was lost when Apple bought Quattro

Joanna Weiss | Whitey Bulger: Living large?

Zest up the memoir

Joan Vennochi | Whitey Bulger: Living large?

DiMasi should be so lucky

Gareth Cook

Why do nations fail?

opinion | Jeff Jacoby

On mandate, Romney plays both sides

Love Letters

Should they get engaged before the move-in?

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Police officers gathered at the site of the school shooting in Toulouse, France.

Manhunt in France after shootings linked

One of the guns used in an attack on a school that killed four people was also used in two other deadly attacks in the area, officials said.

Politics

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

Mitt Romney said President Obama had wanted energy prices to go up, but only recently had ‘‘an election- year conversion’’ to push them down.

Mitt Romney urges firing of energy officials

Romney not only blamed President Obama for the rising gasoline prices, but said that the president should fire three of his Cabinet members who oversee energy issues.

Sports

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Peyton Manning, left, worked out for Broncos executive John Elway on Friday.

Report: Peyton Manning chooses Broncos

Manning, a free agent and the only four-time NFL MVP, told his agent to work out a deal in Denver, ESPN reported.

Health and wellness

G Force

“Physical exercise works for many, many depressed people and seems to have lasting effects, especially if the exercise regime is continued,” said Dr. Irving Kirsch.

The placebo effect and depression

Dr. Irving Kirsch is associate director of the program in placebo studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School.

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Playing at full volume at South by Southwest

More than 2,200 bands played official showcases at the music festival, not including all the ones who showed up to play day parties and anywhere else with an electrical outlet.

Magazine

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Grover Norquist: Emperor of no
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Stoughton’s Lori McKenna is writing her heart out
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Putting college degrees to work
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Opinion

“If the founding of the printed Encyclopaedia Britannica was a milestone of human improvement, its passing is even more so.”

James Carroll 

Ideas

“If the Solutrean hypothesis becomes widely accepted, it would mean that the sea played a central part in human expansion. And in the matter of ‘who came first,’ it would mean that all the Americas have a new origin story to contend with.”

Gareth Cook