Former Patriot Junior Seau found dead in home
Junior Seau played in New England from 2006-2009.

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Police were investigating Seau’s reported suicide at his Oceanside, Calif., home.

Harvard, MIT partner to create major online learning brand

The universities will offer free online courses under the superbrand “edX,” making them major players in the burgeoning online education sector.

Joseph Wright was detained after trying to cross into Canada.

Son of victim arrested in double murder

Joseph Wright was apprehended near the Canadian border and allegedly confessed to killing his mother and grandmother and dumping their bodies at a Saugus school.

Superhero stars (from left) Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner, Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo join together.

Thursday preview | MOVIE REVIEW

‘Marvel’s The Avengers’ is action-packed comic book fun

The Globe’s Wesley Morris says there’s almost nothing to dislike; it’s as close as a movie can come to the fantastical reality of a good comic book.

Assaults on MBTA drivers, other employees on the rise

Twenty-nine assaults have been reported against T workers this year, up from 22 at this time last year, officials said.

Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich officially exits presidential race

Ending a yearlong campaign, the former House speaker said he would help Mitt Romney try to defeat President Obama.

Brown: Warren’s criticism on insurance is ‘sad’

Senator Scott Brown defended his decision to continue insuring one of his daughters through the health care law that he has tried to repeal.

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Paul Pierce scored off the opening tap with a spinning layup, triggering a 36-point, 14-rebound, 4-assist game.

Bob Ryan

Pierce gives Celtics a game for the ages

Baked Alaska is back on menus

Brian McGrory

At Liberty Mutual, accounting to no one

Restaurateur finds big success with small details

Mitt Romney mum on how to regulate big banks
President Obama greeted and thanked US troops in Kabul on the anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

Obama lays out strategy for exiting Afghanistan

Jeff Jacoby

What Brown’s and Warren’s tax returns show
Chicken salad in spring greens with lemony dressing.

Food

8 recipes to celebrate
Jessica Alba was the keynote speaker at an investor event in Cambridge.

Jessica Alba in Cambridge for venture capital firm

Brown says daughter insured under health law
Aaron Cohen of Eat Boston.

Bacon and Beer Festival raises $20,000 for hunger relief

Elizabeth Warren had key role in asbestos court case

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Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma was suspended for the season.

NFL imposes heavy suspensions in Saints scandal

Linebacker Jonathan Vilma received the stiffest penalty, a one-season ban, as fallout from the bounty program continued.

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In a tough speech at Tufts University, Governor Deval Patrick called Alabama and Arizona immigration policies hysterical and poisonous and compared them to JimCrow laws and McCarthyism.

Patrick rips Ariz., Ala. immigrant legislation

Using his strongest language yet, Governor Deval Patrick lambasted immigration laws adopted by Arizona and Alabama.

Columnists

Scot Lehigh

Massachusetts: The candidate state

Jeff Jacoby

What Brown’s and Warren’s tax returns show

joanna weiss

A reason to turn off digital devices
Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz handed the ball over to manager Bobby Valentine after allowing 5 runs in the seventh inning against the Athletics.

Dan Shaughnessy

Clay Buchholz keeps winning, somehow

JULIETTE KAYYEM

A revolution: women fight in Marines

Yvonne Abraham

How far we’ve come on race — and yet must go

JOAN VENNOCHI

Nonprofit greed’s real victims

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Start-up ‘finishing school’ awards

opinion | jeff jacoby

The government’s college money pit
Yahya Ahmad Masalma, 6, received a complex kidney transplant at Boston Children’s Hospital.

JOANNA WEISS

For the life of Yahya

Love Letters

He’s great — but where’s the spark?
Rajon Rondo (9) was ejected for bumping referee Marc Davis (left). It could have a huge impact on the series.

Bob Ryan

Playoff suspensions can be a knockout

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THEATER

‘Porgy and Bess’ gets 10 Tony Award nominations

The revival of the George Gershwin classic, which began in Cambridge, was second only to “Once.”

Politics

Second Brown committee lures financial sector funds

Senator Scott Brown has used a joint fund-raising committee to collect $2.9 million in political donations.

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Greenway board looks to new sources for funding

The nonprofit that manages the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway is seeking contributions from private sources.

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Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is seen in a wheelchair pushed by a nurse at the Chaoyang hospital in Beijing.

Activist now wants to leave China

The blind Chinese activist at the center of a six-day diplomatic tussle between the US and China said he fears for his family’s lives and wants to leave China.

Food & dining

Aaron Cohen of Eat Boston.

Boston Bacon and Beer Festival raises $20,000 for hunger relief

It proved to be the most explosively popular event on the organization’s calendar.

“The guy pays attention to detail like nobody’s business. And in this industry . . . details can make or break you.”

Joe Kane,  on older brother and restaurateur Ed Kane

Magazine

The cover for the April 29 2012 issue

Dying wishes expected to be decided on November ballot
The cover for the April 22 2012 issue

144 free things to do around Boston
The cover for the April 15 2012 issue

In an artist’s garden
The cover for the April 8 2012 issue

Are fat baseball players a problem?

Opinion

“This election demonstrates yet again that Massachusetts produces a perpetual parade of presidential prospects.”

Scot Lehigh 

Ideas

“Fiction’s happy endings make us believe in a lie: that the world is more just than it actually is. But believing that lie has important effects for society.”

Jonathan Gottschall, on why stories are good for us