Elizabeth Warren assisted mining company

In the 1990s, Warren helped LTV Steel in its fight against a congressional requirement that it pay millions into a fund for its retired coal miners’ health care.

In an ad launched Monday, Scott Brown took his criticism of Elizabeth Warren on the Native American controversy to the airwaves for the first time.

In ads, Warren defends heritage after Brown attacks

Senator Brown and Elizabeth Warren launched dueling ads over her claims of Native American heritage, an issue that has provoked the contest’s most serious personal attacks.

Mindy Kaling plays an ob/gyn, which was her mother’s real-life profession.

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Mindy Kaling’s mother inspired new TV ‘Project’

On the day the actress heard her new sitcom, “The Mindy Project,” had been picked up by Fox, her mother, whose years as an ob/gyn in Boston helped inspire it, died of cancer.

Ethics of hepatitis C drug pitch questioned

Ethics specialists say Dr. Raymond Chung was too enthusiastic when he spoke about a treatment at a hepatitis C forum and did not stress enough that the drug was still being researched.

A doctor’s pitch, a question of ethics

Patients exposed to hepatitis C at a New Hampshire hospital were told about a promising new drug trial.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/09/25/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Copy%20of%20120924assign0027--90x90.jpg Plans upend Boston school assignments

Two of the five proposals presented by school officials would bring back the closest thing Boston has had to neighborhood schools since before the days of desegregation.

The Patriots’ Bill Belichick (above) and the Ravens’ John Harbaugh spent a lot of time Sunday appealing to the refs.

Christopher L. Gasper

NFL’s replacement refs a complete joke

We have reached the tipping point with substitute officials, as players and coaches around the league have reached their breaking point.

Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey signed a Square card reader for MIT senior Ian Cinnamon Monday in Cambridge.

Mobile-payments firm Square Inc. aims for expansion

Twitter Inc. cofounder Jack Dorsey came to Cambridge on Monday to recruit a few MIT graduates for his two-year-old start-up.

Impact of state drug lab scandal detailed

More than 1,100 inmates in Massachusetts prisons and county jails were convicted based on potentially tainted evidence from the state drug lab, officials disclosed Monday.

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The record-breaking storm that hit New England on Sept. 21, 1938 hit hard, killing approximately 600 people in the area.

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Chandler Delinks had to get through sand and an accidentally catapulting competitor.

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Racing goes off-road in cyclo-cross
Our Revival, wearing a fly mask, grazes at a Kentucky retirement home for thoroughbreds after she was rescued from kill buyers.

Suffolk trainer helped save mare from slaughterhouse
Mindy Kaling plays Dr. Mindy Lahiri and Chris Messina is Dr. Danny Castellano in “The Mindy Project” on Fox.

Television Review

A promising prognosis for ‘The Mindy Project’
Gabriel, shown here in a previous concert, was in Boston Monday.

MUSIC REVIEW

Peter Gabriel replays ‘So’ at TD Garden
From left: Michael Chiklis, Kai Lennox, James Russo, Dennis Quaid, and Jason O’Mara in “Vegas,” a new drama from CBS.

Television Review

Ace actors can’t save ‘Vegas’

Owners “Little Tony” and “Big Tony” Consalvi had hoped to rebuild the fire-damaged T.C.’s Lounge.

One of Boston’s last ‘dive bars’ to seek a new home
Frank Kelley, at St. Vincent De Paul in South Boston, says no.

Jesus married? Local Catholics not swayed
Student center at Roxbury CC, whose failure to respond was not an isolated incident.

Second of two parts

Alleged assault, official silence at RCC
Bill Belichick screams at official Rodney Russell after a first-quarter call went against the Patriots.

Dan Shaughnessy

Replacement refs a nightmare in Patriots loss
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been practicing timed debates with Senator Rob Portman of Ohio (right), who stands in for President Obama.

First debate called critical for Romney
South Shore Hospital in Weymouth.

Partners’ South Shore Hospital bid draws scrutiny
Claire Danes won the best actress award and Damian Lewis took home the best-actor statue for their work in “Homeland.”

64th Primetime Emmy Awards

‘Modern Family,’ ‘Homeland’ dominate Emmys

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Patriots coach Bill Belichick doesn’t appear to buy what head linesman Rodney Russell is telling him Sunday night.

Bill Belichick says he ‘never meant any disrespect’

The Patriots coach said that he was trying to get an official’s attention in the moments after Sunday’s loss to Baltimore, when he wound up grabbing him on the arm.

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A white “ghost bike” has been placed along Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester near where a bicyclist, Doan Bui, was struck and killed Sept. 14 by an alleged drunken driver.

Mysterious ‘ghost bikes’ are haunting reminders of dead cyclists

In a grass-roots gesture of solidarity and remembrance, cyclists place all-white “ghost bikes” at the sites of fatal cycling accidents.

Columnists

farah stockman

A plea for a new party: Keeping It Real
Kate Middleton, Prince William, and Prince Harry attended the men's team sprint track cycling event at the London 2012 Olympic games.

Joanna Weiss

Royalty and the paradox of publicity

Boston Capital

Stock and bond markets posting big gains
An audience listened during a forum by doctors and attorneys about hepatitis C in Exeter, N.H., in August.

Ethics of hepatitis C drug pitch questioned
Work continues on the third set of locks during the Panama Canal Expansion project Wednesday.

Juliette Kayyem

Panama’s magic number
The free UberSense app lets coaches mark up video shot on an iPhone or iPad.

Innovation Economy

UberSense offers video sports coaching app

Adrian Walker

Fresh outlook at Fresh Pond
As he often was on Sunday night, Patriots’ Devin McCourty was a step behind as Ravens’ Torrey Smith snares a TD pass.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots defense, running game still struggling
Bill Belichick screams at official Rodney Russell after a first-quarter call went against the Patriots.

Dan Shaughnessy

Replacement refs a nightmare in Patriots loss
Pamela Brousseau has a cup of coffee at Women’s Lunch Place Thursday.

Joanna Weiss

For vulnerable women, an oasis on which to depend

joan vennochi

A dizzy ride on the Romney-coaster
President Jimmy Carter speaks in the East Room of the White House in 1978.

opinion | Jeff Jacoby

The ghosts of Jimmy Carter

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EF First Education’s new $125 million, 300,000-square-foot headquarters will be situated at the foot of the Zakim Bridge. Construction is to begin Tuesday and be completed by spring of 2014.

New NorthPoint project making a big splash

EF First Education says it hopes its new $125 million, 300,000-square-foot headquarters at the foot of the Zakim Bridge will shake up the architecture of the area.

Politics

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Mitt Romney spoke at Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum in Pueblo, Colo., Monday.

Romney raps Obama on ‘bumps in the road’ remark

Mitt Romney has seized upon the president’s “60 Minutes” mention of “bumps in the road” in reference to strife in the Middle East, seeking to exploit what his campaign sees as a gaffe.

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Government forces patrolled in Aleppo. Activists said 48 civilians and 22 regime soldiers died in fierce fighting Monday.

UN envoy says Assad remains steadfast

Syria’s peace envoy gave a bleak assessment of the stalemated war, telling diplomats that there was no immediate prospect for a breakthrough.

Arts

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Book Review

President Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with Martin Luther King Jr. at the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,

‘All In the Family’ by Robert O. Self

Self explores how feminists, gay-rights activists, and anti-war protesters fostered a greater sense of inclusion but also inspired a fervent backlash.

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Photographer poet follows migrant workers at Suffolk Downs

Melissa Shook taught photography at MIT and UMass Boston. Her subjects have included homelessness, aging, and, now, the all-but-invisible world behind Suffolk Downs.

“It’s inappropriate . . . to approach people about a research study that hasn’t been approved and to say the potential benefits outweigh the risks.”

Dr. Michael Grodin,  of BU’s public health school

Magazine

The cover for the September 23 2012 issue

9 hot trends in kitchen design
The cover for the September 16 2012 issue

The self-promoting, fan-financed, go-it-alone star
The cover for the September 9 2012 issue

Things to do in the Berkshires
The cover for the August 26 2012 issue

Did Beatrice Munyenyezi lie to get into this country?

Opinion

“We are all celebrities of a sort now, with a new understanding of what life in public means.”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“Changing a culture requires finesse, subtlety, and patience. It also requires a certain suspension of optimism about human nature.”

Leon Neyfakh on the art of crowdshifting