Milford vote could change the game in casino quest

With casino proposals on a losing streak in Mass., the last of 11 original gambling applicants faces the voters on Tuesday.

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Scott Jones, Mei Kum Jones, and their twin boys were found dead in their home. Authorities said the couple had been planning to divorce.

Construction activity and employment have jumped since August 2012, and now cranes are a common sight.

Boston-area projects lift construction workers

The local construction industry is once again booming, experiencing nearly the fastest employment growth in the nation.

Bonnie Raitt (left) surprised the Orpheum’s audience by inviting Bonnie Hayes, new on Berklee’s faculty, on stage.

Berklee brings in Bonnie Hayes

The veteran songwriter, who wrote “Have a Heart” and “Love Letter” for Bonnie Raitt, is the new head of the college’s songwriting department.

Doctors at odds on heart-disease risk calculator

Two Brigham and Women’s researchers are criticizing the risk formula used in a cholesterol treatment guideline issued last week.

Panther Robert Lester (38) intercepted Tom Brady’s pass intended for Rob Gronkowski, who was wrapped up by Luke Kuechly. A flag was thrown, but it was picked up, ending the game.

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Panthers 24, Patriots 20

Patriots on wrong end of late non-call

For the second time this season, the officials became the story line at the end of a Patriots loss, this time to the Panthers.

Flag picked up and game over, Tom Brady tries to state his case to referee Clete Blakeman.

Dan Shaughnessy

The last flag didn’t go the Patriots’ way

Monday night’s loss to the Panthers tested our faith, and everything that we know to be true about Patriot Football.

On Football

Patriots defense couldn’t stop Panthers at the end

The same problems that hampered the defense through most of the game came back to bite them on the Panthers’ final drive.

Dean Mozingo emptied motor oil from Kurt Busch’s car after a NASCAR event at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in September.

Clean Harbors seeks boost from NASCAR link

The Norwell-based environmental services company is now helping make greener one of the world’s most popular sports: NASCAR.

Opinion

PAUL MCMORROW

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The behemoth Government Center Garage is set to go, and the Harbor Garage should be next.

Globe exclusives

Actors with books in the Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black”: (from left) Michelle Hurst; Laura Prepon and Taylor Schilling; and Danielle Brooks.

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Scanning TV’s bookshelves
Greyhound Friends in Hopkinton estimates it has found homes for more than 9,000 dogs, like the dog above.

Greyhound Friends expands mission
Director Meg Fofonoff works on a scene from “A Little Princess,” which will have its New England premiere at the Strand.

Dorchester’s Strand fit for a ‘Princess’
Kip Kolow is older and a seasoned restaurateur as he now opens his flagship SlowBones barbecue restaurant in Burlington. Kolow (below left, in 1994) and his partner Arthur Cores (right) started Boston Chicken in 1985.

Q&A

Seasoned over years, Kolow’s back cooking
Katie Lockwood (with her husband, Arden) has cystic fibrosis and always valued being part of the CF patient community which provided answers, guidance, and support.

Health

Cystic fibrosis patients losing a connection
Tom Clark of the Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury inspected a branch. Hundreds of thousands of black oaks in Southeastern Massachusetts have shown signs of infestation by tiny gall wasps this year.

Puzzling pest imperils trees by acre
Harvard Apparatus researcher Linghui Meng checked one step in the company’s process of creating artificial tracheas.

Biotech ruse may save transplanted organs
Jehuda Reinharz, former president of Brandeis University, has remained among the highest paid people on campus.

Colleges may foot big bills as presidents leave

From Sunday’s Globe | Top Places to Work

Top perks offered by Mass. companies
Marty Walsh, the mayor-elect, often doesn’t just skip the Y or the R in his new job title. He skips them both and says, “maeh.”

Students of Bostonese have found their avatah
“This is clearly an important enhancement and should lead to further reductions in crime,” Edward F. Davis said shortly before he resigned.

Officers wary of GPS for cruisers
Land in Aquinnah on the western end of Martha’s Vineyard would host a year-round casino under a plan proposed by the Wampanoag tribe.

Some see Vineyard casino risks

Sports

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Bruins 4, Hurricanes 1

The Bruins scored two goals in the first period, and got things started with Reilly Smith’s power-play goal.

Bruins penalty kill stifles the Hurricanes

The Bruins have now killed 32 straight penalties, and put on a clinic during a five-on-three situation in their win over Carolina.

Metro

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Tour guide Dorothy Kennedy looked over a display.

JFK Library to open exhibit about president’s funeral

Since the Kennedy Presidential Library opened in 1979, the curators have avoided showing too much about his assassination.

Columnists

farah stockman

Israel’s nuclear precedent

Kevin Cullen

Doing the right thing

Boston Capital

Mass. lesson was lost on Obamacare

Adrian Walker

All bets may be off in Mass.
Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote in support of ENDA.

JEFF JACOBY

Workplaces don’t need ENDA

JOAN VENNOCHI

Pressure is on the Gaming Commission

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Championing 2004 Sox’ claim as favorites

Bob Ryan

The inherent conflict of football

JOANNA WEISS

Gun debate hate
It’s easy to see why Martha Coakley would make a good candidate for governor, Yvonne Abraham writes, thus making her campaign missteps all the more mystifying.

Yvonne Abraham

Unforced errors from Martha Coakley
It will be interesting to see if Michael Astrue can transform InVivo from a company fueled by hype to one focused on demonstrating effectiveness in humans.

Innovation Economy

Can InVivo live up to its hype?
A pedestrian passed in front of the Olympic rings up the street from Turner Field, which originally opened as the 85,000-seat main stadium for the 1996 Olympics.

Derrick Z. Jackson

An Olympic-size illusion

Nation & World

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Residents played basketball with a makeshift net in an area of Tacloban, Philippines, destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan, leaving 4 million people displaced.

Typhoon survivors facing hunger, squalor

Typhoon Haiyan has displaced about 4 million people in the Philippines, with some 350,000 living in evacuation centers.

Politics

Mayor-elect Martin J. Walsh and Governor Deval Patrick met privately in the governor’s office at the State House Monday.

After a break,Walsh centers on work

Mayor-elect Martin J. Walsh met with residents Monday night in Dorchester to talk about their priorities and, earlier in the day, with Governor Deval Patrick.

Business

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The New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass., shut down after being implicated last year in a meningitis outbreak from one of its steroid injections.

Congress OK’s stiffening drug compounding rules

Congress took a step toward increasing federal oversight of compounding pharmacies that custom mix medications in bulk.

Arts

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Music Review

Singer Alexis Krauss (pictured in California in 2011) and Sleigh Bells rocked the Royale on Saturday.

Sleigh Bells’ relentless energy powers show

Here was a band determined to make an impact and relentless in hammering it home.

Globe Insiders

Globe Talk | Dec. 4

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The best-selling author of “Little Children” discusses his craft with the Globe’s new book critic, Matthew Gilbert.

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Magazine

The cover for the November 17 2013 issue

The state of extramarital affairs
The cover for the November 10 2013 issue

Just the right kind of cold
The cover for the November 3 2013 issue

Top 100 women-led businesses in Massachusetts
The cover for the October 27 2013 issue

A First Period home gets a second life

Ideas

“Researchers believe there’s something uniquely and inherently difficult about the in-law relationship itself — as one psychologist put it, ‘The problem is really structural.’”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the weird science of in-laws