Mass. urges taxpayers to file returns online
Paper tax returns for 2012 are piling up in the Data Integration Bureau of the Department of Revenue in Chelsea.

KAYANA SZYMCZAK FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

With only 6 percent of users filing with paper forms, officials are trying for hefty savings by prodding everyone to file electronically.

Kevin Cullen

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Local priests like Jim Scahill, John Unni, Jack Ahern, and Doc Conway would never be considered papal candidates. But they walk in Jesus’s footsteps.

Democratic contenders to air first US Senate ads

US Representatives Edward Markey and Stephen Lynch will launch the first television ads of the Senate race Tuesday.

Scott Brown may have opened the way for Charles D. Baker to run for governor of Massachusetts.

2014 state race looks unlikely for Scott Brown

By joining a Boston law firm, the former senator may have opened the way for Charles Baker to run for governor.

Harvard defends e-mail searches, offers limited apology

The school officially confirmed Monday that it had secretly gained access to the ­e-mail accounts of 16 resident deans.

Chris Bois (top center), a student at the NewEngland Casino Dealer Academy, reacted during blackjack class.

Classes prep card dealers for casino economy

Students in the inaugural class of the New England Casino Dealer Academy are hoping to capitalize on the emerging Massachusetts casino industry.

In earlier case, DPU had executives’ pay divulged

State regulators recently forced National Grid to disclose its executives’ pay, but have balked at demanding Northeast Utilities reveal CEO Thomas May’s full 2012 earnings.

Recent Ben & Jerry’s visitors were given lab coats, hairnets, and safety vests during a tour of the Vermont firm’s manufacturing floor.

Ben & Jerry’s invites unsatisfied customers to factory

The ice cream maker bused devoted critics to Vermont to tour its facility and see whether their concerns had been addressed.

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English novelist Barbara Pym

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Barbara Pym fanatics converge on Boston
“Million Dollar Quartet”

Highlights from Broadway in Boston season

Frame by Frame

Velazquez’s young prince and a dwarf
Rie Ichikawa and Tiffany Hedman rehearsing Jirí Kylián’s “Bella Figura” in 2012, which the Boston Ballet will perform again in the upcoming season.

A far-flung Boston Ballet season
Dr. Alessio Fasano, Victoria Kennedy, Dr. Ronald Kleinman, and Dr. Peter Slavin have their picture taken by a Mass. General staff photographer at the Museum of Medical History and Innovation.

Making bread safe for celiacs

Health

Facing the puzzling urge to injure
Nara Williams worked in the window seat of her tiny house on the campus of Hampshire College.

In a tiny house, large lessons about life

Hospital charges bring a backlash

No fixed standards for gun permits in Mass.

Adrian Walker

A taxing time for many at UMass
James Braga, 61, died in a car crash Saturday.

Crash kills a Middleborough High ex-coach, teacher
New flight paths southwest of Boston are designed to be more efficient and save fuel, but they concentrate air traffic.

Noise worry holds up Logan flight path plans

Sports

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Bruins 3, Senators 2

David Krejci fires the puck over Senators goaltender Robin Lehner’s glove to give the Bruins a 3-2 shootout victory.

Bruins edge Senators in shootout

Despite a slow start that put them in a two-goal hole, the Bruins rallied back for a 3-2 shootout win over the Senators.

Metro

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Taylor Hickman, Enrique Martin-Gayo, and Morgan Demmler look at images from a flow cytometer at the Ragon Institute in Cambridge.

AIDS center’s new labs debut

A leading AIDS research center unveiled its new $30 million laboratory building in Cambridge Monday.

Columnists

It was fitting that Parker’s announcement came inside Agganis Arena, the state-of-the-art ice palace that is The House that Jack Built.

Christopher L. Gasper

Jack Parker is an institution at BU
Oil rigs peppered Lake Maracaibo in western Venezuela in 1970.

FARAH STOCKMAN

The politics of oil in Venezuela

Kevin Cullen

The soul of the church
A woman holds a photo of Hugo Chavez as she waits in line to see his body in Caracas on Thursday.

Opinion | JAMES CARROLL

What Chavez meant to the poor
Tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Opinion | JULIETTE KAYYEM

Safety vs. recovery after disasters
Joi Ito is in his second year running the MIT Media Lab.

Innovation Economy

MIT Media Lab director raises start-up support
Carl Crawford complained about treatment from the media in Boston before he was traded to the Dodgers.

Dan Shaughnessy

Carl Crawford never had it bad in Boston

JOAN VENNOCHI

The props for Patrick’s wish list

JOANNA WEISS

Harlem Shake remix

JEFF JACOBY

Liberate schools from government
Jesse Jackson Jr. at his Capitol Hill swearing-in ceremony with his father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

DERRICK Z. JACKSON

The unraveling of a wonderful name

Dan Shaughnessy

Sweet revenge for Tuukka Rask

Nation & World

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Prosecutors said Kwame Kilpatrick ran a “private profit machine” out of City Hall.

Detroit’s former mayor found guilty of corruption

Prosecutors said Kwame Kilpatrick ran a “private profit machine” out of City Hall.

Politics

Democratic Senate leader Morgan Carroll

Colorado Senate OK’s gun control bills

The Colorado Senate gave final approval to a series of gun restrictions including expanded background checks.

Business

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Downtown Crossing street vendors have filed a lawsuit to fight a decision to end the current pushcart program.

Mayor Menino gives pushcart vendors 60-day extension

Downtown Crossing street vendors have filed a lawsuit to fight a decision to end the current pushcart program.

Arts

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Saxophonist presents a different jazz ‘Odyssey’

Chris Potter reached back to Homer’s “The Odyssey” for inspiration on his new album.

Magazine

The cover for the March 10 2013 issue

Where the jobs are now
The cover for the March 3 2013 issue

Getting through to your kids in the digital age
The cover for the February 24 2013 issue

James ‘Whitey’ Bulger & Catherine Greig’s story
The cover for the February 17 2013 issue

A trip to Rio de Janeiro, without leaving Boston

Opinion

“It was the politics of oil, which have proven poisonous all over the world.”

Farah Stockman 

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Ideas

What sounds like a simple thing in the West—a marriage by a judge or a notary—is a near-impossibility in the Middle East.

Thanassis Cambanis on secular marriage