Some parents upset after trial halted for autism drug
Anders Zorovic suffers from autism and the related condition fragile X.

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Parents with children in the trial treating autism and a related condition said the drug reduced anxiety levels in the children.

Concert review

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Artists from different eras and genres came to sing the praises of Boston, its citizens, and the first responders and survivors of the Marathon attack.

SCOT LEHIGH

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Bostonians should want mayoral and City Council candidates who, like John Connolly, put the interests of students and their families above those of the union.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/05/31/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/krug[1]--90x90.jpg Torey Krug an unlikely hero for Bruins

How has a player with three previous games of NHL experience become a sparkplug that has ignited the Bruins in their NHL playoff run?

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Speaking in the Rose Garden Friday, President Obama urged Congress to prevent an increase in student loan rates.

Obama renews push on student loan hikes

President Obama is urging Congress to prevent a doubling of student loan rates.

A NASA illustration shows the orbit of asteroid 1998 QE2. The asteroid, which is nearly two miles wide, is set to pass by Earth on Friday, offering scientists a rare chance to study a massive flying object with its own moon.

Asteroid with its own moon to pass near Earth

While the asteroid will still be 3.6 million miles away form Earth, scientists say it’s the size of the space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/05/30/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/maeda_31heat_met4.jpg Temperatures in mid-90s expected today

More hot, muggy weather is in store as temperatures could reach 94 degrees in Boston.

Bombings could have been averted, Keating reports

Russian officials believe that if warnings about Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been heeded, the Marathon bombings could have been avoided, said US Representative William R. Keating.

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Chief Steve E. Abraira said comments from deputies criticizing his leadership were defamatory.

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Several tattoo removal studios opened in Boston in the past two years.

More nondoctors remove tattoos
One of the fires that got the 787 grounded broke out when one of the planes was parked at Logan Airport in January.

Dreamliner returns to Boston Saturday
Although Julian Assange is not interviewed, he is still at the heart of “We Steal Secrets.”

Movie Review

WikiLeaks exposed, but not resolved
Arvind Mahankali, 13, of Bayside Hills, N.Y., lifted the championship trophy after he won the Scripps National Spelling bee.

Boy, 13, wins spelling bee
A US-Canadian border point in Derby Line, Vt. Canada is Vermont’s largest trading partner, Senator Patrick Leahy said. He is working to keep the border open.

Vital roles for N.E. senators in immigration bill
Attorney General Martha Coakley spoke at a press conference on the Boston Fish Pier announcing a lawsuit she filed against NOAA.

Coakley files lawsuit over fishing cuts

Kate Shindle, Nancy E. Carroll, and Shannon Esper in “Rapture, Blister, Burn.”

‘Rapture, Blister, Burn’ explores women’s lives
A juror said that Keith Luke’s crimes were repulsive and that he “needed to be in prison.”

Self-described neo-Nazi guilty of 2009 Brockton murders, rape
Oprah Winfrey was applauded as she spoke during the commencement ceremonies.

Winfrey says ‘there is no such thing as failure’
Jaden Smith stars in “After Earth,’’ which is set far in the future when the planet has returned to a pre-human wilderness.

movie review

Smith family is lost in ‘After Earth’
December 12, 1934: The Nantasket Steamboat Lines, the oldest excursion steamship company in the country, celebrated its 123rd birthday in 1934. The fleet included the Allerton, Pemberton, Plymouth, Mayflower, and the Nantasket, seen here. The boats ferried daily between Boston and Nantasket Beach with large crowds bound for the seaside or for Paragon Park, the largest amusement park in New England.

From the Archives

Ferries in New England

Names

Depp pulls out of Whitey Bulger biopic

More coverage of the bombings

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, left, and husband Anzor Tsarnaev look at videos on an iPad they say show their sons could not have been involved in the Boston Marathon bombings.

Boston bombing suspect is walking, mother says

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev spoke to his mother by phone for the first time since his arrest, and has recovered to the point of walking again.

Sports

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Jaromir Jagr practiced with the Bruins ahead of the the trip to Pittsburgh for Game 1.

Jaromir Jagr recalled as ‘wild child’ in Pittsburgh

Jagr was a teenager who drove too fast and angered police more than 20 years ago with the Penguins. Now he’s headed back there.

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Alexis Wright listened to Justice Nancy Mills during her sentencing hearing at York County Superior Court in Alfred, Maine.

Maine Zumba instructor gets 10 months for prostitution

Alexis Wright was sentenced in the high-profile scandal that featured sex videos, adultery, and more than 100 clients.

Columnists

Lawrence Harmon

A search that doesn’t need Menino
Mayoral candidate John Connolly.

SCOT LEHIGH

Teachers union nod? No thanks

JOAN VENNOCHI

A low point for Gabriel Gomez

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Slots parlor is too risky for Worcester
Aereo, which lets subscribers watch live television on computers, iPads, and iPhones, has broadcasters worried.

Tech Lab

Aereo’s Internet TV is scary good
Scott Brown’s barn jacket said, “I’m a regular guy.” Gabriel Gomez’s flight jacket says much more: “I’ve done something so difficult most can only dream of it.

Yvonne Abraham

Beyond Gabriel Gomez’s jacket
Jean Pronovost (with John Wensink nearby) sports the early Penguins attire.

Dan Shaughnessy

Bruins, Penguins have a colorful history
Assault rifles hangs at an exhibit booth at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in Houston, Texas, on May 5.

SCOT LEHIGH

The dynamic on guns is changing

JEFF JACOBY

How far does ‘marriage equality’ go?

Adrian Walker

A live problem in welfare system
The Red Sox and Phillies paid tribute to veterans on Memorial Day, wearing uniforms and caps that featured US Marine Corps military camouflage.

Christopher L. Gasper

Red Sox got it right with John Farrell
Kenyan demonstrators write the names of members of parliament in blood on pigs to illustrate greed during a demonstration in Nairobi May 14.

Farah Stockman

In Kenya, it’s not about the pigs

Nation & World

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Yanira Maldonado, 42 ( left) accompanied by her husband, Gary (center), was released from a prison on the outskirts of Nogales, Mexico late Thursday.

After week in Mexican jail, Arizona woman back in US

The woman, who was held on a drug-smuggling charge, was released after a court reviewed the case and dismissed the allegations.

Politics

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Retired Army General David Petraeus testified on Capitol Hill during his time as director of the CIA.

Petraeus joins equity firm as chairman

Former CIA Director David Petraeus will take a job with investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P.

Business

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Manchi Chu, 85, relaxed with a magazine in her renovated unit at the Franklin Square House in the South End.

Affordable apartments get revamp

On Thursday, the state’s largest affordable housing improvement effort was completed, with 841 rental units renovated.

Arts

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Opposite page (from left): Jordan Knight, Danny Wood, Joey McIntire, Jonathan Knight, and Donnie Wahlberg.

New Kids on the Block unwrap the Package Tour

The tour is a boy band extravaganza featuring openers Boyz II Men and the recently reunited 98 Degrees.

Movies

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Jeremy Vest (left) plays the title character in “Bulletproof.”

Unconventional film transcends its performers’ limitations

“Bulletproof” is an indie film whose 45-member cast and crew features 18 actors with physical and cognitive disabilities.

Opinion

“The Boston School Committee needs to assert its independence and take upon itself — and only itself — the task of selecting the search panel for a new school superintendent.”

Lawrence Harmon 

Magazine

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The great froyo gold rush
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10 best amusement and theme parks in New England
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Restart: The future of the Marathon
The cover for the May 5 2013 issue

Greater Boston’s top spots to live

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The best-selling author discusses his craft with Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory. Proceeds will go to the One Fund Boston.

Ideas

“The instinct to preserve the Copley Square shrine is understandable, even noble. But the question of how to preserve spontaneous memorials is raising new kinds of problems for archivists, pitting the limits of our capacity to preserve against our unlimited capacity for testimony and grief.”

Ruth Graham, on the challenge of preserving memorials