Accused rabbi extortionist has long police record

The man who allegedly extorted hundreds of thousands of dollars from a prominent Sharon rabbi has in the past been arrested for threatening to kill a man.

Shirley Leung

Sodexo drops health care benefits for some, blaming Obamacare

Something stinks in college cafeterias managed by French catering company Sodexo, and it has nothing to do with the food.

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Remy was in court as prosecutors and defense attorneys met in the judge’s chambers.

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Drivers called on Mayor Walsh to establish a civilian commission that would provide oversight for the ride-share industry.

John Farrell has the look of a man whose fuse may be getting shorter. AP Photo/Charles Krupa

Charles Krupa/AP

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Good times seem like a year ago

Last season, everything fell into place for the Red Sox. This season, everything seems to be falling apart.

Ned Martin and Bob Montgomery called some of the earliest Sox games on NESN.

NESN: In 30 years, how a channel has changed

No one saw the first Red Sox game carried on NESN. Now the network is a broadcasting behemoth.

Opinion

OP/EXTRA

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A handy, tongue-in-cheek guide for frustrated feminists.

BetaBoston

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The social network changed the default post setting for new users to “friends,” rather than “public,” but it shouldn’t have taken five years.

Globe must-reads

The Tribe hummus factory in Taunton.

Warnings, fine preceded worker’s death
Law enforcement officials worked at the scene of the shooting in Orlando, Fla., on May 22, 2013.

Pension for FBI agent draws scrutiny
This May, whale watchers have been treated to a rare abundance of humpback whales.

Bumper crop of humpback whales off tip of Cape
Matt Guthmiller, a 19-year-old MIT freshman, is trying to become the youngest pilot to make a solo flight around the world.

MIT freshman trying to become youngest pilot to fly solo around the world

Interactive

A look at Aaron Hernandez’s tattoos
Aug. 29, 1941: The Globe caption read: “A kiss for Hitler from the boys’ best gals. The Fuhrer’s name was scribbled on the shell.” The shell was being fired in a training exercise at Fort Warren by Battery A of the National Guard Coast Artillery Regiment in New England. They were firing at targets 10 miles away. These were the men on whom Boston depended to protect from an ocean attack.

From the Archives | Photo gallery

The Boston Harbor islands

The FBI is offering a $5 million dollar reward in the case of the missing Gardner Museum artworks.

FBI has confirmed sightings of Gardner artwork
Ian McKellan (top) and Patrick Stewart as Magneto and Xavier, respectively.

Movie Review

‘X-Men’ returns to ’70s

Tech Lab

Your online story, told your way
“The only time I really was upset about it was the night I was diagnosed,” Joe McCormick says. “After that, I thought, this is what I have to do.”

Unstoppable slugger playing baseball blind

Names

Cast revealed for Bulger film
Sloan Ouellette, 3, looked on as her uncle, Ken Ouellette of Watertown, planted a flag in memory of his brother, Brian, on Boston Common Thursday.

Ceremony for fallen Mass. military members

Sports

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BLUE JAYS 7, RED SOX 2

Sox third baseman Brock Holt dove but was unable to make the play on a ground ball by Blue Jays second baseman Steve Tolleson (18) in the eighth inning.

Red Sox lose their seventh straight

Jon Lester was roughed up in the first two innings as the Blue Jays completed their three-game sweep at Fenway.

Metro

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Sloan Ouellette, 3, looked on as her uncle, Ken Ouellette of Watertown, planted a flag in memory of his brother, Brian, on Boston Common Thursday.

Ceremony for fallen Mass. military members held

The 205 service members from Mass. who have died on active duty since the Sept. 11 attacks were honored.

Columnists

People line up to enter the 9/11 Memorial Museum on public opening day Wednesday in New York.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Outrage over 9/11 museum store
Stephen Drew is back for another tour of duty with the Red Sox.

Christopher L. Gasper

Stephen Drew’s comeback was inevitable

YVONNE ABRAHAM

A salary that’s hard to defend

ALEX BEAM

Apologies, years after Hillsborough
President Obama has the chance to lay out a creative foreign policy plan for the end of his second term.

NICHOLAS BURNS

Obama needs to reset foreign strategy

Adrian Walker

Finding the thrown-away key
Michigan Representative John Conyers, serving his 25th term, was disqualified from the Democratic primary ballot.

JEFF JACOBY

How political insiders control the ballot
Truro residents Eileen Counihan,48, and her partner Erin Golden,45, outside Provincetown Town Hall after obtaining their marriage license May 17, 2004.

SCOT LEHIGH

Gay marriage: A look back after 10 years
Phyllis Yale.

Shirley Leung

More women helm health care boards
Secretary of State John Kerry spoke at Boston College’s commencement.

KEVIN CULLEN

Open season on free speech
This undated photo, location unknown, shows Linda Brown Smith. Smith was a third grader when her father started a class-action suit in Kansas in 1951, which led to the US Supreme Court’s 1954 landmark decision against school segregation.

FARAH STOCKMAN

Brown v. Board, busing, and Boston
Michael Sam should have told NFL teams he planned to do a docuseries, but it might just have been an excuse for a team not to draft him. Jeff Roberson/Associated Press

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

Michael Sam TV series should have been OK’d

Politics

Coakley trouncing primary rivals, poll finds

Martha Coakley leads Steve Grossman in the Democratic gubernatorial race, 51 percent to 7 percent, according to a WBUR poll.

Nation & World

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Isidro Garcia.

California man charged with kidnapping woman 10 years ago

A woman, now 25, came forward this week and told police that the man abducted her in 2004.

Business

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HP to cut 11,000 to 16,000 more jobs

The increased cuts come “as HP continues to reengineer the workforce,” the company said.

Region

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Mayor Dan Rivera and Heather McMann, executive director of Groundwork Lawrence, collect debris near a fountain across from City Hall.

New Mayor Dan Rivera working to revitalize Lawrence

While some liken the prospect of turning around Lawrence as a mission impossible, Mayor Dan Rivera said he needs time and patience.

Arts

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Television Review

Ramon Rodriguez stars as detective Ryan Lopez (right, with Terry O’Quinn as his task force boss) in “Gang Related.”

Fox’s ‘Gang’ is not all there

The new police drama “Gang Related” about a cop leading a double life aims for gritty but lands somewhere less interesting.

Lifestyle

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Bike with style

There are things you need when you want to take a stylish ride, and these bike accessories effortlessly combine form with function.

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Magazine

The cover for the May 18 2014 issue

Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush: A prescription for fixing hospitals
The cover for the May 11 2014 issue

Will the Green Line Extension make Somerville real estate go crazy?

The cover for the May 4 2014 issue

Alan Guth: What made the Big Bang bang
The cover for the April 27 2014 issue

Who will support Boston’s museums, symphonies?

Ideas

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Two decades after the war, can a nation that learns separately ever be united?