Supermarket firm emerges as Market Basket bidder

Arthur T. Demoulas?s effort to buy out rival family members faces a new hurdle, according to people briefed on the negotiations.

Sides in fight over casino law ready to raise their voices

Leaders of the effort to repeal the law are preparing their first punch, while gambling companies are gearing up their own campaign.

Worcester officials issue advisory after drug deaths

Nine people have died of drug overdoses in the past six days, and police suspect heroin is the cause.

Dedham officer accused of role in kidnapping

The officer allegedly let a kidnapper use his badge to convince the victim, an Avon man now feared dead, to leave his home.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

Bergdahl provides details about his disappearance

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl talked about how he was captured by Taliban in Afghanistan, in an interview with investigators.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/08/07/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/shaughnessy-11851.jpg Red Sox in last place but still making a lot of news

Start with this: Tom Werner is on the short list to succeed Bud Selig as baseball commissioner.

Red Sox GM Ben Cherington has a lot of young players to evaluate for 2015. Jim Davis/Globe Staff

Jim Davis/Globe Staff

Nick Cafardo | On baseball

Ben Cherington has huge task ahead of him ? again

Cherington rebuilt the 2012 Red Sox into a champion in 2013. Can he do it again for the 2015 season?

Eroni Kumana

Solomon Islander who helped JFK save PT-109 crew dies

John F. Kennedy?s heroics may have been for naught had it not been for Eroni Kumana and Biuku Gasa.

Maury Povich talks with employees at Mother Freedom?s headquarters and manufacturing plant in New Bedford.

Maury Povich launches clothing company in New Bedford

Povich?s latest project is called Mother Freedom, an outerwear company with the tagline ?100% Made in America.?

Opinion

Farah Stockman | fourth in a six-part series

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/08/06/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/stockman-1759.jpg They grew up and stayed in subsidized housing

Having a baby as a teen does not guarantee failure, any more than getting a college degree guarantees success.

BetaBoston

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/08/05/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/iPhone-6S-580x343.jpg Next iPhone will reportedly be announced Sept. 9

The big question this year is whether Apple will unveil a larger iPhone.