Squalor in Blackstone home

Lawyer says mom is mentally ill

Erika Murray, mother of four, is held in the death of three infants.

Yvonne Abraham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/07/10/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/abrahamy_20131010[1].jpg How could nobody have known?

That Erika Murray got away with living a double life, allegedly presiding over her house of horrors for years, beggars belief.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/09/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/erika150-10186.jpg A happy facade, hiding dark secrets

Erika Murray allegedly hid the existence of two ailing younger children ? and the deaths of three infants in her home.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/09/12/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/454867296.jpg Adrian Peterson charged with injuring child

The running back was charged with ?reckless or negligent injury to a child,? and was deactivated for Sunday?s game. He has since been released from custody.

The photo that a friend of Elizabeth Stringer Keefe found near ground zero in New York in 2001.

twitter

Social media helps ID photo found near ground zero

Elizabeth Stringer Keefe became caretaker of a photo found near the collapsed World Trade Center towers a few weeks after 9/11.

Boston Police Department Commissioner Joseph Finn.

Firefighters given new schedules to curb sick-day abuse

The commissioner launched the initiative to cut down on firefighters gaming the system to collect overtime.

Actress Ann Dowd in the family home at Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire.

From TV to the big screen, Ann Dowd is everywhere

Critics have hailed the 58-year-old Holyoke native, who appears on Showtime?s ?Masters of Sex? and HBO?s ?The Leftovers.?

AmeriCorps volunteers waited at a gathering in Medford marking the organization?s 20th anniversary.

Funding for AmeriCorps service program falls short

House Republicans have tried to eliminate the program?s budget, and President Obama failed to propose enough money to expand it.

Opinion

Nancy Marrapese-Burrell

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/09/13/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/90x90-rayrice-1209--90x90.jpg How do we deal with our own hypocrisy?

The NFL and its fans love the big hits, the blood, the battle. And yet, we are shocked when NFL players bring their brutality to their families.

Today's Paper

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/09/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/cover091314_200-10329--90x90.jpg Read today?s newspaper

Read the stories from today?s Boston Globe, and browse previous day?s editions and front page images.