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.

Lanes are closed on Route 128 in Lexington after crash

A truck driver died, according to reports, and at least two lanes are closed in each direction, causing delays.

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

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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.

Thomas Farragher

Let?s cage the gorilla known as Partners HealthCare

It?s doubtful this deal will do much to limit Partners? sway in the region?s health care marketplace.

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/2014-09-12T162303Z_308330672_TM3EA9C0XVZ01_RTRMADP_3_USA-MASSACHUSETTS-CRIME--90x90.jpg Lawyer says Blackstone mother is mentally ill

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

//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.

Patriots defensive end Chandler Jones drew two roughing the passer penalties vs. the Dolphins Sunday.

Patriots? Chandler Jones says he?ll avoid roughing-the-passer penalties

The defensive end says he?ll focus on legal hits next time he?s got a quarterback lined up.

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.

Travel

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/08/25/BostonGlobe.com/Travel/Images/IMG_2141A.jpg Extend summer into fall: Outer Banks of North Carolina

Squeeze in extra days of swimming, shorts, and flip-flops on the narrow strip of barrier islands and peninsulas.