The incoming state Senate president, long an advocate of transparency, has worked hard to shield a private life of considerable struggle.
Pelletier Family
The Conn. teen who returned home in June after a highly publicized legal battle in Mass. has been rehospitalized.
The lawsuit suggests Wynn Resorts should have been disqualified due to allegations that a convicted felon had a stake in the land.
Kevin Cullen
Bill Taupier fought, and swore at, cancer as long as he could, but it finally took him the other day.
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Fallon says he is confident his buildings on Fan Pier are right for Boston.
This year, a historic number of endangered sea turtles can?t find their way out of the frigid Cape Cod Bay.
John Tlumacki/Globe Staff
Despite the arrests of dozens of officers since 2012, serious departmental discipline is rare, even in some egregious cases. By Todd Wallack
Yvonne Abraham
Emboldened by this possibly fabricated story of rape, the chorus of people who believe women routinely make these things up will grow louder.
The ring had slipped off while a couple was scuba diving off Mexico?s Barracuda Point on the first day of their honeymoon in February 2013.
John L. Allen Jr. | All things Catholic
Plus: Papal ?silence? on Asia Bibi, the divorce debate, and a bulletproof finance czar.
Critics? picks for children, teens, and adults, for fans of fiction and nonfiction, lovers of sports and thrillers, devotees of poetry and all things New England.
DAN SHAUGHNESSY
Two of the original members of the AFL meet Sunday night with plenty at stake in this year?s playoff race.
Globe Santa
A mother of a 2-year-old with Down syndrome needs help from Globe Santa, especially after her husband has become seriously ill.
Address
On the trail of looky-loos, writer Peter Keough went to open houses from downtown Boston almost to the frontiers of Waban.
FARAH STOCKMAN
Refusing to be enemies in JerusalemThe philosophy of a rare bilingual school in Jerusalem ? coexistence ? is under attack.
The Big Picture
The city is dealing with a housing crisis daily, with about 220,000 people without a proper place to live.
Reilly Smith and Dougie Hamilton assisted on both of Brad Marchand?s goals in the Bruins? win.
Boston?s black community grapples ? again ? with news that two grand juries had declined to indict white officers in the deaths of black males.
Republican Bill Cassidy?s win in Saturday?s runoff election cost Democrats their last Senate seat in the Deep South.
US photojournalist Luke Somers and a South African man were killed by Al Qaeda militants as a Navy SEAL team arrived in a Yemeni village.
Grove is chief marketing officer at State Street Corp.
As glare pollution spreads, obscuring the stars and wasting energy, more communities are considering a ?dark skies? ordinance.
?Monet | Kelly,? at the lately transformed Clark Art Institute, is a terrific show, complete in itself and very tasty.
Petit St. Vincent is a sand-circled, 115-acre private island with no in-room Internet or TV.
Design New England
A Vermont tiny house is full of huge possibilitiesInspired by tiny house blogs, Ethan Waldman of Morristown built himself a movable home.
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How ?deadbeats? can still be good dadsChild support needs to catch up to reflect new roles for fathers, say experts.
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