Chance to hire Dave Dombrowski prompted fast action from Red Sox

Dave Dombrowski inherits a team that has finished in last place in two of the last three seasons.

Jim Davis/Globe Staff

With other teams lurking, Sox ownership decided quickly that a front office shakeup was warranted.

A photo illustration shows the Ashley Madison website displayed on a smartphone in Toronto, August 20, 2015. Love lives and reputations may be at risk after the release of customer data from infidelity website Ashley Madison, an unprecedented breach of privacy likely to rattle users' attitudes towards the Internet. Hackers dumped a big cache of data containing millions of email addresses for U.S. government officials, UK civil servants and high-level executives at European and North America corporations late on Tuesday, the latest cyber attack to raise concerns about Internet security and data protection. REUTERS/Mark Blinch

Ashley Madison users, be advised: Adultery is illegal in 20 states

In Massachusetts, adultery is a felony. But as in most other states, philanderers are rarely prosecuted.

Scott Leader (left) and Steve Leader (right).

Trump tweets that attack on homeless man was ?terrible?

One of the suspects in the assault allegedly told troopers, ?Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported.?

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A letter writer asks, ?Do I talk about this with my kids or would bringing it up just scare them too much?

Isabel Espanol

The burden of the secondhomeless (yes, it?s a thing)

When friends invite you to stay with them at their vacation homes, you must also navigate the choppy waters of social graces.

Pallbearers, including Avalena?s biological father, Ronald Green (top right in purple shirt), carried her tiny coffin after the funeral Mass at the Immaculate Conception Church Friday morning.

Funeral held for toddler who died at Auburn foster home

Family members described the private service as a tribute to the short life of Avalena Conway-Coxon.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/21/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/schefter-big-4700--90x90.jpg Adam Schefter mistakenly ?terminated? by ESPN

With both of his phones, a laptop, and an iPad deactivated, Schefter went 14 hours between tweets ? an eternity by his standard.

The Issue of Food

Stephen Kinzer

Blame pepper for imperialism, bananas for misery

History would be very different had Western Europe not developed a taste for spices and exotic fruit.

Stocks nosedive for second straight day

The Dow, which fell more than 500 points Friday, is more than 10 percent below the high it reached in trading in May.

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Attorney General Maura Healey wants Wynn Resorts to provide ?a long-term traffic solution? for the area.

Red Line shut down between Park Street, JFK/UMass

Shuttle buses are replacing rail service in the area Friday afternoon because of fire department activity.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/21/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Capture-8870.JPG Another truck hits Westwood?s infamous overpass

A food distribution company?s truck drove into the bridge over East Street, sending insulation flying.

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At Wednesday?s hearing, Judge Richard Berman emphasized that he wants both parties to resolve the case on their own.

MBTA reopens inquiry of exonerated officer

The move comes as a lawsuit alleges that the officer used pepper spray on a woman and beat her before arresting her.

Jesi Stracham, 23, of Iron Station, N.C., was in a motorcycle accident in January that left her paralyzed from the chest down. She is taking part in a clinical trial of the InVivo?s spinal scaffold, which aims to aid healing.

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A shattering crash, an online chronicle, an unexpected twist

In the age of social media, patients who test experimental treatments wield surprising clout.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/21/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/natick-flooding-8802--90x90.jpg Heavy rain expected during evening commute

Bouts of heavy rain are expected this evening and will probably wash out hopes for a sunny weekend.

Ground Game

Ground Game

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Since 1980, Democratic voters have faced a choice: the candidate they love versus the person they know can win.

Opinion & Ideas

Stephen Kinzer

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History would be very different had Western Europe not developed a taste for spices and exotic fruit.

The Big Picture

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Cooling off

It?s summertime, and people and animals alike are looking for ways to escape the heat.

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BetaBoston | Innovation Economy

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Massachusetts? privately held engines of economic growth include household names, like New Balance and Bose.

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ON SPIRITUALITY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/crux.jpg Jimmy Carter, full of grace

The former president offered us a model for facing where we?re all heading: death.