Probate chief orders review of adoption cases

The review is meant to ensure that children in contested adoptions have attorneys appointed to represent their interests.

An image from a video shows the suspect in the shooting deaths of two journalists.

WDBJ

Ty Burr

After videoed killings, lure and revulsion over watching

Can we even talk about it without giving a criminal the fame he wanted? Here is all that matters: Two people are dead.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/27/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Was8954029.jpg Man records his slaying of 2 former TV colleagues

A man shot and killed two Virginia journalists on live TV while filming the act, and later killed himself.

During testimony in Merrimack Superior Court, Owen Labrie described how he disrobed a female student.

St. Paul?s graduate denies raping girl

The 19-year-old defendant, Owen Labrie, appeared confident and composed as he rebutted charges that he forced himself on a freshman girl.

Yvonne Abraham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/abrahamy-8749.jpg A parent?s nightmare

Despite our strenuous efforts to teach our kids otherwise, boys still feel entitled to sex, and it?s still on girls to hold them back.

Kristen Paquette and her 7-year-old daughter.

WCVB

Women, child who lived in condemned home are found

The women were taken into custody in the Bronx and the young girl is in state care.

Opinion | farah stockman

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/26/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/stockman-1244.jpg Sex, drugs, and racist policing in Rutland, Vt.

There is a right way and a wrong way to address the heroin scourge. Rutland chose the wrong way.

Massachusetts General Hospital.

Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff file

State hospitals report $1.2 billion in earnings

The results for last year show that Massachusetts hospitals are finding ways to be more efficient and control costs.

Tech Lab | BetaBoston

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/27/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/bray-4839.jpg As ad blockers rise, will the Web business model fall?

With ad blockers limited to a savvy few, there was nothing to fear. Until now.

Superintendent Judith Evans said the issue involving Winchester High School principal Sean Kiley is of a ?personal nature.?

Winchester parents launch recall of School Committee

Parents cited a lack of information over the apparent removal of Sean Kiley as Winchester High?s principal.

Nick Cafardo I On Baseball

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/27/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/485296476.jpg Rick Porcello returning with lots to prove

Whether it?s to Dave Dombrowski, the fans, or himself, the Red Sox righthander is looking to show what he?s capable of.

Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy. The Red Sox broadcast Team for NESN.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

With Don Orsillo news, Red Sox drop the ball again

The announcer?s unpopular termination follows the team?s awkward moves involving Larry Lucchino and Ben Cherington.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/07/08/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/ryan_bostonviews3_biz.jpg Judge rules against allowing a restaurant on Long Wharf

The ruling means the tip of Long Wharf will remain open to the public as a recreational area.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/immigrant_rally09.jpg Immigrant advocates condemn Trump remarks at rally

Donald Trump?s comments on immigration were cited by a man who allegedly beat a Mexican national in Dorchester last week.

Marco Rubio spoke to Marie Kenneally during a town hall meeting in Littleton, N.H., on Wednesday.

Keith Bedford/Globe Staff

Rubio targets climate change, Planned Parenthood in N.H.

US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida delivered a conservative pitch to activists Wednesday.

Rosy Hosking (left) and Allison Bard attend The Dinner Party, a group for people who have lost loved ones.

How religious are millennials?

The number of young adults unaffiliated with any religious group is on the rise. But unaffiliated does not mean uninterested.

Ground Game

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/26/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/200_biden_henniker.jpg Why Joe Biden could skip N.H. if he runs for president

The rationale for Biden to skip Iowa and New Hampshire is this: He would enter in the race too late to compete in those states.

Opinion & Ideas

Alex Beam

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/26/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Alex_Beam_150px-1252.png Alex Beam: The birthplace of sex in America

This much is true: In 1956, a bored and bibulous Gilmanton, N.H., housewife published ?Peyton Place.?

The Big Picture

Track and Field World Championships 2015

Nearly 2,000 competitors from 207 countries are participating in the event in Beijing.

BetaBoston

BetaBoston

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/26/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/tech150-4800.jpg Why Techstars Boston is holding two demo days

For the first time, the Techstars Boston ?accelerator? program for start-ups will wrap up with two separate showcases.

Crux

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/26/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/crux150-1456.jpg Catholic tug of war in the US awaits Pope Francis

Catholics to his left and right will all be hoping to pull the pope a bit closer to their own causes.