Man faces murder charges, mother also charged in girl?s death

A child identified as Bella who is at the center of the Baby Doe investigation.

A man is being charged with murder in the death of Bella Bond, who became known as Baby Doe, and the girl?s mother will face charges of being an accessory after the fact.

Photos: Bella, girl at center of Baby Doe probe

Images of the girl identified as Bella, who is at the center of the investigation into a child?s body found on Deer Island in June.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/rathe_babydoe_met01-8754.jpg Neighbors didn?t suspect Baby Doe connection

?Half the time she was crying,? a neighbor said of a girl who lived in an apartment building that?s being searched in connection with the case.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/18/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/kreiter_babydoe_memorial5_met.jpg On Deer Island, a planned remembrance gains poignancy

A bronze fawn ordered for a memorial in honor of Baby Doe arrived Friday ? and then the news of her identity broke.

Presidential hopefuls Ben Carson (left) and Donald Trump are the two front-runners in the Republican race.

Michael A. Cohen

The Republican Party has an allergy to facts

The descent of the GOP into dishonesty, lies, and cravenness is no joke. It?s a national crisis.

PATRIOTS AT BILLS, SUNDAY, 1 P.M., (CBS)

Patriots? keys to victory over the Bills

A close look at Sunday?s AFC East game in Orchard Park, N.Y., focusing on matchups.

Peter Abraham | Beat writer?s notebook

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/06/15/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/davis_farrell12_spts.jpg Red Sox should not search for new manager

If John Farrell regains his health and wants to manage the Red Sox again, he should.

Photos by katherine taylor for the boston globe

Address | fall house hunt

How to keep your sanity in this housing market

The emotions house hunters feel are not dissimilar to the five stages of grief. One is anger: ?I hate people who make cash offers.?

Movie review

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/14/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/meet-the-patels-MTP_CB7Q2299_rgb.jpg Documentary ?Meet the Patels? looks at arranged marriage

By Indian custom, Patels are only allowed to marry other Patels. Indian-American comedian Ravi Patel reckoned with this -- on camera.

Scott Kirsner | Innovation Economy

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/11/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/ryan_Caruso2_biz.jpg A real angel among angel investors

Getting an audience with Joe Caruso requires simply going to a website and signing up for a half-hour block of time.

Mold outbreak closes rare book section at Boston Public Library

The section will be closed up to 10 weeks after white, fuzzy mold was found on medieval manuscripts and other prized items.

FILE - In this Nov. 22, 2009, file photo, New England Patriots linebacker Junior Seau, center, talks to teammates on the sidelined during an NFL football game against the New York Jets in Foxborough, Mass. A federal judge has approved Wednesday, April 22, 2015, a plan to resolve thousands of NFL concussion lawsuits that could cost the league $1 billion over 65 years. Critics contend the NFL is getting off lightly given annual revenues of about $10 billion About 200 NFL retirees or their families, including Seau's, have rejected the settlement and plan to sue the league individually. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

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87 deceased NFL players tested positive for brain disease

The new figures are from the nation?s largest brain bank focused on the study of traumatic head injury.

Downtown Taunton

Mashpee Wampanoag tribe clears key hurdle in casino bid

A federal decision allows the tribe to take control of 150 acres in land in Taunton, where it would have rights to open a casino.

Evan Horowitz | Quick Study

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/488803312[1]--90x90.jpg Inside the fight to end ?birthright citizenship?

Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Rand Paul question the notion that anyone born in the US is a citizen. Here?s where it came from in the first place.

Dow drops 297 points day after Fed holds interest rates

The day?s losses wiped out all of the stock market?s gains for the week.

Former St. Paul's School student Owen Labrie was cleared of rape but convicted of lesser sex offenses against a 15-year-old freshman girl.

Motion filed to set aside felony conviction in Labrie case

The conviction of using a computer to entice a minor could carry a maximum sentence of seven years behind bars for Owen Labrie.

US and California environmental regulators said on Friday they are investigating whether Volkswagen AG deliberately circumvented clean air rules on diesel cars.

Volkswagen ordered to recall nearly 500,000 vehicles

The German automaker is accused of using software intentionally designed to circumvent environmental standards.

Traffic heads from the Tobin Bridge into Boston during the morning commute.

Who can claim the worst Boston commute of all?

Starting north, west and south of the Hub, six reporters set out by car and train one recent morning to find out.

Desperate Journey

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/17/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/150916_WALKER_REFUGEES_18837x.jpg After perilous crossing, more dangers ahead for migrants

Refugees may have survived the crossing to Greece, but the journey through Europe remains arduous and unpredictable.

The Big Picture

Ricardo Moraes/Reuters

Fighting Olympic eviction

As sports arenas rise up around them, around 50 families remain in Vila Autodromo, which borders the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro.

BetaBoston

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/18/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/HAH_8233T-4768--90x90.jpg Mass. AG reviewing daily fantasy sports games

Attorney General Maura Healey said that her office is looking into any possible legal issues surrounding daily fantasy sports games.

Crux

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/18/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/Pope-Argentinian.jpg With pope?s Argentine populism, people are more important than ideas

Americans may wonder why this maverick pontiff resists being pinned down, but his fellow Argentinians have a simple explanation.