State?s Nantasket Beach plan draws concerns

Rendering of Nantasket Green, proposed under the state's master plan for Nantasket Reservation, by Crosby/Schlessinger/Smallridge.

Crosby/Schlessinger/Smallridge

Some locals are unsure about the state?s proposal to inject $78 million over the next 10 years to freshen up the 26-acre reservation.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/02/26/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_highschool8a_met.jpg New Mass. schools focus on technology, security

As communities rebuild their schools, educators have placed technology at the top of their priority list.

GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio waved to supporters after his speech during a campaign stop in Oklahoma Friday.

Chris Landsberger/The Oklahoman via AP

Marco Rubio continues to slam Donald Trump

With just four days to go until Super Tuesday, the GOP battle is intensifying.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/02/26/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/160226_SN_DLE_CHISM1-11031.jpg Chism sentenced to at least 40 years; family calls it ?unacceptable?

Peggie Ritzer said the sentence for the teenager who killed her daughter, Colleen Ritzer, was not tough enough.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/02/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/2015-11-29T110439Z_111156606_LR2EBBT0URF19_RTRMADP_3_BRITAIN-EU-FISH.jpg Federal agents bust a New Bedford fishing business

The owner of one of the largest commercial fishing businesses in the Northeast was charged with falsifying records to evade federal fishing quotas.

Two dead following accident on Lynnway

The identites of the victims, a man and a woman, have not yet been released.

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Syrian opposition backs cease-fire even as battles rage in final hours

??Let us pray that this works,?? said one UN envoy.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/01/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/BLS01.jpg Advocates seek federal race probe of BLS

Civil rights groups formally asked federal authorities to investigate racism allegations at Boston Latin School.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/02/26/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/chin041913manhunt_met4.jpg Shootout scene won?t be filmed in Watertown

The recreation of a deadly encounter between police and the Tsarnaev brothers will not be filmed in Watertown after all, officials said Friday.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/01/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ba3379160ba0400bb4040ccace0b14ab-e3fa5791768b4a9f94d623e3ace277d2-0.jpg Prosecutors seek cellphone in Hernandez double-murder trial

A Suffolk Superior Court judge expects to rule next week on whether prosecutors can examine a cellphone he gave to his defense lawyers.

Gracia Lam

Connections

The gift of a tough diagnosis

Though a doctor performed a miracle on my husband, we live differently now.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/02/27/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/floating.jpeg Illinois high school basketball player appears to levitate during game

Walker Stillman became the latest Internet sensation when he appeared to float in the air awaiting a rebound.

Love Letters

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/02/26/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/goldstein-4968.jpg He slept with prostitutes

I am very bothered by the idea that he could treat women as commodities like this and just pick someone out to have sex with.

5 Things

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/02/25/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/01222012_22letters-8161767.jpg What you need to know about fighting a parking ticket

We spoke with Boston?s transportation department commissioner and the city?s parking clerk to seek advice on the best way to appeal a ticket.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/02/18/BostonGlobe.com/Travel/Images/Davide%20Bonazzi.jpg The indignity of the pat down and the will to keep going

Red-faced but forcing transcendence, I wait in my wheelchair for the pat down.

Globe investigations

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/11/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/spotlight150x150-165.jpg Globe investigations and Spotlight reports

A look at high-impact investigations from The Boston Globe, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning report on abuse in the Catholic Church.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/02/24/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Untitled-1-5861.jpg Boston Dynamics? newest humanoid a leaner, meaner, quieter machine

The improved robot Atlas, made by Waltham-based Boston Dynamics, can walk through snow, and pick up boxes and himself.

The story behind 'Spotlight'

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/11/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/spotlight-9497.jpg Boston Globe coverage and the movie ?Spotlight?

?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

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JOHN L. ALLEN JR. | All things catholic

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/02/21/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/PaulVI-C-717x450.jpg Pope takes classic Vatican approach to Zika virus

Pope Francis suggested he?s open to the idea of artificial birth control as a means of combatting the spread of the Zika virus, while taking abortion off the table.