Boston Marathon

On Boylston, stark reminder of blasts that shook city

Sculptor Pablo Eduardo in his studio in Gloucester.

Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe

Markers will stand at the sites of the Marathon explosions, while a larger memorial is planned.

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A Marathon bombing survivor has built and grown a fund to provide assistance for survivors of less public trauma.

Metro

April 15, 2017 | Priceton, MA Press conference at Priceton, Mass police station to announce the suspected killer of jogger Vanessa Marcotte last summer. Angelo Colon-Ortiz is suspected. Pictured center, Worcester county DA Joseph D. Early Jr. To his left, light suit, Richard D Mckeon Kernel of the state police. To Worcester DA right, Priceton police chief, Michele Powers. Kieran Kesner for The Boston Globe.

Kieran Kesner for The Boston Globe

?We got him,? DA says

Officials said they arrested Angelo Colon-Ortiz in connection with the death of Vanessa Marcotte, the jogger who was found dead last August.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/02/23/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/instagram_Marcotte_met.jpg Family of Vanessa Marcotte says her ?spirit will live on?

?After eight long months, we?re able to take the first step toward justice for Vanessa,? her family wrote in a statement Saturday night.

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?It?s pretty devastating,? said their attorney.

World

Vice President Mike Pence.

Pence lands in South Korea after North?s failed launch

Vice President Mike Pence begins a 10-day trip to Asia amid turmoil on the Korean Peninsula.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/16/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/05909736.jpg Over 100 killed during Syria?s troubled population transfer

An explosion killed children, government supporters, and opposition fighters at an evacuation point.

Emerson, Manitoba -- 3/24/2017 - Many refugees who cross the border from the United States into Canada do so by following the railroad tracks. The small transfer station on the right is in Noyes, Minnesota once they pass it, they are in Canada. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: Reporter:

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

Disrupted America

When the American dream becomes a Canadian reality

At the end of a nearly 16,000-mile journey, Naimo Ahmed?s American dream ended in . . . Canada?

EDITORIAL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/14/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Advance/Images/wiggs_SJC_702338.jpg Want to detain immigrants? Get a warrant.

Must Massachusetts set aside its time-honored protections for individual rights?

Shirley leung

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/16/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/shirleyleung_150-9440.png For GE?s high-tech future, the view matters

Jeff Immelt didn?t want or need to change the world. He just wanted to change General Electric Co. and to change just about everything about it.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/16/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/AFP_NL4NV.jpg Faithful flock to Vatican as pope celebrates Easter Sunday

Tens of thousands of faithful are braving heavy security checks for a place in St. Peter?s Square in the Vatican as Pope Francis celebrates Easter Sunday Mass.

Alec Baldwin as President Donald Trump on ?Saturday Night Live.?

On ?SNL,? Trump must choose: Bannon or Kushner

?Have you seen my tweets about North Korea?? asked Alec Baldwin?s commander-in-chief. ?This could be all over by Monday.?

Yvonne Abraham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/16/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Yvonne_Abraham_150px-9432.jpg The Choate abuse case asks the question: Will we never learn?

Fifteen years after the clergy abuse scandal broke open, we are still confronted with shocking revelations of abuse in places that are supposed to nurture and protect our children.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/14/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/sports2-433725-9492.jpg Michael Madden, longtime Globe sports columnist, dies at 73

Mr. Madden was an award-winning writer who didn?t flinch at taking on tough subjects.

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Thomas took part in the Celtics? practice in Waltham on Saturday afternoon.

A brick crosswalk on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain is one of several improvements to make it easier for people to access different parts of the Emerald Necklace.

Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

Opening of new park in Boston highlights dawn of new era for Emerald Necklace

On April 21, Boston will celebrate the opening of Justine Mee Liff Park, one of several projects that will improve and connect the different parts of the scattered green spaces.

Opinion & Ideas

Ideas | Peter Skerry

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Not long ago, liberals and progressives felt far more conflicted about immigration.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/06/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/jim.jpg The summer that changed Boston

The nation was splintering, and Boston wasn?t immune. But something was happening here.

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In America, everyone who has a cellphone thinks they are a professional photographer. They are not.