Aaron Hernandez

Prison that housed Hernandez faces inquiry over ?issues?

State officials said releasing Hernandez?s suicide letters could jeopardize the probe into Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley.

Metro

Coach shortages that have caused overcrowding on the commuter rail will persist until for a few more weeks, officials said Monday.

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Hoping for a seat on the commuter rail today? Good luck.

Officials from Keolis Commuter Services, which operates the commuter rail, say coach shortages will last until mid-May.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/25/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/charlestownboy.jpeg 9-year-old boy struck by baseball remains hospitalized

Eddie Quinn is scheduled to be awakened from a medically induced coma on Tuesday.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/09/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/tai_20160803_acadia_lifestyle_09.jpg You really can?t get to this Bar Harbor from here, or anywhere

NASA has turned to colorful Maine place names to tag geological features on the Red Planet.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/22/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/wiggs_Construction_04.jpg State pledging needed money for UMass Boston?s ?Big Dig?

The Baker administration will provide $78 million in its 2018 capital budget to address issues at a derelict underground garage.

Nation

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/21/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/hauck_23wisconsin03_nat.jpg A new mandate in Wis. causes consternation for the poor

The state wants to mandate drug tests for Medicaid recipients, and the reaction is far from positive.

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The state put Jack Jones and Marcel Williams to death Monday after the men exhausted their legal options.

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She?s a mom, a business owner, and a life-changer

How one South Shore mom?s mission to improve her son?s autism treatment led to a program that now enriches the lives of hundreds of kids.

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Business

A rendering of Millennium Partners? proposal for a skyscraper on the Winthrop Square Garage site in downtown Boston.

HANDEL ARCHITECTS

Council leans toward easing of shadow law, despite critics

Mayor Walsh appears to have enough backing to get state law revised so a skyscraper can be built on Winthrop Square.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/21/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Boghosian_23hbs2_BIZ.jpg Harvard Business School?s annual contest for entrepreneurs is a case study unto itself

A dozen early-stage startups make their case today for why they should receive a whole lot of attention from the VC world.

Dave Epstein | On Weather

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/22/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/wiggs_Science_08.jpg A wet and wild week, thanks to an oncoming (yes) nor?easter

There will be lots of rain, but there won?t be any snow.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/23/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/GettyImages-475347691.jpg Bill O?Reilly says ?the truth will come out? about his Fox News exit

O?Reilly, appearing on his podcast, also said he?s sad and surprised that he?s off TV.

Sports

PETER ABRAHAM

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/13/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/tlumacki_soxvsorioles_sports943.jpg Red Sox expect a power surge soon

The Sox are last in the majors in homers, but ?I?m not worried about it,? said hitting coach Chili Davis. ?They come in bunches.?

BEN VOLIN

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/24/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Pats05.jpg The secrets behind the making of the NFL schedule

One of the four people involved takes us behind the scenes of the complicated process.

Patricia A. McMahon scoured through birth certificate books dating from the 1950s. The books are stored in the ?dungeon,? as she calls it, in the bowels of Boston City Hall.

John Tlumacki/Globe Staff

What?s in a first name? A lot fewer headaches.

A generation ago, babies without official first names were surprisingly common. Now, some of them are dealing with tons of red tape.

Politics

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/24/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/d0567a98fc124eefb792ba01d5860c8f-d0567a98fc124eefb792ba01d5860c8f-0.jpg State Department promotion of Trump?s Mar-a-Lago draws fire

The agency removed a promotional posting about the resort after a storm of ethics criticism.

Opinion & Ideas

Opinion | Bjorn Lomborg

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/06/BostonGlobe.com/BigPicture/Images/fda1dd405a014a75a9bbe608148c42b2-fda1dd405a014a75a9bbe608148c42b2-0.jpg Making dollars count in Haiti

If you had an extra dollar to spend making Haiti stronger and more resilient, where should it go?

Special reports

Summer of ?67

//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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Address: Spring House Hunt

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/06/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/realestate.jpg Advice on taking real estate photos from a Pulitzer-winning photographer

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

Investigations

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/03/03/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/AFP_MB3WQ.jpg Documenting Hate: Submit an incident you know about

If you have been a victim or witnessed a hate incident, share your information here so we can investigate.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/24/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/climate-still-play2.jpg WATCH: It?s the mother of all human health issues

Human climate tampering could cause nasty disruptions to the relative stability we?ve had until this point in our history.