Longtime Back Bay resident becomes first US woman to summit dangerous K2

Fewer than 400 people have summitted the peak of ?Savage Mountain? and roughly 85 have died. On her third try, Vanessa O?Brien became the first American woman to reach the top.

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Chris Gasper welcomes Celtics reporter Jay King to analyze the Celtics? 92-88 triumph over the Warriors.

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Chad Finn

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Yes, it?s only November, but Thursday?s showdown sure was a tantalizing preview of what could be in June.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/02/12/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/458124984-7160.jpg Barkley isn?t sure how Celtics keep winning

Charles Barkley ripped into the home team during TNT?s halftime show for Boston?s game against Golden State.

Alli Bibaud (left) stood with her attorney while pleading guilty to drunken driving charges in Framingham District Court.

Woman at center of State Police scandal pleads guilty to drunken driving charge

The woman whose altered arrest report led to the resignation of two top State Police commanders is expected to enter a residential treatment center in N.H.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/17/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Walker_111717_18greenlinepic_02009x.jpg MBTA names winning bidder for Green Line extension project

The MBTA?s Green Line extension is getting new life after the T named the winning bidder for the long-planned and long-delayed project.

Starts and Stops

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/17/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_turnpike6_met.jpg State considering hiring debt collector for toll skippers

The bell may soon toll for delinquent Mass. Pike drivers from nearby states.

talking points

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/17/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/rail1.jpg Trouble on the tracks

Rarely has a railroad spur garnered so much attention.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/17/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Plimoth%20plant.-82183.jpg Days before Thanksgiving, Plimoth Plantation workers to picket

The Plymouth ?living history? museum?s employees say they are frustrated by lack of progress.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/17/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/06232007_23sunita-5980413.jpg Needham breaks ground on new school named after space shuttle astronaut

The building will be named the Sunita L. Williams Elementary School.

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At SimpliSafe, a Boston-based home security company, call center workers are protesting a bedbug infestation.

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Boston University plans to fire a well-known geology professor after a 13-month investigation found that he sexually harassed a graduate student while on a field expedition in Antarctica.

Top Places to Work

The 2017 Top Places to Work

There are 125 organizations that made our lists of the top places to work in Massachusetts. See who they are.

Officer injured after short pursuit in Jamaica Plain

A Boston police officer is hospitalized after a man backed his car into the officer, who was responding to a report of shots fired.

NESTOR RAMOS

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/15/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/RinaldiDunkin01.jpg Now in Boston: Dunkin? without the Donuts

Look, nobody around here calls it Dunkin?. And if anybody should know that, it?s Dunks.

School principal targeted in Blackstone car bombing

The bomb detonated Thursday night in what authorities said was a targeted attack on Bellingham High School principal Lucas Giguere.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/17/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/bill.jpg In Facebook post, Ohio candidate says he slept with 50 women

Democrat William O?Neill said the post grew out of frustration over Democrats? calls to remove Al Franken from the US Senate over sexual misconduct allegations.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/17/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/statement-4570.jpg Why the grammar in the Ohio candidate?s post is so wrong

Bill O?Neill earned swift criticism for his crude bragging ? but he made it even worse with grammatical mistakes.

US Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke during a Boston Globe editorial board meeting Friday.

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Warren blasts tax bill but is uncertain it can be stopped

?This is fundamentally wrong,? the Massachusetts Democrat said.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/17/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/819007144.jpg Al Franken apologizes to woman who says he kissed, groped her

In a guest appearance Friday on ABC?s ??The View,?? Leeann Tweeden read a letter she received from the Democratic lawmaker.

Renée Graham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/17/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/AftVVuEU-1068.jpg Roy Moore and the politics of spite

Roy Moore is lashing out in every direction, and his supporters are lapping it up.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/17/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/3d470e40-451d-4dfe-940b-dacef207ce1d.jpg Sarah Silverman on Louis C.K.: ?Can you love someone who did bad things??

Silverman compared the torrent of accusations of sexual abuse coming to light to ??cutting out tumors.??

When the devil was caught in Boston

He was one of the most notorious criminals of his time ? and he was arrested in Boston, 123 years ago.

@Large

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/16/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/sexiestmanalivetrohpies.jpg The death of The Sexiest Man Alive

Not now, we have a headache.

NAMES

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/17/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/AFP_SL1TV.jpg Gisele Bundchen takes on Trump policy: ?Nothing justifies killing? elephants for trophies

The Brazilian supermodel and wife of Tom Brady is upset about the administration?s decision to allow hunters to bring elephants killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia back to the United States.

Sponsored by Pfizer

Dear Scientist, I lost all of my hair to alopecia. Can?t you make it grow back?

Lisa Gregory has no hair, eyelashes, and eyebrows. See her meet the local scientist who's working to change that.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/09/28/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Image%20Tease%20Place%20Holder.png The Season Ticket podcast

Chris Gasper welcomes Celtics reporter Jay King to analyze the Celtics? 92-88 triumph over the Warriors.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/01/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/muck1105altimage-2940[1].jpg He put BSO on the map ? then landed in a world of trouble

One hundred years ago, one of the world?s top conductors was ensnared in a scandal involving patriotism and sex. It almost toppled Boston?s famed orchestra.

Opinion & Ideas

Renée Graham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/17/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/AftVVuEU-1068.jpg Roy Moore and the politics of spite

Roy Moore is lashing out in every direction, and his supporters are lapping it up.

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Do you know about wrongdoing that needs to be exposed? Call the Globe Spotlight team: 617-929-7483 or [email protected].

The Amazon bid

newsroom commentary

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/13/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/drone-5771.jpg Dear Jeff Bezos: Come and help us build a better Boston together

An open letter to the owner of Amazon, proposing a true partnership that rewrites the relationship between a city and the big companies that call it home.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/17/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Sousa.jpg A new role for first responders: providing in-home health care

With mobile integrated health, instead of transporting patients to the hospital, EMTs respond to their needs in their own home.

Crossword

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/21/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/crossword.jpg Play the crossword

Puzzled? Keep trying and see if you can triumph.