Their driving records: terrible. Yet they conduct your trains

More than half of all commuter rail engineers have driving records that experts described as poor ? at least three infractions such as speeding, causing accidents, and failure to stop.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/15/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/200_scott_klarman.jpg From GOP funding stalwart to backer of Democrats

Seth Klarman has given about $222,000 since 2016 to 78 Democrats running for Congress. ?Republicans . . . have abandoned their historic beliefs and values,? he said.

Hundreds gathered for a vigil for fallen police Officer Sean Gannon on Saturday.

Christine Hochkeppel for the Globe

?It kind of hits you in the gut?

Hundreds attended a vigil Saturday in memory of Sean Gannon, the Yarmouth police officer who was killed Thursday.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/15/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/AFP_13Z33J.jpg Trump lets loose with a hurricane of a Sunday morning tweet storm

President Trump railed against former FBI director James Comey, he defended saying ?Mission Accomplished!? and he worried whether ?Attorney Client privilege is now a thing of the past.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/15/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/AFP_13Z1GO.jpg Paul Ryan on James Comey: ?I don?t know the guy?

On ?Meet the Press,? Paul Ryan was asked if James Comey is ?a man of integrity.? Ryan answered, ?as far as I know,? but added, ?I don?t know him very well.?

JEFF JACOBY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/13/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/jacoby-1383.jpg Her ?Little Pink House? was her castle ? until the government said it wasn?t

A new movie dramatizes how a tiny band of Connecticut homeowners fought their eviction all the way to the US Supreme Court ? and lost.

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Cambridge and Transit Police officers grabbed the legs of a naked man during an arrest Friday.

Yvonne Abraham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/14/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/abrahamy-15076.jpg In courtrooms, a racial imbalance

It?s hard to avoid the conclusion that those who control their fates see black defendants as more dangerous, and less trustworthy, than whites.

Sponsored by Vivint Solar

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From how much it costs to how much energy it truly yields, rooftop solar energy is getting demystified.

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Among the items in storage are four crosses that bear the names of those who died in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

David L. Ryan/Globe staff

Nestor Ramos

Where are the artifacts of the Marathon memorial?

The informal memorial has been stored in pieces, yet its power endures. By Nestor Ramos

kevin cullen

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/14/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/cullen-15053.jpg Five years later, we feel the grief like a sixth sense

There is a sadness that will always hang over the Marathon until everybody who was alive when the bombings happened is dead.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/03/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walker_040318_weather_4177x.jpg Heavy rain is expected on Marathon Monday

Heavy rain is expected to begin around 11 a.m. Monday, with strong winds and chilly temperatures. The high will be about 34 degrees in the Boston area Sunday, with sleet possible in some places.

Stanley Cup Playoffs: Bruins 7, Maple Leafs 3

TARA SULLIVAN

/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/15/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Tara_Sullivan%20copy-18574.tif And suddenly, it?s Stanley Cup or bust for the Bruins

Boston has put all its talents ? depth, talent, experience, youth ? on display in building a 2-0 lead over Maple Leafs.

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Boston scored four goals in the period on the way to taking a 2-0 series lead.

Boston, MA: 4/11/18: Red Sox pitcher Joe Kelly spits out what appears to be a little blood after the fight with the Yankees Tyler Austin (not pictured) in the 7th inning. Injured Boston 2B Dustin Pedroia is at far right. The Boston Red Sox hosted the New York Yankees in a regular season MLB baseball game at Fenway Park. (Jim Davis/Globe Staff)

Joe Kelly got a standing ovation during Game 2 of the Bruins-Maple Leafs series

Kelly immediately stood up and waved his rally towel to the tune of wild cheers and chants of ?Yankees suck!?

CHAD FINN

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/12/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/tlumacki_bruinsvsmapleleafsgame1_sports011.jpg This sports week is about as good as it gets in Boston

Just look at what we?ve got going on right now, in recent days and the ones immediately ahead.

122nd Boston Marathon

Globe Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/09/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/HighRes_170415_MR8_OneBoston_Peabody-0065.jpg Denise Richard on paying kindness forward

Peace, unity, and civic engagement remain the core mission of the Martin Richard Foundation on the fifth anniversary of the Marathon bombings.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/12/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/RinaldiAmbyBurfoot02.jpg ?Only in one?s wildest dreams?: Amby Burfoot recalls win in 1968

The 71-year-old Burfoot will make his 24th attempt at Boston on Monday.

Robert De Niro (left) and Ben Stiller starred in the 2000 comedy ?Meet the Parents.?

Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller recreate ?Meet the Parents? scene on ?SNL?

The polygraph scene from the hit movie was brought back, with a twist.

Seth Moulton criticizes Trump pardon, Starbucks arrests in Philly

Moulton conflated the pardon of ?Scooter? Libby and the arrests of two black men at a coffee shop.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/06/BostonGlobe.com/Travel/Images/LakeSunapeeRegionChamberofCommerce_15sunapee_05_tvlA.jpg Sunapee is celebrating 250 years ? and here?s how you can join the fun

Lake Sunapee, some nine miles long, is anchored by three towns, each with a cluster of shops, restaurants, and lodgings.

Debuting Love Letters: The Podcast

LATEST EPISODE

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/10/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/17169_LL_Podcast_HP_Episode_4_Tease[1]-7368-U849351311183S--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg The Love Letters podcast: Ditch the ex?s T-shirt, or wear it?

After a breakup, is it better to hold onto relics from the relationship, or to dump them?

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Opinion & Ideas

EDITORIAL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/03/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walker_040318_03seaport_3960x.jpg Share police authority in the Seaport

More reasonable models of shared jurisdiction hold sway in other parts of the city.

A new chapter in the story of a terrier who found adventure in Milton

One day, in the friendly little town of Milton, a mysterious visitor arrived out of the blue. No one could say where, exactly, the little dog had come from. But before long, they began spotting it all over town . . .