Roberta said goodnight to Connor after his 13th birthday party. Earlier, he had a conversation with an imaginary friend of sorts about why he couldn?t move back home. ?You?ve been too unsafe,?? he said. ?You could really hurt Mom.?? But later, in bed, Connor told his mother he really wanted to come home. It?s a familiar conversation. ?I tell him that it?s not safe for anyone right now, including him, but when it is, he can come home,? she said.

The Big Picture

Photos: Connor Biscan is learning to rise

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Boston- 05/04/18- Boston Bruins vs Tampa Bay Lightning, game 4 - A dejected Bruins Ryan Donato and the Bruins bench after an overtime winning goal by Lightning's Dan Girardi. Photo by John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(sports)

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A lot of things aren?t going the Bruins? way, and now they?re on the brink

The Bruins now need to win three straight games after a gut-wrenching loss Friday night.

BOSTON, MA - MAY 4: Torey Krug #47 of the Boston Bruins and Brad Marchand #63 look on during the first period of Game Four of the Eastern Conference Second Round against the Tampa Bay Lightning during the 2018 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at TD Garden on May 4, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts.(Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

Here?s the full story of Brad Marchand?s latest licking of an opponent

The Bruins forward had a face-to-face encounter with Ryan Callahan in Game 4 on Friday.

LOUISVILLE, KY - MAY 04: Justify trains on the track during morning workouts in preparation for the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 4, 2018 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

144th KENTUCKY DERBY

Favorite Justify up against history (and 19 other horses) in Derby

No horse since 1882 has won the Run for the Roses without competing as a 2-year-old.

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Local shops outlast Toys ?R? Us, with mixed feelings

Specialty toy shops are rethinking their strategy as the behemoth chain prepares to sell or close its stores.

Provincetown, MA- August 24, 2017: Mark Shepard of Boylston and his daughter Mackenzie, 8, fish on off the shore of the oversand beach driving corridor at Race Point Beach in Provincetown, MA on August 24, 2017. Mark said he's been coming to the beach all his life. (CRAIG F. WALKER/GLOBE STAFF) section: magazine reporter:

Summer Travel

The 20 best beaches to visit in New England

Love paddleboarding and fishing? Want to build a campfire? Need snacks and family entertainment? There?s a beach for that.

Senator Karen Spilka said, ?When people go through tough times, it presents opportunities.?

Beleaguered by scandal, state Senate tries to get its groove back

It?s been a rough few months for the Massachusetts Senate.

Senator John McCain has been unable to return to the Senate after cancer treatment and surgery for an intestinal infection last month.

In Ariz., John McCain gets visits from Biden, Graham after surgery

A frail Senator John McCain has been receiving a stream of good wishes at his Arizona ranch as he confronts the aftermath of brain cancer treatment and surgery.

Partners HealthCare (above) and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care have been talking for several months.

Partners, Harvard Pilgrim discussing possible merger

If Partners and Harvard Pilgrim do move forward with a deal, they are likely to face scrutiny in a state where policymakers and consumer groups are focused on controlling medical costs.

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If you could put a price on avoiding all that stress, what would you pay? For David Bower and Nezha Mediouni, it was a cool $36,000.

Kerry is quietly seeking to salvage Iran deal he helped craft

Former secretary of state John Kerry has been on an aggressive yet stealthy mission to try to apply pressure on the Trump administration from the outside.

FILE-- President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One as he heads back to Washington following a trip to West Virginia, on Thursday, April 5, 2018. Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen, his longtime personal lawyer, for a $130,000 payment that Cohen has said he made to keep a pornographic film actress from going public before the 2016 election with her story about an affair with Trump, according to Rudolph Giuliani, one of the president?s lawyers. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Doug Mills/The New York Times

Trump reportedly knew of payments to Stormy Daniels before he made denial

Three people close to the matter said that President Trump knew that Michael Cohen had succeeded in keeping the allegations from becoming public at the time the president denied it.

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The family of an Amherst College senior who was found dead in March in Mexico City said Friday that he was murdered, their first public comments on a case that has been kept largely under wraps.

Two men dead in Jamaica Plain double shooting

The shootings mark the 17th and 18th homicides this year in Boston.

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The court issued a 4-3 ruling Friday that Skakel?s trial attorney, Michael Sherman, failed to present evidence of an alibi in the bludgeoning death of Martha Moxley.

The milky way and meteors of the April Lyrids annual meteor shower are seen in the night sky over Burg auf Fehmarn on the Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn, northern Germany, on April 20, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / dpa / Daniel Reinhardt / Germany OUTDANIEL REINHARDT/AFP/Getty Images

Dave Epstein

The peak of this week?s Eta Aquarid meteor shower could start tomorrow

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is expected to start its peak around Sunday, and the weather should cooperate at least most of the time.

Wes Buckley shared a laugh with Mary Kravec while warming up for a hootenanny at the former home of Alice Brock in Great Barrington. The onetime church was bought by Arlo Guthrie in 1991 and now houses the Guthrie Foundation, a not-for-profit educational foundation named for his parents, Woody and Marjorie Guthrie.

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THOMAS FARRAGHER

What?s changed since ?Alice?s Restaurant?? Everything, and nothing at all

Alice Brock is best known ? sometimes to her displeasure ? as the Alice from Arlo Guthrie?s venerable antiwar anthem ?Alice?s Restaurant Massacree.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/05/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/b6bf553a10f14079b28b2132a3f3ef00-b6bf553a10f14079b28b2132a3f3ef00-0.jpg Iowa governor signs nation?s strictest abortion regulation

Iowa?s new law bans abortions after about six weekse and sets the state up for a lengthy court fight.

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New accounting rules forced Berkshire Hathaway to change the way it accounts for the value of its investments.

Love Letters: The Podcast

Love Letters Podcast

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It?s tempting to think you can undo a breakup. And maybe you can, but odds are you?ll need time, distance, and lots of life in between.

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No one doubts this practice is usurious and imposes a monopolistic expense on prisoners.

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