As Boston hosts mayors, Walsh to push for renewable energy plan

Boston will team up with cities across the country to buy renewable energy in an effort to cut down on costs and spur incentives to create green energy.

Ethel Kennedy, flanked by her children Rory and Christopher, placed flowers on the marble tombstone marking the grave of her husband, Robert F. Kennedy, Wednesday in Arlington National Cemetery.

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Democrats test messages and leaders for next chapter at RFK memorial

National figures past and present tried to fashion Robert F. Kennedy?s words for today?s politics Wednesday during a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of his death.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/12/10/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/122015LocationPics01.jpg From statewide contests to local races, all politics are about Trump

For campaigns normally walled off from Washington, President Trump has loomed large across the ballot in Massachusetts this year, permeating the dialogue and messaging in races far below the federal level.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/06/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/tlumacki_pedestrianstruckandkilled_metro039.jpg Elderly man killed in hit-and-run crash in Allston; driver located

An elderly man was killed in a hit-and-run crash Wednesday afternoon in Allston, and police quickly located the driver for questioning, officials said.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/06/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/15a3f0079fd3402ebcbf222d25e27682-15a3f0079fd3402ebcbf222d25e27682-0.jpg Stormy Daniels sues, saying Cohen colluded with her former lawyer

The porn actress sued President Trump?s fixer, Michael Cohen, and her own former lawyer Wednesday.

People keep spotting huge snapping turtles in the middle of the road. Here?s why

It?s turtle egg-laying season. But be careful before you move them ? these things bite.

Globe renews call to speak with former employee about harassment accusation

The Boston Globe argued in a court filing that it cannot complete its investigation into a harassment accusation against its editor without a court order compelling a former employee to answer questions and provide information.

RED SOX 7, TIGERS 1

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Andrew Benintendi, Xander Bogaerts, and Christian Vazquez each drove in a pair of runs.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/06/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Gasper-19904.jpg Tom Brady isn?t the bad guy in Foxborough

Tom Brady is doing what his employers have done expertly the last 18 years, exercising leverage when he has it.

NESTOR RAMOS

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/07/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Nestor_Ramos_Columnist_CMYK_BGMP-16726.jpg Yes, suspending the Saugus athletes was dumb. But there?s something tone deaf about all this

If we?re going to criticize the selective enforcement of rules governing smoking, then the Saugus High School lacrosse team circa 2018 is an odd place to start.

JOAN VENNOCHI

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/06/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/vennochi-4402.jpg Proposed 600-foot tower doesn?t square with Boston?s waterfront dreams

Boston should not give up everything that makes it special just to prove it is no longer parochial.

Shirley Leung

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/03/26/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/davis_rmv3_met.jpg Happy birthday to me: 3½ hours at the RMV

I can live with an hour in line, but 3½ hours? C?mon, I could have flown to Chicago in that amount of time.

Paul and Anita Trenholm pose with Allen Yannone, of Medfield (center), in Bermuda after he rescued the couple from the water, where they had become stranded.

This Medfield man wasn?t expecting to befriend Eagles fans. Then he rescued two of them in Bermuda

Allen Yannone was on a getaway with his wife in Bermuda when they decided to go snorkeling last Tuesday. Then he rescued two people from Philadelphia stranded off shore.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/04/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/hospitals9-7545881.jpg Hospital misses crucial warning. ?Alert fatigue? may be to blame

In the switch to electronic health records, doctors, nurses, and pharmacists are now bombarded with so many messages that some are missed, and that can lead to dangerous errors.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/29/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/NEW%20ENGLAND%20MOB-1313097.jpg ?The Rifleman? takes stand to testify against ?Cadillac Frank?

Stephen ?The Rifleman? Flemmi and Francis Salemme were partners in crime in the 1960s, but Flemmi secretly became an informant for the FBI in 1964.

Ex-Irish bank chief who was extradited from Mass. has been found guilty of fraud

David Drumm, who lived in a multimillion home in Wellesley, was convicted in Dublin for his role in the collapse of the Anglo Irish Bank.

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Alice Marie Johnson was convicted in 1996 on eight criminal counts related to a Memphis-based cocaine trafficking operation.

Love Letters

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/05/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/Meredith_Goldstein_NewLogo-4078.jpg He didn?t want kids, so I ended it. But now he says he?s changed his mind

Do I believe him and give this another chance, or stay with my new guy?

Globe event

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/04/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/logo1-16586-khSG--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg Smarter Cities, Smarter Skills

A Boston Globe event series on how technology and the tech economy are reshaping our world.

Love Letters: The Podcast

Love Letters Podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/16/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/lovelettersalbum.jpg Getting over a breakup

Meredith Goldstein explores how to move on when a relationship ends.

Listen:   Apple Podcasts   |   Stitcher   |   RadioPublic

 

Opinion & Ideas

Renée Graham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/06/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/graham-4389.jpg You can read the white rage in their MAGA hats

Yes, some white youths really were wearing them at the National Museum of African American History & Culture.

Newsletters

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Our new weekly summer newsletter, ?Eat. Drink. Eat some more,? gives you 15 weeks of recipes and restaurant tips. Find out more.

Real Estate

Recent home sales west of Boston (June 6)

ACTON: 6 Palmer Lane #6; Condominium Condo/Apt, built in 2000, 3,765 square feet, 10 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 22,010-square-foot lot.

Cars

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