Teachers, parents blast Legislature for inaction on school funding

The Mass. House and the Senate have been working for nearly three years on bills to update the state?s 25-year-old school funding formula.

A tolling gantry on the Mass. Pike.

Toll discount back in play in Massachusetts

A test of congestion pricing on state highways test is now back before Governor Charlie Baker.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/31/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/lee_073118_Cotuit6_met.jpg Mashpee police probe officers? role in chase that ended in fatal crash

Mashpee police released their policy governing police chases, but Police Chief Scott Carline said it was too soon for him to discuss the crash that claimed the lives of three people.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/5e5d3dddab5b4e8389e9abecede33ebd-5e5d3dddab5b4e8389e9abecede33ebd-0.jpg Midterms will answer impeachment question, Giuliani says

President Trump?s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, speaking in New Hampshire on Wednesday, said the November elections will be about ??impeachment or no impeachment.??

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/20180801_134127.jpg ?We both thought that we were prepared. But we weren?t?: Father, daughter rescued from Mount Washington

Crews rescued a father and daughter stranded on a hike to the summit of Mount Washington, one that they first completed 40 years ago.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/17/BostonGlobe.com/BCOM/Images/maeda_location,location_biz1-4511.jpg BPL asks police to investigate after three workers placed on leave

Three facilities managers for the city?s library system were placed on administrative leave pending an internal investigation, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/6c8d40bd62e742e5b7a21c8fb4c187cf-fec94cde5305413da81455f7373397b9-0.jpg Trump calls on Sessions to end Russia investigation

President Trump made a direct appeal to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shut down special counsel Robert Mueller?s investigation into Russian meddling over Twitter Wednesday.

EDITORIAL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Advance/Images/PlusSecurus.jpg That prison telephone racket? It could soon get even more exploitative

If a proposed merger goes through, it could mean higher prices for the often poor and vulnerable families wrapped up in the prison system.

Opinion | Arthur W. Lambert

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/web-flagFINAL2.jpg Can the US stop the scientific brain drain to China?

The United States is in danger of losing its primacy in scientific research.

Sports trophies have reappeared under the beams of the Longfellow Bridge on the Cambridge side now that construction is complete.

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

The old trophies under the Longfellow Bridge are back. Here?s why

The project first started in 2014. Now, with the bridge reopened, the trophies have reappeared.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/9856569fdce14843a80c7114330bb338-9856569fdce14843a80c7114330bb338-0.jpg 11 arrested in protest against Northeastern?s ongoing contract with ICE

The university has received $2.7 million from ICE for a faculty member to study data on technology exports.

Dorian Gordon grew up in Dorchester, a world away from Trayvon Martin. But she?ll never forget the boy, armed with only a bag of Skittles and an iced tea, gunned down in Sanford, Fla., in 2012 for being black.

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Jeneé Osterheldt

Trayvon Martin?s murder is a wound unhealed

If he?d made it home alive, Trayvon Martin would be around Dorian Gordon?s age. Six years later, the Dorchester native still grapples with his murder.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/shaughnessy1-20564.jpg As good as these Red Sox are, I have a few concerns

If you look closely, there are still a few little red flags peeking through all those impressive numbers.

Foxborough-7/28/2018 The Patriots held their third day of training camp at the Gillette Stadium facility. During a passing drill in which towels were thrown as a distraction, wide reriever Braxton Berrios was able to come up with the catch. Photo by John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(sports)

What are the Patriots? options at receiver?

A positional battle that looked deep earlier this month is wearing thin after Jordan Matthews was released Wednesday.

COMMENTARY | TY BURR

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After hiking its subscription price and limiting its offerings, MoviePass looks poised to go under.

Globe Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/web0805fly[1].jpg The secret flight that launched Amelia Earhart?s career

The intrepid flier was a Boston social worker struggling to make ends meet when she got the phone call in 1928.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/Walker_080118_feature_14886x.jpg Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected Wednesday ? and some could be severe

Forecasters even say there?s a small possibility of a tornado.

Capital Source

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/obit-1stld-writethru-0ff0c15e-7814-11e8-80be-6d32e182a3bc.jpg Donald Hall?s last poem was about Scott Brown

The former poet laureate?s final poem was just three lines long, but it sure packed a political punch.

Love Letters

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/24/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/Meredith_Goldstein_NewLogo.jpg Can I have a friend with benefits and still stay married?

She loves her husband, but their sex life has gone MIA. She thinks a no-strings guy on the side might be the answer.

Bernadette Coughlin and her husband, Mike, have been inundating the offices of local officials with calls and e-mails.

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Nestor Ramos

She used marijuana after work, and got fired. Now she?s fighting back

Bernadette Coughlin was fired in May after a fall in the hospital kitchen where she worked led to a drug test.

Police on Tuesday released surveillance images of the two suspects.

Three people wanted gold dust, so they forked over $300,000. Turns out it was just dust

Westborough police are looking for a pair of scammers who allegedly conned three people with purported gold dust that turned out to be phony.

Tesla burns $739.5 million in cash on way to record 2Q loss

The net loss more than doubled from the same quarter a year ago, and was slightly larger than the first quarter. But Tesla?s cash burn in the second quarter slowed.

This May 13, 2004 photo shows designer Kate Spade posing among handbags and shoes from her collection in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

NAMES

Kate Spade?s husband posts heartfelt image on Instagram

Andy Spade, the widower of Kate Spade, has returned to Instagram with a heartfelt dedication to the late fashion designer nearly two months after her death.

The Fine Print

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/kreiter_rmv3_biz.jpg With his inspection sticker missing, this vehicle owner drives into trouble

Al Lepera opened the envelope from the RMV to find a citation for driving without the sticker. It could cost him as much as $1,000 in fines and insurance surcharges.

The members from the rock group New Kids on the Block (l-r) Joe McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, Jon Knight, Danny Wood and Jordan Knight. (Photo by Robin Platzer//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images) Published in NYTimes 01/31/04 Published caption: Super Bowl XXV, 1991: New Kids on the Block performed at Tampa Stadium. (Getty Images) Library Tag 04012008

Boston pols tweet about NKOTB vs. New Edition ? then Donnie Wahlberg joins in

When two Massachusetts politicos got into a friendly Twitter disagreement about the relative merits of New Edition and New Kids on the Block, they probably didn?t expect Donnie Wahlberg himself to weigh in.

Music Review

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/lee_073118_byrne1_liv.jpg From David Byrne, artistry that makes complete sense

At Blue Hills Bank Pavilion, Byrne?s show was a night of all-encompassing musical theater.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/HealthScience/Images/mouse_olfactory_neuroepithelium_orange-0318-U82143422344pnC--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg Discovery of unknown lung cell points to new target for cystic fibrosis drugs

Two research teams on Wednesday reported finding a new type of lung cell that appears to play an outsize role in cystic fibrosis.

Opinion & Ideas

Opinion | Leila Philip

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/web-02bulletsAnimals.jpg North American wildlife depends on gun sales for survival

Historically the fur trade had devastated wildlife. But today?s fur trappers play a more complex role.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/30/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Capture2.JPG An oral history of LeBron James and the 2003 UMass-Boston Summer League

How the 2003 Boston Summer League helped introduce LeBron James to the NBA.

Newsletters

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STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/NIH_02-1024x576.jpg Ethical stumbles test NIH?s reliance private-sector research funding

The NIH is working to ensure that recent missteps are isolated incidents, and not emblematic of a broader cultural problem.

Globe event

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/08/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/SeattleTimes_10kirsner02_biz.jpg Seattle?s mayor talks growing pains that offer some lessons for Boston

Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan spoke at a Globe event on how innovation is shaping our world, and she?s in high demand among the hundreds of mayors gathered in Boston.

Podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/18/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/FlfQGTy9_585.jpg More about Last Seen: The Largest Unsolved Art Heist ever

A true-crime podcast about the most valuable ? and confounding ? art heist in history: the theft of 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

Real Estate

Senate votes to extend flood insurance program

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Senate voted Tuesday to extend for four months the program that provides flood insurance for nearly 5 million homeowners and business owners.

Cars

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It was raining very hard on a recent trip, and I got a warning that the advanced safety system shut down. Did the system malfunction when it got wet? Q. My new Subaru has EyeSight, an advanced safety system, designed to help prevent collisions and keep me and my family safer. On a recent trip, [?]

Love Letters: The Podcast

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

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Real Estate

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/06/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/stan-fellows-home-nest-illustration$medium.jpg Spring House Hunt: Should parents buy property in a college town?

As the spring house hunt gets underway and National College Decision Day nears, thoughts are turning to campus housing.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

Globe staff photos of the month, July 2018

Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: the Puerto Rican Parade, Taylor Swift performing at Gillette Stadium, and celebrating fourth of July.

Crossword

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Puzzled? Keep trying your hand at our interactive crossword and see if you can triumph.