Bed sores, neglect, alleged abuse: inside the Bedford VA nursing home

The nursing home, where one resident died while a nearby aide played video games, is one of 11 veterans nursing homes to get the lowest possible score for quality and surprise inspections.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/04/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/westborough_fire2_090318.jpg 250 displaced in Westborough apartment complex fire

No one was injured in the blaze, Westborough fire officials said.

How long you wait to vote Tuesday may depend on which community you live in.

Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff/File

On primary day, turnout may depend on location

It?s primary election day in Massachusetts, and elections commissioners and analysts ? as well as candidates ? are bracing for the unknown.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/03/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/RinaldiBreakfast03.jpg Candidates make final pitches in races across Mass.

Candidates spent Labor Day rushing from breakfasts to cookouts, and from parades to meet-and-greets, all ahead of Tuesday?s primary election.

hiawatha bray | tech lab

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/04/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Hiawatha-Bray-8818.jpg The digital campaign: In 2018, the rules have changed

New technologies are often cheaper to use, leveling the playing field in an election year that features many younger and first-time candidates.

Editorial

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/03/01/BostonGlobe.com/BCOM/Images/513206018.jpg Voters, have your say on primary day

Today is your day, Massachusetts voters.

Evan Horowitz | Quick Study

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/01/31/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/horowitz_20160131.jpg Study: Massachusetts is less sexist than other states

New research looks at how gender bias in individual states affects women?s wages, employment, and whether they have children at an early age

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/03/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/sands.jpg ?It?s gross?: N.H. hotel guests say they weren?t told about Legionella

The Sands Resort hotel in Hampton, N.H., was open Monday but with its neon ?no vacancy? sign lit.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/03/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walker_090318_04copley_5446x.jpg Marriott hotel workers block Boston traffic in protest for better wages

The union is seeking to protect its workers as the industry undergoes major changes, including new technology that will automate many hotel tasks.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/04/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/AP18222744534220.jpg Hours before Kavanaugh hearings, thousands of pages of documents released

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh served in the George W. Bush administration from 2001-06.

Norberto Lugo worked a bog with a cranberry rake at Flax Pond Farms in Carver.

David L. Ryan/Globe Staff

Facing a glut, cranberry farmers want to dump part of the harvest so prices can rise

With only a few weeks left before the harvest, growers are waiting for a decision on whether the industry can cap the amount of berries produced.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/clark_jake_diabetes_082718_04.jpg Students with chronic conditions face a stiff burden

Just about any regular problem that comes with adjusting to college is amplified for students with chronic diseases. And colleges have seemingly taken note.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/03/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/shaughnessy1-21587.jpg The Tomato Can Division again will be the Patriots? safety net

Internal unrest and on-field issues won?t keep them from coasting to another AFC East title.

Norton MA 9/2/18 Bryson DeChambeau watching the flight of his tee shot on the 16th hole during the final round of the at Dell Technologies Championship. (photo by Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff) topic: reporter:

TARA SULLIVAN

For Bryson DeChambeau, it?s far more than mad science

DeChambeau?s unorthodox approach to the game is producing results that have made believers out of his biggest skeptics.

Dave Epstein

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/31/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/kreiter_uptonfeature1_met.jpg Cooler air is on the way . . . but it?ll take a while to get here

A frontal system that will pass through early Friday will provide some relief, but until then we?ll be sweating out the heat.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/03/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/senter00003.jpg That Bernie Sanders-Jeff Bezos feud continues

Sanders criticized Amazon and other big conglomerates Monday while speaking at a Labor Day breakfast in Manchester, N.H.

ATLANTA, GA - SEPTEMBER 3: Xander Bogaerts #2 of the Boston Red Sox knocks in two runs with a ninth inning double against the Atlanta Braves at SunTrust Park on September 3, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Scott Cunningham/Getty Images)

RED SOX 8, BRAVES 2

Xander Bogaerts is making them pay in a big way

The Braves intentionally walked J.D. Martinez to face Bogaerts and the Red Sox shortstop promptly put the game away with a two-run double.

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2016, file photo, San Francisco 49ers' Colin Kaepernick kneels during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the Seattle Seahawks, in Seattle. Kaepernick has a new deal with Nike, even though the NFL does not want him. Kaepernick?s attorney, Mark Geragos, made the announcement on Twitter, calling the former 49ers quarterback an ?All American Icon? and crediting attorney Ben Meiselas for getting the deal done. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Colin Kaepernick has new deal with Nike though he?s not in NFL

Kaepernick?s new agreement with Nike will make him one of the faces of the company?s 30th anniversary ??Just Do It?? campaign.

Eddie Vedder performing with Pearl Jam at Fenway Park on Sept. 2.

Ben Stas for The Boston Globe

Music Review

Pearl Jam brings the heat at Fenway

In the first of two soldout shows at the ballpark, the hard-rocking band did what it does best. Pearl Jam plays Fenway again Tuesday night.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/03/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/f862703609cb487e9a0b6df9777ff88f-f862703609cb487e9a0b6df9777ff88f-0.jpg Will Joe run? Biden feels the push to take on Trump in 2020

Joe Biden is convinced he can beat President Trump, friends and advisers say, and he has given himself until January to deliberate and size up potential competition.

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 1: Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry exits following the funeral service for the late Senator John McCain at the Washington National Cathedral, September 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. Former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush are set to deliver eulogies for McCain in front of the 2,500 invited guests. McCain will be buried on Sunday at the U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Trump has something to say about a possible 2020 presidential run by John Kerry

President Trump couldn?t resist tweeting about John Kerry, after the former secretary of state and Massachusetts senator did not rule out a presidential bid.

MassWildlife photographer Bill Byrne hunkered behind his Nikon and sought to capture long-tailed ducks during a blizzard on a Nantucket beach.

Bill Byrne remembered as a careful observer of Mass. wildlife

Thousands of Byrne?s photographs appeared in Massachusetts Wildlife magazine and other agency publications. A sampling of his work hints at the breadth of his subject matter.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/03/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/AFP_18T6WV.jpg Brazil blaze destroys most of museum?s 20 million relics

One of Brazil?s biggest cultural treasures, the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, has gone up in flames, leaving little more than a charred ruin behind.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/03/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/IMG_3992-21593.JPG Dunkin? Donuts served a Patriots fan an iced tea ? in a Philadelphia Eagles cup

It wasn?t bad enough the Patriots lost to the Eagles during Super Bowl 52. Now a fan said she got her drink in a ?World Champions? Eagles cup.

Opinion & Ideas

Opinion | Barry Bluestone

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/24/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walker_072418_25commavepic_9271x.jpg Who benefits from regional rail? Car commuters

Auto drivers could become the T?s greatest beneficiaries ? even if most of them never use it.

Love Letters: The Podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/29/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/200_love_letters_bonus.jpg Until next year, my sweetheart

In a special bonus episode, Meredith Goldstein explores what happens to summer romance when the summer ends, and ?Wet Hot American Summer? creator David Wain shares a girl-crazy memory from his own camp days.

Listen:   Apple Podcasts   |   Stitcher   |   RadioPublic

 

Real Estate

Address

//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.

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.

The Big Picture

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

The Big Picture

A home, but for how long?

The Trump administration canceled the program that had allowed Patricia Carbajal to create a life as a mother, a construction worker, and a budding activist.

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 your hand at our interactive crossword and see if you can triumph.