DNA testing yields new clues in 49-year-old cold case

 This police photo shows the outside of Jane Britton's apartment building near Harvard Square shortly after she was found dead in January 1969.

Middlesex DA's office

The Middlesex District Attorney?s office will announce a major development in the murder of Jane Sanders Britton, a Harvard graduate student bludgeoned to death in 1969.

Officer is among ?multiple victims? in Chicago hospital shooting, police say

A ?possible offender? has been shot, according to a police spokesman.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/Walker_040918_ARL_0862x-5723.jpg Moulton, Lynch sign letter opposing Pelosi as speaker

Seth Moulton and Stephen Lynch were among 16 Democrats who said they?ll vote for ?new leadership? when the House picks leaders in January.

Alleged puppy negligence in Shrewsbury prompts lawsuit from AG Healey

A Shrewsbury breeder allegedly ran a pet shop out of his home, flouting sanitary regulations and charging big money for sick puppies, officials say.

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The panel investigated accusations of sexual misconduct against former casino executive Steve Wynn.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/13/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/cow0729commune.jpg Peter Simon, renowned Martha?s Vineyard photographer and brother of Carly Simon, dies at 71

Simon died Sunday of cardiac arrest, according to a family friend.

In Wareham, the Christmas train prepped for a special ride with hundreds of first responders and their families on Saturday night. The locomotive hit and killed a man and a woman on the tracks.

Courtesy of Henry Noe

Conductor on Christmas train not facing charges in crash that left two dead

The ?Train to Christmas Town? was filled with more than 100 first responders and their children when it fatally struck a man and woman.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/14/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_bostonview2_landmark.jpg US Treasury to scrutinize all-cash home sales in Boston

Suffolk and Middlesex counties were added to a list of areas where real estate deals are reviewed in an effort to combat money laundering.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walker_060118_02warren_8445x-23149.jpg More questionable spending found at Dorchester charter school

According to a report, the Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy?s former executive director dipped into school funds to pay her mortgage.

President Trump, second from right, reacted while taking in the damage from the Woolsey Fire in California.

Why Finland is so good at handling forest fires. Hint: It?s not because of raking

Finland has one of the world?s most successful strategies to counter wildfires, and it is now being more closely examined in other nations recently struck by large-scale fires.

The ceviche mixto at Celeste in Union Square, Somerville.

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10 dishes that made us thankful in 2018

What better way to celebrate the holiday than remembering some of the best things we ate this past year?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/9167e09e-dcd8-48ef-b637-55d3a641042e.jpg Am I poised to ruin Thanksgiving?

A woman considering serving a take-out turkey worries about the implications, including getting roasted.

dave epstein

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/tlumacki_plimouth%20plantation_metro2784.jpg Thursday could be the coldest Thanksgiving on record

The coldest Thanksgiving recorded was November 28, 1901, when the high was 24 degrees, but this Thursday could set a new record.

Boston, MA - 11/17/2018 - (4th quarter) Harvard Crimson running back Devin Darrington (36) run for a touchdown during the fourth quarter was called back because of an unsportsmanlike penalty on the Crimson during the fourth quarter. Harvard hosts Yale at Fenway Park. - (Barry Chin/Globe Staff), Section: Sports, Reporter: John Powers, Topic: 18Yale-Harvard , LOID: 8.4.3826701376.

NAMES

No, a Harvard football player didn?t give his Yale rival the middle finger before a touchdown

It was his index finger ? and running back Devin Darrington wants to settle the score on what really happened.

Boston Celtics' Gordon Hayward watches his three-pointer during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Milwaukee Bucks in Boston, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

CHAD FINN

Blaming Gordon Hayward for Celtics? slow start? That?s not fair, nor is it right

Anyone with a clue knew that this would be a process, that there would be small and big victories for Hayward in his progression, and some real frustrations, too.

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 photo a humidity indicator rests in a bowl of a strain of cannabis called

Here?s a look at the two marijuana stores that will open Tuesday

History will be made on Tuesday as Massachusetts? first two recreational marijuana shops open, marking the first legal sale of recreational pot on the East Coast.

Employees Nick Jarrin (left) and Kaylee Castell at Cultivate Holdings in Leicester.

Recreational pot shops prepare for thousands on opening day

The two-year wait for recreational marijuana sales in Mass. ends on Tuesday when the first shops, located in Leicester and Northampton, open at 8 a.m.

JOAN VENNOCHI

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/vennochi-5722.jpg Thank you, Seth Moulton, for shaking things up and rubbing people the wrong way

Moulton deserves credit, not damnation, for making Nancy Pelosi press her case to remain House speaker.

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Opinion | Colin Angle, Jay Hooley, Scott Landers, and Jeff Ray

Message from the men: We know the power of women on boards

Massachusetts companies need to step up to more gender diversity.

FILE - In this Nov. 27, 2013, file photo, a person points to a screen with an airplane travel list while holding up a phone at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. International air travel has become remarkably safe in recent years, with deadly accidents like last month's Lion Air crash in Indonesia becoming more rare. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Julio Cortez/AP

Opinion | Maggie Hassan

Making airline travel safe for all

New protections are now in place to make sure passengers are safe and treated with dignity when they travel.

RENÉE LOTH

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Why can?t we regulate these two-stroke terrors out of their (and our) misery?

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My wife, Laura Levis, did everything she could to save herself when the asthma attack began. She went to Somerville Hospital and called 911, too. How could she have been left to die just outside the emergency room?

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Aerial photos show devastation from Calif. wildfires

At least 56 people have lost their lives in California?s deadliest wildfire.