Elderly driver killed in wrong-way crash on I-495, six injured

Taunton Fire Department

The driver, an 84-year-old man from Foxborough, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on the Taunton/Norton line, officials said.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/greenhouse_03statepolice-2_metro.jpg Embattled former union boss retires from Mass. State Police

Facing a federal fraud investigation, the former head of the Massachusetts State Police union has retired from the job he held for the past three decades as a trooper.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/18/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/trillium2.jpg Trouble is brewing at craft beer darling Trillium

Current and former employees said the wildly successful brewery forced many retail workers to reapply for their jobs and then offered them ?promotions? for less money.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/22/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/532c01b43ca146729255d1d598ede9d3-af068c1317d84894a7b601af219b867f-1.jpg Massive wildfire in Southern California finally contained

Southern California?s Woolsey Fire was 100 percent contained on Wednesday, according to officials.

KNICKS 117, CELTICS 109

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/22/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/lee112118celticsknicks15spts.jpg Celtics lose again, this time to the Knicks at TD Garden

The Celtics staged a furious rally late but came up short to fall to 9-9 on the season.

Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask (40) stops a Detroit Red Wings center Michael Rasmussen (27) shot in the second period of an NHL hockey game Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

RED WINGS 3, BRUINS 2

Shorthanded Bruins fight, but lose in OT to Red Wings

The Bruins couldn?t hang on in Detroit and lost in overtime.

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ON THE JOB

Michael Leonard toots his own horn, and rents out others

Leonard?s Music in Bedford rents more than 4,000 instruments to students in 30 communities.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/20/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/swensen18112021potopen0021.jpg Consumers spent $440,000 on marijuana products Tuesday in Massachusetts

Data from the state?s Cannabis Control Commission offer a window into consumer demand on opening day.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/03/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/potmap150-8467.jpg Are recreational marijuana companies preparing to open in your community? Check our maps

Data released by the Cannabis Control Commission show where marijuana operators hope to set up shop.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/21/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/ff763bc3828945a282f4411bc4b68d43-ff763bc3828945a282f4411bc4b68d43-0.jpg Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts raps Trump for ?Obama judge? comment; Trump hits back

It?s the first time the Republican-appointed leader of the federal judiciary has offered even a hint of criticism of President Trump.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/21/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/_KT26314-23358.jpg Two more inmates investigated in ?Whitey? Bulger slaying

Investigators are focusing on Felix Wilson, who shared a cell with James ?Whitey? Bulger before his death, and Sean McKinnon, a Vermont man serving an eight-year sentence.

Romaine lettuce on a farm in Salinas, Calif., as pictured in October.

Here?s why this Massachusetts produce stand is still selling romaine despite the CDC warning

A local produce stand at the Boston Public Market was still selling romaine on Wednesday, a day after the CDC said the lettuce was tied to a nationwide E. coli outbreak.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/21/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/globesanta-23422.jpeg Globe Santa Christmas campaign begins

Globe Santa kicks off his 63rd annual campaign to make sure that gifts are under the Christmas tree for thousands of deserving Boston-area children.

THOMAS FARRAGHER

A bond to be thankful for ? every day

Boston, MA - November 17, 2018: Julie Swain, left, talks with Jelani Waheed, right, after she gave Jelani a sign with quote from Abraham Lincoln at the Violence Intervention Advocacy Program offices at Boston Medical Center in Boston, MA on November 20, 2018. (Julie Swain is a veteran nurse. Two years ago, she raised her hand to work on the hospital's violence intervention program. And that's how she came to meet Jelani, who had been shot in the leg. It looked bad, swollen, life-threatening. At Julie's insistence, Jelani was treated for a blood clot that could have killed him. Today, 32-year-old Jelani is an apprentice iron worker. A photo of him now hangs on Julie Swain's bulletin board. He sits on a girder. He is smiling. And so is the nurse who saved his life. A Thanksgiving Day tale of a nurse, who cares for those trapped in violence without judgment. And of a young man, shot and almost killed last year.

Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff

A nurse and her patient are more like two friends who have found one another.

Dr. Seuss' Grinch balloon heads down Sixth Avenue during the 91st Annual Macy?s Thanksgiving Day Parade, in New York, Nov. 23, 2017. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)

Thanksgiving should be big in Boston. So how did we let New York steal it from us?

The Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, not Rockaway Beach. Yet somehow New York has stolen a holiday that by all rights should be ours.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/21/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/kreiter_marchcold1_met.jpg Thanksgiving Day will be sunny and blustery, with temperatures only reaching the lower 20s in the Boston area

Gusty winds will make it feel much colder, and forecasters issued a wind chill advisory for Western Massachusetts.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/11/13/BostonGlobe.com/Regional/Images/Boghosian_21turkey1_LIFE.jpg Recipe: How to cook a perfect Thanksgiving turkey

You need an instant-read meat thermometer to cook a turkey. Pop-up thermometers that come with the bird usually pop up when the meat is overcooked.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/21/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Rinaldi22franciscan01xx.jpg After devastating accident, Athol boy excited to return home for the holidays

Javan Fox, 13, was discharged from Franciscan Children?s hospital in Brighton on Wednesday and was finally able to go home.

BOSTON, 11/8/2018 - Head Coach Ryan Conway and player Alex Lazu during a recent practice for the Boston English/NewMission co-op football team, which will play in the D8 North final on Friday night in Everett. Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe (Sports, weitzer)

Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe

Live updates: 2018 Thanksgiving high school football

Get scores and the latest info as traditional rivals square off for bragging rights.

Sharryn Ross and Jon Truslow took a food order from the back of the family vehicle. The couple has been volunteering at Community Servings for more than two decades, delivering meals to people in need in the Boston area.

On a holiday built on food, Thanksgiving meals from Community Servings are medicine

Community Servings in Jamaica Plain feeds about 1,300 sick and homebound people in 21 communities every day, using food from area farms and preparing meals from scratch.

US Senator Edward M. Markey cut a rug with State Treasurer Deb Goldberg (in orange) at the event, with Mayor Martin J. Walsh (background, white shirt) and other volunteers.

Hundreds get turkey with all the fixings at Goodwill?s annual Thanks-For-Giving event

A live band played holiday tunes as hundreds of people ate, sang, and boogied Wednesday during the annual Thanks-For-Giving event.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/08/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/AFP_19U9SO.jpg UN weather group warns climate change ?window of opportunity? nearly closed

The United Nation?s weather organization says greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere climbed to a new record level in 2017.

Carver-10/19/18 From September 15 until November 15, the A.D. Makepeace Company harvests cranberries at their 1700 acres of bogs throughout the South Shore, including the 250 acres of cranberry bogs on Pond Street. Water pours from a wash truck where debris is removed from the cranberries before dropping into a shipping truck. Most of the workers are immigrants who are hired for the seasonal work. Eighteen tractor trailer truckloadshaul away the cranberries from the Pond Street bog. Photo by John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(metro)

John Tlumacki/Globe Staff

Editorial

Thanks for nothing, Trump. Trade war has cranberry growers seeing red

The little red fruit has been drawn into President Trump?s trade wars. To ease the pain, the federal government should extend financial assistance to cranberry growers.

NESTOR RAMOS

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/davisduke2met.jpg He ran a state. He ran for president. Now, Michael Dukakis waits his turn

Try to imagine another major-party presidential candidate enduring a MassDOT meeting.

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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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At least 79 people have lost their lives in California?s deadliest wildfire.

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