Big changes in store for Boston school buildings

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West Roxbury, East Boston, and the southern part of the city near the Dorchester-Mattapan line would be among the first neighborhoods to get new school buildings.

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Army Sergeant First Class Eric Michael Emond was killed Tuesday in a blast in Afghanistan.

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US Representative Katherine Clark won a contested race to be the House Democrats? vice chair against a centrist-oriented colleague.

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A Suffolk Superior Court judge has ordered three district attorneys to turn over records sought by The Globe after Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey sued the agencies.

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They may be a childhood mealtime staple, but a national physicians group says that hot dogs have no place on the menu at Boston Children?s Hospital.

Transportation Security Administration

Smoking suitcase at Logan caused by e-cigarette battery

The baggage screening room was briefly evacuated on Saturday, after smoke started to rise from the seam of a blue, plastic wheeled bag, according to the TSA.

This photo shows the Ox Ridge Elementary School Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018, in Darien, Conn. The Darien school system said parents are no longer welcome to have lunch with their children at the town's elementary schools. (AP Photo/Michael Melia)

A Connecticut town banned parents from its school lunchrooms ? and many are not happy

One mother shed tears when she read the superintendent?s announcement. Another said it felt like a body blow.

The latest numbers may give would-be home buyers hope.

Bloomberg News

There are signs that the Boston area?s heated housing market is cooling

Data from two real estate groups show that price increases are starting to moderate.

Migrants from Central America yell through a border wall at a U.S. Border Patrol agent after he pulled down a banner Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, in San Diego. Migrants approaching the U.S. border from Mexico were enveloped with tear gas Sunday after a few tried to breach the fence separating the two countries. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

As shutdown looms, Trump and GOP leaders discuss border wall

With a partial government shutdown possible Dec. 7, President Trump has met with Republican leaders to hash out a spending plan.

Charlie Hopkins, a former Alcatraz inmate who corresponded with James

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?Whitey? Bulger wished for ?peaceful death,? prison letters say

The ex-South Boston crime boss described a litany of worsening health problems that included several heart attacks and blackouts.

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

Developers push for relief from the natural gas moratorium

The stoppage and a months-long labor dispute have delayed the completion of offices, apartments, and single-family homes.

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2016 file photo, Adnan Syed enters Courthouse East prior to a hearing in Baltimore. Maryland's highest court is set to hear arguments in the high-profile case of Syed whose murder conviction was chronicled in the hit

Maryland?s top court to hear arguments in ?Serial? case

On Thursday, the court will hear arguments in the high-profile case of a man whose murder conviction was chronicled in the hit ?Serial? podcast.

Boston, MA--10/9/2018-- David Price shows Nathan Eovaldi some love during the Red Sox World Series victory parade. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: paradephotos Reporter:

David Price: ?Eovaldi better be re-signing?

Nathan Eovaldi was a hot topic on Price?s Twitch livestream on Tuesday.

The famed Tropicana show continues to serve up the classic color of pre-Revolution Havana.

SOPHIA SWIDEY FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

Getting to Cuba is harder (once again), but the effort is greatly rewarded

In addition to marking the 60th anniversary of the revolution, Cubans will be celebrating the 500th anniversary of Havana?s founding in 2019.

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?I?ve been a little hesitant to change,? he said Wednesday.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/28/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Gasper1-24669.jpg Some Celtics need to accept their roles

They don?t know their player pecking order after Kyrie Irving.

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Boston has become a serious noodle town. Start slurping here.

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It would be neither technically difficult nor too expensive to spray chemicals into the atmosphere to block the sun and curb global warming.

JOAN VENNOCHI

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As Boston morphs into something entirely new, with a shifting power base, Walsh looks more and more old school.

Opinion | Kenneth Rogoff

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Computers haven?t killed chess ? they?ve made it a universal sport.

Stages | Terry Byrne

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The troupe?s annual holiday mash-up may be their last at Machine, the Orphans? theatrical home for two decades.

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Parents who might also face illness or infirmity in addition to their children?s medical problems and special needs, feel especially sad and helpless at a time of the year when joy is in the air.

Special reports

Globe Magazine

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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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The Big Picture

What happened at the border this weekend

A peaceful march devolved into unrest when US agents fired tear gas to stop migrants attempting to storm a border fence separating Mexico and the United States.

STAT

WATCH: A protest over insulin prices is seen as a fight for life

Protesters, a few of whom brought the ashes of their children who died after insulin rationing, gathered outside Sanofi?s Cambridge office.

Love Letters: The Podcast

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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.

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