Peter DeMarco shook hands with Lynette Alberti, chief nursing officer, when he met with hospital executives Nov. 13 to discuss the death of his wife, Laura Levis.

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

Peter DeMarco

Turning Laura Levis?s death, slowly, into a force for change

My quest to understand what happened to my wife, who died in 2016 after suffering an asthma attack, led to hard questions at Somerville Hospital.

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On Saturday, the USS Constitution was the site of a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of its victory over the British HMS Java.

BEN VOLIN | SUNDAY FOOTBALL NOTES

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Ten of the 12 playoff seeds are still up for grabs ahead of the last games of the regular season.

TARA SULLIVAN

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Devin is celebrating his ninth straight division title. Brother Jason will be in the playoffs for the first time in his 10-year career.

Angels star Mike Trout is scheduled to become a free agent after the 2020 season.

NICK CAFARDO I SUNDAY BASEBALL NOTES

These are baseball?s top free agents, this year and beyond

Paul Goldschmidt, Nolan Arenado, and Chris Sale are up after next season.

A scene from ?If Beale Street Could Talk,? directed by Barry Jenkins.

Toronto International Film Festival

Ty Burr?s 20 favorite movies of 2018

The Globe?s movie critic offers his picks on films that took us to special places.

Beverly Beckham

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Despite what?s in the news every day, there are places where the kernel of goodness we are born with gets to be nurtured and bloom.

Starts & Stops

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The new year will bring new trains, new policies, and ? surely ? new debates about how to fight crippling gridlock.

Dinner with Cupid

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Will these two daters be able to smooth over a nerve-racking start to their dinner?

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EDITORIAL

Fall River recall election is anti-democratic

No one would ever think that you?d need to recall a mayor twice. But that?s exactly what Fall River residents are grappling with.

OPINION | CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

Another brick in President Trump?s wall

With the death of a second Guatemalan child in immigration custody, Trump is building a grim wall on the US border.

Autopsy to be conducted on body of man who died after he was Tasered

Police say Erich Stelzer died after he was Tasered.

YouTube

Police say Erich Stelzer was stabbing a 24-year-old woman whom he?d met on Tinder when they intervened Thursday.

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President Trump and Democrats are trading blame for the partial government shutdown but doing little substantive talking with each other as the shutdown slogs into another weekend.

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According to Labor Department data, 83 in every 10,000 educators is leaving their job voluntarily, the highest rate since the department started collecting data 17 years ago.

Luis Campero of Boston entertained visitors at the Public Garden on Christmas Day.

dave epstein

New year will start with mild temperatures. So where is winter?

New Year?s Eve may be rainy. Then, on the first day of 2019, the Boston area will see high temperatures in the 50s and sunshine.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/09/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/turner100918METRO10woburn27.jpg National Grid talks with locked-out workers could resume Wednesday

National Grid presented new terms for an agreement at the end of a bargaining session Friday night, details of which were not released Saturday.

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The 2-year-old son of a Yemeni woman who sued for a waiver from the Trump administration?s travel ban to be with the ailing boy in the United States has died, an advocacy group said.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/12/29/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/e21e7124c5ed4d59b04d497f2a6edb89-e21e7124c5ed4d59b04d497f2a6edb89-0.jpg Trump says ?progress being made? with China after phone call with Xi

President Trump said Saturday that he?d spoken at length with Chinese President Xi Jinping and that ?big progress? is being made toward a trade deal.

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The Trump administration Friday announced a plan designed to make it easier for coal-fired power plants to once again release mercury and other pollutants into the atmosphere.

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Monsignor James Moroney will serve as interim rector of the Cathedral of St. Paul and the Worcester Diocese? Office for Divine Worship.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/03/23/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/b2b4b32810ec4dfbaad72fd7712a41fe-b2b4b32810ec4dfbaad72fd7712a41fe-0.jpg House GOP quietly ends probe into FBI?s 2016 decisions

House Republicans brought an end to their yearlong look at the department?s handling of probes into Democrat Hillary Clinton?s emails and Donald Trump?s ties to Russia.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/blanding05101711price17met.jpg ?Live free or die, but don?t touch that plant?: A clash over pot in N.H.

With marijuana legalization sweeping through New England, cannabis consumers in the ?Live Free or Die? state are now surrounded by places where residents are, at least in one sense, more free.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

The year 2018 in pictures: Part II

Photographs from July to December on a range of topics from around the world.

Special reports

Shannon Goyette (left) and Cynthia Pierce became friends when their children were in kindergarten. Both mothers lost a son to suicide.

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

After suicides in Acton and Boxborough, a communion of sorrow

The unthinkable has been an all-too-common companion in two small neighboring towns, where six young people took their lives in the short span of 30 months. The questions keep coming: What is happening? Why? When will it stop?

Podcasts

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/12/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/gladiator%20pic5.jpg Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.

The story of a profoundly troubled young man and the ugly underside of America?s most popular sport.

Newsletters

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Follow the Celtics? quest for a title and other NBA news both on and off the court. Sign up here.

STAT

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It?s been a busy 2018 at STAT, but we still have found the time to see what other journalists are writing ? and get jealous we didn?t do it ourselves.

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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