Increasing diversity is a challenge at Harvard graduate schools

Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff/File

At the design school, dental school, government school, and graduate school of arts and sciences, the percentage of African-American students doesn?t crack 5?percent.

Patient beds lined a hallway in the emergency department at Brigham and Women?s Hospital.

Globe Photo/File 2017

Brigham expands emergency department amid changing demands

Emergency medicine doctors said they need more space because today?s patients, including those with mental illness and drug addiction, require more intensive care.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/02/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/klima_03dorchestershot_20190302_002.jpg Dorchester shooting victim was UMass Boston assistant basketball coach, officials say

A man found shot to death inside a converted garage at a Dorchester home early Saturday morning was a former assistant men?s basketball coach at UMass Boston, officials said.

The O?Briens ? Cory, Evan, Jillian, and Billie ? stood in what remains of the living room of their Quincy home that was badly damaged in last year?s storm.

John Tlumacki/Globe Staff

Driven from their home by 2018 nor?easter, Quincy family reflects on a year relying on helping hands

Jillian O?Brien was seven months pregnant in March 2018 when she and her daughter, Billie, then 16 months, were rescued from their home which flooded during a nor?easter.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/02/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Boghosian_03sullivan3_MET.jpg After murder charges are dropped, ?I feel like a new man?

Michael Sullivan was convicted of first-degree murder in 1987, but advanced DNA testing cast doubt on his guilt.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/02/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/wiggs_Rockport_01.jpg At last, a store in Rockport can sell alcohol

A local temperance leader from the 1850s and nostalgia for the past had kept the town from licensing a liquor store for 162 years, historians said.

Yvonne Abraham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/10/10/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/abrahamy_20131010.jpg Ivanka Trump needs to work on self-awareness

You can learn a lot from a self-made woman, but even more from a princess born to riches she thinks she earned herself.

Man, 23, shot and killed in Malden

The shooting took place shortly before 6:30 p.m. at the Bowdoin Apartments, officials said.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/01/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/mockingbirdcrop2-8329.jpg For local ?Mockingbird? productions, the show will go on. Sort of

Community and amateur theater productions of ?To Kill A Mockingbird? threatened with legal action by a Broadway producer may now use another version of the play.

A Globe photographer captured this touching image of Jassy Correia playing with her daughter in June 2018.

John Tlumacki/Globe Staff/File

Nestor Ramos

What was a stunning image is now haunting

The picture of Jassy Correia and her daughter doesn?t look the same anymore.

A memorial in Wellfleet last fall honored Arthur Medici, the first person killed by a shark in Massachusetts since 1936.

Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff/file

Cape Cod is worried about sharks. But amid stress and fear, answers aren?t easy

Everyone is aware that there are more sharks and that a man died last summer after an attack. Officials say they are responding in a number of ways, from more call boxes to scientific studies. Still, worries are growing.

BOSTON, MA - March 02, 2019: - A woman protects herself from the son while walking on Berkeley Street in Boston, MA on March 02, 2019. Saturday morning?s storm, which is set to drop up to 4 inches of snow on Boston, will be quickly followed by another storm Sunday night. The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory until 7 p.m. Saturday for eastern and central parts of the state, as well as the South Shore and Cape and Islands. Western Massachusetts is under a winter storm watch until 7 p.m. as well.(Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff) section: Metro reporter:

dave epstein

Expect 4 to 7 inches of snow tonight and into Monday, falling heavy at times

Snow will start between 7 and 10 p.m. tonight, ending from 7 to 9 a.m. Monday. Some localities may get 8 inches.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/03/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/4amsnowmap-26641.png Here are maps with the predicted timing and snowfall totals for Sunday?s storm

The National Weather Service has laid out its latest forecast for the winter storm that is set to sweep through the region overnight.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/02/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/Walker_030219_weather_21815x.jpg Sunday will be sunny and mild -- until the snow shows up

Forecasters predict highs in the lower 40s for much of Massachusetts and Greater Boston should get plenty of sunshine before storm clouds arrive.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/03/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/NUP_182800_0006-10045.JPG Ben Stiller, Bill Hader help ?SNL? mock Michael Cohen hearing

The testimony of President Trump?s former lawyer was the subject of the show?s cold open this weekend.

At Kells Priory you can explore green fields beside the ruins of a 12th-century monastery.

Gina Favata for the Boston Globe

Ireland with a wee one

The country doesn?t need the Disney touch to feel like a magical playground for your own little leprechauns.

EDITORIAL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/01/23/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/01-22-2018_daily_01-001.jpg Time to equalize and modernize Metco

A new enrollment plan for the state-funded, voluntary desegregation program has sparked controversy among parents.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/01/25/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/Rinaldi27Lazarus07.jpg They came for many reasons, but the same goal: Bury the baby with dignity

She was alone except for the 23 strangers who gathered on a cold day at the end of January. None of them would ever know this baby?s story. It didn?t matter.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/15/BostonGlobe.com/Travel/Images/Winter_Sunrise.jpg It?s all downhill from here. What happens when an adult learns to ski

Travel writer Christopher Muther attempts to improve his skiing skills, and quickly learns that the hills are alive with the sound of fear.

Michelle Singletary | The Color of Money

Michael Cohen?s stunning admission of financial infidelity

Had his wife known what was going on, would she have been able to stop him from taking an action that did monumental damage to their family and their finances?

Newsletters

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/12/05/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/MichaelCohenNewsletterHP-3632.jpg Truth and Consequences

Opinion columnist Michael Cohen takes a candid and no-holds-barred look at the current political moment. Sign up now.

Love Letters: The Podcast

Season Two: How do you meet someone?

Dating in 2019 is?complicated. Frustrating. Sometimes completely exhilarating. In Season 2 of the podcast, Meredith Goldstein goes deep on one of her most-asked questions.

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Special reports

They were the top of their class at Boston public schools. Then life happened

Read a multi-part investigation into how and why the lives of promising Boston valedictorians didn?t quite turn out the way they expected.

The Big Picture

Barry Chin/Globe Staff

The Big Picture

Globe staff photos of the month, February 2019

Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: winter weather, presidential candidates on the campaign trail, a Chinese New Year celebration.

Real Estate

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/09/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/10-beechwood-road-halifax-exterior-side-1024x576$medium-9070.jpg Are we ignoring ? or outright banning ? an easy affordable-housing fix?

Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/01/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/dartboard.jpeg CRISPR base editing hits a snag with off-target cuts

A new version of CRISPR whose selling point is precision suffers from off-target DNA changes.

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