Parents, including celebrities, paid bribes in admissions scandal, feds say

A California businessman allegedly collected $25 million in bribes to help applicants gain acceptance to elite colleges as part of a nationwide scandal.

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Authorities have released a list of names, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, who are accused of participating in a nationwide college admissions cheating and recruitment scheme.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/document1-26780.jpg Read the federal complaints against key players in the college admissions cheating scam

The former women?s soccer coach at Yale University is facing federal charges in Boston for allegedly accepting bribes to help applicants gain acceptance to the Ivy League institution.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/f3a69dfd0690406dbe66a93643b39de9-f3a69dfd0690406dbe66a93643b39de9-0.jpg How actresses Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin were allegedly tied to college bribery scam

Felicity Huffman and her spouse allegedly paid $15,000 to a bogus charity for help in improving her daughter?s test results.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walker_031219_13briberypic_30787x.jpg Here?s how the nationwide college bribery plot worked

Dozens of people are facing charges in what the US Attorney in Mass. called ?the largest college admission scam ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice.? Here?s how the scheme worked.

Boston Red Sox starting pitcher David Price works in the second inning of a spring training baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Tuesday, March 12, 2019, in Fort Myers, Fla. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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DAN SHAUGHNESSY

After a sweet offseason, David Price gets a taste of game action again

The Red Sox lefthander made his spring debut with three innings vs. Detroit, and all was positive.

RED SOX NOTEBOOK

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/12/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/davis_ossox6_spts-25875.jpg Jerry Remy asserts, ?I feel as good as I?ve ever felt?

The popular NESN analyst missed time last season after a cancer relapse but is in Red Sox camp and ready to go.

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Bennett, known for his outspokenness on social and political issues, also plans to be in the locker room during the national anthem.

Chad Finn

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There has always been little room for enormous contracts, and even less room for sentimentality.

NFL offseason tracker

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Linebacker C.J. Mosley is headed to the New York Jets, while Anthony Barr will return to the Minnesota Vikings.

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Love Letters Podcast Season 2

When dating feels like a burden

In Episode Four, Meredith Goldstein explores dating fatigue and hits the bars with Erin to find love IRL. Plus, hear from Lane Moore, author and host of the show ?Tinder Live.?

SCOT LEHIGH

/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/12/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/ScotLehigh%20artwork%20(1)-5773.tif Pelosi?s cagey play on impeachment

As moves go, Nancy Pelosi?s was a veritable earthquake.

Editorial

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Beacon Hill has left ?body work? businesses unregulated statewide, a loophole that sex traffickers can exploit to run storefront brothels.

FILE--In this Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, file photograph, a roll of stickers sits on a table to be handed out by election judges as voters deposit their ballots at the Denver Elections Division drop off location in front of the City/County Building in Denver. Colorado's Democrat-controlled Legislature has approved a bill Thursday, Feb 21, 2019, to join other states in casting their presidential electoral votes for the winner of the national popular vote. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

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JEFF JACOBY

Why the ?excellent? Electoral College is well worth keeping

The standard indictment against the Electoral College is that it?s antidemocratic. That?s a feature of the system, not a bug.

Cooking | Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/12/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/three0317cooking.jpg Recipes: Three stir-fried dinners made with a wok

Satisfy cravings for intense flavors with three-cup chicken, beef and ginger, and pork with shiitakes.

NAMES

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/05/28/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/AP731214164.jpg A movie about Bruins legend Derek Sanderson is in the works

A member of the ?Big Bad Bruins? will be portrayed on the big-screen in ?Turk.?

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Britain?s Parliament has dealt a major blow to Prime Minister Theresa May, resoundingly rejecting her Brexit deal just 17 days before the U.K. is due to leave the bloc.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/12/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/image015.jpg CambridgeSide mall?s third floor will become office space

New England Development plans to start work in May on converting the top floor of CambridgeSide into about 140,000 square feet of office space.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/9964A5A4B5B44F6FA55C83C02C5DD246.jpg ?She had a big smile on her face?: Quincy woman celebrates 107th birthday

?She keeps saying I don?t know if I?ll make it to next year, but she says that every year,? Barbara Mullay said of her mother-in-law, Agnes Mullay.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/09/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/wiggs_Farrah_03.jpg In this chat room, Boston?s black millennials build a community

Farrah Belizaire, founder of Young, Black and Social and LiteWork Events, wants to make sure young, black professionals have a social network that works for them.

Renée Graham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/12/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Graham-5768.jpg Don?t equate supporting black women with hating black men

Amplifying the voices of black women who?ve accused singer R. Kelly of sexual abuse for 25 years doesn?t mean I dislike black men. .

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/10/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/AFP_1EF7VI.jpg Woman who grew up in Mass. among those killed on Ethiopian plane

Samya Stumo, 24, grew up in Sheffield and graduated from UMass Amherst in 2015 with a degree in anthropology and Spanish.

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A growing list of countries, including Britain, Australia, and China, as well as individual airlines across the world have already temporarily grounded their 737 Max 8s.

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In the US, Senator Mitt Romney called on the planes to be grounded until the causes of the recent crashes could be determined.

A crew worked to repair a water main break at the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Exeter Street in Boston on Tuesday.

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Service restored to Comm. Ave. area after water main break

A 144-year-old cast iron pipe ruptured Monday night, flooding part of Commonwealth Avenue and forcing the evacuation of at least two buildings; service was restored Tuesday.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/11/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/70d2ab360b6f47d1a57593f9509aea9f-70d2ab360b6f47d1a57593f9509aea9f-0.jpg Recreational marijuana shop in Lowell receives state approval to open

The Merrimack Valley is getting its first recreational marijuana shop.

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.

Munch Madness

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/01/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/chalk%20BAT%20image.jpg Munch Madness 2019: The top restaurants in Boston

If it?s March, it must be time for the tournament everyone awaits all year: Munch Madness.

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

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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

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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/2011-2020/2019/03/12/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/IMG_7350-1024x576.jpg Hospitals are saving lives with CAR-T. Getting paid is another story

Pricey cancer therapies known as CAR-T are saving patients? lives. But offering them is a financial gamble for hospitals.

Podcasts