Dozens are arrested, including parents, in college scandal

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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A 200-page affidavit lays out the lengths to which uber-wealthy parents allegedly went to help their children get admitted to schools including Yale, Georgetown, and Stanford universities.

OPINION | DANIEL GOLDEN

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walker_031219_13briberypic_30618x.jpg How the rich really play ?Who Wants To Be an Ivy Leaguer??

A journalist who investigated how the rich buy their children?s way into elite colleges reflects on the latest scandal ? and remembers when affluent readers mistook his expose for a ?how-to? guide.

Nestor Ramos

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Nester-25828.jpg Rigging an already-rigged system

At top and not-so-top colleges and universities, the admissions game is already rigged in favor of the wealthy, and there are already separate systems for the very rich and everyone else.

Actresses Lori Loughlin (left), who appeared in ?Full House,? and Felicity Huffman (right), known for ?Desperate Housewives,? were named in the college bribery plot, according to the Associated Press.

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 to improve her daughter?s test results.

US Attorney of Massachusetts Andrew E. Lelling held a press conference at the federal courthouse in Boston on Tuesday.

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.

Columbus Blue Jackets forward Artemi Panarin, left, of Russia, and Boston Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy fight during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, March 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)

BLUE JACKETS 7, BRUINS 4

Defense rests, and Bruins are blitzed by Blue Jackets

Columbus scored five unanswered goals in the first two periods and held on to hand the Bruins their second consecutive loss.

Minnesota Vikings wide receivers Stefon Diggs (14) and Adam Thielen (19) pose at midfield with New England Patriots wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson (84) after an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Patriots? Cordarrelle Patterson is headed to Bears

Versatile WR Cordarrelle Patterson agreed to a two-year, $10 million deal with the Bears, according to multiple reports.

NFL Notebook

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The Browns are sending a first- and third-round pick in 2019, along with safety Jabrill Peppers, to the Giants for receiver Odell Beckham Jr.

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)

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.

Mike Begay/Globe Staff

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)

David Zalubowski/AP File

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

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

Fall River Mayor Jaisel Correia

Barry Chin/Globe Staff

Correia remains Fall River mayor in election stunner

Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia II was ousted in a recall election Tuesday night, but then put back into office on the same ballot.

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Owners of bars and other liquor license holders on Tuesday discussed safety strategies and other steps to foster secure environments after two women were abducted, one of whom died.

Wreckage piled at ths scene of the crash of the Ethiopian Airlines flight.

FAA backs Boeing 737 even as many nations pull it from the skies

Much of the world grounded the jetliner Tuesday following the Ethiopia crash. Boeing?s CEO spoke to President Trump and said the aircraft is safe, and the FAA said it was reviewing all available data.

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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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An Australian judge has sentenced the most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse to prison for molesting two choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral more than 20 years ago.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/12/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/AFP_1EI9NF.jpg Britain?s Parliament strongly rejects prime minister?s Brexit deal

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/2011-2020/2019/03/09/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.

//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.

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.?

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

Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff

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

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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

Jessica Rinaldi/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.

Metro

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Boston, MA., 03/11/2019, Scenes inside the Government MBTA station. Fares may be going up. Globe staff/Suzanne Kreiter

T board approves 6 percent fare hike

The MBTA?s board on Monday approved a fare increase aimed at bolstering its budget, but agreed to keep fares stable for bus riders, seniors, and riders with disabilities.

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/2011-2020/2019/03/12/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.

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