Six USC student applicants linked to college bribery scheme denied acceptance

The iconic Tommy Trojan statue at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

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The news came days after federal prosecutors in Boston announced bombshell charges in a nationwide college admissions scandal.

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The company initially took a wait-and-see approach after a federal investigation of the scam involving more than 30 parents was revealed.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/14/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Rinaldi13bribery11-24431.jpg The college admissions bribery bust started with a tip

Officials in Boston got a tantalizing tip ? a Yale University women?s soccer coach had asked a financial executive for a bribe to help get his daughter admitted into the elite school.

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The University of Southern California, Yale University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and other colleges were sued by two Stanford University students seeking class status.

YVONNE ABRAHAM

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/abraham-24471.jpg In college admissions, the American Dream has gone bad

Will we finally fix the way we do college admissions in this country? Or will we still cling to the American fiction that every kid has an equal shot?

OPINION | MCGREGGOR CROWLEY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/13/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Clipboard-5469.jpg Confessions of a former MIT admissions director

Every year, regardless of what a college or university says publicly, a number of children of wealthy donors and alumni get a nod while other applicants are rejected.

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The receiver agreed to a four-year, $37.5 million deal with $23 million guaranteed.

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Ellington had 31 catches in seven games last season split between the Detroit Lions and the Houston Texans.

Someone may have told you that Bay-doh launched his presidential campaign. Or perhaps a friend informed you that Beat-oh is gearing up for the election.

Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press

Beh-toh? Comma-lah? Here?s how to pronounce the names of Democratic presidential hopefuls

Pollsters, talking heads, and potential voters are getting familiar with a widening field of candidates.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

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Helpful hints on how to make everyone?s airport experience less stressful. These tips are common sense, but common sense seems to depart from airports more regularly than Delta shuttles to New York.

Opinion | Marietta Robinson

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/14/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/15PLANEweb.jpg We shouldn?t depend on Boeing to tell us whether Boeing planes are safe to fly

Our consumer protection agencies, including the FAA, have been compromised by the industries they are meant to regulate.

Opinion | Luke O?Neil

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You can make a lot of money selling the most vile opinions imaginable in America.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/03/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/BEDFORD_20180305_QUINCY_CLEANUP_022.jpg Temperatures are about to soar. Here?s how to deal with the wet basement that may follow

A wet basement professional says there are three things in life you can count on: ?Death, taxes, and, if you have concrete, it?s going to crack.? Here?s how to tackle the problem.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/12/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/TV_CATASTROPHE_ADV21_3.jpg As ?Catastrophe? reaches its final season, Rob Delaney?s good to go

The Massachusetts native reflects on the success of a show he never thought would get made.

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This season of ?The Bachelor? may have begun with 30 women competing for Colton Underwood?s heart, but the season was turned upside down near its end.

Boston, MA - 3/15/2018 - Vocalist Al Barr performs with Dropkick Murphys at the House of Blues in Boston. (Ben Stas for The Boston Globe)

Things to do

The Weekender: Dropkicks (and left hooks), prowling bros, and a rising son

The Globe?s picks for the best ways to spend your weekend.

Senate votes to reject Trump?s border emergency declaration

The Republican-run Senate firmly rejected President Trump?s declaration of a national emergency at the southwest border on Thursday, setting up a veto fight and dealing him a conspicuous rebuke.

Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia celebrated with supporters Tuesday after the city?s mayoral recall election, in which voters overwhelmingly booted him out of office and, on the same ballot, narrowly reelected him.

Barry Chin/Globe Staff

NESTOR RAMOS

The whole Fall River mayoral debacle would be hilarious if it weren?t so sad

Thanks to an inexplicable loophole, voters overwhelmingly booted Mayor Jasiel Correia out of office ? and, on the same ballot, narrowly reelected him.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/01/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/0302-NWS-BHR-L-penacc01.jpg Man who allegedly kidnapped woman from bar now faces 10 aggravated rape charges

Victor Pena allegedly kidnapped the 23-year-old woman in January after she left a Boston bar and held her captive for three days.

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Cox is a longtime confidant of chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. His departure comes months after he was promoted in a major reorganization.

As part of the renovation of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, workmen are installing the new marble floors, original pews, exterior lighting, and video and audio technologies.

David L. Ryan/Globe Staff

Work at Boston?s cathedral will be finished by Holy Week

The first Mass at the renovated space is scheduled for Palm Sunday on April 14.

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Both sides of Route 2 were shut down while the mama bear was tranquilized and the family was removed from its den.

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Governor Charlie Baker on Thursday urged lawmakers to pass his bill aimed at cracking down on stoned drivers as more recreational marijuana stores open around the state.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/31/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/AFP_15H3J3.jpg Could simply listening to this sound help cure Alzheimer?s disease? MIT researchers are on it

MIT researchers say they?ve been able to improve cognitive and memory impairments in mice that had conditions similar to those in people with Alzheimer?s.

Tables

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/14/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/Clipboard-7885.jpg Night Shift Brewing to open next week with sit-down service and full menu

Plus, we say goodbye to Amsterdam Falafelshop and hello to brunch at Citrus & Salt.

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Timothy Sloan?s new compensation: $18.4 million. It includes a $2 million ?annual incentive award? ? a bonus.

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

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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.

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/2011-2020/2019/03/13/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/AP_19061585728905-640x738.jpg Efforts to save the sperm of the dead come with heartache, tough questions

The case of Peter Zhu, a cadet at West Point Military Academy who died last month, has reignited a debate around ?postmortem sperm retrieval.?

Podcasts