State Police had a quota system for issuing tickets, prosecutors allege

The Massachusetts State Police has repeatedly denied the existence of ticket quotas in recent years, but federal prosecutors outlined such a system last week.

Inside the casino at Resorts World Catskills in Monticello, N.Y., March 25, 2018. A string of new resort and hotel projects near the Catskill Mountains is a heartening sign for an area where tourism has fallen precipitously from its heyday in the middle of the 20th century. (Eva Deitch/The New York Times)

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Is Northeast?s casino market saturated? Catskills resort is a cautionary tale

Casinos have sprung up across the Northeast in recent years, and the competition will tighten even more with Encore Boston Harbor, set to open in late June in Everett.

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Senator Elizabeth Warren tailored her populist agenda to a diverse audience Monday night in a CNN town hall in the Deep South.

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At Massport, one of the largest quasi-public agencies ? which is best known for running Logan Airport ? about 600 workers made $100,000 or more last year.

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The top earner took home more than $668,000 last year.

Trees began to flower at the Public Garden in Boston on March 21 last year.

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Dave Epstein

Spring starts March 20. Here?s what that likely means for Boston in terms of weather

Although it was cold and relatively snowy the first half of this month, the angle of the sun has been getting higher and higher.

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Davina Isackson, 55, of Hillsborough, Calif., made her initial appearance in US District Court in Boston today.

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Investigators found evidence of fire accelerant in different parts of the Sheffield home where the bodies were found.

Editorial

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/18/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Advance/Images/Clipboard-0300.jpg The GOP has abandoned fiscal discipline. Democrats shouldn?t follow suit.

The Republican tax cut is responsible for the biggest increase in the budget deficit since 2015.

THIS WEEK IN WEED

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Essex County Superior Court Judge Timothy Feeley has agreed that state law does not grant the commission explicit power to review host community agreements.

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A Turkish-born man was arrested Monday after a manhunt that lasted nearly eight hours. At least three people were killed.

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The left in place a ruling that the synagogue will remain the property of a New York congregation.

Ware Cady?s son, Ware Jr. (right), made a play on the ball during the street hockey game on Chestnut Street on March 10.

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The street hockey game that never ends

On a quiet street in Salem, a Sunday hockey game has been going on since 1970, long enough for one generation of players to pass the tradition on to the next.

3-18-19: Boston, MA:Former Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas, left, now a member of the Nuggets, but sporting green sneakers, is pictured as he drives on the man he was traded for, the Celtics Kyrie Irving in the first quarter. The Boston Celtics hosted the Denver Nuggets in a regular season NBA basketball game at the TD Garden. (Jim Davis /Globe Staff).

Nuggets 114, Celtics 105

Nuggets have quite a time beating Celtics at TD Garden

The visiting Nuggets showed why they are a contender in the Western Conference with a convincing victory over the Celtics.

Celtics notebook

TD Garden crowd gives Isaiah Thomas a standing ovation

The former All-Star with the Celtics returned to TD Garden for the first time as member of Denver Nuggets.

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The daughter of John McCain fired back at President Trump after he tweeted disparaging comments about the late senator this weekend.

Sean P. Murphy | The Fine Print

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/14/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Chin031319IzazandIrumHaque_Biz3.jpg A single inch results in an $850 shipping penalty from UPS

UPS informed Irum Haque that the length of the box she shipped wasn?t 48 inches, as she had measured; it was 49. How much more for one extra inch? $850.

Mr. Brebner, in 2006.

obituary

Asa Brebner, at 65; guitarist/songwriter in Boston bands and alone

Mr. Brebner had early success in Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers and Robin Lane & the Chartbusters before chopping out a path for his own music.

Harvard study: Sugary drinks associated with greater risk of premature death

Study participants had a greater risk of premature death, particularly from cardiovascular disease and to a lesser extent from cancer, the report says.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/AFP_1ES4P7.jpg More than 80 percent of voters want to see Mueller?s report, poll says

The public wants to know what special counsel Robert Mueller has found out about Russian tampering with the 2016 election and possible links to the Trump campaign, a new Suffolk poll suggests.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/18/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/GeorgeConway.jpg Kellyanne Conway dismisses her husband?s concerns about Trump?s mental health

George Conway, a persistent conservative critic of the president, has recently become more personal with his criticism.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/20190312_Flag_4A.jpg More than a century later, a soldier?s Civil War flag returns to Maine

The rare flag will be displayed at the Maine Military Museum in South Portland.

See which restaurants advanced to Round Two

The top 32 restaurants have advanced to the second round of Munch Madness. Vote to keep your favorites in the running.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/03/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/mcgregor1.jpg Conor McGregor leaves St. Patrick?s Day Parade early after fans spill into street to greet his vehicle

?They?re coming right onto the street, they can?t contain it,? a visibly delighted McGregor said in a video clip from the parade posted to his official Instagram account.

PATRIOTS NOTEBOOK

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/03/22/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/wiggs_PatsPrac_590110.jpg A look at how the Patriots roster has changed ? so far

A rundown of newcomers, who?s staying, and who?s leaving.

Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl celebrates with Horace Spencer (0) and Samir Doughty (10) after beating Tennessee in the NCAA college basketball Southeastern Conference championship game Sunday, March 17, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Auburn won 84-64. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

NCAA bracket: Download and print out a March Madness grid

The selections have been made. Here?s how the 2019 men?s basketball championship teams are matched up.

Newsletters

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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

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The Big Picture

Students stage global protest to speak out on climate change inaction

Students worldwide skipped classes Friday to protest their governments? failure to act against global warming as part of the ?Fridays for Future? movement.

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/2011-2020/2019/03/18/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/PVivax_Wellcome-1024x576.jpg China is reviving a discredited AIDS immunotherapy ? for cancer

Injections of malaria parasites, a discredited AIDS treatment once promoted by the father of the Heimlich maneuver, is being tested in China as a cancer immunotherapy.

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