Top federal prosecutor in Mass. is now on the hot seat

BOSTON, MA - March 12, 2019: - U.S. Attorney Andrew E. Lelling, center, held a press conference at the federal courthouse in Boston MA on March 12, 2019. He announce charges against dozens of individuals involved in a nationwide college admissions cheating and recruitment scheme. Lelling is accompanied by prosecutor Eric Rosen of the U.S. Attorney's office, left, and Special Agent in Charge Federal Bureau of Investigation Joseph R. Bonavolonta (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff) section: Metro reporter:

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When he was first nominated to the post US Attorney Andrew Lelling was described as fair, even by his foes. Now, some are using different, less flattering descriptions.

Nestor Ramos

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/04/25/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/RinaldiJudge09.jpg Feds can?t seem to pick a lane when it comes to obstruction

Irony is dead. But do we have to dance on its grave, too?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/04/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/IMG_1880.jpg One person is missing in three-alarm fire in Newton

The fire began overnight at 115 Oxford Road. A woman was rescued from the home, officials said, and crews are searching for the missing person.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/04/25/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Rinaldi26lunapic04.jpg The governor promised State Police reforms. A year later, results are mixed

Several initiatives are partially, if not entirely, unfulfilled, and a shift in culture at the troubled agency has proven stubbornly elusive.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/03/25/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/BEDFORD_20180325_MARIJUANA_CONVENTION_014.jpg Home delivery of pot could start in Mass. later this year

Regulators at the Cannabis Control Commission agreed in principle to allow licensed companies to deliver recreational marijuana from stores to consumers? doorsteps.

Ground Game

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/02/09/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/509155414.jpg The new threat to the N.H. primary?s clout isn?t some other state. It?s cable news

The focus on keeping the state?s primary first, shared by much of the state?s political establishment, is misplaced.

East Boston elementary school student tests positive for the mumps

A third-grade student at an East Boston elementary school has tested positive for the mumps, authorities said Friday.

FILE - This May 30, 2007, file photo shows a cable box on top of a television in Philadelphia. Cable executives derided the online TV packages? cost as unrealistically cheap, but they were fairly popular, while cord-cutting picked up. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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Hiawatha Bray | Tech Lab

Internet TV catching up to cable ? on price

Think you?ll save a ton by ditching the cable company? Think again.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/04/27/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/AFP_1FZ2O9.jpg Militants set off bombs during Sri Lanka raid, killing 15

The gunbattle that began Friday night and the carnage that followed come amid widespread fear of more attacks as officials hunt for militants believed to still be at large.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/04/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/kraft2-21766-6171.jpg High-stakes hearing held on video in Robert Kraft case

Kraft?s defense team is trying to persuade Judge Leonard Hanser to rule that evidence linking Kraft to an alleged house of prostitution should be thrown out.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/03/20/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/200_sullivan_brissette_boston_calling.jpg Prosecutors push forward with Boston Calling case

The government wants the trial to start June 17. The defendants? attorneys want the trial to start no earlier than July 15.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/20/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/918718190.jpg Appeals court rejects challenge to Massachusetts assault weapons ban

Attorney General Maura Healey called the ruling a ?defeat for the gun lobby.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/04/26/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/1145289544.jpg NRA president tries to oust Wayne LaPierre in widening crisis

The confrontation pits LaPierre, the organization?s longtime CEO, against its recently installed president, Oliver North.

Brayton Point cooling towers implode in Somerset

As thousands of spectators watched Saturday morning, two 500-foot concrete cooling towers at the former Brayton Point Power Station in Somerset crumbled during a controlled implosion.

Joejuan Williams (8) drew raves for his play at Vanderbilt.

NFL DRAFT

Patriots trade up in second round to get CB Joejuan Williams

Trading their Nos. 56 and 101 picks to climb to No. 45, New England took Vanderbilt?s Williams, who was the fifth of six cornerbacks in the first 14 picks on Day 2.

Vanderbilt defensive back Joejuan Williams runs a drill at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis, Monday, March 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

What Joejuan Williams and N?Keal Harry bring to the Patriots

Both give the Patriots an element they didn?t have ? height and physicality.

NFL DRAFT|NEW ENGLAND PLAYERS

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/04/27/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/a1a60720ebbb45578a22eb201ab5a7d4-a1a60720ebbb45578a22eb201ab5a7d4-0.jpg Cardinals look east, land UMass?s Andy Isabella and BC?s Zach Allen

The Minutemen?s receiver was taken near the end of the second round and the Eagles? edge rusher went with the first pick of the third.

Taylor Swift has no scores to settle on ?Me!?

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On Taylor Swift?s new single, she?s all about ?Me!?

The song is a glittery empowerment anthem that announces a new era with a few little winks to her past but no desire to seriously engage with it.

Pitcher David Price thinks things are starting to look up for the Red Sox.

TARA SULLIVAN

Red Sox OK with taking baby steps for now

After a dismal start to the season, there are signs that a turnaround may have begun.

John Havlicek in action in 1973.

GARY WASHBURN

John Havlicek?s teammates reminisce about his ?quiet greatness?

Players such as Havlicek, who retired in 1978, a few years before the NBA?s renaissance, would become afterthoughts.

John Havlicek and the Knicks? Bill Bradley battled for a rebound in 1971.

No lack of happy John Havlicek memories

Said Danny Ainge: ?Anyone who knew John, he?s had an impact on them.?

Ideas | A.J.B. Lane

The impeachment flow chart

Let this handy decision tree help you make up your mind on whether to impeach President Trump.

Letters

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/04/26/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/1143605890.jpg The (nagging, looming, burning) impeachment question

Readers debate the course ahead following the release of the Mueller report.

Editorial

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/04/26/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Clipboard-1080.jpg New Uber, Lyft rules at Logan go too far

Here?s another idea: For the next six months, let the ride-sharing companies use their own ride-matching software. If they can decrease deadheading, scrap the mandatory central-parking idea.

Miss Conduct

Advice: Am I a bad parent for wanting only one child?

She has one kid and doesn?t want another, but her co-workers say every child needs a sibling.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/04/26/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Evansnew.jpg Justin Evans, inspirational while facing adversity, dies at 42

Justin Evans of Stoneham, son of former Red Sox outfielder Dwight Evans, inspired all he met in his 42 years. Both Justin and his older brother, Timothy, were diagnosed with neurofibromatosis.

Chesto Means Business

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/25/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/jon_chesto_20180925.jpg Price tag climbs for a new soccer stadium

It?s hard to blame Revs fans for lapping up any morsel about a new soccer stadium that they can find.

REBECCA PACHECO

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/24/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/davis_pants1_met[1]-11284.jpg Athleisure may be over, but let?s stop telling young girls what they can and can?t wear

To ask girls to dress a certain way seems, at best, like an overreach. At worst, it tills fertile ground for toxic masculinity to flourish.

Greg Shell on evening economic disparities

As managing director of the Bain Capital Double Impact Fund, Greg Shell works to identify and fund companies that offer profitable models for addressing critical social problems.

Special reports

The house at 212 Forest St.

He bought the fencing coach?s house. Then his son got into Harvard

The Needham house was assessed at $549,300, but sold for nearly a million dollars. The buyer, who never lived a day there, would sell it 17 months later at a substantial loss in what may become the next chapter in the national debate over fairness in college admissions.

Munch Madness

Munch Madness | Final

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/04/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/munch.jpg And the Munch Madness winner is . . .

Beloved Boston bakery Flour takes the cake over Sarma to clinch Munch Madness 2019.

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.

Newsletters

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Follow the Sox as they try to repeat as world champs, with insight and analysis from the Globe?s beat writers and columnists. Sign up here.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

Spring blossoms

In celebration of Earth Day, a look at photographs depicting the beautiful transformation of spring landscapes all over the globe.

Spring House Hunt

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/04/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/12sellersxref.jpg The things home sellers do that can turn off buyers or kill a sale

A hot housing market forgives a lot of mistakes, but that doesn?t stop sellers from undermining their own home sale.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/04/26/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Boghosian_Soheil5_STAT-1024x683.jpg Visa ordeal separates Iranian scientist from his family. Is it worth it?

Soheil Saeedi was exactly where he wanted to be, in a lab at Brigham and Women?s. His mind was elsewhere, though.

Podcasts