Supreme Court to take up Obama’s health care law
The justices today revealed they would take the case, setting up an election-year showdown over the White House’s main domestic policy achievement.
Two women found shot to death in Dorchester
The women were found at a condominium on Harlem Street this morning.
Kayana Szymczak for the Boston Globe
Starbucks caught giving extra jolt to coffee bean buyers
Starbucks has eliminated an undeclared extra fee on small bags of coffee beans after being sanctioned by Massachusetts regulators.
Bob Ryan
Sweet victory silences Rex Ryan, Jets fans
The long-term ramifications of this exquisite Patriots triumph include control of the AFC East, which, combined with Buffalo’s loss, is New England’s to win or lose.
An inside look at Massachusetts prison life
The vast majority of the state’s 11,500 prisoners live in a world bounded by monotony, violence, and strict routines, where barred doors and barbed wire etch the horizon.
Minimum security, high concerns
After a gang-connected inmate escaped and allegedly went on a shooting spree inside a Springfield barbershop last April, the full risk of minimum-security prisons became clear.
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Marriage and prison
He’s been incarcerated since 1982. She comes to visit every 3 weeks.
“It would be easy to escape.”
Edwin Guadalupe, 31, an inmate at MCI-Shirley
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Columnists
Metro
Prosecutor details Weymouth triple murders
In a hearing that drew moans of shock, a Norfolk prosecutor said today that Donald Rudolph used knives and a hammer to kill his mother, his sister, and his mother’s boyfriend.
Business
MIT finds a new cleaning solution
MIT’s Endicott House has replaced the hundreds of gallons of chemicals it uses annually with just one cleaner - water, charged with an electrical current.
Politics
Warren rallies Senate campaign forces
Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren drew about 1,000 supporters who pledged to work for her campaign during a volunteer event in Roxbury yesterday.
Nation & World
Obama links US recovery to Asia-Pacific trade
President Obama yesterday tied the hopes of a faster American economic recovery to the booming Pacific Rim region.
Sports
On Football
With win, Patriots prove they control AFC East
The calendar may read Nov. 14, but it might as well be Jan. 1. The race for the AFC East title is over. But the Patriots’ biggest test comes in the playoffs.
Health and wellness
G force
He makes study of hoarding
Randy O. Frost, a psychology professor at Smith College and author of the 2010 book “Stuff,” is an expert on compulsive hoarding.
Arts
STAGE REVIEW
Quest for identity as trilogy plays out
“The Brother/Sister Plays,’’ the trilogy by the gifted young playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, is a challenge for any cast, but Company One's actors are up to the task.
Special reports
Globe Spotlight Report
Under the influence
Full coverage of the Globe’s investigation into OUI acquittal rates.
Ideas
“It may seem intimidating when we say you are going to help transcribe ancient Greek papyri, but it’s all about pattern recognition, and the brain excels at pattern recognition.”
James Brusuelas, an Oxford classicist who is part of the Ancient Lives team