Teen convicted in texting-while-driving case

Aaron Deveau of Haverhill was convicted of motor vehicle homicide in one of the first prosecutions under a new state law banning texting while driving.

Author Ray Bradbury arrived at the 12th Annual Art Directors Guild Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in February, 2008.

Ray Bradbury dies at 91

The author passed away in California after a lengthy career of writing everything from science fiction and mystery to humor.

Patrick, UMass president at odds over fee hike

In an unusual public spat, Governor Deval Patrick and UMass President Robert Caret are quarreling over a proposal that would raise fees by 4.9 percent.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/06/06/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/murray-2103--90x90.jpg Murray to speak to investigators in housing scandal

Lieutenant Governor Timothy Murray will meet with investigators looking into abuses at the Chelsea Housing Authority, whose former director was a close political ally.

It’s unclear which candidate would fare better. Warren was a high school debate champion, while Brown proved a deft debater in the special election.

Senate teams clash over a schedule for debates

Although GOP Senator Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren agreed to their first two primetime TV debates, they are at loggerheads over the rest of the schedule.

Dining out

At L’Espalier, new designs on classic foundations

Boston restaurant L’Espalier offers fine food, but it’s the service that makes the place special.

Dishes are built on classic foundations. After that, they are Gehry constructions, recognizable but with new angles and perspectives. For instance, crab salad comes rolled in a tight cigar, set beside a tempura soft-shell crab on a field of carrot-cayenne gelee in a gleeful Sunkist hue. The dish is drizzled in plankton vinaigrette.

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Crab salad comes rolled in a tight cigar, set beside a tempura soft-shell crab on a field of carrot-cayenne gelee in a gleeful Sunkist hue.

Slow-poached halibut sits atop pea fricassee, surrounded by dollops of warm lemon curd and fragrant snips of fresh herbs, wisps of chamomile foam floating across the surface. It's a landscape painting on a plate, and the flavors conjure spring, fresh, bright, and light.

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Slow-poached halibut sits atop pea fricassee, surrounded by dollops of warm lemon curd and fragrant snips of fresh herbs.

Warm Wellfleet oysters are served in vermouth sauce with smoked bone marrow, charred leeks, and samphire, also known as sea bean. It's an elegant dish carefully built, Maine's oyster stew wearing opera gloves.

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Warm Wellfleet oysters are served in vermouth sauce with smoked bone marrow, charred leeks, and samphire, also known as sea bean.

Simple classics like roast chicken become something more. The dish is plated with restraint but exploding with flavor: slices of the juiciest, most crisp-skinned chicken, scattered morel mushrooms with foie gras mousse, dabs of smoked pommes puree, a drizzle of jus.

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Slices of roast chicken, scattered morel mushrooms with foie gras mousse, dabs of smoked pommes puree, and a drizzle of jus.

Desserts are inventive. Fromage blanc mousse is covered by what appears to be a dehydrated raspberry Fruit Roll-Up. Beneath are small pieces of intensely flavored rhubarb and almond fennel cake, with raspberry frozen yogurt on the side.

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Fromage blanc mousse is covered by what appears to be a dehydrated raspberry Fruit Roll-Up.

Another dessert looks like a child's building toy, a green log stacked on a green block beside pink cylindrical segments. Taste it and it rearranges itself into something more familiar -- pistachio cake topped with a cylinder of excellent pistachio ice cream, beside red currant panna cotta.

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Pistachio cake topped with a cylinder of excellent pistachio ice cream, beside red currant panna cotta.

For true art, one need look no further than L'Espalier's four-star cheese cart. It encompasses the mild and the stinky, the creamy and the blue, the local and the far-flung, and it is a cheese lover's dream.

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L'Espalier's four-star cheese cart encompasses the mild and the stinky, the creamy and the blue, the local and the far-flung.

In 2008, L'Espalier moved from its cramped, romantic Gloucester Street brownstone to a modern space adjacent to the Mandarin Oriental hotel. It has grown into its new surroundings.

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In 2008, L'Espalier moved from its Gloucester Street brownstone to a modern space adjacent to the Mandarin Oriental hotel.

Coach Doc Rivers and veterans Paul Pierce and Ray Allen celebrated as the final horn sounded.

Bob Ryan | Game 5: Celtics 94, Heat 90

Celtics stun Heat with biggest win of season

Role player Mickael Pietrus hit key shots in the fourth quarter, and Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce helped carry the Celtics to the victory.

Brian McGrory

The dreamer and the mathematician

Richard Fields, the face of Suffolk Downs, and Gary Loveman, the CEO of Caesars Entertainment, which would run the proposed casino, make for an odd pair.

Mass. may tell Amazon to charge sales tax

The move would raise prices for online shoppers, but generate as much as $45 million in annual revenue for the state, according to people briefed on the matter.

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Orioles 8, Red Sox 6

Jarrod Saltalammachia was the hero for the Red Sox in the ninth, but the Orioles scored two runs in the 10th to win the game.

Red Sox fall to Orioles in 10

Jarrod Saltalammachia’s two-run homer in the ninth kept the Red Sox alive, but the bullpen coughed up two runs in the 10th inning.

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“We don’t need a casino,” said Kelsey Baker, (right) 22, of Dorchester with her sister, Kayla. “Leave those in Las Vegas.”

Not everyone’s all-in on Suffolk casino plan

On the tired streets near the track in East Boston and Revere, the concept of building a casino was generally embraced, though some residents worried about an increase in crime.

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