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Despite law change, ex-cons face tough job market

The fortunes of former convicts seeking employment have changed little since the passage of a 2010 law that overhauled the state’s criminal records system.

Review faulted on disability benefits for children

Officials overseeing a $10 billion program failed to follow up on 400,000 beneficiaries, allowing families to receive cash for years, a draft report said.

Police: Man implicates self in 1979 missing child case

The death and disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz helped launch a movement that put kids’ faces on milk cartons.

Boston immigration lawyer's clients face deportation

John K. Dvorak’s Massachusetts law license was suspended following federal sanctions for failing to provide accurate information in visa applications.

Warren pulls even with Brown

Elizabeth Warren has the support of 47 percent of likely voters in Massachusetts, compared to 48 percent for Brown.

Members of the committee for the Happy Observance of Commencement escort guests and marshal the afternoon procession.

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Harvard’s quirky graduation rituals

In celebrating its 361st commencement today, Harvard University will summon time-honored traditions deep and dear.

Yvonne Abraham

A dangerous myth

Lenient sentences for apologetic offenders feed the wrong-headed perception that drunken driving is more a common human failing than a crime.

Excitement building in soap box racers’ world

Your daddy’s Oldsmobile may be out of production, but your grandfather’s motorless soap box car still pokes along - especially in Arlington.

Bob Ryan

Celtics have been old unreliables

It was a Game 6 close-out road game following a home victory in Game 5. The Big Four core group is now 2-5 in such games.

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Harvard Business School alumna Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, spoke at the school’s Class Day.

Facebook exec talks to Harvard Business School grads

Author Dan Zevin provides insights into his career as a stay-at-home dad.

Book Review

‘Dad Gets A Minivan’ by Dan Zevin

Louis DiBiccari to host event pairing chefs and artists

Mass. will open 40 miles of MWRA trails to public

Brian McGrory

The benefits of political friendship

Mimi Leveque, Peabody Essex Museum conservator; Becca Melius curator at Boston’s Museum of Science; and Rebecca Barber, an intern, examined a mummy.

Photo gallery

Unearthing history

Scot Lehigh

The fallout of US extremism

At Herb Chambers Ford, salesman Mustafa Salman (left) showed Ken Monahan a Ford Fusion. Dealers are trying different tactics to get customers to trade in their cars.

Dealers hurt as consumers keep used cars longer

Authors Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Toni Morrison meet at a dinner at Fuentes’s home in Mexico city in 1995.

Opinion | David Carrasco

The legacy of Carlos Fuentes

Tiny start-up lands a former Vertex CEO

Democratic Party tracker Martin Geldhof videotaped Senator Scott Brown at Newton South High School.

Candidates wary as opposition cameras roll

Sports

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Scott Podsednik plays big role as Red Sox win

Most teams believed he was finished, but the outfielder belted a home run in the eighth inning to help the Sox win, 6-5.

Metro

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Smoke rose from a dry dock as fire crews responded to a fire on the USS Miami SSN 755 submarine at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on an island in Kittery, Maine on Wednesday.

Maine nuclear sub fire injures 7

Firefighters battled for 12 hours to bring a fire inside a nuclear-powered US Navy submarine in the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard under control.

Columnists

A note to rescue workers was written on a Joplin house last year.

Juliette Kayyem

The ‘Joplin effect’

Joan Vennochi

Have Mass. casinos become a risky bet?