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Judge halts Pa. voter ID law

The law requiring each voter to show a valid photo ID could be appealed to the state Supreme Court.

Foreclosures in Mass. reach lowest level of year

Lenders completed 40 percent fewer foreclosures in August than the same month last year for the lowest monthly total since February 2011.

Roxbury Community College releases crime data

The lengthy document details all serious allegations of crime reported to the school in 2011, as well as many from 2010 and 2009 the college failed to submit.

Boston Capital

As Red Sox sank, so did ticket resale market

The resale market for Sox tickets went into a nose-dive as the team headed toward its worst finish in 46 years.

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Former housing chief Michael McLaughlin appears to have diverted millions in federal money, freeing up an enormous slush fund that benefited himself and his friends.

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NEWS ANALYSIS

Senate candidates make some illuminating stumbles

The second debate between Senator Brown and Elizabeth Warren featured plenty of friction, but neither candidate delivered a knockout punch.

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In their second debate, policy took a back seat to sniping over some political flash points that have animated the nation’s most expensive Senate race.

Scot Lehigh

Brown was too focused on ancestry issue

Scott Brown’s obsession with painting Elizabeth Warren as a dishonest fraud is not just tiresome but off-putting.

Mitt Romney sharpened his attacks on Shannon O’Brien.

In ’02, Mitt Romney capitalized on debates

Romney used debates against Democratic challenger Shannon O’Brien to adopt a more criticizing tone and was able to turn the tide in the 2002 race for governor.

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A video series where Globe journalists tell the stories behind their stories. Exclusively on BostonGlobe.com, it is hosted by multimedia journalist Dina Rudick.

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Jaime Carrillo and Evelyn Howe in the SpeakEasy Stage’s “The [Expletive] With the Hat.’’

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

Issues of class take center stage on local stages
Frank Carlson said a spring freeze wiped out half the apple crop at his Harvard orchards.

Weather took toll on apple harvest
Benoit Rolland sees his bows as “living entities.”

Four locals chosen for annual ‘genius grant’

Frame by Frame

Nautical figure lovable, lost
Moustafa Ismail, 24, of Franklin displayed his world-record 31-inch biceps in a recent workout.

Guinness hails Franklin man’s 31-inch biceps
“The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well,” said children’s writer Lois Lowry.

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Lois Lowry, architect of young adult dystopia
The Claremont Trio is (from left) Emily Bruskin, Andrea Lam, and Julia Bruskin.

Music Review

Trio toasts Gardner hall with the sounds of Peru
Andrew W. Lo (left) proposes raising $30 billion for more speculative, early-stage research into cancer treatments.

MIT economist pitches cancer megafund
A sign at the former Wonderland Greyhound Park in Revere.

Revere seeks Wonderland in casino deal
Men said they support Richard Tisei 45 percent to 26 percent while women support Rep. John Tierney by a narrower margin, 36 percent to 29 percent.

Tisei leads Tierney in poll
Wes Welker howls after a 17-yard catch for a first down that set up a TD three plays later in the fourth quarter as dazed Bills Mark Anderson (93) and Mario Williams (94) look on.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots have made a habit out of winning
Rajon Rondo played after dislocating his left elbow during the 2011 playoffs.

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Athletes play through pain at their own peril

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Clubhouse manager Donald Fitzpatrick, who died in 2005, pleaded guilty in Florida.

Another accuser in Red Sox abuse scandal

There are 20 men demanding a combined $100 million from the Sox for misconduct they claim late clubhouse manager Donald Fitzpatrick committed.

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At Splash Ultra Lounge in Boston, police conducted a head count at a party Saturday and found overcrowding.

Nightclub closed, cited for serving alcohol to minors

Splash Ultra Lounge was cited and forced to close after a father’s complaint that his daughter had run up a $2,800 credit card bill.

Columnists

The proposed site of Konza Technology City currently has no infrastucture.

farah stockman

In Kenya, turning savannah into gold

Scot Lehigh

Brown too focused on ancestry

joanna weiss

More refinement from Brown, Warren

Boston Capital

As Sox sank, so did ticket resales

Kevin Cullen

A firm grasp of the Senate race
Shell Oil’s floating oil-drilling platform, Kulluk, passes downtown Seattle in 2011. The rig was scheduled to depart for Alaska the following year.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Energy policy shows fallacy of a ‘domestic’ debate

Adrian Walker

Opportunity awaits RCC
Nataly Kogan is a cofounder of Happier.

Innovation Economy

A start-up called Happier hopes for a rosier life

Tech Lab Plus

Device lets you take control of driving games
Wes Welker howls after a 17-yard catch for a first down that set up a TD three plays later in the fourth quarter as dazed Bills Mark Anderson (93) and Mario Williams (94) look on.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots have made a habit out of winning

Joanna Weiss

New Orleans fights for its news

Kevin Cullen

Brown supporters’ fun not funny to Native American

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SEIU Local 615 attorney Ingrid Nava (left) and union president Rocio Saenz discussed details of the janitors contract Monday.

New England janitors, contractors reach deal

A strike was averted as the union representing 14,000 janitors reached a tentative deal with a consortium of cleaning companies.

Politics

Political Notebook

Demonstrators voiced opposition to Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law at last month’s NAACP rally in Philadelphia.

Judge rules today on Pennsylvania voter ID law

A court-imposed deadline is looming for a judge to decide whether the state’s photo identification law can remain intact.

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Iran’s weak economy has brought criticism of President Ahmadinejad’s leadership.

Iranians sign petition protesting hardships

The petition decrying the state of the nation’s economy bore the signatures of 10,000 Iranians.

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Book Review

From left: Danny Wood, Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight,Joey McIntyre, and Jonathan Knight at Tampa Stadium to perform at Super Bowl XXV in 1991.

‘Five Brothers and a Million Sisters’ by Nikki Van Noy

The authorized biography of New Kids on the Block aims to capture what it was like to be in the band.

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Sally Jewell, CEO of REI, took a break during a recent visit to check on stores in Greater Boston to kayak around Hingham Harbor.

CEO of outdoors giant REI visits Boston, talks sport

Sally Jewell, 56, has been described by friends as a no-nonsense boss — except for when she’s climbing a mountain or in a boat.

“Excuse me, I’m not a student in your classroom.”

Scott Brown  to Elizabeth Warren

Magazine

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How will independents factor into the Brown-Warren Senate race?

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9 hot trends in kitchen design
The cover for the September 16 2012 issue

The self-promoting, fan-financed, go-it-alone star
The cover for the September 9 2012 issue

Things to do in the Berkshires

Opinion

“I found myself wishing that our junior senator considered issues about the nation’s fiscal future maybe a tenth as important as he does the matter of Warren’s undocumented ancestry.”

Scot Lehigh 

Ideas

“We know a lot about the things that are closer to our size, our altitude, our spot in the universe — and less about things that are hard to reach, hard to dig up, and hard to quantify.”

Samuel Arbesman  on what big data is missing