Regulator has link to firm implicated in outbreak

The Framingham pharmacy at the heart of the meningitis outbreak has a link to a board member and former president of the state agency that regulates pharmacies.

A steroid formulated by a Framingham firm is linked to a meningitis outbreak.

Doctors split on value of low-back injections

The discovery that a potentially tainted drug is linked to 119 cases of meningitis nationwide has fueled debate about use of the back-pain treatment.

Elizabeth Warren embraced Tom McGrath of Pipefitters Local 537 in Boston. Senator Scott Brown received the endorsement of Christine Todd Whitman, former Republican governor of New Jersey.

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Brown, Warren focus on Boston media market

A Boston Globe analysis of the public schedules for Senator Brown and Elizabeth Warren shows that the biggest losers are Western Mass. voters.

Future seniors may see benefits tied to means testing

Millions of future seniors will probably end up paying more, or getting fewer benefits — no matter who wins the White House.

Some are challenging the BRA’s efforts to bring a restaurant to the end of Long Wharf.

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Development plan pits North End residents vs. officials

The state’s highest court has agreed to decide whether a waterfront perch at the tip of Boston’s Long Wharf can be run by a private business without legislative approval.

Brian McGrory

Couple still awaiting a happy ending

Harvard Square fixture Dennis ­Coveney and his wife, Kelly, are struggling to find shelter through a Byzantine web of social service agencies.

Partners’ financial health turns on complex plans

With $7.5 billion in assets under its watch — more than most community banks — Partners HealthCare feels the swerves of the stock market in a big way.

If you remember the night Tony Conigliaro was struck, you probably remember something else from that time.

Dan Shaughnessy

Sports people always remember

Maybe it’s a guy thing. Maybe it’s a sports thing. But I always have connected important life passages with things that were going on in sports.

Since the bump in prize money, thoroughbred breeder George Brown’s farm has gotten plenty of calls from aspiring racehorse owners.

Mass. gaming act gives horse racing prize boost

The new state gaming act stipulates that a portion of gambling revenues be used to increase purses and boost bonuses for Mass. horse owners and breeders.

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Nate Stearns, Alex Moore, and author Michael Andor Brodeur shuck corn, one of many tasks at Nautical Thanksgiving in Scituate.

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Nautical Thanksgiving, a made-up holiday done right
Anxious people checked the Associated Press teletype machine in the Boston Globe's downtown office on Oct. 22, 1962, as President John F. Kennedy declared a blockade of military equipment bound for Cuba.

Opinion | Nicholas Burns

Cuban Missile Crisis holds lessons for presidential race
Mini lobster rolls.

Dining out

Strong start for City Landing, but room for improvement t

Adam Ant (pictured in London in 2011) performed for almost two hours Monday night at Royale.

Music Review

A recharged Adam Ant storms Royale
Television anchorwoman Jennifer Livingston responded to a viewer who wrote her an e-mail criticizing her weight.

Opinion | The Podium

The truth about being fat
Students pass in front of Harvard’s Widener Library. To Gerald and Lily Chow, education consultant Mark Zimny must have seemed like the answer to many parents’ prayer.

Quest for Harvard entry ends in $2m tangle
The Upper Crust pizza chain, founded in Beacon Hill in 2001, grew strongly at first, but has since faced legal and financial woes.

Upper Crust files for bankruptcy protection
Globe critic Ty Burr takes the risk to bicycle the city’s streets because the rewards are worth it.

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Lila Gardner and Ross Bergen took photos of themselves in front of municipal buildings as proof of their travel to a town or city.

Couple visits all 351 towns and cities in Mass.
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Hand transplant is a first for Mass. General
Arquinia Rodriguez (left) and Karla Bonilla said a layoff by Progressive Gourmet in Wilmington was aimed at thwarting its employees’ efforts to form a union.

Food service workers sue Wilmington firm
Dan Dugan collects data for the Consumer Price Index, which affects households as well as corporate executives.

A federal agent, on the prowl for inflation

Sports

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On Football | Midweek Report

Patriot receivers — including Brandon Lloyd here — had a good day catching and blocking.

No-huddle offense caught up to the Patriots

New England looked very tired in the final quarter-plus of their win over the Broncos, as the first-half pace took a self-inflicted toll.

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Miles Smith, a longtime friend and roomate of Jonathan Dailey (at right), gave a statement to the press on Tuesday. Smith said he could think of no one who would want to harm Dailey, who had gone missing on Oct. 2.

Missing student found in Charles River

A man found dead in the Charles River near the BU Bridge has been identified as graduate student Jonathan Dailey.

Columnists

This 1828 Andrew Jackson election poster derided John Q. Adams and his following.

Joanna Weiss

Partisan politics? Take a look at the 19th century
The Patriots’ Stevan Ridley, who rushed for 151 yards in the game, sails over Denver cornerback Champ Bailey as he scores on an 8-yard run in the third quarter.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots’ no-huddle success doomed Broncos

Brian McGrory

Couple still awaiting a happy ending
If you remember the night Tony Conigliaro was struck, you probably remember something else from that time.

Dan Shaughnessy

Sports people always remember

Boston Capital

$100,000 for a start-up, but whose?

Kevin Cullen

Don’t ignore RCC students
Some Chiefs fans kicked quarterback Matt Cassel when he was down Sunday.

Dan Shaughnessy

Fan reaction to Matt Cassel injury uncivilized

Adrian Walker

Tierney in battle he never saw coming

Innovation Economy

Entrepreneurs speak their mind on venture firms

Juliette Kayyem

Generals, make way for the lawyers
Elizabeth Warren’s grandfather

JAMES CARROLL

How family lore shapes character
Ginna is living at a shelter on Massachusetts Avenue in Boston after being turned away more than once.

Yvonne Abraham

A safety net that is leaving more people out

Business

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Walmart’s surveys found that electronics, toys, video games, movies, and groceries are among the items that shoppers want delivered.

Walmart tests same-day delivery service

Walmart is testing same-day delivery in select markets for customers who buy popular items online during the holiday season.

Politics

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President Obama was on the stump Tuesday at Ohio State University.

Ohio to appeal ruling on early voting

Ohio’s election chief said that he will appeal a ruling by a federal court that reinstates the final three early voting days in the state.

Nation & World

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Susan Rice, ambassador to the UN, repeatedly said after the attack that the administration believed the violence was unplanned.

State Dept. denies linking Libya attack to Islam video

The State Department said that it never concluded the consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing Islam.

Arts

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Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing #118: Fifty randomly placed points all connected by straight lines,’’ redone at the Museum School.

What’s happening in Boston-area galleries

Back in 1971, Sol LeWitt visited the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and invited students to help him construct a wall drawing.

Food & dining

Dana Masterpolo (left) and Michelle da Silva are the founders of Bantam Cider.

New entrepreneurs make hard cider from local apples

One alcohol category is still relatively unchartered: hard cider.

“What’s in it for Chicopee? I think that’s a message that you really can’t do with statewide advertising.”

Chicopee Mayor Michael Bissonnette,  on the Senate campaign

Magazine

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AP classes: A problem for Massachusetts high schoolers?
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How will independents factor into the Brown-Warren Senate race?

The cover for the September 23 2012 issue

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

The self-promoting, fan-financed, go-it-alone star

Opinion

“When it comes to ‘life and death’ sectors in our economy, it may be that states’ rights can be dangerous, even fatal.”

Tim Johnson 

Ideas

“Gerken has advanced a vision of governance unusual for someone whose political convictions are firmly liberal: She wants local decision-making bodies to be given more opportunity to rebel against federal policy.”

—Leon Neyfakh on Heather Gerken’s argument for “federalism all the way down”