After Sandy, cleanup begins

Governor Patrick said he was relieved that the state escaped serious damage, but about 270,000 customers in the state are still without power.

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In Scituate, a bulldozer cleared away rocks tossed up onto the roadways during high tide on Tuesday.

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In the Queens borough of New York, a rainbow could be seen behind homes devastated by the storm.

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In the Breezy Point section of the Queens, at least 80 homes were burned to the ground from a fire during the storm.

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A boat was almost sideways between two flooded houses in Lindenhurst, N.Y.

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A woman looked over the destruction near her seaside apartment in Atlantic City, N.J.

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In Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., boats moved by Hurricane Sandy were left on Broadway Avenue on Tuesday.

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In Westport, a worker cut up a tree that had fallen across a road.

Another home in Cambridge sustained damage from a fallen tree.

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A home in Cambridge sustained damage from a fallen tree.

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Jenny Brennan looked on after a tree fell on the roof of her home in Cambridge.

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A Westport police officer turned a man away from approaching the Atlantic Ocean due to downed power lines Tuesday morning.

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Water poured into the Ground Zero construction site in New York City on Monday.

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The skyline of lower Manhattan was dark early Tuesday.

Record flooding cripples New York City

Huge swaths of Manhattan went unusually vacant and dark and an unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater gushed into tunnels and subway stations.

Storm leaves hundreds of downed trees

Crews from Newton to Cambridge were working Tuesday morning to clean up downed trees and restore power.

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Power outages in Mass.

The Globe is charting power outages reported by the utility providers across the region.

Retooled Celtics hope speed is the answer

The Celtics blew up their ideology in addition to rebuilding their roster, and their plan is easy to see: run fast and score.

Patrice Tierney got funds from brother in ’90s

Financial ties date back to the early 1990s in the relationship of US Rep. John F. Tierney, his wife, and her now-fugitive brother, records show.

Poll shows Warren, Brown deadlocked with week to go

A new Boston Globe poll shows that the race between Senator Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren is essentially tied.

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Massachusetts foreclosure activity slows in September

In September foreclosure petitions - the first step in the process - fell below 1,000 for the first time this year.

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Mitt Romney boarded his campaign plane in Moline, Ill., Monday. President Obama returned to Washington D.C. Monday tomonitor emergency response to Hurricane Sandy.

Sandy shakes up presidential campaign strategies

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Frame by Frame

Making ordered work out of lifelike wildness

Anthony D’Aries teaching his literacy class at the South Bay House of Correction. D’Aries this year published a memoir, “The Language of Men,” and with his father and these men he looks at their representation of manhood.

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Looking at the way men think

Susan Pellegrino and Rebecca Blumhagen as mother and daughter in Merrimack Repertory Theatre’s “Memory House.’’

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‘Memory House’ a satisfying sliver of a play

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Neil Young’s new journey through the past

Tom Brady and the Patriots took a 5-3 record in the bye after Sunday’s win.

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Patriots still searching for identity

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Barack Obama deserves another term

Mitt Romney spoke at a campaign event at the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio., as vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan and voters listened on.

Late moderate turn carrying Romney far

The Ameridose firm in Westborough and NewEngland Compounding Center share the same owners.

State wants pharmacist to resign as a regulator

Scott Brown stopped in Lowell while Elizabeth Warren spoke briefly in Lynn at a breakfast event Sunday.

Senate rivals cut short pleas for votes as Sandy threatens

Jeff Green bears heart surgery scar proudly

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Rajon Rondo now among Celtics greats

As he enters his seventh season, Rondo is drawing praise from some of his predecessors as perhaps the greatest point guard in Celtics history.

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An electrical worker secured wires knocked down by falling branches in Watertown.

Boston escapes major damage from Sandy

Mostly, the storm acted like a giant weed whacker, breaking branches, toppling trees, and dragging down power lines.

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Joanna Weiss

Lena Dunham’s joke ad is a campaign flashpoint

Kevin Garnett and the Celtics tip off their season on Tuesday in Miami.

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Celtics can hang with the Heat

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Hurricane solidarity won’t last long

Kevin Cullen

St. Frances in Scituate weathers the storm