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Two with ties to Lawrence mayor indicted

A deputy police chief and former chief of staff connected to the controversial Mayor William Lantigua will face political corruption charges.

Amy Bishop

Amy Bishop pleads guilty to Alabama killings

Bishop, who is also charged with killing her brother in Massachusetts in 1986, pleaded guilty to fatally shooting three colleagues and wounding three others in 2010 in Alabama.

Report: Harvard players to exit amid cheating probe

Kyle Casey and Brandyn Curry, key cogs for the Ivy League-winning men’s basketball team last year, may now withdraw, with more fallout possible.

The Tobin Bridge in Chelsea.

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opinion | Paul McMorrow

The bridge that divides

The Tobin Bridge separates Chelsea, and if the city is to realize its potential, it needs to join the neighborhoods on one side with the development opportunities on the other.

Katie Pakenham (left) and Teresa Mathai consoled each other as family and friends of those lost on Sept. 11, 2001 gathered in Boston.

Ceremonies honor 206 Mass. residents who died on 9/11

In a series of events in the heart of Boston, public officials and citizens gathered to commemorate the state’s victims of the attacks.

Bruce Bolling, first black City Council president, dies at 67

Bolling, who became the first African-American president of the Boston City Council, died after a long struggle with prostate cancer.

A Cheesecake Factory at the North Shore Mall in Peabody.

Opinion | The Podium

Cheesecake Factory isn’t health care’s answer

Healthcare journalist Suzanne Gordon warns that The Cheesecake Factory’s business model will not work in health care.

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The controversial trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in Massachusetts in the 1920’s caused much tension in the US and around the world.

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Bill Lichtenstein, whose account of his daughter’s 2006 treatment was published Sunday, said a confidentiality agreement barred him from speaking sooner.

Account of putting pupil in isolation disputed
“A lot of our assumptions today have their roots in that period,” says Drew Gilpin Faust (right) with Ric Burns.

Work of Harvard’s Faust gets the PBS treatment

Farah Stockman

Why do we go to our high school reunions?
The decision by the state party could put US Senator Scott Brown, facing a tough challenge, in a difficult position.

State GOP to take up national platform

In faiths, a split on assisted suicide

G force

Molly Ringwald writes, sings, acts, and wants to direct
Pipe fitter Jerry Williams worked on new gas boilers being installed by Ameresco Inc. for the Boston Housing Authority.

Energy services firm profits with boring efficiency

CD Review | ROCK

Storming ahead with Bob Dylan in ‘Tempest’
Hercules the 900-pound liger starts in Dr. Bhagavan Antle’s show at King Richard’s Faire in Carver.

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Big Cats at King Richard’s Faire
Zac Brown (pictured here in Nashville last June) and his band charmed the Comcast Center crowd on Sunday.

Music Review

Zac Brown covers his bases, and a lot more
A couple —Corinna May (left) and David Atkins — find themselves visited by runaway, played by Lesley Shires, in “Homestead Crossing.’’

Stage Review

‘Homestead Crossing’ far from a routine stop

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The best beer town in New England

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Right fielder Cody Ross believes the presence of a contending team in the third base dugout could prod the Sox into playing better.

Red Sox could find motivation in Yankees

With the first-place Yankees in town, the slumping Red Sox will have to take satisfaction in trying to make it difficult for a contending team.

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The new $34 million Mattapan Community Center Health Center is located at 1575 Blue Hill Ave.

Health center is a booster shot for Mattapan

The new $34 million home will double the patients served and triple patient visits.

Columnists

Joanna Weiss

A teacher’s guide to predators
Eric Crouch (pedaling) and John Pelkey rode the pedicab they designed.

Innovation economy

Wentworth graduates build a better pedicab
Clouds are reflected in the glass windows of Four World Trade Center last month in New York.

Opinion | Juliette kayyem

On anniversary of 9/11, fear is present but not all-consuming

Adrian Walker

For kids’ sake, teacher deal is needed

Farah Stockman

Why do we go to our high school reunions?

Joanna Weiss

Clinton’s speech a new blueprint
Stevan Ridley breaks a tackle on a 17-yard first-quarter run during a Patriots TD drive. The back ended up with 125 yards on 21 carries.

Dan Shaughnessy

New England sports fans can rejoice
Chandler Jones and the Patriots defensive looks like a unit that can bring offenses to their knees.

Christopher L Gasper

Patriots defense makes a statement

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Secrets of the hiring process

Yvonne Abraham

Mormon missionaries bask in Romney’s run
Bill Belichick’s decade-plus run of success with the Patriots has elevated the team to the top of the local sports crop.

Bob Ryan

Boston now officially belongs to the Patriots
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. links arms with, to his left; Ralph Bunche, undersecretary of the United Nations; Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel; and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth as they march for voter registration rights for African-Americans in 1965.

Jeff Jacoby

Faith enriches politics, on both sides

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Pipe fitter Jerry Williams worked on new gas boilers being installed by Ameresco Inc. for the Boston Housing Authority.

Energy services firm profits with boring efficiency

Framingham’s Ameresco Inc. prospers by saving clients money with a straightforward view of efficiency, focused on lighting, heating, cooling, and other simple fixes.

Politics

Political Notebook

President Obama’s joint fund-raising committee, which spent liberally early, did not indicate how much money it has.

Obama edges Romney with $114m haul

President Obama’s campaign collected more than $114 million to Mitt Romney’s $111.6 million in August, the first time Obama has outraised Romney since April.

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President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, and members of the White House staff paused during a moment of silence to mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept., 11, 2001, attacks.

Americans pause to mark 11th anniversary of 9/11 attacks

Hundreds gathered at the World Trade Center site in New York, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pa.

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Music Review

Zac Brown (pictured here in Nashville last June) and his band charmed the Comcast Center crowd on Sunday.

Zac Brown covers his bases, and a lot more

Straying from its country roots, the Zac Brown Band tries too hard to please.

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Molly Ringwald writes, sings, acts, and wants to direct

“The Breakfast Club” actress talks about her new novel, and how she honed her descriptive powers by describing the world to her blind jazz pianist father.

“This year I’m not getting bombarded by Sept. 11. This year it will be a little easier to just be sad.”

Danielle Lemack,  whose mother, Judy Larocque, was a 9/11 victim

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The cover for the September 9 2012 issue

My friends don’t know I’m a conservative
The cover for the August 26 2012 issue

Did Beatrice Munyenyezi lie to get into this country?
The cover for the August 19 2012 issue

Can a Woburn company’s flying car someday be a fix for traffic?
The cover for the August 12 2012 issue

The man who nourished Boston’s literary scene

Opinion

“The concept is known as ‘grooming,’ and it amounts to a public relations campaign: Abusers give off the impression that they’re caring and kind.”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“With awe, the researchers concluded, people become more “present,” living in the moment, not rehashing the past or fretting about the future.”

Keith O’Brien  on the quest to expand time