Tax questions loom for Tierney, Tisei

As US Rep. John Tierney and Richard R. Tisei gear up for their first debate, each is facing potentially embarrassing questions about his personal tax returns.

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The Obama campaign sees the booming influx of Puerto Ricans in the Orlando area as key to victory in the critical swing state.

In this image from a video filmed by a Democratic tracker, Scott Brown supporters do tomahawk chops and war whoops at a Brown event outside the Eire Pub in Dorchester.

Republican aides shown doing war chants

Elizabeth Warren is decrying a video showing GOP staffers, including a Scott Brown aide, performing tomahawk chops and war whoops.

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Andy Williams, clean-cut crooner known for his hit recording ‘‘Moon River’’ and popular Christmas TV shows, died at 84.

Avalanna Routh (right) played the bongos as part of a music therapy session at the Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund Clinic in 2011.

Avalanna Routh, 6-year-old ‘Mrs. Bieber’ from Merrimac, dies

Routh, who was befriended by pop star Justin Bieber, was diagnosed in 2006 with a rare brain cancer and has been treated at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Food

Beekeeping ecologist makes a business of hives

Noah Wilson-Rich says Boston bees seem to enjoy an urban setting and their honey has strong flavors and colors.

Noah Wilson-Rich pulled out a frame from his bee hive in the yard behind his building the South End.

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Noah Wilson-Rich pulled out a frame from his bee hive in the yard behind his building the South End.

Bees worked between frames, making cells and honey.

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Bees worked between frames, making cells and honey.

Wilson-Rich punctured and ran his finger across the wax to show honey dripping out of a frame.

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Wilson-Rich punctured and ran his finger across the wax to show honey dripping out of a frame.

Bees worked to create honey on cells in a frame.

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Bees worked to create honey on cells in a frame.

Bees hung out along a wax pattern on top of the box.

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Bees hung out along a wax pattern on top of the box.

Wilson-Rich put a tray in the back seat of his car. The honey was extracted at an off-site location.

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Wilson-Rich put a tray in the back seat of his car. The honey was extracted at an off-site location.

G cover

How to eat on $7 a day

Welcome the recent college grad’s world of beans, rice, pasta, and ramen.

Brian McGrory

Senator Scott Brown’s illusion fades

Brown believed, or at least hoped, his good-guy image would be more important than his Senate record. Not anymore.

A replacement official tries to sort out the mess in the aftermath of the final play in Seattle’s controversial win over Green Bay Monday night.

SPORTS MEDIA

NFL’s TV partners don’t hold back on refs

ESPN and NFL Network analysts haven’t hesitated in criticizing the replacement officials, particularly after Monday’s disputed touchdown.

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Ayden Beique, 8, was at Fenway Park for the first time, with his mother, Jill, as his birthday present.

Sox diehards stick it out
Chuks Okoli, Roxbury Community College vice president of administration and finance, addressed the college’s board of trustees.

Roxbury college trustees confront turmoil
Prosecutors, defense lawyers, State Police, and Patrick administration officials met Monday to discuss drug convictions which might have been tainted by the lab scandal.

Drug lab chemist accused of lying
Del “Dogman” Christman, the colorful clubhouse manager for the Lowell Spinners, revisits the site where he contemplated a suicide attempt in 1998.

Spinners clubhouse manager found serenity
Tom Fleming’s “Spirit and Life” (above) sold for more than $3,000.

Copyright case shows art, retail can be difficult mix
David Byrne & St. Vincent on NBC’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.”

music review

David Byrne and St. Vincent a dynamic duo at Orpheum
Noah Wilson-Rich of Best Bees Co. tends his hives in the backyard of his building in the South End.

Food

Beekeeping ecologist makes a business of hives
Data show that since mid-September, American has canceled 2 percent of its flights leaving Logan Airport.

Pilot labor dispute dogs American Airlines flights
Ryan McLennan’s “The Crutch,” part of the “Out of the Ruins’’ exhibit at the New Art Center.

GALLERIES

What’s up at Boston-area art galleries
Construction at the Kensington tower on Washington Street in Boston began last year.

Opinion | Paul Mcmorrow

Boston’s new housing boom could have an economic windfall
A white “ghost bike” has been placed along Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester near where a bicyclist, Doan Bui, was struck and killed Sept. 14 by an alleged drunken driver.

‘Ghost bikes’ are haunting reminders of dead cyclists
Officials seemed to indicate opposite reactions to the game-ending play in the Seahawks’ win over the Packers. At left, the official appears to indicate an interception, while the official on the right called a touchdown.

Timeline

How the NFL’s replacement refs have erred

Sports

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ON BASEBALL

Two high-profile members of the 2004 champions — Kevin Millar and Pedro Martinez — were in the spotlight again, with a piece of shining hardware.

2004 Red Sox recall their special bond

The tribute to the World Series champions at Fenway was a reminder of how much work the current team has in front of it.

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Marcus Hurd testified in March about a shooting that left him a quadriplegic and four other people dead.

Marcus Hurd talked of new memory at March trial

Hurd said that while he was on the stand during the trial for the 2010 Mattapan shooting, he realized Dwayne Moore resembled the shooter.

Columnists

jeff jacoby

Obama is the great divider

Scot Lehigh

Scott Brown’s Senate control problem

Brian McGrory

Senator Scott Brown’s illusion fades
The Patriots’ Bill Belichick (above) and the Ravens’ John Harbaugh spent a lot of time Sunday appealing to the refs.

Christopher L. Gasper

NFL’s replacement refs a complete joke

farah stockman

A plea for a new party: Keeping It Real
Kate Middleton, Prince William, and Prince Harry attended the men's team sprint track cycling event at the London 2012 Olympic games.

Joanna Weiss

Royalty and the paradox of publicity

Boston Capital

Stock and bond markets posting big gains
Work continues on the third set of locks during the Panama Canal Expansion project Wednesday.

Juliette Kayyem

Panama’s magic number
The free UberSense app lets coaches mark up video shot on an iPhone or iPad.

Innovation Economy

UberSense offers video sports coaching app

Adrian Walker

Fresh outlook at Fresh Pond
As he often was on Sunday night, Patriots’ Devin McCourty was a step behind as Ravens’ Torrey Smith snares a TD pass.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots defense, running game still struggling
Bill Belichick screams at official Rodney Russell after a first-quarter call went against the Patriots.

Dan Shaughnessy

Replacement refs a nightmare in Patriots loss

Business

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The turnaround plans were announced weeks after Staples disclosed earnings that had fallen 32 percent.

Staples to cut shop space and locations

The office supply chain plans to close US and international stores, reduce the size of existing locations, restructure its overseas business, and shake up leadership.

Politics

Political Notebook

Representative Maxine Waters was cleared of wrongdoing.

Substitute congressional ethics panel blasts regular members

An ethics panel looking into the troubled investigation of Rep. Maxine Waters condemned partisan infighting.

Nation & World

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China’s first aircraft carrier was put into service Tuesday. It will be used only for training and testing purposes.

China launches first aircraft carrier amid much fanfare

China put its first aircraft carrier into service, a move intended to signal its growing military might.

Arts

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Movie Review

“You’ve Been Trumped” follows Donald Trump’s efforts to develop a golf resort near Aberdeen, Scotland.

‘You’ve Been Trumped’ puts the Donald in the rough

Does America have a more laughably contemptible public figure than Donald Trump?

Food & dining

Boston Area Gleaners Helen Palmer and Lynn Langton harvest kale at First Light Farm in Hamilton.

Picking the fields clean to take produce to the needy

Gleaning, in which groups pick fields that have already been harvested in order to catch the last of the crop and take it to the needy, has grown in popularity.

“I still come out, I’ll always be a fan. This is a beautiful place to watch a game.”

Red Sox fan Tony Morgan, 73,  on Fenway Park

Magazine

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
The cover for the September 9 2012 issue

Things to do in the Berkshires
The cover for the August 26 2012 issue

Did Beatrice Munyenyezi lie to get into this country?

Opinion

“Obama’s brutal negativity can’t simply be brushed aside as the inevitable surrender of idealism to realism.”

Jeff Jacoby 

Ideas

“Changing a culture requires finesse, subtlety, and patience. It also requires a certain suspension of optimism about human nature.”

Leon Neyfakh on the art of crowdshifting