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Red Sox owner John Henry in deal to buy Globe

The impending $70 million cash purchase will put the 141-year-old newspaper, its websites, and affiliated companies in John Henry’s hands.

Police report details how Amy Lord died

A police report unsealed Friday said 24-year-old Amy Lord of South Boston died from “sharp force injuries to the neck and torso and asphyxia by strangulation.”

Steve Costner of the State Department’s Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, which is the largest single source of money for mine removal operations around the world.

Budget cuts, D.C. gridlock have distant victims

The inability of Congress to end the sequester is affecting US-funded operations to remove unexploded bombs and land mines around the world.

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will be looking to connect with a lot of newcomers in his receiving corps.

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Patriots QB Tom Brady looks to be in it for long haul

Brady celebrates his 36th birthday Saturday, making him the elder statesman of the 90 players on the team’s training camp roster.

The Os Gemeos mural at Dewey Square.

Matthew Ritchie named to do newest Dewey Square mural

The Institute of Contemporary Art has commissioned the British-born artist, known for adapting scientific principles to inspire his work, to take over the massive canvas at Dewey Square.

Kevin Cullen

Once a bully, always a coward

“Whitey” Bulger played his trial like theater right up to the moment that his lawyer pulled the curtain to reveal . . . no one standing there.

Yolanda Rodrigues has been serving up her grilled fare at Ceylon Park on summer weekends for more than a decade.

In weekend barbecue, a heaping helping of home

In Dorchester’s Ceylon Park, where members of the neighborhood’s Cape Verdean immigrant community gather each weekend to eat and socialize, the food has a particular flavor.

Opinion

opinion | jim kozubek

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There are ethical implications and dangerous side effects when changes are made to a person’s genes.

Globe exclusives

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Counting the Red Sox’ walkoff wins
Elizabeth Aspenlieder (left) and Tina Packer in Shakespeare & Company’s “The Beauty Queen of Leenane.”

Stages

In Lenox, taking a real-life relationship to ‘Leenane’
“The better we do [in practice], the more efficient we’re going to be,” Tom Brady said.

Patriots working on offense, Tom Brady says
Customers and employees stood near a promotional display at Jordan’s Furniture in Reading. Jordan’s is one local business offering sales tax holiday discounts before the tax-free weekend.

Promotions underway for sales tax holiday
See the Boston Landmarks Orchestra at the Hatch Shell on Aug. 28.

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31 things for 31 days

Case likely won’t hinge on Bulger decision
Tommy and Patricia Donahue addressed the media outside Moakley Federal Courthouse on Friday after learning “Whitey” Bulger would not testify.

Relatives of alleged Bulger victim disappointed
Freshman Senator Elizabeth Warren, on her way to a policy lunch Tuesday, kept walking past reporters rather than engage in an impromptu Q-&-A session — which some see as a Capitol Hill tradition.

If it’s in a Senate hallway, Elizabeth Warren rarely answers
Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley (center) and Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis (left) spoke at a news conference.

Police commissioner ‘certain’ suspect involved in brutal death

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Ideas

Give American currency a makeover!
After a press event announcing the donation of a 9,000-square-foot parking lot to Artists for Humanity, teens worked on their artwork.

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week, Aug. 2, 2013

Magazine preview | Your Home

34 home maintenance myths

Sports

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Jon Lester toweled off after coming out of the game.

Red Sox lack the walkoff magic

A one-run deficit against the Diamondbacks hardly seemed like an obstacle after the last two games, but the Red Sox were unable to take another walkoff win.

Metro

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William Camuti (left) 69, of Sudbury, spoke with his lawyer Robert Saltzman while being arraigned for the attempted murder of Stephen Rakes.

Man charged with poisoning Stephen Rakes

William Camuti, 69, allegedly poisoned the iced coffee of the former “Whitey” Bulger foe after several real estate deals went awry.

Columnists

Kevin Cullen

Once a bully, always a coward

Dan Shaughnessy

Picking up the pieces
Mayoral candidate Bill Walczak would be open to retaining Meredith Weenick.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Next mayor needs no-nonsense CFO

Shirley Leung

It’s time to say yes to Walmart
Bill Parcells helped change the trajectory of the Patriots franchise during his four-year stint as head coach in the 1990s.

Dan Shaughnessy

Bill Parcells reflects on his Patriots years

Kevin Cullen

Time for an explanation
Argentina’s Mauricio Munoz took a blow during a featherweight title match in Macau last week.

CARLO ROTELLA

All’s unfair in boxing and politics

alex beam

Curse of the Maestro
US Representative Joseph Kennedy III is seen in a Feb. 11, 2013 interview.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Kennedy’s break: Principle or politics?

Jim Koch, founderof the Boston Beer Co.

Shirley Leung

Brewer gives women cold shoulder
Joe Louis Arena and an abandoned house in Detroit.

Derrick Z. Jackson

Motor City hustle

Adrian Walker

Let whole city vote on casino

Nation & World

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An Afghan policeman carried a child at the site of a suicide attack at the Indian consulate.

9 Afghans killed in attack on Indian consulate

Militants wearing explosives-rigged vests killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in a botched attack on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city.

Politics

Political Notebook

Elizabeth Warren is responding to rules that gay men cannot donate blood.

Warren wants quick blood ban review

Senator Elizabeth Warren asked the federal government to speed its review of the ban on gay men donating blood.

Business

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James Bullard said Fed forecasts have been too optimistic.

Fed bank president cites missteps by policy makers

The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis said his economic forecasts, as well as those of others at the Fed, have been too optimistic in the wake of the recession.

Arts

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Book REview

Author Leo Hollis cites the High Line, an aerial greenway that repurposed a stretch of abandoned rail line in Manhattan, as an example of cities’ possible allures and energies.

‘Cities Are Good For You’ by Leo Hollis

British writer Leo Hollis’s tour of the 21st-century metropolis explores the various social and creative possibilities that cities offer.

Lifestyle

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Love Letters

Dealing with his drug addiction

Her fiance’s bachelor party is a concern, but their marriage should be her bigger worry.

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I was the sun, the kids were my planets, and other reflections from the Globe columnist.

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The complete print edition, in its exact layout. Browse the print edition page by page, including stories and ads.

Magazine

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Walter Willett’s food fight
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What happened at Deerfield
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Kitchen overhaul
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Rethinking the golden years

Ideas

“Alfred Barr’s Wellesley class, small as it was, launched a generation of students into prominent roles in the art world, helping to spread the gospel of contemporary art as curators, journalists, and critics.”

Christopher Shea,  on how a young professor helped invent contemporary art in America