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Two killed in N.H. YWCA

A man and a child died in a shooting this morning at a YWCA, police said. Rabbi Levi Krinsky said the two dead people were a father and his young son.

Two-year-old Isaih Perez was kidnapped from 3 Oaktree Drive in Johnston around 5:20 a.m. after a double homicide.

Suspect in case of missing boy now listed as ‘unknown’

The name and photo of a man police said earlier today had kidnapped a 2-year-old in Rhode Island have been removed from the national Amber Alert.

John Lackey walked David Lough and Eric Hosmer to lead off the first.

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Red Sox lose weekend series to Royals

Kansas City took three out of four games this weekend from the Red Sox, winning seven consecutive series.

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President Obama hit the Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs for his first outing of a weeklong stay on the island.

Already judged a chess expert, 9-year-old Carissa Yip of Chelmsford seeks master status.

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Chelmsford chess prodigy aims higher

By the time she was 7, she could beat her father at chess. Now, 9, Carissa Yip wants to be the youngest female master of the game.

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Little Libertarians on the prairie

Was Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved children’s series written as an anti-New Deal fable? The family papers suggest yes.

opinion | nathaniel p. morris

Hooked on diet soda

Americans consume roughly 4 billion gallons of the stuff each year, though a growing body of evidence suggests these drinks are just as harmful as their caloric counterparts.

A review of court records show Nelson and Gideika have a long history of drug addiction. Gideika’s criminal record, in particular, shows his downward spiral.

Mass. is leaving more youths in troubled homes

The number of children removed from their homes for abuse or neglect has fallen sharply, even as reports of abuse or neglect have climbed, figures show.

Opinion

TOM KEANE

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Predicting the outcome is foolhardy, and trying to forecast voter turnout based on 20-year-old data is difficult.

Globe exclusives

Edwin Alemany spent stints in psychiatric hospitals.

Alemany’s long spiral down
The Center for Strategic and International Studies is building a $100 million headquarters in Washington with money raised by a high-powered collection of former senior government officials and titans of industry.

Broken City

Many think tanks players in partisan wars
Two-year-old Aurora Kieta (left) watched the activity at the Bowdoin-Geneva Community Hub.

Streetcorner market revitalizes Bowdoin-Geneva
Three-year-old Gianna Napoli, here with mother, Kim, was standing across the street from where the second bomb exploded.

Children struggle in aftermath of Marathon attack
Justin Timberlake (left) and Jay Z shared the spotlight Saturday night.

Music review

Timberlake, Jay Z hit it out of park
Iris Bonilla-Yoon (left) and Ken Yoon looked at a couch and table set inside the Crate and Barrel in Burlington on Saturday.

Shoppers flock to stores on sales tax holiday weekend
A worker raked wild blueberries from last week. More than 80 million pounds are expected to be harvested this year.

Racing to save blueberries
Adrian Gonzalez has impressed the owner of the Dodgers.

Sunday Baseball Notes

Series matchup would be a really big deal
Most around the NFL give Tom Brady and Bill Belichick the benefit of the doubt that they will have the offense on top of the statistical rankings again this year.

Sunday Football Notes

Altered offense won’t leave Patriots lacking
Guests eat their meals in the kitchen of the main house.

A taste of homesteading at a Maine hostel

Critic’s notebook | Don Aucoin

For girls, ‘Wicked’ casts a spell
Taylor Schilling stars in Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black.”

buzzsaw | matthew gilbert

‘Orange’ addicts unite

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Curt Schilling gets his 16-and-under team prepared for its game at the USSSA Girls Fastpitch World Series at the Wide World of Sports at Disney.

Curt Schilling has a new lease on life

After a disastrous business venture and a heart attack, coaching softball has helped the former Red Sox pitcher turn the corner on difficult times.

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Olivia Callanan,17, and her family plan to move out of South Boston, despite the area’s improvements.

‘New Southie’ can’t mask drug problems

Amy Lord’s grisly murder and recent drug deaths have pierced South Boston’s image of rejuvenation.

Columnists

Johnny Manziel can’t profit from own name.

Christopher L. Gasper

NCAA needs reform

JOAN VENNOCHI

Mass. officials must investigate Todashev death
The FBI is accused of enabling Whitey Bulger, seen in this mug shot taken in 1955 in Miami Beach.

JEFF JACOBY

Federal overreach — then and now
TJ Hazen (foreground, left) with his Microsoft team.

Innovation Economy

New frontiers in voice recognition
The columnist’s grandchildren Charlotte and Adam, on the first day of school last fall.

Beverly Beckham

Friends can last; siblings are forever

Yvonne Abraham

Commanding failure
Alex Rodriguez looked up toward photographers after leaving a news conference in Tampa in 2009.

Derrick Z. Jackson

Baseball’s integrity still isn’t restored

Opinion | RENÉE LOTH

Trash cash
On Oct. 30, 1948, the main business district of Donora, Pa., was cloaked in smog, the sunlight virtually obliterated by thick low-hanging pollution.

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The haze of history

Kevin Cullen

Waiting for the unknown
A water taxi cruised in The Woodlands, Texas.

EDWARD L. GLAESER

A fracking pioneer’s environmental dream

JOAN VENNOCHI

John Walsh’s rhapsody in blue

Nation & World

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Loyalist protesters clashed with riot police in Belfast center on Friday. A number of people, including officers, have been injured during violence linked to an Ireland Republican Army anti-internment parade.

56 officers hurt protecting IRA parade in Belfast

Protestant militants attacked the officers as they protected a parade by Irish Republican Army supporters.

Politics

President Obama spoke during a press conference on Friday.

President pledges new limits on surveillance

President Obama called for greater transparency and more oversight of America’s extensive electronic spying programs.

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Product Reviews

Appliances that cook up convenience

Consumer Reports found many ranges, cooktops, wall ovens, and microwaves that make cooking easier and more fun.

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Forest Whitaker stars in the new movie “The Butler,” based on a true story about a butler in the White House.

How ‘The Butler’ evolved from the page to the screen

Screenwriter Danny Strong explains how he brought Eugene Allen, a black butler who worked at the White House for more than three decades, to life.

Travel

In Transit

If your companion is a canine, head for the beach, where busy workday Boston is hidden in the haze.

Nantasket works best as a weekday excursion

The long, gray sand beach “gets sardine-packed on the weekends,” but there is more room to spread out during the week.

Books

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‘Archangel’ by Andrea Barrett

Barrett’s elegant new story collection dissects the seen and unseen forces that made us — and continue to drive us.

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

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Daniel Nava, the long shot
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The lake house
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Walter Willett’s food fight
The cover for the July 21 2013 issue

What happened at Deerfield

Ideas

“The enduring appeal of the books tells us something about how deep the romance with self-reliance runs through American history, and the gaps between the Little House narrative and Wilder’s real life say a lot about the government help and interdependence that we sometimes find more convenient to leave out of that tale.”

Christine Woodside,  on the Little House books as Libertarian fables