Rights suit to allege drugs were planted in Lowell

The federal lawsuit is against the city of Lowell and a police officer who relied on two informants suspected of planting drugs on dozens of innocent victims.

Kenly Hiller worked along the shore at the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Falmouth. Hiller is trying to raise $6,000 so she can design and study barriers that block nitrogen runoff from polluting coastal waters.

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Scientists calling on the crowd for funding

Scientists are learning that friends, family, and strangers are willing to chip in small and large sums to help fund their work.

President Obama met with National Security adviser Susan E. Rice and Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham (right) in the Oval Office to discuss strategy in Syria.

Hints of more US help for Syrian rebels

Senator John McCain said he would back a limited strike if President Obama did more to arm the rebels and the attack weakened the Syrian military.

US slices federal funds for MBTA security

Federal security funding has been cut in half, preventing the transit agency from instituting new measures at stations, yards, and tunnels.

Boston school officials are hoping more students will eat the school lunches now that cost is not a barrier.

JESSICA RINALDI FOR THE GLOBE

Without paperwork, school lunch free in Boston

Boston public schools will begin serving free lunches to all students this school year even if families have the financial means to pay.

Felix Arroyo greets Bunny Meyer of Jamaica Plain before a March on Washington commemoration.

THE MAYORAL RACE: THE CANDIDATES

Felix Arroyo banking on ground game in race

The candidate is on a difficult quest to prove that the route to the mayor’s office in Boston is paved not solely with money.

Boston’s line for problems draws big following

The number of calls to Boston’s constituent service program has climbed by 35 percent since 2010, driven by a leap in reports via smartphone.

Jerry Remy’s Sports Bar and Grill, on Boylston Street near Fenway Park, is a popular destination for Red Sox fans. Remy’s son, Jared Remy, is accused of killing his girlfriend, Jennifer Martel.

Jerry Remy’s businesses apt to weather murder case

The charge against Jared Remy, the son of the Red Sox broadcaster, is not likely to cripple his father’s business ventures, an industry specialist said.

Opinion

PAUL MCMORROW

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Boston has a reflexive antipathy toward tall buildings, whether in residential neighborhoods or the heart of the downtown.

Globe exclusives

The Royall House (above left) and Slave Quarters (rear) in Medford, was built by Isaac Royall, a trader in rum, sugar, and slaves.

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One house, two histories
Idris Elba returns for a third season of BBC America’s “Luther.”

Television Review

‘Luther’ is back on the beat
“I keep waiting for someone to tell me this is a dumb idea, but I haven’t heard that from anyone,” says UMass’s Paul Vigeant.

Fall River pushes to lure life sciences, tech
Joey Collins (left) and Ted Koch in the Barrington Stage Company production of “Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah.”

Stage Review

An all-too revealing ‘Scott & Hem’

Elizabeth Mitchell and Dan Zanes (right) with Mitchell’s husband, Daniel Littleton, and daughter, Storey Littleton, in Woodstock, N.Y., where they collaborated on the album “Turn, Turn, Turn.”

Teaming up for a kid-friendly album

Smart timing for smartwatches?
After joining a clinical trial at Boston Children’s Hospital, Katie Mills started to speak in complete sentences for the first time.

Health

A drug for autism?
Dr. Stephen Bergman wrote “The House of God” and other works under the pen name Samuel Shem.

Q&A | ‘Samuel Shem’

Author revisits ‘The House of God’

Album Review | ROCK

Rattling cages for better on ‘Worse’
Lalla Essaydi’s triptych “Bullets Revisited #3” from 2012.

Photography Review

Daughters of Scheherazade
Across New England, areas like the Swift River Valley (above, left, in the 1880s and in 2010) in Petersham have seen their forests, once cut down and cleared for farmland, replenished in the 21st century.

From the Sunday Globe

New England sees return of forests, wildlife

This fall, Boston’s momentum will face a significant test as the city elects its first new mayor in a generation.

Boston on upswing, poll shows

Sports

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TIGERS 3, RED SOX 0

Red Sox starter John Lackey shows his frustration after Victor Martinez scores the game’s first run on a triple by Andy Dirks in the seventh.

Red Sox come up empty against Tigers

The Tigers hung another tough loss on John Lackey. The Red Sox have been shut out 11 times this season, six times with Lackey on the mound.

Metro

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Robert and Jen Meeropol are the son and granddaughter of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.

Granddaughter of Rosenbergs will take over fund

Created in memory of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953, the Rosenberg Fund for Children supports the kin of activists.

Columnists

Henrik Stenson and his son, Karl, know who’s No. 1 following his triumph at TPC Boston.

Dan Shaughnessy

Henrik Stenson a worthy champion

JOHN E. SUNUNU

Music dinosaurs pick a bad fight
Sergio Garcia hits out of a trap on the 14th hole during the third round.

Christopher L. Gasper

Garcia letting his play do the talking
State Senator Dan Wolf holds 23 percent interest in Cape Air.

JOAN VENNOCHI

The Dan Wolf exemption
(From left to right) Ray Flynn; Martin O’Malley; Héctor Luis Acevedo; Michael Nutter; Kim Driscoll; Ed Rendell; Kevin White; Amram Mitzna; and Tom Menino.

Yvonne Abraham

Would-be mayors’ mayors

Adrian Walker

Squeezing the laborers

JEFF JACOBY

Privatizing Logan fixes ethics problem
Tiger Woods drove his way to a 4-under-par 67 and a tie for 20th.

Dan Shaughnessy

Tiger Woods in Boston spotlight
Brightleaf vice president Jeff Turner (left) and CEO Dan Gaffney. The firm’s goal is to help lawyers streamline the document production.

Innovation economy

Start-ups take on lawyers

Bob Ryan

No shortage of topics to discuss
Charlotte Rose Kelly died at age 5. The new park was built in her memory.

Beverly Beckham

A gift in memory of a child, and a sign

Phil Mickelson was in deep trouble on No. 9, his final hole, but he hacked out and made a nice bogey save.

Christopher L. Gasper

Phil Mickelson a cut above at Deutsche Bank Championship

Nation & World

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American Diana Nyad walked to dry sand Monday after becoming the first person to swim from Cuba to Key West, Fla., without a shark cage.

Sharks, current, jellyfish no match for Diana Nyad

The 64-year-old American became the first person to swim from Cuba to Key West, Fla., without a shark cage.

Boston mayoral race

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Martin Walsh at a senior services center.

Early struggles gave Martin Walsh a solid underpinning

The mayoral candidate says he has yet to have a bad day on the trail. Alcoholism, bullets, and cancer can give a man perspective.

Business

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Quantia’s chief executive Mike Coyne

Maker of software for online MD talks raises $10m more

Waltham company Quantia Inc. planned to announce Tuesday that it has raised $10 million to help market its latest service.

Arts

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Oprah’s 2012 interview with Bobbi Kristina Brown drew 3 million viewers, a sign of the fledgling channel’s turnaround.

Oprah Winfrey revels in OWN profitability, ratings

The Oprah Winfrey Network is in the black for the first time since its rocky start 2½ years ago.

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As summer comes to an end, we take a look at a summer retreat visited by both the philosophers and the frolicker.

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Sharks Inc.
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Daniel Nava, the long shot
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Ideas

“Cities have become the main source of fresh thinking about how to solve the world’s problems — and mayors, more than their higher-ranking counterparts in public life, are the ones setting the course.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the rise of mayors as a powerful political force