School bus firm seeks court order to end strike

Boston’s school transportation vendor is seeking an order requiring the city’s school drivers to stop striking and picketing.

Maria De Pina picked up her two children from Holland Elementary School on Tuesday afternoon.

Parents scramble to get children to, from school

For many Boston parents, today turned into a mad dash to get their children to and from school.

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While President Obama said he would only negotiate fiscal issues if the debt ceiling was raised, House Speaker John Boehner insisted the president sit down to talks.

Richard Phillips said the sea captain’s life is his “normal.’’

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A captain’s piracy saga comes to the screen

Captain Richard Phillips said his life is “normal,” even though his rescue from Somali pirates has been made into a movie starring Tom Hanks.

Using light as a connective thread, Birmingham, Ala., turned underutilized structures — such as this railroad underpass — into safe passageways between districts and communities.

Bold light schemes transform cityscapes

Philips Color Kinetics of Burlington, which transformed the Zakim Bridge and Empire State Building, has ignited an increased interest in light as public art.

Frame by Frame

‘Old Man Playing Solitaire,’ by Duane Hanson

The sculpture utterly overwhelms works around it. You don’t quite know what to do about it. Should you call someone? Approach it? Or just stand there, staring?

Jake Peavy.

RED SOX vs. Rays | Game 4, 8:37 p.m.

Jake Peavy set to try to close out Rays

“I want the ball and I’m going to do everything I can to get us the win,” Peavy said of his start in Game 4.

Opinion

Farah stockman

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The ultrasconservative Club for Growth has played a role in seeing that uncompromising Republicans are elected to Congress.

Globe exclusives

The Quencher is one of the last blue-collar watering holes in Southie.

Kevin Cullen

Last call for Quencher Tavern
Donnie Wahlberg standing in Copley Square in the new FiOS commercial.

Wahlberg FiOS ad missing one thing: FiOS in Boston
The Rays capitalized on mistakes by Clay Buchholz, left, and the Red Sox to claim a win in Game 3.

Dan Shaughnessy

Hopefully just a hiccup for Red Sox

Jonathan Ramos attended a candlelight vigil last month marking the death of his cousin Jorge Fuentes.

Slaying galvanizes Episcopal Church

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Your Town by the Numbers
Westfield State University president Evan Dobelle.

Patrick supports Westfield State funding freeze

“I think a few people might look at me and almost not believe what I say,” writes Elizabeth Smart about not having psychological wounds from her kidnapping and months of abuse.

Book Review

‘My Story’ by Elizabeth Smart and Chris Stewart
“We didn’t expect it to all take off like this,’’ says Susan McKendry of Brookline (with husband Joe), at Boston Children’s Hospital with a Mo Willems illustration for their online and outdoor benefit auction this month on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway.

Kids book illustrators donate their art to healing

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Why you can’t stop checking your phone
Eric Coldwell and his children, Thomas and Chloe, played with their 1-year-old pit bull mix in Weymouth.

Pit bull adoptions reflect new image
A programmer grabbed some sleep during Sunday’s 36-hour HackMIT competition at MIT’s Johnson Athletic Center in Cambridge.

Students joust for MIT hacking title
Braylon O’Neill, 4, tried dribbling a soccer ball with a new pair of prosthetic legs in Boston Sunday.

New strides for amputees

Sports

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Rob Gronkowski

Reports: Rob Gronkowski closer to being cleared

While the Patriots tight end could be cleared to play this week, he’s still not certain to play on Sunday vs. the Saints.

Boston mayoral race

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Martin Walsh (left) and John Connolly shook hands last week in Boston.

Mayoral candidates condemn bus strike

John Connolly and Martin Walsh wasted no time condemning the strike that disrupted the day for the city’s 58,000 public school students.

Metro

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Jared Remy is accused of murdering his 27-year-old Jennifer Martel.

Jared Remy pleads not guilty in girlfriend’s killing

Remy, who is accused of murdering 27-year-old Jennifer Martel, was ordered held without bail.

Columnists

Koji Uehara is hunched over after the Rays’ Jose Lobaton hit a walkoff solo home run off him in the ninth inning.

Christopher L. Gasper

Doubts emerge around Koji Uehara now

Boston Capital

Hatsopoulos brothers powering tech company

JAMES CARROLL

In N.Y., Capitol: The ecstasy of destruction
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz issued a “respectful request” for customers to stop bringing guns into his company’s coffee shops.

JEFF JACOBY

A cup of civility

The Quencher is one of the last blue-collar watering holes in Southie.

Kevin Cullen

Last call for Quencher Tavern
Noted cookbook author Marcella Hazan took a break from cooking, as her husband Victor walked by and lovingly brushed against her.

JOANNA WEISS

A winning recipe
QB Tom Brady walks off the field looking at his throwing hand after tossing a late INT to the Bengals’ Adam Jones.

Christopher L. Gasper

Tom Brady rues defeat, not end of his streak
The Rays capitalized on mistakes by Clay Buchholz, left, and the Red Sox to claim a win in Game 3.

Dan Shaughnessy

Hopefully just a hiccup for Red Sox

Scott Brown spoke at a dinner event in Nashua, N.H., in April.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Scott Brown’s 15 minutes of fame are up

Derrick Z. Jackson

The vanishing monarch butterfly

Christopher L. Gasper

Jonny Gomes really got them going

Yvonne Abraham

Some joy and trepidation

Nation & World

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Francois Englert of Belgium (left) and Peter Higgs of Britain won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their theoretical discoveries on how subatomic particles acquire mass.

Two win Nobel prize in physics for work on ‘God particle’

The discoveries by Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain were key to explaining the origins of the universe.

Business

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Traders worksedon the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.

Dow falls 159 points as standoff over debt limit continues

he stock market is closing sharply lower as budget gridlock in Washington brings the US closer to a default on its debt.

Arts

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“We didn’t expect it to all take off like this,’’ says Susan McKendry of Brookline (with husband Joe), at Boston Children’s Hospital with a Mo Willems illustration for their online and outdoor benefit auction this month on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway.

Kids book illustrators donate their art to healing

Moved by a desire to help after the Marathon bombings, dozens of artists have contributed their work to benefit Boston Children’s Hospital.

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The Franklin Park zoo opened on Oct 3, 1912, to the delight of thousands, and has undergone several changes in the years since.

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Into the woods
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Becoming Bostonian
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Do we still trust Bill Belichick?
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Beauty of the bottle

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“Texting and driving is unlike any public safety issue we’ve dealt with before....At the center of the problem, say experts, is a new kind of object — the modern smartphone — that’s changing our behavior on a massive scale.”

Leon Neyfakh on our cellphone habit