Martin Walsh offers plan to dismantle BRA

The mayoral candidate said a new agency must be created to make development more accountable to the city’s residents and businesses.

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Attorney General Martha Coakley said disgraced state chemist Annie Dookhan mishandled drug evidence with “no regard for the consequences.”

President Obama said the government shutdown and fight over the debt ceiling damaged America’s credibility around the world.

Shutdown over, Obama pares down agenda

President Obama challenged Congress to overcome bitter partisan division and pass a budget and a farm bill, and overhaul immigration.

Acadia National Park ranger Tara Harbert worked at visitors center on Thursday.

After 16-day shutdown, federal workers return

Thousands of furloughed federal workers — relieved but wary — returned to work across the country Thursday.

Shawn LaCount (pictured) and Summer L. Williams found Company One 15 years ago with a half-dozen other Clark University graduates.

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Company One: From upstart to mainstay

Company One has somehow managed not just to beat the steep odds against survival that face any small troupe but also to establish itself as a home for must-see theater.

Xander Bogaerts will be the youngest player to start a postseason game for the Red Sox since Babe Ruth.

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Red Sox to start Bogaerts at third base

Xander Bogaerts will be the youngest player to start a postseason game for the Red Sox since Babe Ruth in 1916.

The Dmanisi early Homo skull.

Ancient skull challenges understanding of human evolution

A 1.8-million-year-old skull bolsters the argument that scholars underestimated the natural diversity within a single species of early humans.

Benedict Cumberbatch as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in “The Fifth Estate.”

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Inside WikiLeaks with ‘The Fifth Estate’

The script, built blatantly on the bones of “The Social Network,” tries to dramatize the story’s ideas but instead turns them into simplistic Power Point bullets.

Opinion

JOAN VENNOCHI

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High-priced union contracts are easy to criticize, but tax breaks for businesses often don’t get much negative response.

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Oct. 22, 1978: Malcolm Logan cheered boats on from the Larz Anderson Bridge. The Weld Boathouse can be seen to the right. This boathouse is home to Harvard’s rowing, boating, and crew teams.

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Rob Gronkowski was at practice with the Patriots on Wednesday.

Agent: No way to know when Rob Gronkowski returns
Red Sox shortstop Stephen Drew sports an all-too-familiar expression to Boston fans after striking out in the sixth inning.

Slumping Red Sox look to ignite offense
David and Beth Henneberry, with the trailer for their new boat, in Watertown.

Boat owner tells story of Tsarnaev capture
Red Sox infielders gathered during a pitching change in the fourth inning of Game 4.

Dan Shaughnessy

Sox’ chances depend on your perspective
The new Galaxy Gear watch (left) won’t work without Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 phone.

Tech Lab

Time’s up for Samsung smartwatch
Almost two-thirds of the faculty and librarians at Westfield State voted no confidence in Evan Dobelle on Wednesday.

Dobelle placed on leave; probe set
Michelle (left) and Shannon Dutra, 27, are hoping the driver of the car that struck and killed their father, Michael Dutra, last Friday as he was riding his bicycle will step forward.

Middleborough family wants answers in bicyclist’s death
Amateur beer-makers use the copper-jacketed kettles at Hopster’s in Newton to make their own brews.

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Brew your own sites sprouting

For her Indigo Project solo exhibition, textile artist Ifé Franklin (pictured) has created an 8-foot slave cabin in patchwork adire (“tie and dye”) at Medicine Wheel’s Spoke Gallery in South Boston.

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Ifé Franklin honors those who were enslaved
“Our Boston” is at its best when the stories focus on the Marathon bombings instead of the nostalgia of the city.

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‘Our Boston’
Shayanna Jenkins, fiancee of former New England Patriots' Aaron Hernandez, appeared in superior court in Fall River.

Hernandez’s fiancee accused of destroying evidence

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Aqib Talib was suffered a hip injury in Sunday’s game against the Saints.

Amendola, Talib miss practice

Danny Amendola and Aqib Talib missed practice again this week, but offensive lineman Dan Connolly was upgraded to limited.

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John Connolly taught for two years at a Jesuit-run school in Lower Manhattan after he graduated from college.

Connolly calls his 3 years as a teacher a vital qualification

Though there’s a grumbling backlash to mayoral candidate John Connolly leaning on his experience, he says it makes him unique.

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Cardinal Sean O’Malley.

O’Malley meets with lawmakers

Today’s meeting was Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s first with rank-and-file state lawmakers since he was named Boston archbishop in 2003.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

Who connects the best?
The pope drives this used, manual-shift, 1984 Renault 4 around the Vatican grounds.

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The pope’s freedom

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Too much hot air at town meetings
John Connolly, left, and Martin Walsh met Tuesday in their first debate of the general election campaign.

SCOT LEHIGH

Edge to Connolly

JOAN VENNOCHI

Walsh shows his humanity

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You need a license to dance in Boston

adrian walker

Give Dobelle the boot

Shirley Leung

Emerging from the crowd

Boston Capital

No end in sight for biotech bubble

Kevin Cullen

Holiday salute for local heroes
The picture that says it all.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Red Sox’ comeback now has iconic image
David Ortiz addressed fans during an April pregame ceremony honoring the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.

JAMES CARROLL

‘B-Strong’ for democracy as well as security

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Jeh Johnson, a former Pentagon lawyer, must be confirmed by the Senate before taking over the post most recently held by Janet Napolitano.

Obama to nominate Jeh Johnson to head Homeland Security

Johnson, a former Pentagon lawyer, must be confirmed by the Senate before taking over the post most recently held by Janet Napolitano.

Business

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Martha Coakley’s office said the move would ease premiums for some.

Proposed legislation tries to cap flood insurance costs

Under the proposed legislation, lenders wouldn’t be allowed to require homeowners purchase flood insurance for more than their outstanding mortgage balance.

Style

Bargain Bin

Sale Taylor-made for chair fans

Ami Albernaz’s weekly roundup of bargains includes Kartell’s semiannual sale.

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“Our Boston” is at its best when the stories focus on the Marathon bombings instead of the nostalgia of the city.

‘Our Boston: Writers Celebrate the City They Love’

This fat collection is at its best when the stories focus on the Marathon bombings instead of the nostalgia of the city.

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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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The words “home economics” likely conjure visions of future homemakers quietly whisking white sauce or stitching rickrack onto an apron. But to a handful of people thinking big about these problems, they evoke something different: A forward-thinking new kind of class that would give a generation of young people. . .the skills to shop intelligently, cook healthily, manage money, and live well.

Ruth Graham