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Teen accused of killing teacher at Danvers High School

Police have a 14-year-old boy in custody after a high school teacher, 24, was found in the woods early this morning.

Slain teacher’s social media presence was fun, friendly

Colleen Ritzer, a 24-year-old math teacher found murdered near Danvers High School, often kept in touch with her students through social media.

Singing

Opinion | Geoff Edgers

Please, banish ‘Sweet Caroline’

Singing the Neil Diamond song has been a tradition at Fenway for more than a decade. But the time has come to end it.

Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina, left, shared a laugh with Red Sox assistant hitting coach Victor Rodriguez on Tuesday.

Dan Shaughnessy

This World Series needs some villains

The Cardinals and Red Sox have too many nice things to say about each other. Doesn’t this series deserve some controversy?

Poll finds Connolly clinging to narrow lead over Walsh

The new poll shows John Connolly leading Martin Walsh, 41 percent to 39 percent, in Boston’s mayoral race.

John Connolly and Martin Walsh appeared in their second debate of the general election.

JOANNA WEISS

John Connolly’s night during debate

Connolly scored a few points in Tuesday’s mayoral debate as he questioned Martin Walsh’s relationship with labor unions.

Ohio man gets 6½ years in fatal crash after online confession

The 22-year-old man had confessed in an online video to causing a fatal wrong-way crash after a night of heavy drinking.

White House aide fired over Twitter account

National security official Jofi Joseph ran a Twitter account that was harshly critical of the Obama administration.

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This year’s Red Sox have embodied the way sport can bring together a community sundered by disaster.

Opinion

SCOT LEHIGH

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/10/23/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/lehigh-2994.jpg The Tea Party boomerangs on the GOP

Republican leaders are now having to deal with the Tea Party’s absolutism after being timid for too long.

Globe exclusives

In one of Sophie Calle’s images for “Last Seen,” a man looks at the space where a Rembrandt once hung at the Gardner.

Gardner exhibit adds perspective to thefts
Clockwise from top left, Tom Vasic of Adelaide, Australia; Peter Rice of Falls Church, Va.; Tom Good, a Maine native; and Brian Eschler of Colorado show off their Sox pride.

Red Sox fans bond over their beards
Chef-owner Tim Maslow.

Dining out

His own place on his own terms

Working with a tight five-piece band, John Legend has the gift of being smooth without ever seeming overly slick.

Music Review

Legend wraps his audience in warm embrace
Taquitos Cancun at Cancun Taqueria on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge.

Cheap Eats

Basement taqueria rises to the occasion
Aaron Williams’s “Construction,” currently on display at LaMontagne Gallery.

GALLERIES

A 21st-century ode to abstract expressionism
Roger Ahlfeld began his new position as vice president of human resources at Tedeschi Food Stores late last month.

Long job search finally ends
Worcester broke ground on the 20-acre, $565 milion CitySquare project in 2010.

Opinion | PAUL MCMORROW

Worcester’s downtown vision
The Red Sox dwelled in the bottom of the AL East in Bobby Valentine’s 2012 tenure.

on baseball

Bobby Valentine has praise for John Farrell’s Red Sox

Kevin Cullen

Speaking for a dead sister
Lila McCain, mother of Karen Douglas, spoke to the Newton school community about her daughter at a forum on suicide. At left, Larry Berkowitz and Joanna Bridger of the Riverside Trauma Center.

Newton parents discuss teen suicide
Mike Napoli set a team record for strikeouts but he was a major part of the offense.

Red Sox love working the count

World Series

David Ortiz relishes being center of Red Sox

Irrepressible off the field and irreplaceable on it, the longest-tenured member of the Red Sox remains the team’s heart and soul.

Sports

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The Patriots struggled on first down on Sunday, Damon Harrison and Jets bringing down Tom Brady three times in the third quarter alone.

Blueprint to beating the Patriots now created

The Bengals and Jets have showed the NFL that running the ball, being patient in the passing game, and pressured Tom Brady can lead to wins.

Boston mayoral race

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John R. Connolly (left) pounced on the mailed political ads against him. Martin J. Walsh said he’s asked for them to stop.

Mayoral rivals clash on labor in second debate

John Connolly sought to use attacks against him from organized labor to frame the fundamental difference between him and Martin Walsh.

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Police gathered outside Fenway Park as the Red Sox took on the Detroit Tigers last weekend. Officers are planning to use social media to warn fans to stay away from the Kenmore Square area should celebrations become too raucous.

Police to focus on security during World Series

Hundreds of officers will patrol the Fenway Park area, and technicians will search for explosives.

Columnists

After building a Vegas empire, Sheldon Adelson bet big on gambling in Asia, propelling him to number 11 on the Forbes list of the richest Americans.

Shirley Leung

Sheldon, we really need you now
Xander Bogaerts is expected to start at third base for the Red Sox in the World Series.

Christopher L. Gasper

Xander Bogaerts settling in for a long stay
Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina, left, shared a laugh with Red Sox assistant hitting coach Victor Rodriguez on Tuesday.

Dan Shaughnessy

This World Series needs some villains

Adrian Walker

A full deck? Hardly
John Connolly and Martin Walsh appeared in their second debate of the general election.

JOANNA WEISS

Connolly’s night during debate
Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III prepared for a game against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sept. 9.

JEFF JACOBY

Manufactured indignation

Boston Capital

A door worth walking through

JAMES CARROLL

The deeper meaning of recycling

Adrian Walker

Endorse an end to endorsing
Even while in hospice care, former governor Paul Cellucci worked to help others.

Yvonne Abraham

Until the end, Cellucci wanted to serve
Shane Victorino (and most of Fenway Park) celebrated his 7th-inning grand slam, which gave the Red Sox a 5-2 lead over the Tigers.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox soar into World Series

Farah Stockman

A better way to tackle health law

Nation & World

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The Vatican didn’t say how long Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst would spend away from the diocese of Limburg.

Pope expels German ‘luxury bishop’ from diocese

Pope Francis temporarily expelled a German bishop from his diocese because of a scandal over a 31-million-euro project to build a new residence complex.

Business

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At the Hotel Commonwealth, workers painted a wall at the front desk green to resemble Fenway Park’s Green Monster and baseballs took the place of flowers in the vases.

Hotel prices skyrocket as World Series opens

Hotels in Boston are usually stretched to capacity in October. Add the Series, and you have a sold-out market.

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Book Review

Margaret Drabble.

‘The Pure Gold Baby’ by Margaret Drabble

The book succeeds as both a social critique and a sensitive view of the agonies and joys of raising disabled children.

Special section

Museums Special

A look at what New England museums have to offer, including high-tech changes at Harvard’s Semitic Museum, directors’ favorites, and odd attractions.

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At a time when partisan politics has led to government gridlock, the ambitious series explains how we got here and what needs to be done to repair the damage.

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The cover for the October 20 2013 issue

David Keith hopes we don’t have to use his ideas to reverse global warming
The cover for the October 13 2013 issue

Why is it so hard to find a doctor?
The cover for the October 6 2013 issue

Into the woods
The cover for the September 29 2013 issue

Becoming Bostonian

Ideas

“In a country where heroic leadership has become almost synonymous with ambition, researchers are offering up a surprising truth: The bold, charismatic leaders we idolize may be the last people we really want in charge.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the myth of the heroic leader