Towns try to stop wave of heroin overdoses

Stoughton, Brockton, and Yarmouth have had a string of overdoses lately, but no one knows why the cheap drug is so lethal right now.

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The Red Sox, who have the best record in the American League, changed their roster and team chemistry, and the mix has been successful.

Tech Lab

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A continued search for spy-proof Internet services.

Kevin Cullen

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At the federal courthouse, Whitey Bulger’s title as scam artist of the century was challenged by Michael E. McLaughlin.

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Dick Hoyt, center, and Rick Hoyt, right, accept the Jimmy V Perseverance Award from presenter Ben Affleck, left, at the ESPY Awards on Wednesday.

Hoyts receive ESPY honor

The award was given to father and son Dick and Rick Hoyt by Ben Affleck.

Clover began with a single truck near MIT. At right is owner Ayr Muir.

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Clover restaurant’s lapses preceded outbreak

The Clover CEO acknowledged there were food safety practices with which they “could do a lot better.”

Disgust, outrage greet news of cover in Boston

MBTA Transit Police Officer Richard Donohue, shot in a confrontation with the Tsarnaevs, said the cover was “thoughtless at best.”

Ty Burr

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The text dutifully calls him a monster, but there’s nothing that visually contravenes the notion that he’s a star.

Yvonne Abraham

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Only a pinhead would see the cover and think, ”Oh, I thought this guy was a monster, but since he looks so hot right here, I guess he’s OK.”

Opinion

LAWRENCE HARMON

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State Representative Martin Walsh, who is a candidate for Boston mayor and a recovering alcoholic, has received help in his campaign from addicts, many of whom he has aided.

Globe exclusives

From left: Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, and Catherine Zeta-Jones in “RED 2.”

Movie Review

In ‘RED 2,’ aging violently
Randolph Engineering’s high-end shades got a big lift when they were featured in the first three seasons of “Mad Men” — that’s actor Jon Hamm (far right) wearing a pair.

Hollywood finds local sunglass company
Dr. Jeanne Lawrence, a professor at UMass Medical School, has discovered a way to silence the extra chromosome in Down Syndrome.

Scientists hit at core of Down Syndrome
Michael E. McLaughlin (right), former head of the Chelsea Housing Authority, left federal court with his lawyer, Thomas M. Hoopes, after being sentenced.

Ex-Chelsea housing chief gets three years
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An artist’s rendering of a collision between two neutron stars, which generates heavy elements such as gold.

Gold born in collisions between two stars, researchers say
President Obama played the links with his longtime Chicago friend, Eric Whitaker, at Mink Meadows Golf Club.

For Obamas, Vineyard has attraction
Craft beer maker Harpoon has installed a custom-made production line that can produce 250 cans a minute at its South Boston brewery.

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The comeback can
Sen. Edward Markey was sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden in the Old Senate Chamber at the Capitol in Washington Tuesday.

Markey not on climate committee
Beth Boggs (right), her son, Christopher, and her mother, Anne Thompson, are among the longtime customers sad to see the last Brigham’s ice cream parlors closing.

Last call for Brigham’s shops
US Attorney General Eric Holder spoke during a naturalization ceremony at the Department of Justice in May.

Immigration judges push for independence
A rendering of The Point in the Fenway. The tower would include 320 residences and retail.

BRA OK’s more than 1,100 homes

Sports

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Lee Westwood is still looking for his first career major championship.

Lee Westwood hopes it’s finally his time

He’s north of 40 now, with accomplishments that would make most of his peers salivate. But Lee Westwood has never won a major.

Metro

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After work, head baker Aldo Parziale of Parziale’s Bakery will go home and take “a really long cold shower.”

‘They open the oven, it’s like I get slapped in the face’

For those who work in the large ovens in North End bakeries, feeling the heat takes on new meaning.

Columnists

JOANNA WEISS

Small budget, big bite

LAWRENCE HARMON

Recovering addicts stand behind Walsh

Kevin Cullen

My scam’s better than your scam

Yvonne Abraham

The Rolling Stone cover image can’t hurt us

Tech Lab

For privacy lovers, the right type of software

Adrian Walker

Support, just not in Newton
Governor Patrick is critical of efforts to rein in some of his sweeping proposals.

SCOT LEHIGH

Governor Patrick is on his high horse

Yvonne Abraham

Evil knows no social bounds

Kevin Cullen

Trying our patience
John Farrell argues with Todd Tichenor after the umpire awarded Yoenis Cespedes second base in the 10th.

Dan Shaughnessy

John Farrell the right man for the job
Electronic cigarettes are gaining popularity amid a big push by tobacco companies, but their long-term health effects are still unknown.

derrick z. jackson

E-cigarettes: the new fracking
Marissa Alexander of Florida received a 20-year prison sentence for firing a warning shot at her abusive ex-husband.

Farah Stockman

Florida’s unjust gun laws

Nation & World

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Margaretta Wolf stood her ground; a man with a knife grew flustered and fled.

Elderly grocery store owner refuses robber

Margaretta Wolf, 96, would not turn over her cash to the armed intruder after he ordered her to open the cash register at the store she has owned for 54 years.

Politics

Representative Jim Sensenbrenner (right) questioned witnesses from the NSA, FBI, Justice Department, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence Wednesday.

Congress expresses anger over NSA surveillance program

In a heated confrontation over domestic spying, members of Congress said they never intended to allow the National Security Agency to build a database of every phone call in America.

Business

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Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke discussed the Fed’s monetary policy on Capitol Hill before the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday.

Fed chief committed to continue stimulus plan

Federal Reserve’s chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed remained committed to bolstering the economy.

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Movie Review

Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson star as paranormal investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren in “The Conjuring.”

And you thought Amityville had a horror . . .

Gorehounds will gnash their teeth in disappointment at “The Conjuring,” a trim haunted-house spook show from the director of the original “Saw.”

Style

Bona Clara founder Jasmina Aganovic in her Boston office.

MIT grad markets her Bona Clara skin-care line

Think of 26-year-old Jasmina Aganovic, who is head of a skin care company Bona Clara, as a 21st-century Mary Kay.

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Ideas

“Somewhere in America, a chimpanzee is about to have its day in court. Its lawyers hope to have the animal declared a ‘person’ in a court of law.”

Chris Berdik,  on the “animal personhood” movement