Market Basket impasse remains as deadline looms

Arthur T. Demoulas offered to return to work as negotiations continue in an apparent attempt to avoid an ugly showdown between executives and thousands of employees.

Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington attended a press conference after Thursday?s trades.

How the Red Sox trades happened

Over 11 hours, the team would make an extraordinary series of moves that amounted to one of the biggest upheavals in its history.

Nick Cafardo/On baseball

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Buchholz blew two three-run leads, threw 114 pitches and allowed five walks in five innings.

Timm and Jennifer Runnion have adopted Isilie, now 2, but cannot bring her home from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

US parents wait a hemisphere away for their children

A Mass. family is among those affected as Congo has denied exit visas for hundreds of orphans adopted by Americans.

Mickey Martin of the Northeastern Institute of Cannabis in Natick said there is a dire need to educate workers.

Cannabis institutes aim to train workers, patients

Mickey Martin, founder of the Northeastern Institute of Cannabis, said he wants to be the ?hub of the industry in New England.?

UMass scientists demonstrated a machine that prints nanotechnology used in body sensors to measure stress in military personnel.

UMass scientists working on patch that measures stress

The sensor will try to gauge stress and fatigue among armed service personnel.

Beaches with a history of high bacteria counts, such as Wollaston in Quincy, would be closed more often if Massachusetts applies the new standard.

New EPA rules could lead to more beach closures

The federal guidelines could result in more red flags to alert swimmers to unsafe conditions.

City program is slow to collect repayments

Nearly half the loans issued by the small-business lending arm of the BRA are seriously delinquent.

Opinion

JAMES CARROLL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/08/04/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/james_carroll_150px-1749.png The next nuclear age is too close

The world?s precarious balance is threatened above all by the new belligerence of Russia?s president.

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