The man accused of shooting a Boston police officer in the face at point-blank range had a ?violent criminal past,? officials said.
Kevin Cullen
Three strikes and he was out on streets againAngelo West knew the gun he was carrying was a ticket back to jail, and he wasn?t going out like that.
Those who served under John Moynihan said he always worked shoulder to shoulder with his soldiers and wasn?t afraid of action.
SEAMUS MURPHY FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
A May 22 vote could make the deeply Catholic nation first in the world to approve a national popular referendum on same-sex marriage.
After closing mysteriously earlier this month, the eatery will reopen just in time for the Red Sox home opener.
Police responded to a 911 call Saturday reporting a deceased woman in a Bedford home and found three people dead inside.
The e-mails included a seemingly mocking attitude toward a crime victim, raising doubts about the former prosecutor?s integrity.
Boston police officers fired a beanbag round to disarm the woman without injury and apprehend her, officials said.
Chris Council for The Boston Globe
The chasm between the super-rich and the working poor is widely seen as the greatest division in America. Yet there is no political consensus on what to do.
Alex Speier
The injury to Christian Vazquez has left the Sox in no position to trade Swihart.
Authorities have not ruled out the possibility that the vision problem could have been psychosomatic, a source said.
A video of the Patriots quarterback jumping off a cliff while on vacation was posted on his Facebook page.
?If you see a candidate embraced by Washington, run and hide,? the Texas senator said while stumping in N.H. on Saturday.
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Travel
Visitors to this ancient mountainous country feel as though they are traveling back in time.
To the hunting, fishing, and camping crowd, it is a holy grail, its arrival here as thrilling to them as Wegman?s was to foodies.
home of the week
If this upper-level condo in this towering early-20th-century home needed a theme song, it would be ?Let the Sunshine In.??
The interactive, $78 million Edward Kennedy Institute is devoted to selling visitors on Kennedy?s belief in the power of public service.
Episode 13: How the Marathon bombs were builtThis interactive timeline highlights trial coverage and a podcast featuring Globe columnist Kevin Cullen and WBUR reporter David Boeri.
Michael A. Cohen
A Ted Cruz loss would help GOP recoverThe simple fact of the matter is that the modern Republican Party has gone off the deep end.
Anees Mahyoub/Reuters
Militants of the Islamic State claimed responsibility of a horrific attack on Shi?ite mosques in Yemen last week.
A look at allegations of steroid use and drug testing that have revolved around David Ortiz.
Despite Mayor Walsh promising a shelter for those displaced from Long Island by April, the site remains a construction zone.
Two banks reportedly decided to halt contributions to Senate Democrats unless Warren and Sherrod Brown tone down their rhetoric.
The Hasidic sect has become the fastest-growing Jewish movement in the state.
The second-ranking negotiators for the US and Iran both spent time at MIT in the 1970s.
Plame, a former CIA covert operations officer, will serve on the advisory board of Boston-based Starling Trust Sciences.
The second ?Bob?s Burgers Live? tour hits the Orpheum, with stand-up sets from its cast, table reads, and an audience Q&A.
We asked nutritionists from some of Boston?s leading dietary research centers to help us pin down the facts. Take the quiz and test your vitamin knowledge.
The Globe Book Club?s latest pick is ?The Grief of Others?Leah Hager Cohen?s powerful, deeply affecting novel is now a movie, directed by Patrick Wang.
Ideas
Sri Lanka?s pivot to India breaks China?s dreamsThe new regime seeks to improve the relationship with India without losing China?s friendship.
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