State and towns looking at tapping into hydropower

Ken Egnaczak sat on a wall by the small backyard dam that he is trying to get approval to repower.

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As the state seeks new, clean sources of energy, there?s a growing call to tap into the potential power of many of the state?s nearly 3,000 unused dams.

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Authorities evacuated the stadium minutes before the game was set to start and conducted an explosion of the package.

Oxycodone pain pills prescribed for a patient with chronic pain. On March 15, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced guidelines for doctors to reduce the amount of opioid painkillers prescribed.

The untold cost of the opiate epidemic: elder abuse

Reports of suspected elder abuse in Massachusetts have surged over the past five years, according to state figures.

Rainer Weiss, at his home in Newton, is a professor emeritus at MIT, where he still works six days a week.

Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff

The life?s work that proved Einstein right

An MIT scientist?s 50-year obsession led to the first detection of gravitational waves from the collision of black holes.

Tremayne Ellison took part in a tailoring class at the South Bay Correctional Facility.

Jonathan Wiggs/Globe staff

A drive to rethink what incarceration is for

The South Bay House of Correction reflects moving attitudes toward drug abuse and drug-related crimes.

Springfield teen dies after being run over, dragged 300 feet

A Springfield teenager who was lying in the street died after he was run over and dragged early Saturday.

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Mourners gathered in Grace Chapel to remember Allison Warmuth, recalling her contagious smile.

Medford, MA - 3/15/2016 - Steve Wynn laughed after learning that his people had not invited Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone to a meeting of local mayors to view the plans for the proposed Everett casino after a reporter asked him if Curtatone was in attendance during a press conference in Medford, MA March 15, 2016. Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff Topic: 16wynn Reporter:

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Game Changers

Wynning! One casino magnate has had very good years.

With his $2 billion casino gamble, Steve Wynn took on two Boston mayors and won.

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Interviews with those who have known him say there is a jarring juxtaposition between the Trump they know and the Trump on TV.

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DANTE RAMOS

Trump, Silber, and political earthquakes that peter out

In 1990, John Silber?s primary upset gave Massachusetts Democrats a nominee most party leaders didn?t want. So what does that mean for Donald Trump?

Boston, MA - 05/14/16 - (4th inning) Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Clay Buchholz (11) fires to first base to hold the runner during the fourth inning. The Boston Red Sox take on the Houston Astros in Game 3 of a four game series at Fenway Park. - (Barry Chin/Globe Staff), Section: Sports, Reporter: Peter Abraham, Topic: 15Sox Astros, LOID: 8.2.2933426785.

Nick Cafardo | On baseball

In Ortiz?s farewell season, he?s not the one who should go

At some point, the Red Sox brass is going to have to have a conversation about dealing Buchholz.

NFL football player Rob Gronkowski arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California February 28, 2016. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok

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CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

Rob Gronkowski?s brand is his business

The prominent Patriot is simply seizing the moment and the market.

Eugene O?Neill (left) and John Reed.

Summer Arts Preview

Looking at the beginnings of bohemian P-town

A show at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum looks at the town 100 years ago.

kevin cullen

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After a fire, Marilyn Dalsan is finding that many of the working poor can?t afford to live in the city.

Taxi driver John Consterdine.

travel

Something Uber doesn?t offer

The reservoir of information cabbies amass in their jobs is one of the ways they?re battling, worldwide, against the likes of Lyft and Uber.

This illustration shows an imagined view from the surface of one of the three planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth.

Brainiac

On the hunt for Planet Nine

Astronomers are trying to understand the likely existence of a massive undiscovered planet.

Ground Game

Capital

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/05/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/hassan.jpg The N.H. race that no one is talking about

There are a few reasons why this highly competitive race has flown under the radar.

The Big Picture

Avian adventures

Photographers around the world have been documenting birds during this busy time of year migrating, building, defending and hatching.

Globe investigations

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More than 200 victims. At least 90 legal claims. At least 67 private schools in New England. This is the story of hundreds of students sexually abused by staffers, and emerging from decades of silence today.