Can Somerville update its square zoning code?

The city?s set of regulations are not quite as ?hip? as Somerville?s reputation.

SJC denies new trial for convicted killer in 1986 double murder

The defendant argued he was due a new trial, claiming DNA evidence might exonerate him in one of the county?s oldest active homicide cases.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/08/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/2016-09-08T141314Z_620150574_D1BEUADAYSAA_RTRMADP_3_USA-ELECTION-CLINTON.jpg Hillary Clinton calls for killing ISIS leader

The Democratic nominee said the US should hunt down the leader of ISIS just as it tracked down Osama bin Laden.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/08/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/1b809515516241f2ba9adfc6d3b7db81-f30b306e12754ce78b68ba9a9261cbd6-0-385-kbP--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg ?What is Aleppo?? Gary Johnson asks

Johnson was asked on MSNBC?s ?Morning Joe? what he would do as president about the Syrian city.

Cody's towing works on this work van, that was carrying six passengers, that rolled over multiple times, causing the death of one passenger and seriously injuring the other 5, which were all taken to four different area hospitals on September 8, 2016. Seat belts were not worn. The accident happened on Route 495 north, near exit 53 in Merrimack. The investigation is still under way and the identity is being held till next of kin has been notified. Mark Lorenz for the Boston Globe

Mark Lorenz for The Boston Globe

1 killed, 5 injured after van rolls over on I-495

A van crashed into the median strip and rolled over in the northbound lanes near Exit 53.

Primary day in Mass.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/08/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/FullSizeRender%20(4)-11831.jpg Mass. voters head to the polls for an unusual primary election

Voters will pick candidates in party contests for members of Congress, state legislators, governor?s councilors, county sheriffs, registers of deeds, and more.

Yvonne Abraham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/07/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/abraham-11948.jpg These primaries do matter

Even though the contests on this anemic ballot don?t seem super sexy, some of them kind of are.

ELECTION GUIDE

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/06/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/AP607482241698.jpg Everything you need to know about Thursday?s primary elections

Yes, you read that right, it?s today ? voters statewide are going to the polls to cast ballots in a number of races. Here?s your guide.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/08/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/alpine200.jpg West Texas schools on lockdown as police respond to possible shooting

The Texas Department of Public Safety said someone brought a gun onto a high school campus.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/02/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/frank%20crop.jpg ?Cadillac Frank? heads to federal court

Former Mafia boss Francis Salemme will be arraigned on charges in the 1993 death of South Boston nightclub owner Steven DiSarro.

8/31/2016 - Boston, MA - Yogi Rebecca Pacheco discusses the paperback release of her book Do Your Om Thing, about making yoga fit your modern life. Topic: PachecoYoga. Story by Kara Baskin/Globe Correspondent. Dina Rudick/Globe Staff.

Dina Rudick/Globe Staff

Making yoga fit your modern, messy life

Are you intimidated by yoga? Do you think it?s reserved for bendy, Lululemon-clad swans? Then Rebecca Pacheco is your guru.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/08/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/toka1.jpg ?Unique? pair of snapping turtles recovered from pool

One of the hatchlings is albino, and the other is believed to be melanistic.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/08/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/Shakespeare.jpg Allyn Burrows named artistic director at Shakespeare & Company

Burrows currently serves as the artistic director at the Boston-area Actors? Shakespeare Project.

The latest map from the US Drought Monitor: The area shown in red is suffering an extreme drought, and the dark orange region is under a severe drought.

US Drought Monitor

A tropical storm did little to help our drought

With Hermine largely avoiding the state, Mass. continues to be in the grip of a prolonged drought.

What our critics say

??½ | Movie Review

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/02/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/1.jpg In Norway, don?t mess with snowplow drivers

?In Order of Disappearance? is a Nordic neo-noir with nervous laughs.

Jim McBride

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/07/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/NFLPREVIEWWEB-9712.jpg The Glossary of Winning

In the NFL, the Patriots are the definition of the word ?winning,? but a few other words also illustrate their success.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/08/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/b4a2bcd76b67403fa015f15a1e43d8ff-b4a2bcd76b67403fa015f15a1e43d8ff-0.jpg Tim Tebow gets his wish to be a pro baseball player

The New York Mets announced Thursday they signed the former football player to a minor-league deal.

Perspective | Globe Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/31/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/perspective0911mag.jpg Security is better since 9/11. And worse.

Juliette Kayyem on the work that will always be left to do.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/AFP_A17NV.jpg Here?s how Airbnb plans to prevent racial bias

After a three-month review of its own operations, the home-sharing company outlined steps it will take to address growing complaints.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/07/BostonGlobe.com/Regional/Images/theken.jpg Gloucester Fresh banks on ocean-to-table appeal

It?s straight out of the water and good for you. What?s not to like?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/07/BostonGlobe.com/Regional/Images/SouthShoreChallenge_11soeaston01_so.jpg That boat heading down the Taunton River was indeed a pumpkin

For the record, there is no existing standard for pumpkin paddling.

Globe investigations

The desperate and the dead

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/29/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/spotlight9090-11856.jpg The broken covenant

Behind the fragmented state of mental health care lies a political system failure that spans decades ? and continues.

The story behind 'Spotlight'

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/11/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/spotlight-9497.jpg Boston Globe coverage and the movie ?Spotlight?

?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

The Big Picture

Globe photos of the month, August 2016

A look at some of the best images by Boston Globe photographers last month.