Family feared son?s suicide before Groton quadruple murder

Orion Krause has pleaded not guilty to four counts of murder.

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Elizabeth Krause called 911, desperate with worry that her son, Orion, might take his own life. The next day, he allegedly killed her, his grandparents, and an aide.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/25/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Clipboard-9453.jpg Pharmacist in NECC meningitis outbreak case acquitted of murder

However, jurors found Glenn Chin guilty on several other charges, including racketeering, conspiracy, and dozens of counts of mail fraud.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/24/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/tai_20160624_nurses_business_10.jpg Beacon Hill health bill pits large hospitals against small ones

Lawmakers want to help community hospitals, but Mass. General and Brigham and Women?s hospitals are sternly objecting.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/25/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/RinaldiLine01.jpg Chance to live in new apartments near North Station draws crowd

Hundreds came just to receive lottery numbers for The Beverly, a new low- and middle-income apartment building set to open next year near North Station.

Carlisle, MA - 10/5/2017 - With his 25-year-old son Jacob Liverman (cq) (partly hidden), chimney sweep Erwin Liverman (cq), 71, cleans three chimney flues on a Carlisle home. From the age of 8, the elder sweep learned the business from his father, Abraham Liverman (cq). His own son helped him from the age of 8 or 9.

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ON THE JOB

You won?t ever find this chimney sweep covered in soot

Sixty years in the trade, Erwin Liverman has embraced modern technology.

NESTOR RAMOS

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/25/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/1c5c1818e4964aa68730e1478f828f3f-1c5c1818e4964aa68730e1478f828f3f-0.jpg A lesson in diplomacy for Scott Brown, the ambassador from N.H. (Or is it Mass.?)

As a politician, Scott Brown?s greatest talent was glad handing. On his first day in Samoa, the ambassador botched even that.

Boston researchers to head $16.6 million effort to ?intercept? cancer

The program by the nonprofit Stand Up To Cancer takes aim at early stage lung and pancreatic cancers.

A White House invite for Gloucester-based police opioid treatment initiative

Leaders of the Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative will be at the White House Thursday for an announcement, officials said.

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President Trump has not only continued to defy doomsayers, but he has shown an ability to actually shape his supporters? views, according to polls.

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City Hall Plaza will be transformed for the second year in a row into a festive, family-friendly holiday market and skating rink for the winter.

Sponsored by Pfizer

Dear Scientist, is there hope I?ll one day live without the pain of sickle cell disease?

Kelsey Taylor has undergone surgery, chemo, and transplants, to no avail. Now, she?s sitting down with a scientist to talk about the future of her disease.

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10/25/2017 Boston Ma - Commuters disembark from a Red Line Train at Downtown Crossing, as the countdown clock shows the time of next train to arrive at Downtown Crossing. (Jonathan Wiggs\Globe Staff) Reporter:Topic.

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Is the MBTA really 90 percent reliable? A consumer group is skeptical

The T says the subway has been at nearly 90 percent reliability over the past month. A consumer group takes issue with how the agency calculated that number.

A woman in Scotland paid just $61 for her flight to Crete ? and ended up getting the plane to herself

A Scottish woman showed up for her flight from Glasgow to Heraklion on Sunday ? and ended up with a private jet ride.

Rabbit leads State Police troopers on a chase on the Zakim Bridge

There?s a new solution for your frustration with Boston traffic: Skip the driving and hop.

Amazon said the delivery person will only just reach or step inside the door to leave a package.

Tech Lab

Amazon wants to get inside your home. Just for a moment or two

Jeff Bezos wants the key to your front door. And based on past performance, quite a few of us will hand it over to him.

LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 27: Rich Hill #44 of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches during the first inning of a game against the San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium on September 27, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Rich Hill savors moments such as starting in the World Series

His baseball career has been a journey of pain and perseverance.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/01/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/802223796.jpg Fenway Park may offer fans their own dugout seats

The Boston Landmarks Commission has approved a new seating area adjacent to the team dugouts.

World Series | Game 2: Astros 7, Dodgers 6 , 11 innings

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/26/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/866465734.jpg Astros even series in extra innings

George Springer belted decisive two-run homer in the 11th to help Houston tie best-of-seven series at one apiece.

The Old North Church opened up a 200-year-old tomb in its crypt as part of preparations for renovating the crypt for tourists.

David L. Ryan/Globe Staff

Old North Church opens 200-year-old tomb

This brick-lined tomb, built in 1808, holds some of the 1,100 bodies buried far beneath one of Boston?s best-known steeples.

Television review

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/23/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/EN-US_ST2_Darkness_3840x2160_Still01.jpg ?Stranger Things? goes deeper in season two

This time around, there?s no pressing catastrophe drowning out the characterizations; the whole show seems to have room to breathe.

Movie Review

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/23/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/021_WS_D27_13382R.jpg ?Wonderstruck? offers more movie magic from the great Todd Haynes

The rhapsodic film is based on the young adult novel by Brian Selznick, who wrote the screenplay.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/25/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Capture.jpg Welcome to 1997: Market Basket (finally) has a website

It?s true: Until this week, the much-loved, Tewksbury-based grocery store chain didn?t have a website for its shoppers.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/25/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Clipboard-9423.jpg A drone accidentally captured a marriage proposal in the Boston Public Garden

As a Tufts senior took aerial photos of the city on Saturday, he unwittingly captured the proposal ? and then went on a hunt to find the couple.

Love Letters

He ignored me for a day, and I may have overreacted

She responded to his silence with some immature breakup texts. Is there any coming back from it?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/23/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/RED%20SOX%201918-1312187.jpg The national anthem has a long, messy history with sports

The playing of the anthem multiple times in the 1918 World Series generated national headlines and helped cement the relationship between the song and spectator sports.

Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/23/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/katz1029opener.jpg Across Mass., outsider female candidates are taking aim at the political gender gap

Nontraditional candidates are in the running to ?do something? about a broken system.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/09/28/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Image%20Tease%20Place%20Holder.png The Season Ticket podcast

NFL Network?s Ian Rapoport joins host Chris Gasper to discuss the NFL trade deadline, and Globe Sports Editor Joe Sullivan weighs in on the World Series.

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The Bedford VA hospital admitted its care for Bill Nutter was not ?up to our standards,? but the reality was uglier. Now, the FBI is investigating.

Opinion & Ideas

EDITORIAL ENDORSEMENT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/09/01/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/pfosi_170901_harvey-donations_05.jpg City council at-large: Reelect Wu, Pressley, Essaibi-George, and Flaherty

Voters shouldn?t tune out the City Council race in Boston?s upcoming election.

Confidential tips

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Do you know about wrongdoing that needs to be exposed? Call the Globe Spotlight team: 617-929-7483 or [email protected].

The Amazon bid

newsroom commentary

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/13/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/drone-5771.jpg Dear Jeff Bezos: Come and help us build a better Boston together

An open letter to the owner of Amazon, proposing a true partnership that rewrites the relationship between a city and the big companies that call it home.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/25/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Kick.jpg Anxious about a speech? A startup wants you to pop a minty cardiac drug

The startup wants to provide people anxious about public speaking with prescriptions for a drug that can calm racing hearts.

Crossword

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/21/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/crossword.jpg Play the crossword

Puzzled? Keep trying and see if you can triumph.

Lifestyle

Boston Book Festival seeks to make sense of ?Where We Find Ourselves?

Many of the sessions will offer perspectives on travel and the concept of home, finding oneself by engaging with literature, and where we as a nation find ourselves politically.