DNA testing yields new clues in 49-year-old cold case

 This police photo shows the outside of Jane Britton's apartment building near Harvard Square shortly after she was found dead in January 1969.

Middlesex DA's office

The Middlesex District Attorney?s office will announce a major development in the murder of Jane Sanders Britton, a Harvard graduate student bludgeoned to death in 1969.

Law enforcement officials and first responders were at the scene of the shooting Monday.

Four dead, including suspected gunman, after Chicago hospital shooting, police say

A police officer was among those killed Monday at Mercy Hospital.

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Two people are dead, one injured in violence in Jamaica Plain

A man and woman died in a shooting and another man was stabbed in the incident at 60 Bickford St.

In this Nov. 14, 2018, photo, Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, center, greets guests after President Donald Trump spoke about prison reform in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Ivanka Trump, the president?s daughter and adviser, sent hundreds of e-mails about government business from a personal e-mail account last year. That?s according to the Washington Post, which reports the e-mails were sent to other White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Ivanka Trump used personal e-mail for government work, report says

Ivanka Trump, the president?s daughter and adviser, sent hundreds of e-mails about government business from a personal e-mail account last year.

Police near the aftermath of the Camp Fire this weekend.

Frantic search goes on for missing after California wildfire

The death toll from the Camp Fire stood at 79 Monday, with about 700 people unaccounted for.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/13/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/cow0729commune.jpg Peter Simon, renowned Martha?s Vineyard photographer and brother of Carly Simon, dies at 71

Simon died Sunday of cardiac arrest, according to a family friend.

Nevada judge temporarily blocks release of Mass. Gaming Commission report on Wynn

The panel investigated accusations of sexual misconduct against former casino executive Steve Wynn.

Melissa Gaudette, 33, and Edwin Benitez-Figueroa, 36, died Saturday when they were hit by a Christmas-themed train near this spot in Wareham.

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Christmas train?s engineer not facing charges in crash that left 2 dead

The ?Train to Christmas Town? was filled with more than 100 first responders and their children when it fatally struck a man and woman Saturday.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/14/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_bostonview2_landmark.jpg US Treasury to scrutinize all-cash home sales in Boston

Suffolk and Middlesex counties were added to a list of areas where real estate deals are reviewed in an effort to combat money laundering.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walker_060118_02warren_8445x-23149.jpg More questionable spending found at Dorchester charter school

According to a report, the Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy?s former executive director dipped into school funds to pay her mortgage.

Some at US Representative Seth Moulton?s town hall-style meeting in Amesbury Monday held signs backing Nancy Pelosi.

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Seth Moulton catches heat for Pelosi rebellion

A backlash to Seth Moulton?s quest to oust Nancy Pelosi is brewing both in Washington and at home, where liberal protesters confronted the lawmaker at a contentious town hall

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/1069756612.jpg Tech?s troubles on Wall Street haven?t hit Boston yet ? but they could

No boom lasts forever. When this one ends, Boston?s tech sector could be vulnerable ? but less so than in the past.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/15/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/kreiter_celeste1_food-9269.jpg 10 dishes that made us thankful in 2018

What better way to celebrate the holiday than remembering some of the best things we ate this past year?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/9167e09e-dcd8-48ef-b637-55d3a641042e.jpg I?ll save six hours of cooking time on Thanksgiving with a take-out turkey. Is it worth the shame?

A woman considering serving a take-out turkey worries about getting roasted.

Boston Celtics' Gordon Hayward, left, drives past Charlotte Hornets' Malik Monk, right, and Dwayne Bacon, center, during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Charlotte, N.C., Monday, Nov. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

HORNETS 117, CELTICS 112

Celtics can?t stop Kemba Walker in road loss to Hornets

Walker (43 points) spearheaded the charge as Charlotte rallied from 10 points down with less than nine minutes left.

Boston, MA - 11/17/2018 - (4th quarter) Harvard Crimson running back Devin Darrington (36) run for a touchdown during the fourth quarter was called back because of an unsportsmanlike penalty on the Crimson during the fourth quarter. Harvard hosts Yale at Fenway Park. - (Barry Chin/Globe Staff), Section: Sports, Reporter: John Powers, Topic: 18Yale-Harvard , LOID: 8.4.3826701376.

NAMES

No, a Harvard football player didn?t give his Yale rival the middle finger before a touchdown

It was his index finger ? and running back Devin Darrington wants to settle the score on what really happened.

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 photo a humidity indicator rests in a bowl of a strain of cannabis called

Here?s a look at the two marijuana stores that will open Tuesday

History will be made on Tuesday as Massachusetts? first two recreational marijuana shops open, marking the first legal sale of recreational pot on the East Coast.

Employees Nick Jarrin (left) and Kaylee Castell at Cultivate Holdings in Leicester.

Recreational pot shops prepare for thousands on opening day

The two-year wait for recreational marijuana sales in Mass. ends on Tuesday when the first shops, located in Leicester and Northampton, open at 8 a.m.

JOAN VENNOCHI

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/vennochi-5722.jpg Thank you, Seth Moulton, for shaking things up and rubbing people the wrong way

Moulton deserves credit, not damnation, for making Nancy Pelosi press her case to remain House speaker.

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Opinion | Colin Angle, Jay Hooley, Scott Landers, and Jeff Ray

Message from the men: We know the power of women on boards

Massachusetts companies need to step up to more gender diversity.

FILE - In this Nov. 27, 2013, file photo, a person points to a screen with an airplane travel list while holding up a phone at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. International air travel has become remarkably safe in recent years, with deadly accidents like last month's Lion Air crash in Indonesia becoming more rare. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

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Opinion | Maggie Hassan

Making airline travel safe for all

New protections are now in place to make sure passengers are safe and treated with dignity when they travel.

RENÉE LOTH

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/reneeLoth_150px-5735.jpg Break your leaf-blower habit

Why can?t we regulate these two-stroke terrors out of their (and our) misery?

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My wife, Laura Levis, did everything she could to save herself when the asthma attack began. She went to Somerville Hospital and called 911, too. How could she have been left to die just outside the emergency room?

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Aerial photos show devastation from Calif. wildfires

At least 56 people have lost their lives in California?s deadliest wildfire.