Consumers spent $440,000 on marijuana products Tuesday in Massachusetts

Data from the state?s Cannabis Control Commission offered a window into consumer demand on opening day.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/03/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/potmap150-8467.jpg Are recreational marijuana companies preparing to open in your community? Check our maps

Data released by the Cannabis Control Commission show where marijuana operators hope to set up shop.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/greenhouse_03statepolice-2_metro.jpg Embattled former union boss retires from Mass. State Police

Facing a federal fraud investigation, the former head of the Massachusetts State Police union has retired from the job he held for the past three decades as a trooper.

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2017 file photo, Chief Justice John Roberts speaks during the Bicentennial of Mississippi's Judiciary and Legal Profession Banquet in Jackson, Miss. Roberts is pushing back against President Donald Trump?s description of a judge who ruled against the administration?s new asylum policy as an ?Obama judge.? It?s the first time that the leader of the federal judiciary has offered even a hint of criticism of Trump, who has previously blasted federal judges who ruled against him. Roberts says Wednesday that the U.S. doesn?t have ?Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.? He is commenting in a statement released by the Supreme Court after a query by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts raps Trump for ?Obama judge? comment; Trump hits back

It?s the first time the Republican-appointed leader of the federal judiciary has offered even a hint of criticism of President Trump.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/09/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/turner100918METRO10woburn1572.jpg National Grid?s lockout of workers may be taking steps forward

The locked-out unions delivered a counterproposal to the company in a labor dispute that has lasted almost five months.

Former Mass. governor Michael Dukakis appeared before the MBTA board to express his support for a North-South rail link in Boston. Seated in the backround is former Mass. governor William Weld, who spoke after Dukakis.

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NESTOR RAMOS

He ran a state. He ran for president. Now, Michael Dukakis waits his turn

Try to imagine another major-party presidential candidate enduring a MassDOT meeting.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/21/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Rinaldi22captain04L.jpg Boston police welcome new female captain, the seventh in department history

?There?s three generations in my family that have served the city,? said the newly minted Captain Therese Kozmiski, a 22-year BPD veteran.

Romaine lettuce on a farm in Salinas, Calif., as pictured in October.

Here?s why this Massachusetts produce stand is still selling romaine despite the CDC warning

A local produce stand at the Boston Public Market was still selling romaine on Wednesday, a day after the CDC said the lettuce was tied to a nationwide E. coli outbreak.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/21/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/_KT26314-23358.jpg Two more inmates investigated in ?Whitey? Bulger slaying

Investigators are focusing on Felix Wilson, who shared a cell with James ?Whitey? Bulger before his death, and Sean McKinnon, a Vermont man serving an eight-year sentence.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/21/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/MIT-Motorless-Plane-02-PRESS%20(1).jpg MIT engineers design airplane engine with no moving parts

Imagine airplanes with quiet engines that have no moving parts and that don?t burn smelly fuel. MIT researchers say they?ve taken the first step ? and made the first flight.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/kreiter_brookfieldarraign1_met.jpg Man indicted by grand jury in deaths of 4 in West Brookfield

A Ware man is now facing four counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of a mother and her three young children.

In this 2016 file photo, customers lined up at the Trillium Brewery and Taproom in Canton.

George Rizer for the Boston Globe

Trouble brewing at craft beer darling Trillium

Current and former employees said the wildly successful brewery forced many retail workers to reapply for their jobs and then offered them ?promotions? for less money.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/21/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Rinaldi22franciscan01xx.jpg After devastating accident, Athol boy excited to return home for the holidays

Javan Fox, 13, was discharged from Franciscan Children?s hospital in Brighton on Wednesday and was finally able to go home.

24support SUPPORT THE GIRLS Regina Hall in SUPPORT THE GIRLS, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures Written & Directed by Andrew Bujalski

Ty Burr

8 great streaming movies for your Thanksgiving holiday

From ?Support the Girls? to ?Blindspotting,? they all have a lot to offer viewers.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/21/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/NWSpic.jpg Snow squall to hit Massachusetts in time for evening commute

Parts of Massachusetts will be hit with a snow squall Wednesday afternoon, making driving conditions during the pre-Thanksgiving evening commute dangerous.

Here?s how pre-Thanksgiving traffic looks in the Boston area right now

After a light start to the day, traffic was picking up as the evening commute was combined with drivers traveling ahead of Thanksgiving.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/20/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/RinaldiLawrence01.jpg Lacking heat, Lawrence-area residents face a cold Thanksgiving

Hundreds of families affected by the gas outage in the Merrimack Valley are expected to join their neighbors at communal holiday dinners.

Recipe: How to cook a perfect Thanksgiving turkey

You need an instant-read meat thermometer to cook a turkey. Pop-up thermometers that come with the bird (they?re implanted in the breast) usually pop up when the meat is overcooked.

Byfield, MA - 10/22/2018- ] Triton High School football team calls a huddle before practice on Monday. (Michael Swensen for The Boston Globe) Topic: (Sports)

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2018 Thanksgiving high school football schedule and results

Here?s a look at the schedule for the week and, as they roll in, scores from around Eastern Mass.

Carver-10/19/18 From September 15 until November 15, the A.D. Makepeace Company harvests cranberries at their 1700 acres of bogs throughout the South Shore, including the 250 acres of cranberry bogs on Pond Street. Water pours from a wash truck where debris is removed from the cranberries before dropping into a shipping truck. Most of the workers are immigrants who are hired for the seasonal work. Eighteen tractor trailer truckloadshaul away the cranberries from the Pond Street bog. Photo by John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(metro)

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Editorial

Thanks for nothing, Trump. Trade war has cranberry growers seeing red

The little red fruit has been drawn into President Trump?s trade wars. To ease the pain, the federal government should extend financial assistance to cranberry growers.

Globe Santa Christmas campaign begins

Globe Santa kicks off his 63rd annual campaign to make sure that gifts are under the Christmas tree for thousands of deserving Boston-area children.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/21/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/DsiXTWmW0AE1K5l.jpg The Whiskey Priest and Atlantic Beer Garden are officially no more

Two mainstay Boston bars ? The Whiskey Priest and Atlantic Beer Garden ? have been demolished.

Love Letters

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/20/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/Meredith_Goldstein_NewLogo-4961.jpg My boyfriend confessed he kissed a co-worker while drunk. What now?

I gave him the third degree, but I?m not sure I can trust him.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/01/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/laura1104alt-4761.jpg Help was a few feet away. Why didn?t they save her?

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 79 people have lost their lives in California?s deadliest wildfire.