Solicitation charge raises questions about Robert Kraft?s future

The Patriots owner faces one of his greatest personal challenges as he tries to protect his image as one of Boston?s most prominent business leaders.

Former Massachusetts resident and Patriots fan Lynn Eisenhauer of Jupiter, Fla., took a photo as she drove by the now-closed Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter on Saturday. Patriots owner Robert Kraft is accused of soliciting prostitution at the spa.

Barry Chin/Globe Staff

At Florida strip mall, a giddy tone belies a grave accusation

The spectacle outside the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter was in sharp contrast to the gravity of the case involving Robert Kraft as detailed by authorities.

BEN VOLIN I ON FOOTBALL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/22/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/daviskraft9Aspts.jpg How much damage has Robert Kraft done to his reputation?

Kraft has lost any ability to brag about the ?Patriot Way? and his team?s commitment to morals and character.

Bill Weld said, ?We cannot sit passively as our precious democracy slips quietly into darkness.?

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Yvonne Abraham

Bill Weld?s time is now

Is there anything left of the Republican Party that Weld once belonged to? Bless him for trying to find out.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/22/BostonGlobe.com/Obits/Images/JackSwift2005withgrandsonSam.jpg North Adams political, civic activist Jack Swift dies at 77

Swift was a longtime political and civic activist who guided many campaigns, including those of his daughter, former acting governor Jane Swift.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/23/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/lee022319mansfieldlplanecrash3MET.jpg 2 dead after small plane crashes in Mansfield

Julian Lattermann, 18, of Dover, and his teacher, Sydney Miti, 32, of Waltham, were killed in the crash, authorities said.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/22/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryanshooting5met.jpg Police identify suspect killed after allegedly firing at officer

Kasim Kahrim, 36, was pronounced dead at the scene of Friday morning?s shooting.

Boston, Ma., 02/08/2019, A pedestrian on High Street emerges from the escaping steam from a near by manhole cover as the low winter sun slices through the shadows of downtown streets. Globe staff/Suzanne Kreiter

dave epstein

Once it dries out, the wind will kick it up a notch

Precipitation mostly in the form of rain will begin Saturday night and continue into Sunday afternoon, bringing up to an inch to some localities.

Globe Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/19/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/evict0224hero.jpg As rents soar in Boston, low-income tenants try to stave off eviction

With an estimated 43 evictions a day in Massachusetts, should the state guarantee legal help to renters who can?t afford an attorney?

This image released by Netflix shows Yalitza Aparicio, center, in a scene from the film

Carlos Somonte/Netflix via AP

Ty Burr | Critic?s Notebook

The Oscars ain?t what they used to be ? and that?s not necessarily a bad thing

The Academy, like the movie industry, finds itself at a crossroads.

SUNDAY BASEBALL NOTES

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/22/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/Cafardo,Nick2sharpened.jpg A tribute to Nick Cafardo, baseball writer extraordinaire

This week, we let colleagues and readers share their thoughts about Cafardo, the author of the Sunday baseball notes column who died last week.

Fort Myers, Fl- Feb 23, 2019-Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff--Red Sox Spring Training at JetBlue Park. Yankees vs. Red Sox- Aaron Boone press conference

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

It?s back: The Red Sox-Yankees rivalry is renewed

Saturday?s Grapefruit League opener in Fort Myers was the first of many matchups during the 2019 regular season ? and perhaps more in the postseason, too.

FILE - This March 23, 2018, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census. A U.S. judge in San Francisco will hear closing arguments in a trial over the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census. Judge Richard Seeborg is not expected to issue a ruling immediately on Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith, File)

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JEFF JACOBY

Good policy, bad policymaking, and the fight over the 2020 census

Should adding a census question about citizenship raise hackles? Only if it was added dishonestly.

Lesley Becker/Globe Staff; Adobe; Globe file photo

Lesley Becker/Globe Staff; Adobe; Globe file photo

Margery Eagan

A refreshing campaign pitch ? the truth about motherhood

Ambitious women, never mind big-time female politicians, don?t typically admit to any corner cutting ? ever ? in mothering.

BULLS 126, CELTICS 116

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/24/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Zach%20LaVine.jpg Kyrie Irving?s 37 points can?t stop Celtics from losing to Bulls

Boston was outscored, 36-18, in the second quarter and never recovered.

Pope Francis addressed cardinals and bishops during the Vatican summit for bishops on the sex-abuse crisis.

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Analysis

The underlying message from the bishops summit: The problem is everywhere

No church official, no matter where he comes from, should return thinking this isn?t a problem back home.

Miss Conduct

Advice: I?d like to ban his girlfriend from our house

My boyfriend and I are fighting over his son?s disrespectful girlfriend.

Nestor Ramos

White hoaxers have never made it harder to believe real victims. Why should Jussie Smollett?

Imaginary prison ? where all the made-up criminals are sentenced for crimes that never happened ? is still an awfully lonely place for imaginary white men.

BOB RYAN

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/23/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Bob_Ryan_150px-27068.jpg What went in to Bill Belichick becoming coach of the Patriots

The process took three long, bizarre weeks to run its course.

Newsletters

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/12/05/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/MichaelCohenNewsletterHP-3632.jpg Truth and Consequences

Opinion columnist Michael Cohen takes a candid and no-holds-barred look at the current political moment. Sign up now.

Love Letters: The Podcast

Season Two: How do you meet someone?

Dating in 2019 is?complicated. Frustrating. Sometimes completely exhilarating. In Season 2 of the podcast, Meredith Goldstein goes deep on one of her most-asked questions.

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Special reports

They were the top of their class at Boston public schools. Then life happened

Read a multi-part investigation into how and why the lives of promising Boston valedictorians didn?t quite turn out the way they expected.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

Smartphone society

In a world where the smartphone is now ubiquitous, photographers capture daily life in which the personal device is part of the moment.

Real Estate

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/09/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/10-beechwood-road-halifax-exterior-side-1024x576$medium-9070.jpg Are we ignoring ? or outright banning ? an easy affordable-housing fix?

Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/21/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/CEOs_02-1024x576.jpg Meet the executives who will defend pharma before Congress

One?s a college dropout. One?s a self-proclaimed street fighter. And one survived a presidential tweetstorm.

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