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As DCF answers for Fall River teen’s death, advocates see a ‘nightmarish cycle’ replaying

The Department of Children and Families has been thrust back into legislative and public crosshairs following the death of David Almond, a Fall River teen who authorities say was starved and abused by his father and his father’s girlfriend while under the watch of the agency and others.

Gruesome details emerge at arraignment of man charged in Dorchester stabbing case

“Two people lost their lives and these two children are going to be impacted for the rest of their life,” said Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins, who attended Monday’s proceeding.

Ernie Adams (right) and Bill Belichick walk the field before a 2014 game. Adams is retiring after 21 seasons with the team.
Ernie Adams, Bill Belichick’s longtime advisor, will retire after 21 seasons with the Patriots
Adams, 68, has been with the organization as football research director for the duration of Belichick’s tenure.

BRUINS 3, DEVILS 0
Sean Kuraly (left) skates over to congratulate teammate Nick Ritchie, whose second-period goal broke the ice Monday night in the Bruins' victory over the Devils.
A win, and they’re in: Bruins blank Devils to clinch spot in Stanley Cup playoffs
Nick Ritchie, Patrice Bergeron and Matt Grzelcyk scored for Boston, which locked up one of the East Division's four postseason berths.

Bill and Melinda Gates in 2018.

Bill and Melinda Gates announce they are ending their marriage

The Microsoft co-founder and his wife, who launched the world’s largest charitable foundation, said they would continue to work together at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Left to right are WPI students Brian Fay and Andy Strauss, professor Marko Popovic, and student Mia Buccowich. The students under the supervision of their professor are developing a partial hand prosthetic for a Texas college student.
TOM FARRAGHER

At WPI, the task was to fashion a hand prosthetic for a student in need. They built more than that

“They’re all so motivated and kind and driven. Not just for the project though. But for me.”
Larry Culp's compensation for 2020 as General Electric's CEO totaled about $73 million.

GE chief executive Larry Culp’s compensation faces scrutiny in shareholder vote

By many accounts, Larry Culp did an admirable job steering General Electric through a hazardous year. But is his performance in 2020 worth $73 million to GE investors?
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Celtics guard Jaylen Brown limps off the court on one leg towards the locker room after injuring his right ankle in a late-game collision with teammate Jayson Tatum in Sunday night's 129-119 loss to the Trail Blazers at TD Garden.
Celtics await word on severity of Jaylen Brown’s right ankle injury
If Jaylen Brown is sidelined for a short period, the Celtics should be able to weather his absence for a couple of games.

City Councilor Andrea Campbell spoke during a press conference outside City Hall.
Elected officials rebuke Boston police union for tweet targeting City Councilor Andrea Campbell
A tweet from the Boston police union containing an apparent reference to City Councilor Andrea Campbell’s brother prompted sharp criticism from a number of local elected leaders.

At federal corruption trial, marijuana vendor details alleged bribe to former Fall River mayor

David Brayton told jurors on Monday that a friend of Jasiel Correia, then Fall River’s mayor, told him that Correia wanted a $250,000 bribe in exchange for a non-opposition letter related to a proposed marijuana dispensary, a document required for state approval.

tara sullivan
Up next for Annabelle Hasselbeck and the BC's women's lacrosse team will be the NCAA tournament.
The first family of BC sports — the Hasselbecks — continues to flourish on campus
Matt and Sarah's daughter Annabelle is on the nationally ranked lacrosse team, and will be joined next season by sister Mallory.

In Longwood Medical Area, jobs were being added about twice as fast as in the state overall

The Longwood Medical Area has come a long way from the days when Boston Children’s Hospital set up shop on Huntington Avenue with 60 beds and a herd of cows to provide kids with tuberculosis-free milk.

Jim Kelly, a truck driver for Shaw's, looks at the driver of a truck leaving a Shaw's distribution facility while walking a picket line on Monday in Wells, Maine.
Shaw’s, Star Market truckers go on strike; company says it will resume negotiations, maintain service
The drivers deliver non-perishable food items to 150 stores across New England, including 76 in Massachusetts. Shaw's said it has increased its reliance on third-party drivers to cover the deliveries of those on strike.

Opinion

Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey speaks to reporters about public safety efforts in Boston, providing an update on the implementation of police reform and the creation of the Office of Police Accountability and Transparency, April 13.
EDITORIAL

Police transparency in Janey’s hands

It’s time to release the report on Boston’s police commissioner and decide his fate.
Acting Mayor Kim Janey speaks during a press conference on April 20.
MARCELA GARCÍA

Can Kim Janey ‘act’ her way into the job?
Boston City Councilor Andrea Campbell announced her bid for mayor in Roxbury on Sept. 24.
Joan Vennochi

Who lives in ‘glass houses’? Not Andrea Campbell.
A row of triple-deckers in Mattapan.
Scott Bailey

How to make rent affordable in Boston
ABDALLAH FAYYAD

Call Republican opposition to D.C. statehood what it is: Racist

Recommended reads

In Shrewsbury, Sewa International volunteers Kumar Subramanian (left) and Geena Virmani called another volunteer in India as they tried to locate a hospital bed for a patient they are trying to help.
‘It’s everywhere. It’s every family. I get depressed by the hour.’ Mass. residents from India, Brazil watch from afar as COVID-19 horrors unfold
The suffering in India, which has overtaken Brazil as the pandemic’s global epicenter, has sown fear among the population, which is facing drastic shortages of hospital beds, oxygen, and medications.

As Democrats weigh fate of New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary, Republicans prepare to run in it

Many Democrats, including some who ran for president in 2020, say Iowa and New Hampshire shouldn’t hold the nation’s first nominating contests because their majority-white populations don’t reflect the Democratic electorate.

What will Acting Mayor Kim Janey do about Boston police?

The chief controversies swirling around the nation’s oldest police force are threefold, including the status of the city’s police commissioner, Dennis White, who is on paid administrative leave while an independent investigator probes a 1999 domestic abuse allegation.
Adrian Walker

Stop trying to push Black candidates out of the mayor’s race

For years, a small group of activists have pushed the idea that Black voters can only support one person at a time, and that everyone else should stand down.

Fleeing death in Guatemala, two Ixil Maya activists hope to continue their defense of indigenous rights from the US — if they can stay

Thousands of migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador have been allowed to enter the United States, as the Biden administration unwinds a Trump-era program requiring asylum seekers to wait out their pending cases in Mexico. For nearly all, refuge remains elusive.

metro

Vichet Chum, performing in his show, "KNYUM," at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre.

In new play, a Cambodian American teenager finds her voice as a modern-day Kerouac

“Kween,” an upcoming play for the Merrimack Repertory Theatre, compares a Cambodian American teen's experience in Lowell to that of its favorite son, author Jack Kerouac.

At federal corruption trial, marijuana vendor details alleged bribe to former Fall River mayor

As DCF answers for Fall River teen’s death, advocates see a ‘nightmarish cycle’ replaying

Sports

Acton-Boxborough senior Sean Kelly said his older brother, J.T. a former captain at A-B, is a role model for him as he takes on a leadership role this spring.

Quick turnarounds no problem for Acton-Boxborough boys’ lacrosse captains

The Colonial captains are transitioning from other sports in record time.
BRUINS 3, DEVILS 0

A win, and they’re in: Bruins blank Devils to clinch spot in Stanley Cup playoffs
Patriots

Ernie Adams, Bill Belichick’s longtime advisor, will retire after 21 seasons with the Patriots

business

Bill and Melinda Gates in 2018.

Bill and Melinda Gates announce they are ending their marriage

GE chief executive Larry Culp’s compensation faces scrutiny in shareholder vote

Bill and Melinda Gates to divorce after 27 years of marriage

politics

Richard Cordray, then a candidate for governor, campaigned in Parma Heights, Ohio, on Nov. 3, 2018.

Meet Richard Cordray, the man now at the center of the debate over student debt

Top general drops opposition to change in military sexual assault policy

Biden quadruples Trump refugee cap after delay backlash

Living Arts

Larry Katz (left) and Maurice Starr outside Starr's home in Roxbury, circa 1987.
COMFORT ZONE

Man-of-a-thousand-interviews Larry Katz is sharing his tapes with the world

COMFORT ZONE

Reece Cotton’s online comedy festival celebrates ‘Love for Humans’
LOVE LETTERS

Our age gap bothers my friend

education

Parents brought students to the side entrance of the Roger Clap Elementary School in Dorchester in April.

How should Boston Public Schools spend $400 million in federal funds? The district launched a commission to figure it out
THE GREAT DIVIDE

Biden’s universal preschool plan a ‘game-changer’ for Mass., but final version could look very different

‘Everything that you do impacts future generations to come’: First member of Aquinnah Wampanoag to attend Harvard Law driven by sense of community

rhode island

The COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, is at Rhode Island Hospital.
CORONAVIRUS

Rare blood clots up to 10 times more likely from COVID-19 infection than from Johnson & Johnson vaccine, report says
RI BUSINESS

Fidelity Investments to add 500 jobs in Smithfield, Rhode Island
RHODE MAP

New year, more campaign fund-raising for Rhode Island’s top pols

Newton

Newton

Newton mayor ‘frustrated’ over pace of 52 bus route’s return to service

Here are the top Massachusetts high schools, according to the 2021 rankings from US News & World Report

Special Projects

A BEAUTIFUL RESISTANCE

The AAPI History I Carry with Me

A Beautiful Resistance is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and AAPI joy, as told to Jeneé Osterheldt.
See the full project Follow @abeautifulresistance on Instagram

On the Street

A bicyclist made his way across Dorchester Avenue in Fields Corner.

Known for its diversity, Fields Corner now must make room for development

A man repacked the food he got from a food pantry on Broadway in Chelsea. Chelsea has been one of the places in Greater Boston hardest hit by the pandemic.

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength
A mural on the side of the Mayor Bill Carpenter Garage in Brockton.

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation

See more from our business series ‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

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PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST
The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.
Get takeout. It’s your civic duty.
Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.

Boston Globe launches ‘Fresh Start’ initiative: People can apply to have past coverage about them reviewed
Similar to “right to forget” programs that have cropped up across the country, the undertaking is meant to address the lasting impact that stories about past embarrassments, mistakes, or minor crimes, forever online, can have on a person’s life.

Boston Globe Spotlight Report
Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level
Hospital chiefs and trustees defend this as boosting public-private partnerships, but critics say these board positions — some paying millions of dollars — raise troubling issues of conflict of interest and hospital priorities.

video

Comfort Zone

MUSIC
Kinstler has been wowing the judges all season. Now she's the last local standing, having been voted into the Top 9 by viewers.
‘I wish my dad was here to see it.’ Berklee student Grace Kinstler turns grief into gold on ‘American Idol’
Kinstler has been wowing the judges all season. Now she's the last local standing, having been voted into the Top 9 by viewers.

Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter.
Oscar winner Ruth E. Carter to be honored at Boston Arts Academy event
The Springfield native has personal reasons for supporting the school.

Rose E. Hansen recorded — and re-recorded — her entry for this year's virtual competition.
Norwell High School senior well versed for Poetry Out Loud nationals
Rose E. Hansen recorded — and rerecorded — her entry for this year's virtual competition.

Miss Lilly returns with some salvaged goods.
Meet the ‘rope broker’ who cleans up the Cape’s seafloor and supplies artists with the salvaged goods
Laura Ludwig will go to most any length to find new uses for rope, nets, buoys, traps, and other equipment hauled from the depths.

COMFORT ZONE
Arlen Weiser, the inspiration for his dad's book, "The Boy Who Wanted to Rock."
On the pages of his dad’s book, ‘The Boy Who Wanted to Rock’ gets his wish
While his scientist wife was working on the rollout of Pfizer's vaccine, keyboard programmer David Weiser of Haverhill wrote a book inspired by the couple's AC/DC-loving 6-year-old.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Members of the news media report from the memorial at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, as the jury deliberates in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd.
EDITORIAL

Press freedom fight never stops
Musicians rehearse at the Liceu opera house in Barcelona in June, 2020.
Joan Wickersham

The possibility of being an audience
A pedestrian passes murals on Ruggles Street in Nubian Square during January.
Joseph Rosenbloom

A complementary plan for King Boston, the Franklin Institute, and Nubian Square
Protestors in support of transgender rights gathered outside the Alabama State House in Montgomery, Ala., on March 30. Gender-affirming health care for transgender people is not a scientific argument; it’s a moral argument.
Dallas Ducar

Gender-affirming care offers a model for all of health care
Demonstrators in Huntington Beach, Calif., in November.
JEFF JACOBY

A jewel in the crown of California’s democracy
This former bank building in Cleveland is being converted into "workforce housing" for people who make less than the city's median income.
ideas

What if we turned empty offices into housing?

STAT

Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Transmission electron micrograph of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle (UK B.1.1.7 variant), isolated from a patient sample and cultivated in cell culture. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID
We know a lot about Covid-19. Experts have many more questions
More than two dozen virologists, epidemiologists, and others responded to STAT's question about what they still most wanted to know.

Boston, MA -- 03/16/21 -- The cover of the summary report of the review hearing for Jospeh Messere, is seen on March 16, 2021, provided by his attorney David Apfel.(Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
Cement Head’s last fight: He was denied parole six times — until he was about to become a Covid-19 statistic
In lawyers' view, the Department of Correction was trying to make it seem like it had fewer Covid-19 deaths on its hands than it really did.

JAMA illo
Troubling podcast puts JAMA, the ‘voice of medicine,’ under fire for its mishandling of race
Critics say editors have asked authors to scrub the term racism from their articles even as they publish others that include racist notions.

SCT illo
Despite resistance, researchers investigate the possibility of a new mental health disorder
Many researchers say the study of sluggish cognitive tempo, which is still in its early stages, can’t yet support a formal diagnosis.

magazine
Wellfleet, MA- July 1, 2014- Globe Staff Photo by Stan Grossfeld- Damon Wolf, 13, New Paltz, N.Y. does a handstand as the sun sets into Cape Cod Bay in Wellfleet.
Summer Travel

Pack patience along with sunblock when heading to Cape Cod
An illustration of a patient talking with a doctor via smartphone.
Perspective

COVID-19 brought health care into the 21st century
Triple Ginger Scones With Chocolate Chunks
Cooking

Recipes: Sweet brunch treats for Mother’s Day
Illustration of a house, key, and outdoor activities to go with a story about how the pandemic has affected the real estate market, causing people to want more space and outdoor space in particular.
Globe Magazine

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2021

sports

Roberto Alomar resigns from the Baseball Hall of Fame board of directors under the cloud of a sexual misconduct allegation.

Roberto Alomar steps down from Hall of Fame board of directors amid sexual misconduct allegation

Celtics await word on severity of Jaylen Brown’s right ankle injury

Health has played critical role in hot Red Sox start

metro

The COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, is at Rhode Island Hospital.

Rare blood clots up to 10 times more likely from COVID-19 infection than from Johnson & Johnson vaccine, report says

Going to the dogs

'A Beautiful Resistance' is nominated for a Boston/New England Regional Emmy® Award

Nation

Richard Cordray, then a candidate for governor, campaigned in Parma Heights, Ohio, on Nov. 3, 2018.

Meet Richard Cordray, the man now at the center of the debate over student debt

Pressure mounts to lift patent protections on coronavirus vaccines

FDA expected to authorize Pfizer vaccine for adolescents age 12 and older within a week

World

A beach in Melbourne, Australia, in February. The country, which has returned to some semblance of normalcy, has strict travel restrictions.

Australia tells its citizens in India amid COVID crisis: Don’t come home

‘Horrible’ weeks ahead as India’s virus catastrophe worsens

In Colombia, 19 are killed in pandemic-related protests

politics

Pharmaceuticals are seen in North Andover, Mass. President Joe Biden’s call for authorizing Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices has energized Democrats on a politically popular idea they've been pushing for nearly 20 years only to encounter frustration.

Democrats must find narrow path to curb high medicine prices

Facebook oversight board to rule on suspended Trump account

Liz Cheney slams Trump’s attempt to brand 2020 election ‘the Big Lie’

business

Karilyn Crockett, the former chief equity officer in the Walsh administration, is joining the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce as a research and program consultant.

Greater Boston chamber hires Crockett as program consultant

Restaurant survival hopes pick up as $28.6B in grants begin

Verizon sells Internet trailblazers Yahoo and AOL for $5b

lifestyle

A Southwest Airlines plane taxis to the gate after landing at Midway International Airport in Chicago last month.

Most of us were grounded in 2020, but complaints against airlines soared 400 percent

Trending and tasty: 9 viral TikTok recipe hacks worth revisiting 

Photos: Here are some of the looks from the 2021 Kentucky Derby

marijuana

Kathleen Owens, left, and Linda Noel grow hemp at Terrapin Farm in Franklin.

‘We feel like the ugly stepchildren of cannabis’: Mass. hemp farmers wait in a regulatory purgatory

On 4/20, Boston’s acting mayor turns to marijuana industry for campaign cash

US House passes marijuana banking bill with bipartisan support

opinion

Acting Mayor Kim Janey speaks during a press conference on April 20.

Can Kim Janey ‘act’ her way into the job?

Police transparency in Janey’s hands

Who lives in ‘glass houses’? Not Andrea Campbell.

food & dining

Contessa will open in June atop the Newbury Boston.

We now know the name of the restaurant that’s opening atop the Newbury

A modern tavern inspired by a historical one

Recipe: Giant break-apart sugar cookies to celebrate gathering for the first time in a long time in person

travel

A Southwest Airlines plane taxis to the gate after landing at Midway International Airport in Chicago last month.

Most of us were grounded in 2020, but complaints against airlines soared 400 percent

HGTV star David Bromstad loves his annual tan, his pillow, and the Cape

Traveling with an autistic child is hopefully becoming less restrictive and stressful

Books

Around the world

On finding freedom for every body

Reading Raymond Chandler and other mysteries

Movies

Actress Olympia Dukakis (left), cousin of presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, appeared at a New York City rally with him in April 1988.

Olympia Dukakis, Academy Award-winning actress, dies

Oscar winner Ruth E. Carter to be honored at Boston Arts Academy event

Meet Ruth E. Carter, the costume designer behind ‘Black Panther,’ ‘Malcolm X,’ and more

Television

From left: James Franco, Jason Segel, Linda Cardellini, Seth Rogen, John Francis Daley, Martin Starr, and Samm Levine in "Freaks and Geeks."

‘Freaks and Geeks’ and clueless network suits

This week’s TV: A girl-group comedy, ‘Ziwe,’ and reeling through the years at WBCN

Flipping the script in true-crime series ‘The Staircase’

music

Larry Katz (left) and Maurice Starr outside Starr's home in Roxbury, circa 1987.

Man-of-a-thousand-interviews Larry Katz is sharing his tapes with the world

‘I wish my dad was here to see it.’ Berklee student Grace Kinstler turns grief into gold on ‘American Idol’

Grammys may cut nomination review committees

Theater/Dance

Reece Cotton

Reece Cotton’s online comedy festival celebrates ‘Love for Humans’

Giving the structures of racism a shake in ‘TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever’

Playwright James Ijames on ‘TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever,’ reimagining history, and who gets to tell the story

globe local

Vichet Chum, performing in his show, "KNYUM," at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre.

In new play, a Cambodian American teenager finds her voice as a modern-day Kerouac

Nonprofit outfits ‘smart home’ in Norwell for people with disabilities

Nomination papers for Newton’s city election in November available starting Monday

Obituaries

Actress Olympia Dukakis (left), cousin of presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, appeared at a New York City rally with him and his wife, Kitty, in April 1988.

Olympia Dukakis, Academy Award-winning actress, dies

Eli Broad, the billionaire philanthropist, contemporary art collector and entrepreneur, has died

Anne Douglas, widow of late actor Kirk Douglas, dies at 102