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Game 4 | Celtics 102, Heat 82

Robert Williams clearly wasn't 100 percent in Monday's Game 4 at TD Garden, but was excellent in less than 19 minutes, registering 12 points, 9 rebounds, and 2 blocks in a blowout victory.

Instant Analysis

Observations as Celtics run away from ice-cold Heat early to square the Eastern Conference finals, 2-2

The Heat missed their first 14 shots from the field in Game 4, their starters had just 12 first-half points as a group, and Boston won a laugher at TD Garden to make the series a best-of-three.

Celtics-Heat Game 4: A stunning and complete Boston beatdown leaves the series tied

Jayson Tatum made a reverse layup over Heat center Bam Adebayo in the second quarter for 2 of his 31 points.

Dan Shaughnessy

If Celtics don’t win series it will be one of the biggest blown opportunities in Boston sports history

Boston’s Game 4 beatdown of the hobbled Heat was an exclamation point for the locals.

New housing strategy behind Mass. and Cass cleanup offers ‘hope, dignity’ — and may be a solution to homelessness, officials say
State health officials say they are expanding an effort to get former residents of the Mass. and Cass area in Boston off the streets and into permanent housing.

Charlie Baker wrote a book. Here’s what we learned from it.
"Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done," due to be released Tuesday, is Governor Baker’s version of a public official’s playbook, rather than a traditional memoir.

Suspect in killing of Vermont cyclist in Texas remains at large

Kaitlin Armstrong was last seen by law enforcement walking out of the Austin Police Department on May 12

A life lost, a community reeling: Killing of Vermont cycling star in Texas leaves family, friends, and athletes in shock

Boston monkeypox patient had 200 contacts

Health officials have identified 200 people who came in contact with a patient who was hospitalized last week in Boston with the monkeypox virus, a CDC official said Monday, adding that “the vast majority” were health care workers.

Monkeypox likely spread by sex at two raves in Europe, expert says

Internal analysis shows Black patients at Brigham faced more security calls
Researchers found that 2.8 percent of Black patients had security called on them, compared with 1.6 percent of white patients.

Missing Medford woman’s body found in recycling bin beneath her home’s back porch
Barbara Novaes, 61, was last seen alive on Sunday afternoon, and authorities said Monday night that her death is being investigated as “suspicious.”

Maine man charged with fatally shooting 1-year-old niece after fight with brother over T-shirt, court documents say
The 19-year-old man who allegedly shot his 1-year-old niece to death Saturday in Wells, Maine, and also wounded his brother and father told police the violent dispute began with an argument he’d had with his sibling over a tee-shirt, according to legal filings.

Candidate Governor Geoff Diehl speaks during the the 2022 Republican State Convention in Springfield, MA on May 21, 2022.

Vulgar convention comments were ‘not appropriate,’ GOP gubernatorial candidate says, but backs claims of indoctrination in schools

Republican candidate for governor Geoff Diehl told reporters Monday that vulgar comments made about school curricula by candidate for secretary of state Rayla Campbell were “not appropriate."

A volunteer with severe hair loss from alopecia areata grew a nearly full head of hair over 24 weeks in Concert's earlier Phase 2 clinical trial.

Experimental pill prompts some to regrow a nearly full head of hair

Lexington-based Concert Pharmaceuticals said its therapy could restore hair in up to 42 percent of people with a severe form of hair loss.

Massachusetts Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

State releases blistering review of Boston Public Schools: ‘BPS needs immediate improvement’

Four major operational areas emerge in the report as key areas of concern: transportation, facilities, data reporting, and school safety protocols.

Read the full state review of Boston Public Schools

Opinion

MARCELA GARCÍA

Communications 101: Closing the language barriers in state agencies

Inconsistent and often substandard language access practices across state government agencies continually hinder non-English speakers.

DA Kevin Hayden believes in criminal justice reform and public safety. What’s so bad about that?

Kimberly Atkins Stohr

To help close the wealth gap, put more money into Black and brown wealth managers’ hands

Simone Ngongi-Lukula

Massachusetts’ failure to forestall growing segregation

AG Garland, the silence on Bulger’s killing is unacceptable

Centering critical voices, debates, and evidence-based opinion to reframe the national conversation on racial equity and hasten a more racially just society.

Tech Power Players 50

Tech Power Players 50

The Tech Power Players 50 is a list of the most influential — and interesting — people in the Massachusetts technology scene, as ranked by the Globe’s business journalists and an external advisory committee.

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KEVIN CULLEN

A tale of two bishops
In Boston, Cardinal Sean O’Malley shows respect for his flock. In San Francisco, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone weaponizes the Eucharist.

RI POLITICS

This year, the Pride flag won’t fly in Little Compton, R.I.
A year after its first official Pride celebration, Little Compton Republicans balk about flying the Pride flag in town center again, “out of respect for the American Flag.”

SJC allows former owners of Everett casino property to pursue suit seeking another $40 million for land
The state Supreme Judicial Court found that the Gaming Commission took “highly unusual” action in 2013 after discovering that a businessman with a criminal record and organized crime ties was suspected of having a hidden interest in FBT Everett Realty LLC, which had negotiated a deal to sell the Everett property to Wynn for $75 million.

Pence push for Kemp caps end of Georgia primary campaign
Former Vice president Mike Pence made an in-person push for Gov. Brian Kemp’s reelection a day before the Republican incumbent faces his biggest challenge from a GOP candidate backed by Pence’s old boss.

Woman killed while working at her family’s farm stand in Newbury remembered as a ‘beloved daughter’
The family of Susan Sforza Nico said their business will be reopening soon and asked that customers honor their daughter by coming in and buying the plants that she cultivated.

Everett officials step down after being criticized for racist and offensive behavior
The mayor announced the departures Monday afternoon, in advance of a rally against racism planned tonight across from City Hall.

150 years of The Boston Globe
Scenes from a century and a half, as covered by the Boston Globe.

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Kate Dineen posed for a portrait with her husband, Alex Lawton, at their home in Boston. Last year, the couple traveled out of state to a clinic that performs late-in-pregnancy abortions after learning their son had suffered a catastrophic stroke in utero.

Traveling out of state for an abortion: A nightmarish journey that some Massachusetts women face, too

After learning their son would face years of pain and suffering, Kate Dineen and Alex Lawton decided on abortion. But doctors at MGH would not do the procedure, citing limitations of a new state law.

Why Wisconsin Republicans’ new interest in empowering the secretary of state has alarmed democracy experts
The battle for America’s election machinery is emerging as a major theme in the midterms, which is why this 81-year-old bureaucrat says he’ll keep the job just as it is.

Report documented troubling environment of harassment in the state Senate. Staff now ask: What’s next?
The survey, conducted in March 2019 and obtained by the Globe this month, has gained new relevance as staff have refocused their attention on workplace conditions amid an effort to unionize.

Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden rules police were legally justified in using deadly force in Roxbury and Revere fatal shootings in 2019
Hayden on Monday concluded that the officers in each case acted to protect themselves or members of the public from potentially fatal harm.

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Culture & Lifestyle

The Del Fuegos (with Dan Zanes, center) play a reunion show at the Paradise in June 2011, the last time the band performed together.

A Del Fuegos reunion rewinds to the 1980s and the heyday of the Channel

Garth Brooks performs at Gillette Stadium Friday night, the first of his two shows in Foxborough.

Garth Brooks gets rowdy with his friends in Gillette’s low places

From left: Melody Buyukozer Dawkins, a researcher with Slover Linett, joined arts leaders Doneeca Thurston, executive director of Lynn Museum/LynnArts; Marquis Victor, founder and executive director of Elevated Thought; and Catherine T. Morris, founder and artistic director of BAMS Fest, to discuss the survey on Wednesday at the Boston Public Library.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Kimberly Atkins Stohr

To help close the wealth gap, put more money into Black and brown wealth managers’ hands

Simone Ngongi-Lukula

Massachusetts’ failure to forestall growing segregation

Fotios "Freddy" Geas is being investigated as a suspect in the slaying of former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger, who was killed behind bars on Oct. 30, 2018. Geas has been held in solitary confinement since the killing.

AG Garland, the silence on Bulger’s killing is unacceptable

The hypocrisy of Samuel Alito

Demonstrators outside the White House on May 11 protested against new rules proposed by the Education Department governing a federal grant program for charter schools. Critics say the proposed rules are overly restrictive and would thwart the growth of charter schools, whose 3.6 million students are largely Black and Hispanic.

Proposed federal changes would hurt charter schools

Bridget Harvey, an artist in the UK, bought this sweater secondhand and turned it into a statement.

IDEAS | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD

Radical menders vs. disposable everything

Metro

Missing Medford woman’s body found in recycling bin beneath her home’s back porch

Barbara Novaes, 61, was last seen alive on Sunday afternoon, and authorities said Monday night that her death is being investigated as “suspicious.”

Boston monkeypox patient had 200 contacts

Health officials have identified 200 people who came in contact with a patient who was hospitalized last week in Boston with the monkeypox virus, a CDC official said Monday, adding that “the vast majority” were health care workers.

Internal analysis shows Black patients at Brigham faced more security calls

Researchers found that 2.8 percent of Black patients had security called on them, compared with 1.6 percent of white patients.

Prime Minister of Greece calls Boston College graduates to action in his commencement address

Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis urged BC graduates to “pass on to [their] children a better world than the one [they] inherited” and to not neglect their civic duties.

Sports

Jayson Tatum slammed home 2 of his 24 first-half points.

How it happened: A stunning and complete Celtics beatdown in Game 4 leaves the series tied

The Heat did not score for the first four minutes of Game 4, and were thoroughly routed as the series now shifts back to Miami.

Robert Williams clearly wasn't 100 percent in Monday's Game 4 at TD Garden, but was excellent in less than 19 minutes, registering 12 points, 9 rebounds, and 2 blocks in a blowout victory.

CELTICS 102, HEAT 82 | INSTANT ANALYSIS

Observations as Celtics run away from ice-cold Heat early to square the Eastern Conference finals, 2-2

The Heat missed their first 14 shots from the field in Game 4, their starters had just 12 first-half points as a group, and Boston won a laugher at TD Garden to make the series a best-of-three.

Jayson Tatum made a reverse layup over Heat center Bam Adebayo in the second quarter for 2 of his 31 points.

Dan Shaughnessy

If Celtics don’t win series it will be one of the biggest blown opportunities in Boston sports history

Boston’s Game 4 beatdown of the hobbled Heat was an exclamation point for the locals.

Celtics Notebook

Celtics’ Marcus Smart and Heat’s Tyler Herro both sit out Game 4 of Eastern Conference finals

Red Sox notebook

Trevor Story’s dominant week boosts Red Sox

Peter Abraham | On baseball

Red Sox have fielded two wildly different teams

Business

Pennsylvania company to complete purchase of R.I. utility

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

New housing strategy behind Mass. and Cass cleanup offers ‘hope, dignity’ — and may be a solution to homelessness, officials say

State health officials say they are expanding an effort to get former residents of the Mass. and Cass area in Boston off the streets and into permanent housing.

Airlines face crucial test this summer in quest for profitability

Boards for Meta, Twitter face backlash from NY pension fund

magazine

A mural depicting George Floyd with makeshift memorials in his honor in Minneapolis on March 30, 2021.

What happens when you tell the truth about racism in America?

College & Careers

5 ways Gen Z is insisting on changes to the workplace

Perspective | Book Excerpt

Charlie Baker: What happened to reaching across the aisle to get things done?

Making friends as an adult is hard, building a community is even harder

metro

Vermont cyclist Moriah Wilson was murdered in a rear apartment of this house in Austin, Texas.

Suspect in killing of Vermont cyclist in Texas remains at large

New housing strategy behind Mass. and Cass cleanup offers ‘hope, dignity’ — and may be a solution to homelessness, officials say

SJC allows former owners of Everett casino property to pursue suit seeking another $40 million for land

sports

The Sox punctuated the series finale with the Astros with Nick Pivetta tossing a complete game two-hitter against arguably the best offense in baseball.

Series with Astros and Mariners could prove pivotal in Red Sox season

Suspect in killing of Vermont cyclist in Texas remains at large

Warriors on cusp of a return to NBA Finals, barring a historic Mavericks comeback

business

Siblings from left, Davi de Souza, Emanully Socorro, and Messa de Souza played in the waves while spending the afternoon at Revere beach on Saturday.

Boston’s unexpectedly pleasant day sent power prices to -$150

Stressed-out supply chain managers are throwing in the towel

For the first time, there’s a new name calling the shots at Sullivan Tire

politics

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., departs the House chamber at the end of votes, at the Capitol in Washington, May 12, 2022. Greene is testing Republican voters' tolerance for controversy in the May 24, 2022, Republican primary.

Greene seat, 2 Democratic primaries among top US House races

McCormick sues over counting mail ballots in Pennsylvania Senate race

Pentagon says more high-tech weapons going to Ukraine

Nation

Demonstrators attempt to enter the US Capitol building during a protest in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.

Maryland man who sprayed fire extinguisher at police on Jan. 6 given 33-month prison term

Man pleads guilty to federal charge of threatening Anthony Fauci

Pence push for Kemp caps end of Georgia primary campaign

World

The United Nation flag on the top of an UN building in Geneva, Switzerland.

Russian diplomat resigns: ‘Never have I been so ashamed of my country’

Biden: US would intervene with military to defend Taiwan

Climate change fuels heat wave in India and Pakistan, scientists find

opinion

After delivering remarks on the racist massacre at a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, N.Y., President Biden spoke to reporters at Buffalo-Niagara International Airport on Tuesday.

Calling out the GOP’s dangerous emboldening of white supremacy

For Putin, a self-own for the history books

Too often unasked in abortion debate: What about the men?

lifestyle

Cartoonist and Malden native Keith Knight and his son, Julian, outside For Five Coffee in Boston on May 19.

How award-winning cartoonist and Malden native Keith Knight created the ‘Charlie Brown of activism’

I want more control over when we get engaged

Need to beat this weekend’s heat? Head to one of these 75+ spray fountains

food & dining

Cool off at Shore Leave's new cocktail garden.

Cocktail gardens in bloom; a star pastry chef comes back to Boston

The importance of a grocery store

The Salon, a downtown lounge, finally reopens with an emphasis on local Providence music

travel

In a list released Tuesday of the Best Places to Visit in the United States, Bar Harbor (above) ranked number 16, while Boston landed at 19 on the list.

When it comes to summer vacations, Maine has Massachusetts beat, according to U.S. News & World Report

A music fest in Lowell, a wellness fest in Sun Valley, and a speaker to go

Gardens, art, and whimsy combine to offer a place of solace — and delight

Arts

Maurice Sendak, "Study for stage set #5 (Where the Wild Things Are)," 1979-1983.

When the wild rumpus gave way to Mozart: Maurice Sendak at the Gardner

Milton Avery’s color sense and sensibility

Missing children and maligned mothers

Books

‘Either/Or’: When the college novel deserves a second look

Peter Swanson: reading scary books at a young age

Young love is in bloom in ‘Avalon’

Movies

Buzz Lightyear, voiced by Chris Evans, in "Lightyear."

Summer’s hottest movies, from ‘Top Gun’ to ‘Nope’

9 spots around Boston to see a drive-in movie

‘Hold Your Fire’: finding high drama in ‘dynamic inactivity’

Television

From left: Justin Hartley as Kevin, Chrissy Metz as Kate, and Sterling K. Brown as Randall in "This Is Us."

This week’s TV: The end of ‘This Is Us,’ the return of ‘Stranger Things,’ the arrival of ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’

‘SNL’ celebrates veteran comedians Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, and Kyle Mooney as they say goodbye

(Most of) ‘Stranger Things’ season 4 to drop next week

music

The Del Fuegos (with Dan Zanes, center) play a reunion show at the Paradise in June 2011, the last time the band performed together.

A Del Fuegos reunion rewinds to the 1980s and the heyday of the Channel

Under new leadership, Phoenix takes on Mahler and Schreker

Garth Brooks gets rowdy with his friends in Gillette’s low places

Theater/Dance

From left: Nael Nacer, John Kuntz, and Marianna Bassham in "People, Places & Things." The SpeakEasy Stage Company production won three Elliot Norton Awards, including Bassham as outstanding actress in the midsize theater category.

SpeakEasy, Huntington, Gloucester Stage lead the honorees at a virtual Norton awards ceremony

ArtsEmerson’s 2022-2023 season leans into social justice

In connecting the busing era to today, ‘Common Ground Revisited’ follows a long, complicated path to the stage

globe local

Want List Records co-owner Dave Belson sorts through records in the store.

‘It’s a great community’: Want List Records joins stores at Newton’s Mall at Echo Bridge

Newton Schools Foundation honors five inspiring teachers

‘I can picture the people who eat the food I grow.’ Amid worldwide supply threats, local farmers keep feeding Greater Boston.

Obituaries

Simon Preston performed at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 20, 2011. Preston, an organist, conductor, and composer who was an instrumentalist of consummate, intelligent virtuosity, and a force in the early-music movement, died on May 13. He was 83.

Simon Preston, Acclaimed Organist and Conductor, Dies at 83

Urvashi Vaid, pioneering LGBTQ activist, is dead at 63

Longtime New Yorker writer, editor Roger Angell dies at 101