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Everett School Committee won’t renew contract of superintendent who accused mayor of racism

The Everett School Committee voted Monday night not to renew the contract of the district’s superintendent, the latest turn in a tumultuous few years for the district and the city’s government.

A bacterial infection killed three patients at Brigham and Women’s. The culprit? A water purification system.

A who-done-it analysis of where the bacteria originated, and the lessons that followed for the hospital about infection control, has been highlighted in a study published by Brigham clinicians on Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Leominster man charged with attacking flight attendants, trying to open emergency exit door on LA to Boston flight

Passengers tackled the man, who was restrained with the flight crew’s assistance, prosecutors said.

UMass Blarney Blowout raises concerns about ‘borg’ drinking fad
A beloved but controversial St. Patrick’s Day tradition at UMass Amherst called the Blarney Blowout has raised concerns about a popular drinking fad among college students.

What are borgs, the TikTok-trending drinks UMass blamed in part for ‘Blarney Blowout’ hospitalizations?

State auditor launches probe of convention center authority as Black leaders call for investigation of racial discrimination claims

Woman killed on turbulent flight over New England was prominent executive who served in presidential administrations

Hours after she was elected governor last year, Maura Healey met with former governor Charlie Baker at the State House to discuss the transfer of power.

How does Healey’s budget proposal compare to Baker’s final budget plan? See six key areas.

How much is changing now that Governor Maura Healey has taken office? Her new budget proposal is offering an early indication.

Suffolk County sheriff admits to violating state law by hiring niece, asking subordinates for child care
Steven W. Tompkins paid a $12,300 civil penalty, but in an interview with the Globe, he disputed some of the allegations made by the State Ethics Commission.

This Ohio trial has big implications for corruption and campaign finance law
The former speaker of the Ohio State House is facing federal corruption charges in a trial that has received little national attention but could ultimately have broad implications for campaign finance practices and when public officials can be charged with abusing their office.

James Tellin and John O’Reilly in a 2017 photograph by Seth David Rubin.

In the ‘60s, a gay couple made their Worcester home into a refuge of art and community

Artists John O’Reilly and James Tellin built an extraordinary life together at a time when gay couples rarely lived openly.

Forward Lamar Stevens was the energy player Cleveland inserted to lead the Cavaliers' rally.

Gary Washburn | On Basketball

Celtics fail to finish game with grit as Cavaliers rally for a victory

Grant Williams missed two free throws in the final 0.8 seconds.

Celtics lose to Cavaliers, 118-114, in third straight loss

Monday's victory over the Tigers, started encouragingly enough by Chris Sale, boosted the Red Sox’ spring record to seven wins, zero losses, and three ties.

Yeah, it’s just spring training, but there is value in the seven victories the Red Sox have strung together

The Red Sox are the lone team without a loss this spring.

Peter Abraham: Chris Sale happy to start over for the Sox after a 2022 lost to a series of misfortunate events

Aaron Rodgers's time in Green Bay could be up, and if so, he could land with the Jets.

ben volin | on football

How will the NFL quarterback market shake out? Here’s an educated guess.

As many as 17 teams could be making moves at quarterback, so there is a lot to follow this offseason.

Opinion

A tile was missing from the ceiling above a set of stairs at the MBTA subway station in Harvard Square in Cambridge on March 2.

A full plate of disasters awaits T’s safety czar

A falling ceiling panel that nearly hit a passenger is just the latest symptom of the system’s crying need for leadership.

Road pricing is back on the agenda in Mass., as Rhode Island’s toll program remains mired in legal woes

If the Supreme Court ends affirmative action in college admissions, diversity could be expanded

In North End, a bone to pick either with Wu or with outdoor dining

MARCELA GARCÍA

Let’s go, Brandon: Meet Boston’s bold school committee member

A protester holds signs in support of supervised injection sites in Philadelphia.

The Emancipator

The Black opioid crisis reveals that barriers to treatment must come down

Urban Black communities are now ground zero for overdose deaths, yet Black people don’t get the same access to life saving medication. Systemic racism in healthcare is making this epidemic deadlier.

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Special reports

photo illustration of David Sabatini. photo by Jonathan Wiggs /Globe Staff

Spotlight Report: Fate and the fallen star

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

Members of the 2001 Patriots team that won the franchise’s first title.

Darkness on the edge of the Patriots dynasty

More recent News

Fairhaven woman reported missing after taking dog out early Monday

Anapaula Huggins, 43, left with her home on Raymond Street with her dog and was last seen on video surveillance around 7:30 a.m. on Manhattan Avenue near Pope Beach, officials said.

Pop music’s Peter Asher is the narrator of his own ‘60s adventure
The singer/producer/manager's colorful career has included friendships with the Beatles, Rolling Stones, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Marianne Faithful, and many more. He'll be sharing plenty of anecdotes and singing a few songs at upcoming appearances in Plainville and Portsmouth, N.H.

A utility plan to replace gas with climate-friendly fuels is deeply flawed, according to new report
Using so-called green hydrogen to heat homes and other buildings would require so much electricity to simply manufacture the gas that it would consume all the wind power Massachusetts expects to be generating by the end of the decade, a new report concludes.

Woman almost hit by MBTA ceiling panel ‘grateful’ she wasn’t seriously hurt
“As scary as it was, I can acknowledge that it could have been worse,” said Cianna Navarro, who was almost hit by the roughly 25-pound panel in Harvard station last week.

Woman known as ‘Granby Girl’ identified decades after her killing
Authorities on Monday revealed the identity of a 28-year-old woman found shot to death in Granby in 1978 as Patricia Ann Tucker. Officials said her husband at the time, who died in a Massachusetts prison in 1996, is a person of interest in her death.

christopher l. gasper

If the Bruins don’t win the Stanley Cup, they will be the 2007 Patriots
It's unfortunate and unfair, but history does not celebrate regular-season success unless it's followed by a championship.

Boston Globe Spotlight Team

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Recommended reads

Bonnie Donohue fell and knocked out her teeth in December after stumbling over a "rumble strip" that the city of Boston installed near her city-permitted parking area on Summer Street. She blames the city for her ordeal and thinks it should cover the $30,000 cost of dental implants.

A corrugated path, two knocked-out teeth, and a $30,000 dental bill

Bonnie Donohue thinks the City of Boston should be held responsible for her injuries because of the way it configured the area next to the roadway outside her building.

STAT

With a push from pharma, new weight loss drugs are changing the narrative on obesity
A two-part message is permeating the halls of medicine and the fabric of society, sliding into medical school lectures, pediatricians’ offices, happy hours, and social feeds: Obesity is a chronic biological disease — and it’s treatable with a new class of medications.

Innovation economy

The extreme South Shore: Why these Boston tech entrepreneurs are working from Puerto Rico
They’re taking advantage of post-pandemic flexibility, tax incentives, and nice weather.

It’s Girl Scout cookie season in Mass. and ... this flavor is the one that sold out?
No, it’s not your beloved Thin Mints or Peanut Butter Patties.

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Culture & Lifestyle

James Taylor (left) and Peter Asher in December 1969.

Pop music’s Peter Asher is the narrator of his own ‘60s adventure

Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film "Raging Bull."

Our movie critic is a sucker for boxing movies. Here are 5 favorites.

Zac Brown of the Zac Brown Band performed in Nashville on New Year's Eve 2022.

Zac Brown Band will headline concert to mark Boston Marathon bombing 10th anniversary

From left: Suki Waterhouse, Will Harrison, Josh Whitehouse, Sebastian Chacon, Riley Keough, and Sam Claflin, in "Daisy Jones & the Six."

‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ goes its own way just enough to avoid being secondhand news

Special Projects

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Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

Back to Boston

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

President Biden delivered remarks on the economy on Oct. 26, 2022, in Washington, D.C., where he outlined his plan to to target and end "junk fees."

Rachelle G. Cohen

Biden is right about junk fees — Americans are tired of being played for suckers

As long as paper checks remain a thing, banks need to fight fraud

A man sits on a picnic table with a view of downtown Cleveland in 2014. Conspiracy theorists are increasingly convinced the concept of a “15-minute city” is the latest plot to curtail individual freedoms. But urban experts say the design principle embraced by cities, including Cleveland, is simply about building more compact, walkable communities where people are less reliant on cars.

Carlo Ratti and Robert Muggah

The pushback against the 15-minute city

Wen Fan and Juliet Schor

US has an overwork problem. A four-day workweek can fix it.

Pearl, a 10-day-old newborn twin, is burped by a registered nurse after a feeding at Emerson Hospital.

License midwives to help struggling birth centers

Wei Huang applies the final press on Army dress pants in the factory in Lawrence.

IDEAS | JOAN VENNOCHI

Threading the needle to keep clothing manufacturing alive in Massachusetts

Metro

Days after testifying to R.I. lawmakers, the Strong family is homeless again

Unlike other states, no-fault evictions are not sealed in Rhode Island -- the the one on the Strong family’s record is making it nearly impossible for them to find a home.

How does Healey’s budget proposal compare to Baker’s final budget plan? See six key areas.

How much is changing now that Governor Maura Healey has taken office? Her new budget proposal is offering an early indication.

Wrentham finalizes Vision of Tomorrow master plan

The comprehensive plan provides goals and strategies in areas ranging from economic development to land use, housing, transportation, and open space and recreation.

Leominster man charged with attacking flight attendants, trying to open emergency exit door on LA to Boston flight

Passengers tackled the man, who was restrained with the flight crew’s assistance, prosecutors said.

Sports

Monday's victory over the Tigers, started encouragingly enough by Chris Sale, boosted the Red Sox’ spring record to seven wins, zero losses, and three ties.

Yeah, it’s just spring training, but there is value in the seven victories the Red Sox have strung together

The Red Sox are the lone team without a loss this spring.

Forward Lamar Stevens was the energy player Cleveland inserted to lead the Cavaliers' rally.

Gary Washburn | On Basketball

Celtics fail to finish game with grit as Cavaliers rally for a victory

Grant Williams missed two free throws in the final 0.8 seconds.

Williams missed two free throws in Monday's loss.

Watch: Grant Williams’s ill-advised trash talk backfires in Celtics’ OT loss to Cavaliers

Cameras caught Williams telling Cavs’ star Donovan Mitchell “I’m going to make them both” as he approached the free-throw line with 0.8 seconds remaining in a tie game.

BOYS' BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP

Winchester was the feel-good story of the tournament, but Waltham boys’ basketball was more concerned with defense than narratives

CAVALIERS 118, CELTICS 114

Missed opportunities for the Celtics in third straight loss go beyond Grant Williams’s free throws

Women: UConn 67, Villanova 56

No. 7 UConn tops No. 10 Villanova, earns Big East women’s title

Business

Days after testifying to R.I. lawmakers, the Strong family is homeless again

Unlike other states, no-fault evictions are not sealed in Rhode Island -- the the one on the Strong family’s record is making it nearly impossible for them to find a home.

Biden will seek Medicare changes in new budget

President Biden has started to unveil parts of his budget proposal being released later this week.

Powell to face Senate grilling on Fed rates and inflation

Zelensky vows not to retreat from Ukrainian city of Bakhmut

magazine

My first meeting with Afghan women when I was deployed with the Air Force gave me hope

3D-printed shoes from artist Sebastian Errazuriz are part of the Peabody Essex Museum's collection. The museum will reopen its Fashion & Design Gallery.

YOUR WEEK AHEAD

Five things to do for fun in and around Boston, March 6-12

An alleged drug trafficker, a detective trying to take him down, and the woman caught in the middle

The strange story of the man behind the popularization of ‘resilience thinking’

metro

Police are searching for Anapaula Huggins, 43, a Fairhaven woman who went missing while walking her dog near Pope Beach on Monday morning.

Fairhaven woman reported missing after taking dog out early Monday

Everett School Committee won’t renew contract of superintendent who accused mayor of racism

UMass Blarney Blowout raises concerns about ‘borg’ drinking fad

sports

Bishop Feehan's Mary Daley collected an offensive rebound during the Shamrocks' second-round home win over Franklin.

Second-seeded Bishop Feehan girls basketball starts spreading the ball after slow start and solves No. 15 Franklin

If the Celtics are better with Derrick White on the floor, why did the guard sit so much in crunch time?

Seahawks, QB Geno Smith agree on three-year deal

business

A JetBlue plane taxied outside of Terminal 5 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

JetBlue-Spirit deal faces DOJ antitrust suit this week

UMass Boston’s first on-campus dorm to be named after former chancellor Keith Motley and his wife

Requirements for Made in the USA label getting tighter

politics

President Biden.

Biden will seek Medicare changes in new budget

This Ohio trial has big implications for corruption and campaign finance law

DeSantis to argue US should be like Florida ahead of 2024 bid

Nation

Senator Bill Cowsert speaks in support of SR 140 in the Senate chambers during crossover day at the Georgia State Capitol on March 6, in Atlanta.

All bets are off: Georgia lawmakers nix legal sports betting

Oklahomans head to polls for one issue: legal marijuana

Mayor Adams to New York City shoppers: Drop that mask

World

United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

US defense secretary makes unannounced visit to Baghdad

Malnutrition rises in pregnant women in 12 at-risk countries

Indonesia landslides kill 10, rescuers search for 42 missing

opinion

Emily Kohrs, 30, spoke with reporters from MSNBC about her role as the foreperson of a Georgia special grand jury investigating potential 2020 election meddling by Donald Trump.

Giggling grand juror has dishonored and set back the process

Gen Z is more than the sum of its social anxieties

A renewed opportunity to make ourselves aware of end-of-life care

lifestyle

TikTok celebrity Coinneach MacLeod, a baker who shares recipes and stories from his hometown in the Hebrides off the coast of Scotland.

The TikTok star known as ‘The Hebridean Baker’ dishes on the story behind traditional Scottish cuisine

Women’s History Month events include panels with local female changemakers, a festival featuring women-directed films, and art celebrating important women

We’ve gained weight — as a couple

food & dining

A new single-malt American whiskey from South Boston’s GrandTen Distilling, Chapter 1: A Long Time Coming.

South Boston’s GrandTen Distilling launches line of American Whiskey

It’s Girl Scout cookie season in Mass. and ... this flavor is the one that sold out?

Where going out is a deal

travel

Carmen Santos thought she lost her engagement ring in an Enterprise rental.

$452 bill charged after requesting help for lost engagement ring

Cool classes on the Cape, a winter fest in Portland, and personal alarms for travel and daily life

Howie Day on Alaska, not living in a bubble, and how to make easy iced coffee on the road

Arts

Joseph Mallord William Turner’s “Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway,” 1844, was painted as London's skies were being choked by industrial smog.

An early climate warning lies in the paintings of JMW Turner and Claude Monet, new research shows

At the MFA, a small photography show leaves a big impression

Intimate moments of self-reflection in seemingly ordinary spaces in Helena Wurzel’s solo exhibition

Books

In ‘Liliana’s Invincible Summer,’ Cristina Rivera Garza gives a searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact

Jenny Odell on breaking free of the ultimate tyranny in ‘Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock’

NoViolet Bulawayo on horror stories and talking animals in Zimbabwe’s culture

Movies

Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film "Raging Bull."

Our movie critic is a sucker for boxing movies. Here are 5 favorites.

‘Return to Seoul’ is a patience-testing trip

New documentary ‘American Bolshevik’ looks at the vilification of the coyote

Television

Jimmy Kimmel returns to host the Oscars Sunday night on ABC.

This week’s TV: The Oscars watch begins, ‘Perry Mason’ returns, and Mel Brooks makes ‘History’ (again)

How a Boston comedian and duck boat tour guide has ended up on the news dozens of times

On ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Chiefs’ Travis Kelce pokes fun at rival brother in opening monologue

music

The Boston Symphony Orchestra performed "The Passion of Octavius Catto" with pianist and composer Uri Caine, vocalist Barbara Walker, the Catto Chorus, and conductor André Raphel.

An invitation to learn more was bundled into ‘The Passion of Octavius Catto,’ and Lawrence Brownlee’s ‘Rising’ recital program

Pop music’s Peter Asher is the narrator of his own ‘60s adventure

Lynyrd Skynyrd founding member Gary Rossington dead at 71

Theater/Dance

Scott Miller, Marcus Adolphy, Clare Perkins, and the company of "The Wife of Willesden."

A free spirit soars beyond convention in ART’s ‘The Wife of Willesden’

Broadway In Boston announces 2023-24 season

Hoops and history converge in Lyric Stage’s ‘The Great Leap’

globe local

The Wrentham Country Store on Route 140.

Wrentham finalizes Vision of Tomorrow master plan

With new ownership comes new beginnings for Bay State Banner

The show must go on — outdoors

Obituaries

Richard Rosenberg in 1995.

Former Bank of America CEO Richard Rosenberg dies at 92

Brian Donnelly, former US representative and ambassador, dies at 76

Judy Heumann, disability rights activist, dies at age 75