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A button of Tyler Lawrence at a memorial event in Norwood in February. The 13-year-old was fatally shot days earlier on the street in Mattapan.

‘I am who I am — a gangsta.’ The long, sordid history of the man charged in Tyler Lawrence’s killing.

The shooting death of a child — for no apparent reason and with no apparent motive — has shaken the city like few other crimes in modern times.

Jan. 6, Breonna Taylor, and vaccines: Details emerge about why 3 Boston police officers were fired
Mayor Michelle Wu said she was not involved in the termination decisions but she framed them as necessary to uphold the standards of Boston's police department.

Boston formally drops vaccine mandate for some first responders unions

At Wellesley College, a fight over whether to admit Trans men
On Tuesday, its students will vote on a referendum that has divided the campus and goes straight to the issue of Wellesley’s identity as a women’s college.

A pedestrian braved the snow on Orient Street on Tuesday in Worcester.

Over 32,000 without power in Mass. as storm brings heavy snow, strong winds, rain to New England

A lengthy nor’easter brought heavy snow and wind-driven rain to parts of Massachusetts Tuesday, bringing down trees and power lines and forcing schools to close or cancel classes across the state.

See where the power is out in Mass.

School closures in Mass. for Wednesday, March 15

In Western Mass., 18-30 inches of snow reported. See totals for New England.

Photos: Snowstorm buries towns around Massachusetts

Massachusetts providers brace for Texas antiabortion ruling, a threat ‘knocking at our front door’

The judge’s ruling, and the FDA’s response, will largely dictate what the suit might mean for Massachusetts, and there are a variety of possible outcomes.

Texas judge holds key hearing in abortion-pill lawsuit

Changes to abortion access if a Texas ruling bans a drug used in medication abortion.

Four charts that show what’s at stake in the lawsuit targeting medication abortion

DeSantis has promised to make every state like Florida, but Iowans say he’s a little late

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is road-testing a likely presidential campaign that seems all but certain to feature his home state as his wingman.

Banks will be OK. Inflation is still a nasty problem.

The government’s consumer price index report for February showed costs for many goods and services still climbing at a pace that is too fast for comfort.

Justice Department has reportedly opened an investigation into SVB collapse Elizabeth Warren wrote a scathing letter to Silicon Valley Bank’s CEO. Read it here.

After SVB’s collapse, here’s what you need to know about banking

Brockton man ordered held without bail, accused of fatally shooting 14-year-old boy
Prosecutors allege that Justelino Resende, 38, of Brockton, critically wounded Felicia Williams, 39, and killed the teenage boy, identified as Nehemiah Cepeda, whom he had helped raise since he was 2.

Cape and Islands DA Robert Galibois cited for failing to report car crash

R.I. fraudster who faked Marine service and cancer gets nearly 6 years in prison

The Bruins' Charlie Coyle tried to hold off the Blackhawks' MacKenzie Entwistle in the first period.

Blackhawks 6, Bruins 3

Bruins finished off by lowly Blackhawks for first back-to-back regulation losses of the season

The Bruins have gone a lackluster 1-3-0 in their past four games.

Broncos wide receivers Jerry Jeudy (left) and Courtland Sutton (14) could be two potential targets for the Patriots in the trade market.

Ben Volin | On football

Patriots aren’t showing enough urgency to fix their team

The Patriots haven’t made a single consequential addition on offense, unless you count swing tackle Calvin Anderson. (You shouldn’t.)

NFL free agency: Pats re-sign Jabrill Peppers; Aaron Rodgers reveal set for Wednesday?

Patrons get cozy at The Druid in Inman Square.

10 Irish pubs to eat at this St. Patrick’s Day

Where to get your fish and chips, shepherd’s pie, and more.

A guide to celebrating St. Patrick’s Day if you don’t drink

Opinion

In letters sent to House Speaker Ron Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka, State Auditor Diana DiZoglio warned her office’s audit “will include but not be limited to the review of access to budgetary, hiring, spending and procurement information.”

DiZoglio’s audit of Legislature should follow the money

But getting under the hood of lawmakers’ decision-making risks a constitutional breach.

Readers, what does it mean to be a good US citizen?

Michigan is poised to revive compulsory unionism

Stanford Law School disgraces itself

The Silicon Valley Bank collapse wasn’t unique, it was just first

The Emancipator

Who’s going to check them?

Racial equity audits, when done right, can provide the knowledge and data for organizations to make real improvements in racial equity.

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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

Child rescued from underneath fallen tree in Derry, N.H.
A child, who was playing in the snow during Tuesday’s nor’easter, was rescued after they were struck and trapped by a large fallen tree in Derry, N.H., fire officials said.

KEVIN CULLEN

Sixty years after JFK, another US president is going to Ireland
Biden confirmed his planned visit Monday alongside Rishi Sunak, the United Kingdom’s prime minister, in San Diego, where they were meeting about a nuclear submarine deal with Australia.

Mobile sports betting gets off to a rousing start in Massachusetts
Since mobile betting began Friday, more than 400,000 unique accounts were created and more than 8.1 million transactions were made.

Weeks after public outcry, N.H. police chief’s Facebook post rebuking a local restaurant owner is quietly removed

The city manager said the deletion was part of “normal department procedure” for the Franklin Police Department’s activity on social media

Beachfront home collapses into the ocean in Outer Banks, N.C. town
An oceanfront home collapsed into the ocean Monday in the Outer Banks community of Rodanthe, N.C., the fourth seaside home in the small barrier island town in the past year to fall victim to coastal erosion.

Resident doctor in Western Mass. charged with child pornography possession
Dr. Bradford Ferrick, of Amherst and Winchester, was scheduled to make an initial appearance Tuesday in US District Court in Boston on a sole count of possession of child pornography, according to US Attorney Rachael S. Rollins’s office.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Former vice president Mike Pence is acting against the American public’s right to know as much as possible about the most serious assault ever on this nation’s democracy.

Mike Pence, a profile in cowardice

A long line of customers waited outside a Silicon Valley Bank branch in Wellesley on Monday morning.

A shock to the banking system

Charlestown is too isolated

Ian Roders fastened the hands to a clock at Electric Time Company in Medfield on Nov. 1, 2022.

Readers throw cloak over bid to make daylight saving time year-round

The iSync Wave EEG helmet, seen here on the head of an attendee at the 2023 CES tech show, is part of a new category of "neurotherapeutics" devices.

IDEAS | EVAN SELINGER

What if companies could read your mind? Neurotechnology is coming, and your cognitive liberty is at stake.

The Central Business District and the Chinatown in Singapore, which has an autocratic government and is known for its cleanliness and low rates of crime.

IDEAS | JASON MIKLIAN

Crazy rich autocracies: What are they doing better than democracies?

Metro

Over 32,000 without power in Mass. as storm brings heavy snow, strong winds, rain to New England

A lengthy nor’easter brought heavy snow and wind-driven rain to parts of Massachusetts Tuesday, bringing down trees and power lines and forcing schools to close or cancel classes across the state.

COMMENTARY | MICHAEL FINE AND NICK LANDEKIC

Three years in, COVID is not over

Although the United States plans to end the public health emergency in May, COVID immunity wanes quickly among older adults, who may still want to consider boosters and masking to help minimize their risks.

‘I am who I am — a gangsta.’ The long, sordid history of the man charged in Tyler Lawrence’s killing.

The shooting death of a child — for no apparent reason and with no apparent motive — has shaken the city like few other crimes in modern times.

As snowstorm batters New England, these maps show how much more snow to expect

A powerful storm barreled through New England Tuesday, bringing strong winds, heavy snow, and rain to the region and leaving thousands across Massachusetts without power.

Sports

Broncos wide receivers Jerry Jeudy (left) and Courtland Sutton (14) could be two potential targets for the Patriots in the trade market.

Ben Volin | On football

Patriots aren’t showing enough urgency to fix their team

The Patriots haven’t made a single consequential addition on offense, unless you count swing tackle Calvin Anderson. (You shouldn’t.)

The Bruins' Charlie Coyle tried to hold off the Blackhawks' MacKenzie Entwistle in the first period.

Blackhawks 6, Bruins 3

Bruins finished off by lowly Blackhawks for first back-to-back regulation losses of the season

The Bruins have gone a lackluster 1-3-0 in their past four games.

Jabrill Peppers is back for another stint with the Patriots.

NFL free agency: Pats re-sign Jabrill Peppers; Aaron Rodgers reveal set for Wednesday?

We’re tracking the latest news from around the league ahead of the official start of free agency on Wednesday.

‘It’s hard to turn down Las Vegas’: Jakobi Meyers, the Patriots’ leading receiver, is signing with Raiders

Cowboys acquire Stephon Gilmore for fifth-round pick

Manchester City’s Erling Haaland scores five goals, sets Champions League records

Business

Despite market slump, high rates dim homebuyer affordability

Homeownership is likely to remain a pipe dream for many Americans this spring homebuying season.

MGB-backed biotech raises $85m to develop drugs for diseases that cause scarring in organs

Mediar Therapeutics also names Rahul Ballal as the Cambridge company’s new CEO.

Banks will be OK. Inflation is still a nasty problem.

Emerson Hospital president takes charge at Mass. Health & Hospital Association

magazine

There’s an easy way to retrain the nasty internal voice telling you you’re not good enough

This week's daters: Sydney and Matthew.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I was 15 minutes late ... I did feel bad about that’

Boston Ballet’s "Don Quixote" opens on Thursday.

YOUR WEEK AHEAD

Five things to do for fun in and around Boston, March 13-19

Clockwise from top left: A photograph from the Todd Webb in Africa exhibition; Jamez McCorkle in "Omar"; Simone Leigh’s Cupboard IX; a scene from Justin Peck's ballet "Everywhere We Go"; and The Great Mystery by Kent Monkman.

30 of the best dance, theater, book, art, and classical music events

metro

Patricia Montalvo wants her after-school lessons to be a safe space for multilingual learners to practice speaking English. “Make those mistakes,” she encourages youngsters. “We’ll learn from each other.”

How federal COVID aid is uplifting English learners in Central Falls

School closures in Mass. for Wednesday, March 15

Child rescued from underneath fallen tree in Derry, N.H.

sports

Matt Ryan had the league’s second-most giveaways (18), was sacked 40 times, and benched twice in his only season in Indianapolis.

Colts to release 37-year-old QB Matt Ryan and save $17 million in salary-cap space

Versatility is big for Bobby Dalbec, the tallest to play shortstop for the Red Sox

Princeton is among potential bracket-busters in the women’s NCAA tournament

business

The Department of Justice is said to investigating the Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse. Some of its executives sold stock pursuant to insider selling plans that set the timing of such sales in advance.

US said to begin probe of Silicon Valley Bank collapse

A running list of layoffs in the Boston-area tech sector

Waltham distributor Slade Gorton sold

politics

A US military vehicle, part of a convoy, arrives near Dahuk, Iraq, Oct. 21, 2019.

Why US troops remain in Iraq 20 years after ‘shock and awe’

DeSantis has promised to make every state like Florida, but Iowans say he’s a little late

Biden issues order to strengthen gun background checks

Nation

People march through downtown Amarillo to protest a lawsuit to ban the abortion drug mifepristone on Feb. 11, in Amarillo, Texas.

Abortion pill challenge goes before judge in Texas

New Mexico enacts law to keep guns away from children

At Wellesley College, a fight over whether to admit Trans men

World

Honduras' President Xiomara Castro.

Honduras will seek ties with China, spurning Taiwan

US says Russian warplane hits American drone over Black Sea

Flood of Russians alters life for countries that took them in

opinion

The exterior of Willimansett Center East, one four Western Massachusetts nursing homes slated to close this spring, in Chicopee.

Nursing home woes are a grim window into who we are, what we value

Confronting the teen mental health crisis, one anonymous post at a time

Making daylight saving time permanent would mean losing sleep — and lives

lifestyle

Texas Southern players punched their ticket to March Madness by defeating Grambling State on Saturday.

March Madness is for all levels of basketball enthusiasts

The warm return of ‘Ted Lasso’

How do we explain her past in pornography?

food & dining

Patrons get cozy at The Druid in Inman Square.

10 Irish pubs to eat at this St. Patrick’s Day

A new strawberry just dropped

Make the rounds during Dine Out Boston

travel

Ice prepares to greet admirers at the Kitty Cat Cafe in Peabody. He was recently adopted and will soon be in a permanent home.

Coffee, tea, or cats? A new cafe in Peabody caters to feline fanatics.

The Newport Car Museum is ‘not only a car museum . . . it’s an art museum’

A Costa Rican getaway turns into a 17-hour road trip to Texas

Arts

Nona Hershey, “Sensors 12 (Pyrocumulus),” 2022. The watercolor, graphite powder, and gouache collage is part of the “Spatial Disclosures” exhibit at SOPRAFINAGallery.

Heads in the cloud: ‘Spatial Disclosures’ considers shared consciousness

Peeking behind the scenes of ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’

At the MFA, enslaved Black potters’ work brings lives into the light in ‘Hear Me Now’

Books

Mr. Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994.

Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel laureate and critic of postwar Japan, dies at 88

Nancy Hopkins and her colleagues challenged a culture of male dominance at MIT in the 1990s — and won. Kate Zernike’s ‘The Exceptions’ tells us how.

Sabrina Orah Mark seeks the place where old and new collide

Movies

Guillermo del Toro on the set of "Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio," 2022.

Peeking behind the scenes of ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’

How long does a woman get to enjoy her so-called prime? A year? A week? A single golden hour?

At glitzy Oscar parties: Casey Affleck’s about to start filming in Boston; Kraft still hoping Brady will retire a Patriot

Television

Jeremy Allen White in "The Bear."

Now that ‘The Bear’ is a hit, expect a bit more in season 2

How long does a woman get to enjoy her so-called prime? A year? A week? A single golden hour?

The warm return of ‘Ted Lasso’

music

On Thursday night in Symphony Hall, (from left to right) conductor Thomas Wilkins, guest artist Earl Howard, composer Anthony Davis, and clarinet soloist Anthony McGill took a bow after the BSO's performance of Davis's work "You Have the Right to Remain Silent."

A clarinet’s right to remain silent, and to speak out

Bill Janovitz goes deep to tell the story of Leon Russell, a rock showman teetering on a tightrope

In demand and on the move, Ambrose Akinmusire’s explorations lead to Boston and beyond

Theater/Dance

Rebecca Bradshaw

Rebecca Bradshaw named artistic director at Gloucester Stage

Bill T. Jones’s ‘Curriculum II’ puts us to the test

For comedian Fortune Feimster, ‘live, laugh, love’ is a way of life

globe local

Removing the High Street dam on the Town River in Bridgewater will open the path for migratory fish to get to spawning grounds upriver.

High Street will be shut down as bridge is replaced, dam demolished

‘Remember that time when there was nowhere else we needed to be?’

The Argument: Should Massachusetts provide rental assistance for all who qualify?

Obituaries

From left, Yankees Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, and Mr. Pepitone posed for a photo after their 8-3 win over the Cardinals Oct. 14, 1964, in the sixth game of the World Series in St. Louis.

Joe Pepitone, rowdy star when the Yankees faded, dies at 82

Patricia Schroeder, congresswoman who wielded barbed wit, dies at 82

Dick Fosbury, who reinvented high jumping with his ‘Fosbury Flop,’ dies at 76