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Husband of ‘Lady of the Dunes’ killed her in Provincetown in 1974, DA concludes

Monday’s announcement by Cape and Islands District Attorney Robert Galibois marked the end of a case that took a half-century to close, and had only been solved with help of modern DNA technology.

Mass. transportation secretary is stepping down
Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Gina Fiandaca is stepping down effective Sept. 11, according to a Monday announcement from the administration of Governor Maura Healey.

March 4 trial date set for Trump in federal case charging him with plotting to overturn election

The judge denied a defense request to push the trial back until April 2026, but also set it later than the January date proposed by special counsel Jack Smith’s team.

Trump arraignment in Georgia election case is set for Sept. 6 Tracker: All the investigations into Donald Trump

Is there a road to recovery from long COVID?

Some people with long COVID get at least partially better, while many continue to suffer.

Are we actually experiencing a COVID spike? Take a look at the data.

13 youths arrested after brawls at Boston Common cinema, South Bay mall
Thirteen juveniles are facing charges in connection with two brawls Sunday at the at the Boston Common movie theater and the South Bay shopping center in Dorchester, where teens have repeatedly been arrested, police said.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

IPO outlook brightens for startups

Three tech firms, including Boston’s Klaviyo, filed to go public last week, kindling hope that the long drought for initial public offerings is near an end.

City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson mugged while visiting tent encampment near Mass. and Cass

Block Island police officer accused of assault during arrest of Connecticut man

Pope says ‘backward’ US conservatives have replaced faith with ideology

Auction website restaurantequipment.bid is taking bids for hundreds of fixtures and pieces of equipment that were housed inside the mammoth Natick Mall Wegmans store until it shut its doors last month.

Want to take a piece of Wegmans home? Here’s your chance.

You can stock up on fixtures and equipment from the grocery chain — including neon signs, deli slicers, and a pizza oven — for as low as a buck.

The forgotten history of Block Island’s Harborside Inn
Before it was known as the Harborside Inn, it was the Pequot House, the Waukesha, and the notorious Royal Hotel, which was rumored to be a brothel — and was maybe haunted as well.

Fire at historic Harborside Inn on Block Island tears through storied building Photos and videos from the fire

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

A luxurious new way for Bostonians to fly to Bermuda, with a hefty price tag to match
For $2,000 roundtrip, you can experience BermudAir’s new “aisle class" — suites that take up the entire cabin and provide an "exceptional level of comfort and privacy.”

Patriots notebook

Bill Belichick explains why the Patriots traded for two offensive linemen with the season two weeks away
Tyrone Wheatley Jr. and Vederian Lowe could help shore up a depleted line, a position where depth has been an issue all summer.

Tracking all the Patriots’ roster cuts ahead of Tuesday’s 4 p.m. deadline

"Dropkick Murphy: A Legendary Life" is a new book written by Globe staff reporter Emily Sweeney.

Read an excerpt from ‘Dropkick Murphy: A Legendary Life’ by Emily Sweeney

This book chronicles the life of Dr. John “Dropkick” Murphy, a professional wrestler who ran a detox center for alcoholics in Acton.

Charles Stark "Doc" Draper’s son, James Draper (second from right), jokes with his great-granddaughter, Zoya Draper (second from left), who used to be scared of the mannequin of her grandfather. It was restored by Draper's nephew, David Capodilupo (far left) after recovering it from storage in a barn.

‘Mad Men’ meets MIT: The story behind a long-forgotten mannequin now at Draper Lab

An unusual statue now on display at Cambridge’s Draper Labs shows that the MIT scientists who helped put men on the moon sure knew how to party.

Strafford County officials said the office of Sheriff Mark Brave was on the verge of a mass resignation in August 2023 as he repeatedly refused to take a leave of absence as he faced criminal allegations of theft and deception.

Sheriff Mark Brave’s office nearly ‘imploded’ before he stepped aside

County officials said the situation had become “critical” and would have deteriorated rapidly if the sheriff of Strafford County, N.H., had stayed in office “even for a couple more days.”

From left: Ken Jeong, Zack Calderon, and Sam Richardson in the lighthearted whodunit "The Afterparty."

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: Pirates on Netflix, living to 100, and the pleasures of comic whodunits

Now’s a good time to be a fan of light murder mysteries. “Only Murders in the Building,” “The Afterparty,” and “Poker Face” are shows that provide the satisfaction of solving crimes without having to deal with the usual blood, cynicism, and existential challenges.

Opinion

A statue of John F. Kennedy by Isabel McIlvain outside the State House in Boston. The memorial was designed in 1988 and dedicated on May 29, 1990, the date that would have been Kennedy's 73d birthday.

They can put a man on the moon, but they can’t find a better State House spot for JFK statue?

As the real estate mantra goes, what’s important here is location, location, location.

Work isn’t working for a lot of America

Mary Ann D'Urso

The morning I became part of the latest trend: quiet firing

IDEAS | DANIEL P. DAIN

Boston’s future depends on whether we remember lessons from the past

Victory, not détente, is the right American strategy toward Beijing

News you can use

Bright planets and a blue moon: A fall stargazing guide for beginners
Arriving the night of Wednesday, Aug. 30, is a rare second full moon this month, also known as a Blue Moon, which will be even closer to Earth than the first full moon in August.

Are we actually experiencing a COVID spike? Take a look at the data.
Plenty of data remain publicly accessible to determine whether COVID is actually on the upswing.

A back-to-school tech tuneup: Here’s what to know about your devices and software
It’s time to prep your gadgets and programs for the year ahead.

More recent News

Child injured in Marlborough hit-and-run; SUV driver sought by police

At around 11:45 a.m., a westbound driver in an SUV hit a child on a bicycle near 300 Boston Post Road East, then fled the scene, taking a right turn into the back entrance of Ghiloni Park, police said.

Spanish prosecutors open inquiry into soccer president who kissed player after Women’s World Cup
Spanish prosecutors said that they had opened an investigation into whether Luis Rubiales could be charged with committing an act of sexual aggression after he forcibly kissed one of the female team’s players.

Why does Providence have so many 18-plus nightclubs?
With thousands of students returning to the city this fall, establishments are once again getting ready for a boon in business, one that often comes from Rhode Island’s younger crowds.

Four people facing illegal gun charges in connection with shooting that wounded eight at Caribbean celebration due in court
Three men and one teenager who allegedly played a role in gunfire that wounded eight people Saturday and sent hundreds attending the early morning J’ouvert celebration running for their safety are due in court Monday.

As climate warming drives more extreme weather, ‘everything we care about is on the line’
Even for climate scientists who have long warned that climate-fueled extreme weather was coming, the onslaught of recent crises has been nothing short of shocking.

Two people shot at Worcester Caribbean festival, leaving ‘scar’ on city, mayor says

The gunfire broke out Sunday around 6 p.m. at Institute Park, where the celebration was being held, police said. The shootings led to a chaotic scene, with the large crowd “attempting to run to safety,” police said.

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Dr. Robbie Goldstein (left) and Dr. Rochelle Walensky, (right), on a CDC visit to a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health site in Spokane, Wash. in February.

How an offer by Dr. Rochelle Walensky to donate blood sparked an eight-year mission to change the nation’s antiquated rules

New rules announced earlier this summer that open blood donation to millions of gay and bisexual men recently went into effect.

New tech platform helps independent musicians grow their fanbase
Folk-rock singer Chance Emerson recently launched ForeverFan, a platform that helps independent musicians better communicate with their fanbase.

Cambridge doesn’t allow chickens. This couple are fighting to keep theirs.
Susan and Robert Filene hired a lawyer to appeal the city's fines and have been inviting Cambridge officials over to meet their chickens — six city councilors and the mayor have visited so far.

In Marblehead, furor and speculation reign over an ousted school superintendent
Just as school boards have become the center of culture wars across the country, so too have superintendents, caught up in clashes among political factions around issues such as book bans, critical race theory, sex education, and gender identity.

Culture & Lifestyle

Singer Molly Rankin and lead guitarist Alec O'Hanley perform with Alvvays at Leader Bank Pavilion.

At Leader Bank Pavilion, Alex G and Alvvays hold an indie rock summit

Because of the strikes, few series are returning this fall, but season six of "The Crown," with Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana, is likely to be an exception.

On TV, fall will lack its usual grandeur

“New Growth 2” by Gio Swaby, 2021. Collection of Rasheed Newson.

At Peabody Essex Museum, Gio Swaby’s virtuosic portraits of Black women in thread and fabric

Jeremy Eichler is the author of "Time's Echo." He will be at Brookline Booksmith this Thursday at 7 p.m. .

Author readings around Boston Aug. 27-Sept. 2

Special Projects

Photo Illustration

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.

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

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

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

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Boys sold packets of tissue paper to a man along a street in Amritsar, India, on July 28.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Should children be allowed to work?

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy talked to members of the media on Wednesday after the first debate of the GOP primary season hosted by Fox News in Milwaukee.

Why Vivek Ramaswamy is catching on in New Hampshire and beyond

Ayana Parsons, a partner at the Fearless Fund, spoke during a news conference on Aug. 10 in New York. Attorneys for the Atlanta-based venture capital firm being sued over a grant program investing in Black women have vowed to fight back against the lawsuit, calling it misguided and frivolous.

Workplace is the next battleground in affirmative action fight

The area known as Mass. and Cass.

With crisis at Mass. and Cass, officials can’t only plan for tomorrow

Luna, 19 months, her brother Fritz, 17, and their mother Sergeline (not pictured) were placed in a hotel room in Boston, May 2. The migrants from Haiti arrived from the Boston Medical Center’s temporary shelter in a waiting room there.

Timothy Scalona

The myth of right to shelter in Massachusetts

"This city is special," the author writes, "and Boston, so restrained in emotion, deserves to hear this more often."

IDEAS | OMER AZIZ

My farewell love letter to Boston

Metro

Tufts resident assistants set to strike on freshman move-in day

The strike could impact hundreds of students on their first day on campus.

Husband of ‘Lady of the Dunes’ killed her in Provincetown in 1974, DA concludes

Monday’s announcement by Cape and Islands District Attorney Robert Galibois marked the end of a case that took a half-century to close, and had only been solved with help of modern DNA technology.

Mass. transportation secretary is stepping down

Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Gina Fiandaca is stepping down effective Sept. 11, according to a Monday announcement from the administration of Governor Maura Healey.

13 youths arrested after brawls at Boston Common cinema, South Bay mall

Thirteen juveniles are facing charges in connection with two brawls Sunday at the at the Boston Common movie theater and the South Bay shopping center in Dorchester, where teens have repeatedly been arrested, police said.

Sports

Bill Belichick and the Patriots are finalizing the regular-season roster.

Tracking all the Patriots’ roster cuts ahead of Tuesday’s 4 p.m. deadline

NFL teams must get their rosters down to 53 players as the regular season closes in.

Alice Alberts won the 2023 Boston Triathlon's Olympic Triathlon division on Sunday.

Boston Triathlon

Boston Triathlon celebrates 15th anniversary; Breno Melo and Alice Alberts claim winner’s medals

Melo won the Olympic triathlon's men’s division in 1 hour, 53 minutes, and 29 seconds, with Alberts finishing just 18 seconds back to win the women’s crown.

The president of the Spanish soccer federation Luis Rubiales spoke during an emergency general assembly meeting in Las Rozas, on Friday, Aug. 25.

Spanish prosecutors open inquiry into soccer president who kissed player after Women’s World Cup

Spanish prosecutors said that they had opened an investigation into whether Luis Rubiales could be charged with committing an act of sexual aggression after he forcibly kissed one of the female team’s players.

Basketball World Cup: Austin Reaves helps lead US past Greece and into the second round

Patriots notebook

Bill Belichick explains why the Patriots traded for two offensive linemen with the season two weeks away

Red Sox vs. Astros | 7:10 p.m. (NESN)

Game 132: Astros at Red Sox lineups and notes

Business

Tufts resident assistants set to strike on freshman move-in day

The strike could impact hundreds of students on their first day on campus.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

IPO outlook brightens for startups

Three tech firms, including Boston’s Klaviyo, filed to go public last week, kindling hope that the long drought for initial public offerings is near an end.

Want to take a piece of Wegmans home? Here’s your chance.

Why does Providence have so many 18-plus nightclubs?

magazine

Pot prices have tanked. Dispensaries are closing. Is a great crash coming?

Ysabel Garcia at her happy place, The Artist Cafe in Springfield.

Ysabel Garcia knows the danger of a mental health crisis. She has a lifesaving message.

This week's daters: Liz and Jon.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I could definitely spot her smile in the crowd’

Shutting up and listening is a superpower

metro

Police tape remained near Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Institute Park after two people were wounded in Worcester on Sunday when gunfire broke out during the city’s Caribbean Festival.

Two people shot at Worcester Caribbean festival, leaving ‘scar’ on city, mayor says

R.I. congressional race growing contentious in closing days

Norfolk DA issues statement regarding witness harassment in Karen Read case

sports

"Dropkick Murphy: A Legendary Life" is a new book written by Globe staff reporter Emily Sweeney.

Read an excerpt from ‘Dropkick Murphy: A Legendary Life’ by Emily Sweeney

Rockland’s Megan Khang wins her first LPGA title, holding off World No. 4 Jin Young Ko in a playoff

Viktor Hovland finishes off the best two weeks of his golf career by capturing the FedEx Cup title

business

The exterior of The Royal Hotel on Block Island, circa 1950s.

The forgotten history of Block Island’s Harborside Inn

New tech platform helps independent musicians grow their fanbase

Top US and Chinese commerce officials express support for easier trade, but deep differences remain

politics

Former president Donald Trump.

March 4 trial date set for Trump in federal case charging him with plotting to overturn election

Jan. 6, classified documents, hush money: Tracking the investigations into Donald Trump

Trump arraignment in Georgia election case is set for Sept. 6

Nation

Residents of the Jacksonville community attend a prayer vigil for the victims of Saturday's mass shooting Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023, in Jacksonville, Fla.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis booed at vigil as hundreds mourn more racist killings

Tropical Storm Idalia takes aim at Gulf of Mexico on a possible track toward the US, forecasters say

Judge to hear arguments on Mark Meadows’ request to move Georgia election case to federal court

World

A police tape cordons an area outside a house where Swedish Security Service allegedly arrested two people on suspicions of espionage in a predawn operation in Stockholm, Tuesday, Nov. 22 2022.

Sweden charges man arrested last year in predawn raid with spying for Russia

Greece reinforces firefighting forces to tackle massive blaze in the country’s northeast

China won’t require COVID-19 testing for incoming travelers starting Wednesday

opinion

Councilor Kendra Lara (right) during a Boston City Council meeting about the revised redistricting map in May.

Two views on Councilor Kendra Lara

Citizens’ assembly. Random sample of regular folks. Sounds good.

Doctors shouldn’t be overcharged for electronic payments

lifestyle

They just want to be friends

50th Caribbean American Carnival brings ‘all the flavor’ to Franklin Park

He’s given me a year to move

food & dining

Siblings Sadaf and Maryam serve a customer during an Afghan pop-up dinner at Fiore’s Bakery in July. The event was a fund-raiser for the food business their family hopes to start in Boston.

Through pop-ups, an Afghan family forges a path forward

Boston burrito chain Boloco is closing most of its stores by year’s end

Nan Xiang Express brings its soup dumplings to Chinatown, and ‘Christmas in September’ comes to Allston

travel

A rendering shows BermudAir's "aisle class" cabin. The new airline begins flights between Boston and Bermuda on Aug. 31. Flying in the all-business-section plane will cost $1,000 one way.

A luxurious new way for Bostonians to fly to Bermuda, with a hefty price tag to match

Which coastal Maine town is actually better in the fall? (Hint: It has a fairy-tale castle.)

Provincetown’s Gifford House was on life support. Now the historic inn is making a queer comeback.

Arts

“New Growth 2” by Gio Swaby, 2021. Collection of Rasheed Newson.

At Peabody Essex Museum, Gio Swaby’s virtuosic portraits of Black women in thread and fabric

‘Blue Beetle,’ Latino representation, and the danger of a single superhero story

Jewish Arts Collaborative’s ‘Be the Change’ offers mixed-media public art with mixed results

Books

Angie Kim is the author of “Happiness Falls.”

Who are you? Angie Kim’s riveting new mystery ‘Happiness Falls’ asks more than just whodunit

‘Satisfaction for women is everywhere,’ says E. Jean Carroll, who’s collaborating on a romance novel with Mary Trump

Read an excerpt from ‘Dropkick Murphy: A Legendary Life’ by Emily Sweeney

Movies

Helen Mirren in "Golda."

‘Golda’: When smoke gets in your eyes

Paramount+ releases ‘Good Burger 2′ trailer

Hollywood studios disclose their offer on day 113 of writers strike

Television

From left: Ken Jeong, Zack Calderon, and Sam Richardson in the lighthearted whodunit "The Afterparty."

This week’s TV: Pirates on Netflix, living to 100, and the pleasures of comic whodunits

Bob Barker, courtly host of ‘The Price Is Right,’ has died

Expect animated Barbie series to toy with viewers

music

Chance Emerson, who recently performed at the Newport Folk Festival, is the founder and CEO of ForeverFan.

New tech platform helps independent musicians grow their fanbase

At Leader Bank Pavilion, Alex G and Alvvays hold an indie rock summit

Brandeis plans to shutter PhD programs in music

Theater/Dance

France's Compagnie Käfig performs "Pixel" at Jacob's Pillow in Becket

Dance and digital effects merge in Compagnie Käfig’s imaginative ‘Pixel’ at Jacob’s Pillow

‘The Ding Dongs’: When that doorbell rings, watch out

Old and new at the Pillow

Health

Research nurse Sarah French checks on Rodolfo Almeida of Providence at The Miriam Hospital's new Stephen and Diana Lewinstein Center for Innovative Cancer Research, a clinical area where patients receive investigational cancer treatments.

Changing the landscape of cancer care in R.I.: Lifespan, Brown to seek NCI designation

To better understand alcohol addiction, new research is turning to fruit flies

Stanford president to resign after investigation finds he failed to ‘decisively and forthrightly’ correct research

Obituaries

Mr. Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, addressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, asking him to withdraw the remaining Ukrainian forces from Bakhmut to save their lives, in March.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, renegade mercenary chief who rattled Kremlin

Woody Kaplan, an activist ‘unafraid to stand up for the unpopular,’ dies at 80

Bob Barker, courtly host of ‘The Price Is Right,’ has died