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The legacy of 10-time pro-bowler Matthew Slater

WATCH: The Patriots special teamer has retired after 16 seasons. Columnist Chad Finn reflects on his career and predicts the team's future without him.

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WATCH: The Patriots special teamer has retired after 16 seasons. Columnist Chad Finn reflects on his career and predicts the team's future without him.

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Brian Walshe, charged with killing wife Ana, sentenced to 37 months in prison in art fraud case

Walshe's wife, Ana, had described her husband as a loving partner in a 2021 letter urging a federal judge to spare him any prison time for art fraud.

Steward Health Care should get out of Mass. hospital market, Healey says
The governor gave Steward three days to provide critical financial documents that the company has long declined to make public.

Read Governor Healey’s letter to Steward Health Care’s CEO How deep are Steward Health Care's financial problems?

Nikki Haley hasn’t yet won a GOP contest. But she’s vowing to keep fighting Donald Trump
“I refuse to quit,” Nikki Haley told supporters gathered in South Carolina in a speech outlining her rationale for staying in. “South Carolina will vote on Saturday. But on Sunday, I’ll still be running for president."

Isolationism fueled by Trump and his ‘America First’ campaign slogan is picking up adherents among GOP

‘Will she recuse herself?’ Healey’s former romantic partner to face questions for Supreme Judicial Court nomination

Members of the Governor’s Council are expected Wednesday to press Wolohojian, a veteran state appellate court judge and Governor Maura Healey’s former longtime romantic partner, about whether she would step aside from cases involving Healey’s office or her administration.

‘Despicable’. Harvard student and faculty groups denounced over antisemitic cartoon

The cartoon showed a hand inscribed with a Star of David and a dollar sign holding ropes around the necks of a Black man and an Arab man.

Teen accused of attacking Henderson principal committed to hospital before court hearing

Skeletal remains found in Saugus identified as missing Haverhill man

Winthrop officer saves choking infant minutes after completing CPR refresher course, officials say

Mayor Michelle Wu delivered the State of the City address at MGM Music Hall on Jan. 9.

Mayor Wu wants to overhaul Boston’s rules for what can be built where. She’s stepping into a political minefield.

As the city revamps its zoning code, neighborhood groups and advocates are pushing back, posing a political risk for the mayor.

Migrant families find warmth at Chelsea day shelter: ‘They gave us hope’
Migrant families spending their nights at a converted courthouse in Cambridge made their way to a new day shelter operated by La Colaborativa Tuesday morning. Last week, some said they had nowhere to go during the day.

***FOR ARTS*** Patti Steinman (R), Senior Naturalist for Mass Audubon leads a group of birders including Fran Volpe of Granby (L) and Debbie Manfredi of Springfield (C) as they observe hundreds of crows roosting at dusk in the Six Corners neighborhood of Springfield, MA on Sunday, February 4, 2024. (Matthew Cavanaugh for The Boston Globe)

Meet the Mass Audubon naturalist who’s a witness to murder — the crow kind

Springfield has one of the largest roosts in the state and Patti Steinman leads an urban safari to observe the crows in all their glory.

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Rafael Devers, the fans’ champion, prods management to fill Red Sox’ needs
Devers was more animated, confident, and direct with his opinions than ever before. "Everybody knows what we need," he said.

Though he won’t pitch for a while, Liam Hendriks already seems to be fitting in well with Red Sox

Brayan Bello featured his sinker, changeup, and four-seam fastball at JetBlue Park.

Brayan Bello, Lucas Giolito draw a crowd of Red Sox regulars for live batting practice session

Triston Casas, Rafael Devers, Trevor Story, Tyler O’Neill, and Masataka Yoshida stepped in against the starters. Bello and Giolito each got in two innings of work.

A graduating Boston College student speaks on a phone during commencement ceremonies on May 22, 2023, in Boston. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, has been available on and off for a few days now. While many have been able to take advantage of the new shorter application, many others have struggled to even open the application.

Tell us: Has a delay in receiving student financial aid information affected your college decision making?

For a future Globe story, we’re looking to hear from students and parents who may be putting off their college decisions because of the bumpy FAFSA rollout.

Students, parents frustrated by delays in hearing about federal financial aid for college

Brittany Overshiner, owner of Upswing Farm in Pepperell, carries a crate of recently harvested spinach from a greenhouse.

TONY'S TIPS

Here’s what’s growing in greenhouses in the winter

In the depths of winter, we like to imagine that farmers are on vacation somewhere sunny, enjoying a siesta before spring. In reality, winter is a critical time to prepare for the coming season.

The non-milky way: 12 places to find dairy-free delights for Lactose Intolerance Awareness Month

Perspective

No one seems to care about this Massachusetts law. That’s a shame.

Drivers can help fight climate change simply by following the rules. Why are people oblivious?

A sale-pending sign in front of a home in Sudbury last month. January home sales in Greater Boston remained near a two-decade low as prices rose.

Greater Boston housing market continues to slouch, spelling bad news for affordability

Would-be sellers are reluctant to list homes for sale and give up ultra-low mortgage rates locked in over the past few years, keeping inventories tight and prices high.

Rents in Boston are at a record-high. Could this be as bad as it gets?

Opinion

Independent residential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke during a campaign event on Nov. 14, 2023, in Columbia, S.C.

SCOT LEHIGH

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sinking ship: All aboard the Titanic

"It bothers me every day that so many in the campaign can’t see the iceberg that is dead ahead," one former RFK Jr. staffer said.

Lawrence K. Altman

I’ve reported on the health of every president since Reagan. Here’s what I think about Biden and Trump.

RENÉE GRAHAM

When freedom’s leaders die, the movements they championed must continue

IDEAS | ASYA PARTAN

Navalny and the dissemination of hope

EDITORIAL

Colleges should extend enrollment deadlines due to FAFSA delays

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Ben Volin | On football

Bill Belichick is portrayed as the villain in ‘The Dynasty,’ but he deserves better
The 10-part docuseries about the Patriots being rolled out now on Apple TV+ is named “The Dynasty.” The producers should have considered a different title: "Kill Bill."

Five takeaways from episodes 1 and 2 of ‘The Dynasty’

Southwick Regional School, police probing ‘racist conversation’ involving students on Snapchat, officials say
Some students at Southwick Regional School recently engaged in a “highly inappropriate and racist conversation" online that was reported to local police, Superintendent Jennifer Willard said Tuesday.

Cold Case Files

She was a veteran who served in Kuwait and Iraq. Then she vanished without a trace.
Mitchel V. Iviquel was last seen on March 31, 2020, visiting her father’s house in Somerville, police said.

The rise and fall of Drizly, one of Boston’s great startup stories
The dream of building a great local consumer-tech brand that started in a Boston College dorm room would die in a California board room. Here's how it happened.

GBH’s ‘The Culture Show’ receives $5 million grant
The grant from The Fiducia Fund, paid out over the next five years, will allow the radio program to expand to other platforms.

Elizabeth Grady beauty school shut down, salon chain struggles to operate
The company has been mired in lawsuits that also threaten the survival of its salons and beauty products business.

Three-year-old child hospitalized after vehicle falls through ice with family of four in Newport, Vt.

When police arrived, all four people were out of the water, and a bystander was performing CPR on the three-year-old child in a sled, the statement said.

2 adults are charged with murder in the deadly shooting at Kansas City’s Super Bowl celebration
Both adults are charged with second-degree murder and other charges. They have been hospitalized since the shooting, prosecutors said.

YouTube mom Ruby Franke apologizes at sentencing in child abuse case

Ruby Franke, a Utah mother of six who gave parenting advice to millions via YouTube, shared a tearful apology to her children for abusing them before a judge sentenced her Tuesday to serve up to 60 years in prison.

Brockton School Committee members request National Guard aid to quell violence at the high school

Mayor Robert Sullivan, who opposes the effort, said he forwarded the committee members’ request to the office of Governor Maura Healey, as only the governor has the power to enact the guard.

How the Newburyport mayor became a regional lightning rod
In 2021, Sean Reardon won a tight election for mayor. But after leading a huge fight against a half-billion dollar building for Whittier Tech, he sits a bit differently in the corner office.

The mysterious case of a missing Bolivian art star — and how his work ended up in Brunswick, Maine
Bolivian artist Alejandro Mario Yllanes was rising to international fame when he mysteriously disappeared in the 1960s. Hidden from public view for more than half a century, his work is just now surfacing on the market, and Bowdoin College Museum of Art has recently acquired two of them.

‘Two different planets’: On university campuses, the Israel-Palestinian divide runs deep
For some students, the war in the Middle East, and the fear and anger it has provoked on campus, has marked their college years indelibly.

Culture & Lifestyle

Leslie Jamison, in ‘Splinters,’ refuses to sugarcoat the rocks and barbs of a real life

The Beatles addressed the media at Kennedy International Airport on their arrival, Feb. 7, 1964, in New York. The Beatles are getting the big-screen biopic treatment in not just one but a Fab Four of movies that will give each band member their own film, all of which are to be directed by Sam Mendes.

Beatles to get a Fab Four of biopics, with a movie each for Paul, John, George, and Ringo

Westford Academy's theater department (shown in its summer production of "American Idiot") was chosen as the sole New England high school to receive permission to perform "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" for 2024.

Westford Academy sole Massachusetts school selected to perform ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Broadway adaptation

From left: Brianna Martinez, Jules Talbot, Victoria Omoregie, and Haley Wong in "John Proctor is the Villain" at the Huntington.

To the teen girls in ‘John Proctor is the Villain,’ #MeToo registers as ‘us too’

Special Projects

Ashfield, MA 06/13//2023, At Sanderson Academy, books in a fourth-grade classroom.

Suzanne Kreiter\Globe staff

Lost in a World of Words

Learning to read is the greatest gift a school can give a child. And yet, in Massachusetts, outmoded teaching methods leave thousands of students struggling to gain this critical skill.

Beyond the Gilded Gate

People in and around Boston are being challenged, in ways never before, to address the region's unprecedented housing crisis.

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.

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Conrad Mainwaring, a former Olympian and longtime track coach, pleaded guilty Feb. 8 to charges of sexually molesting young boys while working at a sports camp in Western Massachusetts in the 1970s.

EDITORIAL

Pain of child sex abuse victims knows no limits

Students waved their mobile phone lights at a demonstration opposing Columbia University’s suspension of the groups Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voices for Peace during a protest at the school’s campus in New York, Nov. 14, 2023.

Leonard Saxe

As antisemitism spikes in US, Presidents’ Day reminds us of our nation’s values

William Henry Harrison, the ninth president.

JEFF JACOBY

Today’s voters would be wise to heed the critics of ‘Old Tippecanoe’

Milton residents voted Wednesday against a controversial plan that would open key sections of the town to more housing development.

EDITORIAL

Milton voters rejected a housing plan, but the state can’t let that be the last word

Lenny Kravitz at the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas.

IDEAS | G'RA ASIM

A rollicking rebuke to the idea that rock isn’t Black music

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

‘Despicable’. Harvard student and faculty groups denounced over antisemitic cartoon

The cartoon showed a hand inscribed with a Star of David and a dollar sign holding ropes around the necks of a Black man and an Arab man.

CRIME

New Hampshire considers greatly expanding scope of settlement fund for youth center abuse victims

The state faces about 1,200 lawsuits alleging physical, sexual and emotional abuse stretching back six decades at the Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly called the Youth Development Center.

Migrant families find warmth at Chelsea day shelter: ‘They gave us hope’

Migrant families spending their nights at a converted courthouse in Cambridge made their way to a new day shelter operated by La Colaborativa Tuesday morning. Last week, some said they had nowhere to go during the day.

Brian Walshe, charged with killing wife Ana, sentenced to 37 months in prison in art fraud case

Walshe's wife, Ana, had described her husband as a loving partner in a 2021 letter urging a federal judge to spare him any prison time for art fraud.

Sports

The scene at the event stage after shots were fired near the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade in Kansas City, Mo., on Feb. 14.

2 adults are charged with murder in the deadly shooting at Kansas City’s Super Bowl celebration

Both adults are charged with second-degree murder and other charges. They have been hospitalized since the shooting, prosecutors said.

Matthew Slater (18) led a prayer circle following New England's season finale loss to the Jets on Jan. 7.

PATRIOTS

Watch Matthew Slater’s final postgame speech to his Patriots teammates

Slater held off making a public announcement about his future that day, but spent much of it privately saying goodbye to those on both sides.

RED SOX NOTEBOOK

Brayan Bello, Lucas Giolito draw a crowd of Red Sox regulars for live batting practice session

Triston Casas, Rafael Devers, Trevor Story, Tyler O’Neill, and Masataka Yoshida stepped in against the starters. Bello and Giolito each got in two innings of work.

COLLEGES

Here’s how the 12-team College Football Playoff will choose its field, determine its champion

PATRIOTS

Five takeaways from episodes 1 and 2 of ‘The Dynasty’

NBA

Kevin Ollie, longtime UConn coach and player, named interim boss of Brooklyn Nets

Business

Ransomware group LockBit is disrupted by a global police operation that includes 2 arrests

Britain’s National Crime Agency, or NCA, said it led an international operation targeting LockBit, which provides ransomware as a service to so-called affiliates who infect victim networks with the computer-crippling malware and negotiate ransoms.

Capital One-Discover merger may face stiff antitrust review in Washington

The Biden administration has long pledged an aggressive crackdown against consolidation in the financial sector.

Elizabeth Grady beauty school shut down, salon chain struggles to operate

Greater Boston housing market continues to slouch, spelling bad news for affordability

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Perspective

No one seems to care about this Massachusetts law. That’s a shame.

Pan-Fried Tuna Cakes With Yogurt-Caper Sauce

COOKING

Avoid a trip to the grocery store with cabinet staples tuna, canned tomatoes, and bread crumbs

The MIT Museum is running workshops for kids throughout February vacation week.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Feb. 19-25

Verellen sofas and chairs from Artefact Home | Garden in Boston fill the living room. “I love the clean but interesting silhouettes,” Carly Shafiroff says. “I try not to go low on seating pieces; you want them to last.”

Your Home | Calm & Cozy

Watch: The legacy of 10-time pro-bowler Matthew Slater

Brian Walshe, charged with killing wife Ana, sentenced to 37 months in prison in art fraud case

Steward Health Care should get out of Mass. hospital market, Healey says The governor gave Steward three days to provide critical financial documents that the company has long declined to make public.

‘Will she recuse herself?’ Healey’s former romantic partner to face questions for Supreme Judicial Court nomination

‘Despicable’. Harvard student and faculty groups denounced over antisemitic cartoon

Teen accused of attacking Henderson principal committed to hospital before court hearing

Skeletal remains found in Saugus identified as missing Haverhill man

Winthrop officer saves choking infant minutes after completing CPR refresher course, officials say

Mayor Wu wants to overhaul Boston’s rules for what can be built where. She’s stepping into a political minefield.

Migrant families find warmth at Chelsea day shelter: ‘They gave us hope’ Migrant families spending their nights at a converted courthouse in Cambridge made their way to a new day shelter operated by La Colaborativa Tuesday morning. Last week, some said they had nowhere to go during the day.

Meet the Mass Audubon naturalist who’s a witness to murder — the crow kind

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL Rafael Devers, the fans’ champion, prods management to fill Red Sox’ needs Devers was more animated, confident, and direct with his opinions than ever before. "Everybody knows what we need," he said.

Brayan Bello, Lucas Giolito draw a crowd of Red Sox regulars for live batting practice session

Tell us: Has a delay in receiving student financial aid information affected your college decision making?

Here’s what’s growing in greenhouses in the winter

No one seems to care about this Massachusetts law. That’s a shame.

Greater Boston housing market continues to slouch, spelling bad news for affordability

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sinking ship: All aboard the Titanic

I’ve reported on the health of every president since Reagan. Here’s what I think about Biden and Trump.

When freedom’s leaders die, the movements they championed must continue

Navalny and the dissemination of hope

Colleges should extend enrollment deadlines due to FAFSA delays

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Ben Volin | On football Bill Belichick is portrayed as the villain in ‘The Dynasty,’ but he deserves better The 10-part docuseries about the Patriots being rolled out now on Apple TV+ is named “The Dynasty.” The producers should have considered a different title: "Kill Bill."

Cold Case Files She was a veteran who served in Kuwait and Iraq. Then she vanished without a trace. Mitchel V. Iviquel was last seen on March 31, 2020, visiting her father’s house in Somerville, police said.

The rise and fall of Drizly, one of Boston’s great startup stories The dream of building a great local consumer-tech brand that started in a Boston College dorm room would die in a California board room. Here's how it happened.

GBH’s ‘The Culture Show’ receives $5 million grant The grant from The Fiducia Fund, paid out over the next five years, will allow the radio program to expand to other platforms.

Elizabeth Grady beauty school shut down, salon chain struggles to operate The company has been mired in lawsuits that also threaten the survival of its salons and beauty products business.

Three-year-old child hospitalized after vehicle falls through ice with family of four in Newport, Vt.

2 adults are charged with murder in the deadly shooting at Kansas City’s Super Bowl celebration Both adults are charged with second-degree murder and other charges. They have been hospitalized since the shooting, prosecutors said.

YouTube mom Ruby Franke apologizes at sentencing in child abuse case

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Pain of child sex abuse victims knows no limits

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Milton voters rejected a housing plan, but the state can’t let that be the last word

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‘Despicable’. Harvard student and faculty groups denounced over antisemitic cartoon

New Hampshire considers greatly expanding scope of settlement fund for youth center abuse victims

Migrant families find warmth at Chelsea day shelter: ‘They gave us hope’

Brian Walshe, charged with killing wife Ana, sentenced to 37 months in prison in art fraud case

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2 adults are charged with murder in the deadly shooting at Kansas City’s Super Bowl celebration

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Brayan Bello, Lucas Giolito draw a crowd of Red Sox regulars for live batting practice session

Here’s how the 12-team College Football Playoff will choose its field, determine its champion

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Ransomware group LockBit is disrupted by a global police operation that includes 2 arrests

Capital One-Discover merger may face stiff antitrust review in Washington

Elizabeth Grady beauty school shut down, salon chain struggles to operate

Greater Boston housing market continues to slouch, spelling bad news for affordability

No one seems to care about this Massachusetts law. That’s a shame.

Avoid a trip to the grocery store with cabinet staples tuna, canned tomatoes, and bread crumbs

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A retired couple creates a rustic (‘but not “Yellowstone” rustic’) Berkshires dream home

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‘Will she recuse herself?’ Healey’s former romantic partner to face questions for Supreme Judicial Court nomination

Norovirus outbreaks seen across Rhode Island, health department says

Prosecutors in Adam Montgomery murder trial rest case, rebuff claims of improper witness influence

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Rafael Devers, the fans’ champion, prods management to fill Red Sox’ needs

JJ Redick blasts ex-Celtics coach Doc Rivers for lack of accountability on Bucks’ struggles

Steward Health Care should get out of Mass. hospital market, Healey says
The governor gave Steward three days to provide critical financial documents that the company has long declined to make public.

Migrant families find warmth at Chelsea day shelter: ‘They gave us hope’
Migrant families spending their nights at a converted courthouse in Cambridge made their way to a new day shelter operated by La Colaborativa Tuesday morning. Last week, some said they had nowhere to go during the day.

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Rafael Devers, the fans’ champion, prods management to fill Red Sox’ needs
Devers was more animated, confident, and direct with his opinions than ever before. "Everybody knows what we need," he said.

Ben Volin | On football

Bill Belichick is portrayed as the villain in ‘The Dynasty,’ but he deserves better
The 10-part docuseries about the Patriots being rolled out now on Apple TV+ is named “The Dynasty.” The producers should have considered a different title: "Kill Bill."

Cold Case Files

She was a veteran who served in Kuwait and Iraq. Then she vanished without a trace.
Mitchel V. Iviquel was last seen on March 31, 2020, visiting her father’s house in Somerville, police said.

The rise and fall of Drizly, one of Boston’s great startup stories
The dream of building a great local consumer-tech brand that started in a Boston College dorm room would die in a California board room. Here's how it happened.

GBH’s ‘The Culture Show’ receives $5 million grant
The grant from The Fiducia Fund, paid out over the next five years, will allow the radio program to expand to other platforms.

Elizabeth Grady beauty school shut down, salon chain struggles to operate
The company has been mired in lawsuits that also threaten the survival of its salons and beauty products business.

2 adults are charged with murder in the deadly shooting at Kansas City’s Super Bowl celebration
Both adults are charged with second-degree murder and other charges. They have been hospitalized since the shooting, prosecutors said.

How the Newburyport mayor became a regional lightning rod
In 2021, Sean Reardon won a tight election for mayor. But after leading a huge fight against a half-billion dollar building for Whittier Tech, he sits a bit differently in the corner office.

‘Two different planets’: On university campuses, the Israel-Palestinian divide runs deep
For some students, the war in the Middle East, and the fear and anger it has provoked on campus, has marked their college years indelibly.