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Girls’ basketball game draws national attention after injuries allegedly involving transgender player

While some are calling for more guidance from the state on how to handle transgender participation in sports, civil rights advocates warn that the incident is being blown out of proportion.

Israel is ready to halt its war in Gaza during Ramadan if a hostage deal is reached, Biden says

Negotiators from the US, Egypt, and Qatar are working on a framework deal under which Hamas would free some of the dozens of hostages it holds, in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and a six-week halt in fighting.

Governor Maura Healey says new overflow shelter for migrants in Fort Point is opening ‘as soon as possible’

Healey’s comments Monday are the first confirmation that the United Way will move forward with using the building as a so-called safety net shelter.

Man in prison for 27 years sues state for $1 million for wrongful conviction
“He spent the prime years of his life incarcerated in harsh conditions, facing physical and emotional threats,” the lawsuit read.

‘Our hearts are broken’: 12-year-old girl killed in Middleborough fire identified
Around 2 a.m. Saturday, firefighters and police responded to a report that residents were trapped inside a burning two-story home at 27 Pearl St. in Middleborough, officials said.

Airman who died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy had attended school on Cape Cod

Juvenile victim stabbed in neck at Quincy Center MBTA station, four youths detained

The sailboat Buenos Aires was pulled out of the water on Feb. 17 after being abandoned in Nantucket Harbor months ago.

A Florida man, two abandoned boats in Nantucket and Provincetown, and one big question: Why?

For two harbormasters, trying to get an answer has been a long and tedious headache.

In building a case for local reparations, Embrace Boston report aims to connect past to present
Suggestions include restitution for people harmed by marijuana-related arrests, spending more money on low-income schools, increasing more reliable transit options in Black neighborhoods, and expanding affordable housing.

‘There’s just not enough resources’: In wake of violence, Brockton High students say school needs more teachers
Multiple students detailed there being too few adults to supervise them and not enough resources for all students, including mental health services.

Advocates rally at Brockton High following calls for National Guard to quell violence

Construction at the currently closed Norwood Hospital, which is operated by Steward Health Care. The hospital system is facing overwhelming debt and financial challenges.

‘It frankly disgusts me.’ Governor Healey steps up criticism of Steward.

Governor Maura Healey on Monday intensified her criticisms of the troubled Steward Health Care hospital system and its chief executive, Ralph de la Torre, saying that decisions he made had put patients and providers at risk.

Jaylen Brown and the Celtics have a dominant lead in the Eastern Conference with 25 regular-season games to play, but they know there's little to celebrate at this point.

GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL

Past failings have Celtics, even with Eastern Conference in control, chasing perfection down the stretch

It’s not just about winning games for a team good enough to beat most with a B or C effort. It’s about playing the right way as their opponents come late April will devise more detail-oriented ways to challenge them.

A view of "the cage," the central part of the Ash Street Jail in New Bedford.

Ash Street Jail may be in its final days

Sheriff Paul Heroux wants to close the Ash Street Jail in 18 months and move inmates to the Bristol County House of Correction after some renovations there.

A pickup truck driver and a snowmobile rider gas up their vehicles side by side at the New Deal General Store in East Wakefield, N.H., on Jan. 27, 2022.

2024 has been deadly for snowmobile riders in New England

New Hampshire has seen more fatalities than usual, and officials are bracing for an upcoming busy weekend of visitors from out of state. “Almost every crash is speed-related somehow or another,” said one officer with N.H. Fish and Game.

Opinion

The University of Alabama at Birmingham's Women & Infants Center halted in vitro fertilization procedures after a state Supreme Court's ruling that embryos in test tubes should be considered children, on Feb. 22.

Antonio Gargiulo

Six lessons the US can learn from Italy’s restrictions on IVF treatments

The United States should be ready for several American states to relinquish access to real IVF, possibly indefinitely. As of today, 14 states have near-total abortion bans; all of these states may potentially follow suit with restrictive IVF laws.

Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos

Alabama lawsuit reveals what happens when IVF industry wants it both ways

Will ‘The Holdovers’ return us to a time when exalted public school buildings were valued?

All of Boston’s kids should be able to enjoy free museum Sundays

Being a Republican means never having to say ‘I was wrong’

More recent News

Manhattan DA asks judge for a gag order in Trump’s hush-money case ahead of next month’s trial
Jury selection in the case is scheduled to begin March 25. Barring a last-minute delay, it will be the first of Donald Trump’s four criminal cases to go to trial.

Donald Trump appeals $454 million judgment in New York civil fraud case

Legislation to mandate an admissions lottery for vocational schools advances on Beacon Hill with some changes
Social Justice advocates consider the redrafted bill a step in the right direction to increase student diversity at vocational schools, but the bill continues to face strong opposition from vocational school leaders.

Judge delays start of Karen Read trial until April
Judge Beverly Cannone ruled Monday during a brief hearing in Norfolk Superior Court that the high-profile trial, which had been slated to begin March 12, will now start on April 16.

Homicide detectives investigating after two people are found dead at hotel in Theater District
Officers went to the Moxy Boston Downtown hotel on Tremont Street around 12:20 p.m. after a hotel employee alerted authorities, Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden said at the scene.

Authorities identify N.H. woman who died after being found in woods about a mile from her home

She died from injuries caused by prolonged exposure to bitterly cold temperatures, officials said.

15-year-old boy arrested in Springfield for fatal shooting of Vermont woman

The boy was arrested about 11:55 a.m. Monday in the 700 block of Worthington Street on a fugitive from justice warrant issued in Vermont for second-degree murder, Springfield police said

Recommended reads

A home on Pleasant Street in Leominster was severely damaged by flash flooding in September and will likely be condemned and demolished by the city.

As climate change soaks New England, flash flooding is costing cities

Massachusetts communities are struggling to recover from a huge increase in what one state emergency management official has called “gap disasters” — devastating storms that don’t qualify for federal aid.

As office market slump continues, more downtown property owners are seeking tax breaks
While abatement requests were down citywide, they were up in the core of downtown, where office towers help power the city’s tax base, and thus its $4.28 billion operating budget.

Polar Seltzer announced six new flavors. Now, the search is on to find and taste them all.
Among the six new flavors, Cranberry Raspberry is said to “evoke” memories of summers in New England, while Island Blueberry, has a “local sunny flavor combination” to counter “dark cold” northeast winters.

Black History Now

Charlotte Mathews-Nelson and Leon Nelson, NAACP leaders, advanced educational and economic equality in Boston
The NAACP has been the foundation of Charlotte Mathews-Nelson's activism since she moved to Boston in the 1960s.

Culture & Lifestyle

Joe Cocker performs for hundreds of thousands of attendees at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, N.Y., in August 1969.

If you were at Woodstock, here’s a chance to share your story

Crazy Legs Conti doesn't plan to retire any time soon. “I’m still relevant, I’m still an elite eater.”

Even after 22 years of competitive eating, Crazy Legs Conti still has the hunger

Boston Ballet in Mikko Nissinen's "Raymonda"

Boston Ballet dances up a storm in ‘Winter Experience’

A show at the Huntington that’s as interactive as it gets forced me to face my fears

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.

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Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

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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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Governor Maura Healey sat for an interview in her office in December 2013.

Protest outside Healey’s home shows need for governor’s residence

Recently retired professor Harvey Mansfield in his Cambridge home. He taught at Harvard from 1962 until last year. "We need a return to debate," he says. "Harvard doesn’t debate. It emotes.”

IDEAS | CAREY GOLDBERG

Will Harvard ever get another professor like Harvey Mansfield?

President Biden on Jan. 5, and Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump on Jan. 19.

Lawrence K. Altman

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

Roomba vacuums by iRobot were displayed at a Best Buy store on Jan. 19, in San Rafael, Calif.

Blame Elizabeth Warren and the FTC for iRobot layoffs

Wild horses endure a summer dust storm in golden light. Onaqui Mountains Herd Management Area, Rush Valley, Utah, 2021.

IDEAS | GRETCHEN CLARK

Wild horses dragged me away

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

Bridgeport voters try again to pick mayor after first election tossed due to absentee ballot scandal

The voters of Bridgeport, Connecticut, are trying again to choose their mayor after the result of the last election was thrown out because of allegations of absentee ballot box stuffing during a Democratic primary.

In building a case for local reparations, Embrace Boston report aims to connect past to present

Suggestions include restitution for people harmed by marijuana-related arrests, spending more money on low-income schools, increasing more reliable transit options in Black neighborhoods, and expanding affordable housing.

Girls’ basketball game draws national attention after injuries allegedly involving transgender player

While some are calling for more guidance from the state on how to handle transgender participation in sports, civil rights advocates warn that the incident is being blown out of proportion.

Governor Maura Healey says new overflow shelter for migrants in Fort Point is opening ‘as soon as possible’

Healey’s comments Monday are the first confirmation that the United Way will move forward with using the building as a so-called safety net shelter.

Sports

Cam Umlah (4) is one of the many talented players throughout the lineup for Division 1 top seed St. John's Prep.

MIAA BOYS' HOCKEY TOURNAMENT

Who will be the next Massachusetts boys’ hockey champion? Let’s look at each of the four division brackets

All eyes on St. John's Prep as the top seed in Division 1, while Tewksbury and Canton seemed primed for a battle for Division 2 supremacy. Nauset looks the class of Division 3, while Division 4 is a real tossup.

Patty Richards from Vermont took off with her team of sled dogs at the start of the Can-Am 100 race on March 5, 2022, in Fort Kent, Maine.

Lack of snow prompts cancellation of Maine sled dog race, longest in eastern US

The Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Race in Fort Kent, Maine, will be canceled because of a lack of snow for the first time since the race’s inception more than three decades ago.

Lexington senior Derin Ongur was all smiles walking off the court after defeating host Newton South in a Division 1 preliminary game Monday night.

H.S. BOYS' BASKETBALL: LEXINGTON 49, NEWTON SOUTH 39

Defense carries Lexington boys’ basketball to Division 1 preliminary upset at Newton South

The No. 34th Minutemen threw various looks, including a confusing zone and swarming man-to-man pressure, to build a commanding lead and register timely stops down the stretch to beat the No. 31 Lions.

East Longmeadow’s Nick Ahmed inks minor league deal with Giants after 10 years with Diamondbacks

Reigning WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart returns to Liberty, who are running back their Finals lineup

GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL

Past failings have Celtics, even with Eastern Conference in control, chasing perfection down the stretch

Business

‘It frankly disgusts me.’ Governor Healey steps up criticism of Steward.

Governor Maura Healey on Monday intensified her criticisms of the troubled Steward Health Care hospital system and its chief executive, Ralph de la Torre, saying that decisions he made had put patients and providers at risk.

Across from the ‘Superman’ building, a historic Providence office building could become apartments

The Lauderdale Building was last renovated in the 1970s after it was threatened with demolition.

Boeing’s safety culture faulted by FAA in new report

Under new Boston leader, Deloitte aims to focus more on climate tech

magazine

I used to live in a Michigan child-care desert. Then I came to Cambridge.

Richard Evans Schultes in the Cerro Campana mountains in Colombia, in June 1943.

The quest for psychedelics in the Amazon would push a Harvard botanist to his limits

Singer and composer Fabiola Méndez will perform during The Folk Collective: Women’s History Month at Passim on Friday.

Your WEEK AHEAD

Five things to do in Boston, Feb. 26-March 3

Gut health explained: 5 things to know for a better microbiome

metro

Isabela Katzki, 15, said she feels unsafe as a student at Brockton High School where some students have become so unruly there is talk of enlisting the help of the National Guard.

‘There’s just not enough resources’: In wake of violence, Brockton High students say school needs more teachers

Why is so much of the US unseasonably hot?

Ash Street Jail may be in its final days

sports

The KIPP Academy Lynn campus.

Girls’ basketball game draws national attention after injuries allegedly involving transgender player

Houston supplants UConn as AP’s No. 1 men’s basketball team ending Huskies’ six-week run atop poll

What Patriots fans should know prior to the NFL Scouting Combine

business

The Mohegan tribe will end its management of Resorts casino in Atlantic City, N.J., at the end of this year, both parties said Monday.

Mohegan tribe to no longer manage Atlantic City casino

Polar Seltzer announced six new flavors. Now, the search is on to find and taste them all.

Kleos, a Greek restaurant in downtown Providence, has closed

politics

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.

Biden will urge Congress’ top leaders to keep the government open and send aid to Ukraine and Israel

Biden and Trump will face tests in Michigan’s primaries that could inform a November rematch

Biden and Trump both plan trips to the Mexico border Thursday, dueling for advantage on immigration

Nation

A crowd listens to speakers at a reparations rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco, on March 14, 2023.

San Francisco is ready to apologize to Black residents. Reparations advocates want more.

Witness at trial recounts fatal shooting of cinematographer by Alec Baldwin

Music producer latest to accuse Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of sexual misconduct

World

Taylor Swift.

Photographer accuses Taylor Swift’s dad of punching him in the face on Sydney waterfront

Most UN Security Council members demand Taliban rescind decrees seriously oppressing women and girls

The NATO welcoming Sweden is larger, more determined

opinion

Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, second from right, left a courthouse in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Smirnov is charged with making up a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme about President Biden, his son Hunter, and a Ukrainian energy company, and prosecutors say he had contacts with officials affiliated with Russian intelligence.

Being a Republican means never having to say ‘I was wrong’

A memoir of enslavement reveals the meaning of freedom

Oh, those ‘militant’ teachers unions are at it again!

lifestyle

My ex from high school is back in my life

Even after 22 years of competitive eating, Crazy Legs Conti still has the hunger

Amy Schumer says she has Cushing’s syndrome. What to know about the illness.

food & dining

The inside of the former Kleos space, a Greek restaurant in downtown Providence, RI.

Kleos, a Greek restaurant in downtown Providence, has closed

What we know about the online feud involving a North End restaurant owner and the New Yorker who canceled a reservation

For Carla Hall, it’s been a bumpy climb to a ‘Top Chef’ life

travel

The “Children of Whitney” statues are located throughout the Whitney Plantation Museum. They were created by artist Woodrow Nash.

Facing America’s traumatic history head-on through tourism

‘All major events happen around the table’: What it’s like to eat your way around Porto

An hour’s drive from Lisbon, along Portugal’s west coast, a whole lot of raw beauty

Arts

Mark Rothko, "The Bathers," 1934. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation Inc.

Rothko’s power takes shape on paper, at the National Gallery of Art

Roxbury Community College celebrates five decades with Golden Jubilee Gala

The Newport Historical Society goes deep on Black and Indigenous experiences

Books

Calvin Trillin, author of "The Lede: Dispatches From a Life in the Press."

Calvin Trillin summons a bright and bygone era of journalism in ‘The Lede’

Sarah Polley on reading as a measure of life lived

‘Grief Is for People’ author Sloane Crosley mourns the death of a friend, and an era

Movies

Cillian Murphy, from left, Emily Blunt, and Robert Downey Jr. arrive at the 35th Annual Producers Guild Awards on Feb. 25, at The Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles.

‘Oppenheimer’ keeps devouring awards with top prize at Producers Guild, with Oscars up next

In ‘Io Capitano,’ two cousins on a treacherous quest

‘The Holdovers’ screenwriter David Hemingson drew on his New England prep school days for his Oscar-nominated script

Television

Sam Waterston as D.A. Jack McCoy in "Law & Order."

This week’s TV: A Kate Winslet satire, a new ‘Shōgun,’ and Jack McCoy’s farewell to ‘Law & Order’

‘Oppenheimer’ keeps devouring awards with top prize at Producers Guild, with Oscars up next

Shane Gillis hosts ‘Saturday Night Live,’ 21 Savage performs

music

Mr. Morgan, performing with Morgan Heritage at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage festival in 2002.

Peter Anthony Morgan, Grammy-winning reggae singer, dies at 46

If you were at Woodstock, here’s a chance to share your story

Beyoncé becomes first Black woman to claim top spot on Billboard’s country music chart

Theater/Dance

Boston Ballet in Mikko Nissinen's "Raymonda"

Boston Ballet dances up a storm in ‘Winter Experience’

A show at the Huntington that’s as interactive as it gets forced me to face my fears

Ukraine’s Grand Kyiv Ballet brings its ‘Giselle’ to Boston

Health

Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence, R.I.

Prospect Medical Holdings wants to sell its 2 R.I.-based hospitals. Here’s what a proposed deal could look like, executives say.

Timeline: Proposed sale of Rhode Island hospitals preceded by years of regulatory fights, funding problems

Incel culture and its rise in the modern dating world

Obituaries

Mr. Morgan, performing with Morgan Heritage at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage festival in 2002.

Peter Anthony Morgan, Grammy-winning reggae singer, dies at 46

Lawrence Langer, Simmons professor and ‘towering figure in Holocaust studies,’ dies at 94

Hydeia Broadbent, young activist for HIV/AIDS awareness, dies at 39