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New Karen Read documents detail harrowing hours after Boston police Officer John O’Keefe’s body found

The new details come from 135 pages of documents that Judge Beverly Cannone ordered made public at the Globe’s request.

View documents in the Karen Read case

New presidential ballot battles in Ohio and Alabama trigger fears election laws are being weaponized

The Republican secretaries of state in Ohio and Alabama notified President Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee in recent days that Biden could miss qualifying for their states' ballots.

Nebraska is debating changing Electoral College votes to help Trump. Will Maine Democrats counter to help Biden?

State Police left decades’ worth of confidential case files at old Fernald school in Waltham

For years the Massachusetts State Police kept material for criminal cases at the old Fernald school, including graphic evidence for homicide investigations and at least one unsolved murder, accessible to any trespasser.

Lincoln police suspect animal abuse after small dog found abandoned on side of road
The small Terrier-Chihuahua mix is being treated at Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston after he was found lying along the side of a road in Lincoln Monday night, officials said.

Former Freetown substitute teacher to serve up to 40 years in prison for raping 14-year-old student, officials say

Gilbert Hernandez, 58, was sentenced in Fall River Superior Court to serve between 30 and 40 years in prison for 13 charges related to rape and molestation, officials said.

Speaker Johnson to meet with Trump, offers Marjorie Taylor Greene advisory role as own job teeters

Three sons and three grandchildren of top Hamas leader are killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza

Kory Kelley shovels out her driveway in Nashua, N.H., on April 4 after a late-season nor’easter with gusty winds surprised many New Englanders with up to 2 feet of snow in the north and heavy rain in Southern New England.

Weather Focus | Dave Epstein

What’s up with spring? Weather this time of year is chaotic — for a reason.

The atmosphere this time of year lies somewhere between the cold of winter and the heat of summer and can waffle dramatically.

Here are the celebrities and other notable people participating in the 2024 Boston Marathon
From Bruins legend Zdeno Chara to those impacted by the Marathon bombing, there are plenty of notable names in the field.

Forecast: Here’s the forecast for the 2024 Boston Marathon

Running for the eight names on the map
The BAA has long given runners from communities along the route a chance to pin on a bib and cross the start line in Hopkinton.

Your guide to the 2024 Boston Marathon: What to know, how to watch, and more

YVONNE ABRAHAM

The tragic peril of RFK Jr.
The presidential candidate’s family is worried about what his bid will do to the country.

The state dinner for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was in the East Room of the White House.

See photos and the guest list for the White House state dinner with Japan

The White House invited more than 200 guests to the state dinner for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan on Wednesday night, including business executives, union leaders, athletes, and prominent Japanese Americans.

Japanese PM Fumio Kishida to address Congress amid skepticism about US role abroad

A boat was left on the tracks of the commuter rail Wednesday.

This doesn’t hold water; boat left on train tracks between Cambridge and Belmont

Who left the boat on the tracks, and why, is under investigation.

With Mayor Michelle Wu looking on, Rob Gronkowski had some fun with the crowd at the ribbon cutting for a new weight room at New Mission High School.

Former Patriots star Rob Gronkowski unveils new Boston Public Schools weight room

Mayor Michelle Wu, members of the Gronkowski family, and Boston Public Schools also attended the ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday at the school on Metropolitan Avenue.

Ceddanne Rafaela's versatility was on display Wednesday, when he started the game for the Red Sox in center field but moved to second base in the seventh inning.

Peter Abraham | ORIOLES 7, RED SOX 5

Red Sox complete extension with Ceddanne Rafaela on big day at Fenway for MLB youth movement

Rafaela, 23, signed an eight-year, $50 million contract extension with the Red Sox. On the other side of the field, the Orioles welcomed superstar-in-waiting Jackson Holliday, 20, to the big leagues.

No relief for Red Sox as bullpen blows five-run lead in loss to Orioles

Cy Beyer and Evan Brender had their Colonial outfits fitted by seamstress Deb Barnes at The Satin Butterfly shop in Maynard in preparation for Patriots Day.

New Minute Men recruits to suit up for Patriots Day festivities

While athletes pick out the perfect sneaker and spectators finalize their homemade signs for Monday’s Boston Marathon, dozens of Colonial reenactors are putting the final touches on their carefully curated uniforms that will carry them through Patriots Day events in Concord and Lexington on that day.

Opinion

People gathered at cafe tables placed in the closed parking lane on Hanover Street, June 12, 2020, in the North End.

North End restaurateurs’ dispute with Mayor Wu is about more than outdoor dining

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is making a political calculation about who is important and whose needs should be addressed. And it isn’t the restaurant owners.

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

Republicans against Trump can banish him with one trip to the ballot box

Russia’s reported use of chemical weapons in Ukraine is another ‘red line’

If Democrats are Charlie Brown, Florida is their Lucy

IDEAS | MAURA KELLY

Where the wild things grow

More recent News

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

Fed rate cuts in doubt as rising housing costs stall progress on inflation
Expensive home prices and rents complicate the outlook for the economy and President Biden’s reelection campaign.

‘A horrendous nightmare’: Former staffers say management knew about, condoned abuse at N.H. youth detention center
Children detained at YDC were “scared, almost paralyzed with fear,” a former counselor at YDC said, and they showed signs of abuse, such as bruises on their arms and faces.

Here is what the Mass. House included in its fiscal year 2025 budget proposal
The Massachusetts House unveiled a nearly $58 billion state budget proposal, which represents a 3.3 percent increase in spending from the last fiscal year.

Mass. House’s budget plan would spend $500 million on shelter system. It’s half of what Healey says it needs.

BPS renames school for civil rights education activist Ruth Batson
In the 1960s, Ruth Batson, a graduate of Girls’ Latin School, challenged the Boston School Committee on its practices of segregating Black students, especially in assigning them to inadequate school facilities.

Chelsea boy, 3, died after mother left him overnight with two young siblings and went to bar, prosecutors say

“The child suffered from a seizure disorder and had hemophilia and had been vomiting blood in the days before he died,” a prosecutor said in court.

Celtics extend guard Jrue Holiday’s contract for four years, $135 million
Holiday, who was acquired before the season in a trade from the Trail Blazers, had a player option of $37.4 million for next season.

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Homes like this two-bedroom, two-bath property are being built at Titicut Estates, a 55-plus community in Taunton. The manufactured home style is on the market for $452,900, according to the listing agent, The Tom Dixon Team at Keller Williams Realty.

The South Coast Rail is on track. What could it mean for the housing market?

The MBTA anticipates service on the South Coast Rail will begin this summer, allowing passengers to take a one-seat trip from Southeast Massachusetts to Boston.

‘I joined the Russian army,’ former Holyoke city councilor tells lawyer in call from Russia
In January, a day before former Holyoke city councilor Wilmer Puello-Mota was expected to plead guilty to child pornography, his lawyer was startled to learn Puello-Mota was in Russia.

Remember the boy who said ‘wow’ at Symphony Hall? Now he’s 14, and there’s a picture book about him.
Five years ago, Ronan Mattin warmed hearts with his exclamation of wonder at a Handel and Haydn concert. Poet Todd Boss thinks his story will resonate with children as well.

Undergraduate tuition at BU tops $66,000. Where does all the money go?
The ongoing graduate workers' strike at Boston University has shone a spotlight on how tuition dollars trickle down.

Culture & Lifestyle

Joan Baez, shown in February at the 37th Annual Tibet House US Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall, is among the 28 initial inductees into the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame at the Boch Center Wang Theatre.

Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame to induct an inaugural class of 28

Bruce Springsteen performed during his concert with the E Street Band at the Kia Forum on April 7 in Inglewood, Calif. A new movie about the rocker's LP "Nebraska" is heading to the big screen.

Movie based on Boston rocker’s Bruce Springsteen book features ‘The Bear’ star as The Boss

Lydia Millet, author of "We Loved It All."

Lydia Millet’s ‘anti-memoir’ is both a love letter to and an urgent plea for a vanishing world

Elvis Costello performed at Leader Bank Pavilion on Aug. 15, 2022. The rock legend returns to New England for the Newport Jazz Festival this summer.

Elvis Costello, André 3000, and more to play 2024 Newport Jazz Festival

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

Abortion rights groups rallied outside the Supreme Court on March 26.

Trump’s claim that he’s against a federal abortion ban is a lie

This file photo taken in 1971 shows a French nuclear test explosion in Mururoa atoll, French Polynesia, in the southern Pacific Ocean.

We need to start worrying about the bomb

Hillary Clinton said, "I feel strongly that I have a voice and I am going to keep using it.”

Hillary Clinton to students on Gaza: Can we talk with, not shout at, each other?

The long line of duck boats carrying the World Series champion Red Sox moved along Boylston Street approaching the intersection with Berkeley Street, as thousands upon thousands of fans lined the streets and cheered, Oct. 30, 2004.

A Red Sox parade 86 years in the making with only 72 hours to prepare

Alan Sokal and Richard Dawkins

Sex and gender: The medical establishment’s reluctance to speak honestly about biological reality

Heather Hopp-Bruce/Globe staff; Adobe

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Forecast | Ken Mahan

Here’s the forecast for the 2024 Boston Marathon

Isolated pre-race showers should clear the way for warm and sunny running conditions.

Lincoln police suspect animal abuse after small dog found abandoned on side of road

The small Terrier-Chihuahua mix is being treated at Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston after he was found lying along the side of a road in Lincoln Monday night, officials said.

See key court documents from the Karen Read case, including prosecution and defense arguments

See an index of key court documents from the case, including the prosecution and defense arguments, arguments over access to evidence, and orders from the judge.

New Minute Men recruits to suit up for Patriots Day festivities

While athletes pick out the perfect sneaker and spectators finalize their homemade signs for Monday’s Boston Marathon, dozens of Colonial reenactors are putting the final touches on their carefully curated uniforms that will carry them through Patriots Day events in Concord and Lexington on that day.

Sports

This year's Boston Marathon will enjoy much better weather than last year, above, when rain swept through much of the region.

Forecast | Ken Mahan

Here’s the forecast for the 2024 Boston Marathon

Isolated pre-race showers should clear the way for warm and sunny running conditions.

Peter Reale winds up for a kill against the Braintree back line, contributing to Newton North's 3-0 home win on Thursday.

Boys’ volleyball roundup: Zach Spengler’s defense, serving help lead No. 20 Chelmsford’s rally from 0-2 down to shock No. 16 Andover

Check out the latest high school boys’ volleyball scores, news, and highlights from The Boston Globe.

Red Sox reliever Chris Martin allowed four runs in the seventh inning.

orioles 7, red sox 5

No relief for Red Sox as bullpen blows five-run lead in loss to Orioles

The Sox had a comfortable 5-0 lead after Triston Casas tagged a two-run homer in the fifth, but everything unraveled when starter Kutter Crawford exited after the inning.

Boys’ lacrosse roundup: Thanks to Damian Biersteker’s 20 saves, Essex Tech edges North Reading

ncaa men's hockey championship

Strong seasons in net have Boston University’s Mathieu Caron and Boston College’s Jacob Fowler ready for Frozen Four

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Red Sox complete extension with Ceddanne Rafaela on big day at Fenway for MLB youth movement

Business

VC funding for Mass. startups lowest since 2019

In the first quarter, 169 companies raised $3.1 billion, a 16 percent decline from the same period of 2023. It was the lowest amount in a quarter since startups raised $2.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2019.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

Fed rate cuts in doubt as rising housing costs stall progress on inflation

Expensive home prices and rents complicate the outlook for the economy and President Biden’s reelection campaign.

Starbucks aims for more quiet experience

Vertex buying Seattle biotech for $4.9 billion, its biggest acquisition ever

magazine

The FAFSA aid debacle is like trying to get Taylor Swift tickets. My kid can’t go to college until it’s fixed.

A couple we were friends with is suddenly avoiding us

Salmon With Barigoule

From soup to salmon, garden-fresh vegetables star in light, bright spring dishes

‘Does this just happen on dating apps?’ Dealing with disappearing acts.

metro

A box with Massachusetts State Police markings and the case number assigned to the unsolved 1996 murder of Juan Baez, 17, of Lowell. The box was left abandoned at the former Fernald Developmental Center in Waltham and photographed in 2016.

State Police left decades’ worth of confidential case files at old Fernald school in Waltham

New Karen Read documents detail harrowing hours after Boston police Officer John O’Keefe’s body found

‘A horrendous nightmare’: Former staffers say management knew about, condoned abuse at N.H. youth detention center

sports

With Caitlin Clark expected to be drafted No. 1 overall by the Indiana Fever, she will team up with last year's rookie of the year Aaliyah Boston.

The WNBA is putting Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever on national TV 36 times next season

BU, BC one win away from an all-Boston final at Frozen Four

Details revealed: Red Sox make center fielder Ceddanne Rafaela’s eight-year, $50 million contract official

business

Increased stamp prices, like several others since 2021, are part of the US Postal Service’s 10-year plan to raise prices and slow some deliveries, among other measures, to try to recoup $160 billion in projected losses over a decade.

US Postal Service proposes raising stamp prices again

At movie industry convention, leaders say blockbusters alone aren’t enough

Content creators ask Meta to reverse politics limits on Instagram, Threads

politics

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, April 10, in Washington.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to address Congress amid skepticism about US role abroad

Biden says he’s considering Australia’s request to drop prosecution of Wikileaks founder Assange

Kishida cracks jokes and invokes ‘Star Trek’ as he and Biden toast US-Japan alliance at state dinner

Nation

In this photo provided by the Utah Division of Water Rights, crews use heavy machinery to place boulders downstream of the cracked Panguitch Lake Dam to reinforce the wall, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Panguitch, Utah. (Matt Call/Utah Division of Water Rights via AP)

Water pouring out of rural Utah dam through 60-foot crack, putting nearby town at risk

Earth sees hottest-ever March, the 10th record-breaking month in a row

Trump’s ex-finance chief is sentenced to 5 months in Rikers for perjury

World

A mission of mercy, then a fatal mistake: How an aid convoy in Gaza became Israel’s target

South Korea’s prime minister and top presidential officials offer to resign after election defeat

Water levels rise and homes flood in Russia after a dam bursts near the Kazakhstan border

opinion

Compulsory diversity pledges and what they represent “make me wince,” says Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy.

Diversity, yes. Diversity statements, no.

Trump’s claim that he’s against a federal abortion ban is a lie

Southwick bullying case underscores crucial role parents play

lifestyle

FILE - Dylan Brandt speaks at a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Little Rock, Ark., July 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo, File)

Federal appeals court hearing arguments on nation’s first ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Mina Hasan wants you to wear a watch

Vertigo finds its place with ‘Makom’

food & dining

Stash's Pizza had a closed sign posted on the front door of its Roslindale location in March 2023.

Pizza shop owner facing forced labor charges now accused of pandemic fraud

Hi-Rise Bread in Cambridge has a new location, just steps away

Where to eat to celebrate your college graduate in Rhode Island

travel

Chris Foster and Mary Cardona-Foster on "The Amazing Race."

What it’s like to tour the world on ‘The Amazing Race’

Lots of people bought second homes on the Cape during the pandemic. That means more short-term rentals this summer.

So much beauty, so many sieges in Girona, Spain

Arts

Wu Tsang, "Of Whales," 2022. Now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Diving deep with Wu Tsang’s ‘Of Whales’ at the ICA

Roxbury-based artist Napoleon Jones-Henderson awarded fellowship to pursue archival project

Sculptor Morgan Faulds Pike tries to ‘let the wood do the talking’

Books

Bruce Springsteen performed during his concert with the E Street Band at the Kia Forum on April 7 in Inglewood, Calif. A new movie about the rocker's LP "Nebraska" is heading to the big screen.

Movie based on Boston rocker’s Bruce Springsteen book features ‘The Bear’ star as The Boss

Remember the boy who said ‘wow’ at Symphony Hall? Now he’s 14, and there’s a picture book about him.

Fighting for ‘the revolutionary possibility’ of each of us in Eddie S. Glaude’s new book

Movies

"Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" were major hits in 2023, but “to have a truly successful filmed entertainment industry, a variety of movies that appeal to movie goers is critical,” said Michael O’Leary, the president and CEO of the National Association of Theater Owners, said at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Tuesday.

At movie industry convention, leaders say blockbusters alone aren’t enough

Is the DVD dead? Not according to these devotees.

Movie based on Boston rocker’s Bruce Springsteen book features ‘The Bear’ star as The Boss

Television

Damian Lewis as King Henry VIII in the original "Wolf Hall." Lewis returns in the upcoming “Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light.”

‘Masterpiece’ set to continue its ‘Wolf Hall’ historical drama

Drag dinners, dance nights, yoga, and trivia: Taylor Swift-themed events are everywhere

What it’s like to tour the world on ‘The Amazing Race’

music

Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott performed together at Symphony Hall on Tuesday, in their last planned local appearance as a duo before Stott retires from public performance at the end of this year.

Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott celebrate a long and beautiful friendship

Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame to induct an inaugural class of 28

Movie based on Boston rocker’s Bruce Springsteen book features ‘The Bear’ star as The Boss

Theater/Dance

Kiki Samko and Victor L. Shopov in "Burn This" at Hub Theatre Company of Boston.

‘Burn This’ fails to catch fire

A comic feast in Lyric Stage’s ‘Drowsy Chaperone’

At the Opera House, the pleasure of Sondheim’s ‘Company’

Health

Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, R.I.

Centurion Foundation was the ‘only viable’ buyer for Roger Williams, Fatima hospitals, CEO says

Agent Orange exposure damages the brain in ways similar to Alzheimer’s disease, new study says

R.I.’s largest hospital system may no longer take Cigna health insurance

Obituaries

Professor Herbert Kroemer (left), received the Nobel Prize in physics from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf at the Concert Hall in Stockholm in December 2000.

Herbert Kroemer, 95, dies; laid groundwork for modern technologies

Casey Benjamin, free-spirited saxophonist, dies at 45

Rev. Edward W. Rodman, who elevated the role and impact of Black Episcopalians, dies at 81