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Death, indignity, despair: The human cost of Steward’s neglect

Concetta McCarthy visited the gravesite of her beloved cousin, Gilberto Melendez-Brancaccio, on July 17 in Mt. Wollaston Cemetery in Quincy. Gilberto died at age 31 at Carney Hospital. She was like a sister to Gilberto growing up in Quincy.

On the whole, the more than 30 hospitals Steward operated have been among the most troubled in the country over the last five years, according to several measures.

Read the stories of patients who died after seeking care at Steward hospitals

The Spotlight Team identified at least 15 instances in which Steward Hospital patients died after failing to receive professionally-accepted standards of care due to equipment or staffing shortages.

Timeline: Steward Health Care kept expanding, even as the situation at hospitals turned dire

See key moments in the explosive growth and ultimate collapse of Steward Health Care.

Database: Federal deficiency reports for Steward Health Care’s hospitals

In the past five years, Steward hospitals accrued more than 300 deficiency findings from federal hospital regulators.

Share your thoughts on the human toll of the Steward Health Care Crisis

See the complete Globe Spotlight Team report on Steward Health Care

Israeli soldiers shoot and kill an American woman during a West Bank protest, witness says

A State Department spokesperson confirmed the death of the 26-year-old woman but did not say whether she had been shot by Israeli troops.

These Mass. towns are at critical or high risk for EEE and West Nile virus

With new human EEE and West Nile cases, state public health officials adjusted risk levels for the mosquito-borne viruses in a number of communities.

New human cases of EEE, West Nile virus detected in Mass., health officials say

Ashland doctor sentenced to federal prison for attacking officer in Capitol on Jan. 6
Jacquelyn Starer was seen on video squaring up and lunging at a police officer inside the Capitol rotunda on Jan. 6, 2021.

Former Mafia enforcer charged with killing ‘Whitey’ Bulger to plead guilty
Fotios “Freddy” Geas struck a plea deal with prosecutors which remains sealed.

Teen charged in Georgia school shooting and his father to stay in custody after hearings

The 14-year-old suspect and his father will both stay in custody following back-to-back court hearings where their lawyers declined to seek bail.

Father of Georgia school shooting suspect arrested on charges including second-degree murder

JD Vance says he laments that school shootings are a ‘fact of life’ and calls for better security

“We don’t have to like the reality that we live in, but it is the reality we live in. We’ve got to deal with it,” Vance said at a rally in Phoenix.

What to expect in N.H.’s state primaries on Tuesday See live updates from the campaign trail

Sluggish US jobs report clears the way for Federal Reserve to cut interest rates

Forecast | Ken Mahan

Friday stays mostly dry, but our next weather-maker arrives this weekend

High surf, dangerous rip currents expected for coastal Mass., R.I. Up to 10-foot waves forecast. Fall preview: What kind of weather can New Englanders expect this fall?

Man charged with fatal shooting in Dorchester

The yellow brick road, made of 44,000 specially glazed bricks, leads park-goers through the Land of Oz in North Carolina.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

Follow the yellow brick road. The Land of Oz is real and hidden in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

A once-abandoned "Oz" theme park with a cult following has been restored in North Carolina, but it's only open a few fall weekends each year. Here's what it's like to visit.

Looking over Key West from the top of the Key West Lighthouse & Keeper's Quarters.

MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN

What it’s like to travel with someone who must climb to the top of things

A tower. A staircase. If it gets him to the top of something, he wants that view. It’s a genre of tourism — and in many places, it’s at its peak. You'll find me up there, too.

Pilings that serve as the base of offshore wind turbines in waters south of Martha's Vineyard last year. Contracts for the second wave of wind farms off the New England coast were awarded Friday.

Massachusetts and Rhode Island announce new round of wind farms, smaller than they’d hoped

Three offshore wind projects, all planned for waters south of Martha’s Vineyard, won the rights to contracts that will power the equivalent of roughly 1.4 million homes.

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With this new era of Patriots history, we might be in for a long, cold football season
There is restlessness among the fan base, and it feels like we are in for a long, cold football season in Foxborough.

The Patriots probably won’t win many games in 2024. So what will make this a successful season? Unconventional preview: The first stage of the Patriots’ long climb back into contention begins Sunday Taylor Swift shows up at Arrowhead Stadium to watch Travis Kelce, Chiefs face Ravens in NFL opener

Former Patriots coach Bill Belichick suggested that the Patriots has found it hard to attract top free agent talent because the state now imposes an extra four percent tax on incomes over $1 million.

Shirley Leung

Which NFL team’s players are taxed the most? (Hint: It’s not the Patriots.)

Former coach Bill Belichick wants to blame Massachusetts’ new "millionaires tax" on the team’s recent free agent fumbles. He should stick with football, not economic policy.

Ny’eil Pires, 7, was shot in Providence, R.I., on Aug. 29 as she sat in the back seat of her family's car and later died of her injuries.

The girl wasn’t the intended target. But she became a shooting victim before her 8th birthday.

Ny’eil Pires is part of the tragedies in Providence, the 23rd person shot this year and the seventh homicide.

A tagged monarch butterfly ready for release. The stickers contain a unique number that can be tracked.

Where have N.H.’s monarch butterflies gone?

The little critters are supposed to be starting their epic 3,000-mile journey to central Mexico. But, one organization said, they’re nowhere to be found.

Dinner with Cupid

‘We’d never seen anyone our age spotlighted’ in Dinner With Cupid

Will these seventysomething daters be a (game, set) match?

Meghann Fahy as Merritt Monaco in "The Perfect Couple."

From ‘The Perfect Couple’ to Pizza Shark, Meghann Fahy feels right at home on Cape Cod

The Longmeadow native opens up about her new Nantucket-set Netflix series, her love for the Cape, and more.

This Mass. school was No. 2 in The Wall Street Journal’s best college rankings — and it’s not Harvard or MIT

Three schools in Massachusetts rated among the nation’s top 10 colleges in The Wall Street Journal’s latest rankings, while a fourth placed number 11.

Opinion

A woman who said she had worked in Carney Hospital’s emergency department for 13 years attended a press conference about Steward at Carney Hospital in Dorchester on July 29.

Lori Grant

Steward employees have a few questions for CEO Ralph de la Torre

Caregivers across Steward haven’t heard a word from him throughout this crisis.

Nicole Obi and Imari Paris Jeffries

Buy you a drink? Boston may score 225 liquor licenses

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Congressional candidate in N.H. won’t commit to certifying results of 2024 presidential election
The candidate suggested during a debate ahead of the Republican primary for New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District that the peaceful transfer of presidential power “depends” on passage of a new law.

Federal prosecutors detail how reputed street gang members allegedly perpetrated a mail theft scheme in Boston suburbs

The members “rely upon one another to recruit” people to set up bank accounts to cash the checks the perpetrators steal from postal collection boxes, records show.

Morgan Stanley fined $2 million over First Republic stock sales

Morgan Stanley will pay to settle the investigation by the Massachusetts Securities Division, according to a spokesperson for the regulator.

South Boston woman charged with allegedly running over another woman in parking lot of South Bay Center

Amina Wilcox, 31, was arraigned Thursday in Boston Municipal Court/South Boston on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and leaving the scene of personal injury.

Secluding a child is supposed to be prohibited in Mass. schools. But parents say the practice is still in use.

In one case, a school told a mother her son had been put in a closed-door timeout 56 times during one school year, for a total of 49 hours.

Free tuition sparks community college boom, but professor pay lags far behind
Without raising wages, community colleges will struggle to recruit and retain faculty they desperately need to teach additional courses.

‘The law needs to catch up’: Secret recordings by police before Mass. high court in test of wiretap law
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Installation view, "Tau Lewis: Spirit Level," at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. From left: "The Doula," "The Night Woman," "The Handle of the Axe," "The Reaper." On the floor: "The Last Transmission."

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Director Carey Perloff speaks with the cast during rehearsal for the Huntington Theatre's production of Tom Stoppard's "Leopoldstadt."

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Paula Wilson, "Living Monument," 2017. Two-channel video.

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Illustration of Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Derrick White along with other NBA greats for the 2024 Finals preview.

Where do the 2023-24 Celtics stand among the greatest teams in NBA history?

Data show that these Celtics are truly extraordinary, a team of uncommon prowess on both ends of the court

Lauren Friel (left) owner of Rebel Rebel, chatted with customers while working at her wine bar in Bow Market in Somerville. The restrictive Boston liquor license system has pushed throngs of innovative chefs to neighborhood towns with laxer laws, including Brookline, Somerville, and Cambridge.

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Priced out: How Boston’s broken liquor license system drives chefs from the city

A stubbornly high price tag for serving alcohol hurts thousands of hospitality workers, aspiring restaurateurs, and the city itself.

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Pothole season is upon us. See which neighborhoods have the most reports

Boston’s 311 data provides a day-by-day look at the condition of the city’s streets and sidewalks, which neighborhoods are hit hardest, and just how fast repairs are made.

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.

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Former president Barack Obama embraced Vice President Kamala Harris during an event commemorating the Affordable Care Act at the White House in Washington on April 5, 2022. Obama endorsed Harris's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination on July 26.

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Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission chairwoman Shannon O'Brien, center, in Suffolk Superior Court on Dec. 4, 2023.

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What to expect in N.H.’s state primaries on Tuesday

New Hampshire is among the smallest states in the country, but its state primaries have enough intrigue to fill a much larger state.

Ashland doctor sentenced to federal prison for attacking officer in Capitol on Jan. 6

Jacquelyn Starer was seen on video squaring up and lunging at a police officer inside the Capitol rotunda on Jan. 6, 2021.

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In the season-opening win at Florida State, Thomas Castellanos showed how he has grown as a quarterback.

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When the Patriots and Bengals met late in the 2022 season, Cincinnati quarterback Joe Burrow completed 40 of 52 passes for 375 yards and three touchdowns, while also throwing a pair of interceptions.

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Massachusetts and Rhode Island announce new round of wind farms, smaller than they’d hoped

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Morgan Stanley fined $2 million over First Republic stock sales

Morgan Stanley will pay to settle the investigation by the Massachusetts Securities Division, according to a spokesperson for the regulator.

Sluggish US jobs report clears the way for Federal Reserve to cut interest rates

RI ECONOMY

Rhode Island hotels have seen strong growth, post-pandemic. Price wary consumers could put pressure on room rates.

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"American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez," a new limited series on FX, chronicles the rise and unthinkable fall of the former Patriots player.

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I’m almost 40 and fear my social anxiety will keep me from ever dating

PERSPECTIVE

Most jobs don’t have mandatory retirement ages. Maybe more should.

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sports

Ravens tight end Isaiah Likely's right toe touches the endline and the Chiefs survived a last-second scare.

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Former president Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Trump Tower in New York City on Sept. 6, 2024.

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Nation

Colin Gray, the father of the Apalachee High School shooting suspect, entered the Barrow County courthouse for his first appearance on Friday in Winder, Ga.

Teen charged in Georgia school shooting and his father to stay in custody after hearings

Father of Georgia school shooting suspect charged with multiple felony counts Thursday

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World

A demonstrator holds a sign showing in Arabic and Hebrew three of the biblical Ten Commandments "do not kill, do not steal, do not give false testimony", during a protest vigil in Beit Jala in the occupied West Bank on September 3, 2024.

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A constructed accessory dwelling unit was lowered by crane into a backyard in Concord on Sept. 12, 2023.

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lifestyle

Models walk the runway during the Ralph Lauren Spring/Summer 2025 fashion show as part of New York Fashion Week on Sept. 5, at Khalily Stables in Bridgehampton, NY.

Ralph Lauren draws the fashion crowd to the horsey Hamptons for a diverse show of Americana

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Papaya Pad Thai at Mahaniyom in Brookline Village.

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Federal Taphouse & Kitchen in Providence closes

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Neil Gaiman at a New York City appearance on June 6.

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Bo Jackson filming a "Bo Knows" ad for Nike in 1989.

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music

Marika Hackman performs Sept. 7 at the Sinclair in Cambridge.

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Walton Goggins lends his star power to help revitalize the Oldtone Music Festival

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Two new productions that poke fun at old stereotypes

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Health

Lifespan signed a purchase agreement to take over Morton Hospital in Taunton.

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Obituaries

In an undated photo provided by Wieden+Kennedy, advertising campaigns by creative director Jim Riswold for Nike. Riswold, Creator of ‘Bo Knows’ and Air Jordan Ads, seen in 2011. Riswold’s work for Nike, particularly commercials starring Michael Jordan and Spike Lee, blurred the line between advertising and entertainment.

Death, indignity, despair: The human cost of Steward’s neglect

Read the stories of patients who died after seeking care at Steward hospitals

Timeline: Steward Health Care kept expanding, even as the situation at hospitals turned dire

Database: Federal deficiency reports for Steward Health Care’s hospitals

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Ashland doctor sentenced to federal prison for attacking officer in Capitol on Jan. 6
Jacquelyn Starer was seen on video squaring up and lunging at a police officer inside the Capitol rotunda on Jan. 6, 2021.

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