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Jury selection challenges in Karen Read trial

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Greater Boston typical home price reaches $900,000, a new March record
It's an eye-popping number that does not bode well for housing affordability this year.

Irish firefighter allegedly raped woman in downtown hotel while she was sleeping, police say

Terence Crosbie, 37, was charged with rape while visiting Boston for St. Patrick’s Day weekend, and after police pulled him off an airplane bound for Ireland.

Jack Edwards will retire as the voice of the Bruins
Edwards, who had been the team's play-by-play announcer on NESN for the last 19 years, will end his broadcasting career after the conclusion of this season.

Karen Read’s lawyers can’t raise third-party culprit defense during opening statements in murder trial, judge rules

The judge also ruled Tuesday that Read’s lawyers can move ahead with their defense that someone other than Read killed her boyfriend, but they cannot make that argument in their openings — it must be presented alongside evidence.

Who is Karen Read? A look at the woman at the center of a media firestorm.

As jury selection begins in Read case, a search for people who haven’t made up their minds

First 7 jurors are chosen for Trump’s hush money criminal trial. 11 more still needed.
The court began filling out the jury of 12 people, along with six alternates, who will decide whether to convict Trump of charges accusing him of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal during his 2016 presidential campaign.

At trial, Trump’s sex life emerges as key theme

Supreme Court questions obstruction charges brought against Jan. 6 rioters and Trump

Facing a Republican revolt, House Speaker Johnson pushes ahead on US aid for Ukraine, allies

House Republicans send Mayorkas impeachment articles to the Senate, forcing a trial

Israel’s military chief says that Israel will respond to Iran’s weekend missile attack

Doris Kearns Goodwin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, at her apartment in Boston on March 29, where she wrote her new book, "An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s."

PODCAST | SAY MORE

Five takeaways from our interview with Doris Kearns Goodwin

On this week’s episode of “Say More with Shirley Leung,” the famed historian discusses her new book about her late husband and her experiences in the ‘60s.

A DraftKings employee in the lobby of the company's Back Bay office.

innovation beat

DraftKings employees say rival tried to entice them with multimillion-dollar jobs

DraftKings’ escalating battle with billionaire Michael Rubin, who started a rival sports-betting effort last year, spilled into a public court hearing on Tuesday.

Perspective: The NBA playoffs are here, and online gambling is ruining everything

Samantha Frechon, who spends much of her time in her bedroom, hasn't been to school a single day this year. She is in the eighth grade, and she is autistic. Last year, she attended a private school, and she did well there. But her district, Braintree Public Schools, refused to pay for her continued enrollment.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

This Braintree teen hasn’t been to school a single day this year. Is a broken special education system to blame?

What’s happened to Samantha Frechon represents an acute failure of the state’s public education system — especially given the toll pandemic isolation put on teens’ academics and mental health.

98.5 The Sports Hub continued its dominance of its competition with the recent release of the winter radio ratings.

Mercy! 98.5 The Sports Hub dominates its competition in the winter radio ratings

The Sports Hub routed its competition in the winter Nielsen Audio ratings period from January 4 to March 27, finishing first overall and across its three daytime programs and second in the evenings in its main targeted demographic, men 25-54.

FOOD
‘If you can’t beat them, eat them.’ Why foraging for invasive plants is good for you — and the planet.
Here's how to identify and cook two invasive species.

128th Boston Marathon

Sebastian Cantoni (left) and Romina Cornejo share a kiss after crossing the finish line on Monday.

A banana suit, a race pioneer, a mother running for a cure: 12 stories you may have missed from Marathon Monday

Each of the 30,000 participants streaming from Hopkinton to Boylston Street has their own story to tell. Here are some you may have missed.

Marathon champs Hellen Obiri and Sisay Lemma will always have Boston — now they want ParisSee how the Boston Marathon unfoldedSee results from this year's Marathon

It all seemed to come together this season for Brad Stevens's Celtics, who went 64-18, easily the best record in the NBA.

Brad Stevens on Joe Mazzulla’s growth, Indiana coaching rumors and more

The president of basketball operations spoke about Joe Mazzulla, Jrue Holiday, Jeff Van Gundy, and more.

Holy Family Hospital is among Steward's Massachusetts properties.

Warren, Markey call on Steward hospital landlords to cut or terminate lease payments

In a letter, the US senators from Massachusetts pressed for concessions on the hospitals' multimillion-dollar leases to “make it financially feasible for new operators” to run them.

A view of the last tenement left in the West End section of Boston.

As Wu moves BPDA power to Boston City Hall, distrust over agency’s history bubbles up

Some residents fear that the new planning department could be repeating history.

Flowers with a ribbon reading "RIP" were seen at an entrance to Westfield Bondi Junction on April 14, in Bondi Junction, Australia. Six victims, plus the offender, who was shot by police at the scene, are dead following a stabbing attack at Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, Sydney.

No man is entitled to a woman’s companionship

Women’s lives are too high a price to pay for a man’s ego.

Happy about your IRS refund? Don’t be.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

JFK, Dick Goodwin, and a speech that would be remembered in history

Taming the country’s highest child care costs

Nate Tinner-Williams

Bessie Stringfield’s life is a tale for the ages

More recent News

‘I murdered a woman,’ Chicopee firefighter accused of stabbing girlfriend allegedly tells police
Jason Chapdelaine pleaded not guilty Tuesday to killing Eileen B. Monaghan and was ordered held without bail, court records show.

USC cancels valedictorian’s speech after Jewish groups object
Free-speech controversies have overwhelmed many universities since the Israel-Hamas war began.

Man serving life sentence for 1979 kidnapping, rape of two teens in Springfield granted parole
A 68-year-old man serving a life term for kidnapping and raping two juvenile girls in Springfield was granted parole this month, according to legal filings.

Misinformation roiled the 2016 and 2020 elections. Here’s what to expect as 2024 races heat up.
From deepfake robocalls to false claims from candidates, here's what you should be aware of as Nov. 5 draws closer.

Child injured in East Boston fire has died, officials say

The child was the second casualty of the April 2 fire on Meridian Street.

Two people rescued from wreckage after crash in Norwood, police say

The drivers of two vehicles that collided head-on on a busy Norwood street Tuesday suffered serious injuries, according to social media postings by Norwood Police Chief William G. Brooks III.

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A promised footbridge across the Mystic River would close the gap that separates, on one side, the Encore casino and the Northern Strand Community Trail in Everett, and on the other, Somerville's Assembly Row and network of bike paths.

A promised bridge over the Mystic River would be a missing link for Somerville and Everett. So where is it?

The project, which bikers, mayors, and customers say would close a glaring transportation gap, is back on the drawing board.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines
MGB isn’t a white knight. The state’s powers are limited. And the Steward hospital mess has no end in sight.
Mass General Brigham hasn’t tipped its hand, at least not publicly, and Governor Maura Healey hasn’t said much other than she wants Steward out of Massachusetts.

A small clinic in tiny Central Falls, R.I., takes a giant step to tackle the state’s housing crisis
A new 30-unit transitional housing program for women and children facing homelessness opened on Friday, thanks to a pediatrician in the majority-Latino city.

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS
This week’s TV: ‘The Jinx’ is back, Conan has left the country, and a shocking divorce
Director Andrew Jarecki’s docuseries “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” helped trigger TV’s true-crime craze back in 2015. Now comes a six-episode second season of the show.

Culture & Lifestyle

The cast of Praxis Stage's "The Birthday Party" (clockwise, from rear left): Sharon Mason, Paul Valley, Darya Denisova, Kevin Paquette, Zair Silva, and Daniel Boudreau.

With ‘The Birthday Party,’ Praxis Stage makes a welcome return

“Rooted” by artist Cicely Carew arrives at Northeastern next week as part of the university’s Public Art Initiative.

15-foot-tall flower statues to bloom on Northeastern’s campus

Ethan de Aguiar speaks at a showing of "Love Letters for New Bedford" at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

New film festival aims to put New Bedford on the global artistic stage

Brockton native Léa the Leox will be performing on the “Portraits & Memoirs” tour that begins in Somerville and continues on to New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Chicago, and Nashville.

For a trio of emerging artists, a showcase that starts in Somerville

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

Then-president Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden during the first presidential debate on Sept. 29, 2020, in Cleveland.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Have presidential debates outlived their usefulness?

Richard Issa Bockari, center, along with friends, cheered on runners as they reached the top of Heartbreak Hill during the 126th running of the Boston Marathon on April 18, 2022.

Events like the Marathon are vanishing. Enjoy them while you can.

Losing a loved one or watching someone suffer is always difficult, a process the hospice care and palliative care communities are dedicated to mitigating.

Seán P. O’Malley

Physician-assisted suicide is a slippery slope

His symptoms began in 2019, when he could no longer lift his foot to shift gears on his motorcycle.

Medical aid in dying: Prolonging the inevitable is no way to live

With US college-age population falling, luring more international students could help schools survive

Heather Hopp-Bruce/Globe staff; Adobe

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

First Literacy of Boston’s 34th annual spelling bee raises $265,000 for adult education

This year’s spelling bee featured 16 teams that competed inside Boston’s State Street Channel Center on April 11, according to First Literacy.

Four of 16 jurors needed for Karen Read trial seated after first day of jury selection

The judge also ruled Tuesday that Read’s lawyers can move ahead with their defense that someone other than Read killed her boyfriend, but they cannot make that argument in their openings — it must be presented alongside evidence.

N.H. attorney accused of embezzling pandemic relief funds surrenders yacht he bought with COVID money

The US Marshal’s Service is preparing to auction off the 65-foot vessel bought by Robert M. Waters in 2022.

Advocates push back after Cardinal O’Malley denounces bill to permit physician-assisted suicide

Advocates for medical aid in dying said the cardinal is using “fear-mongering” tactics and basing his arguments on policies in other countries that are unlike the “End of Life Options Act” being considered by state lawmakers.

Sports

Yankees pitchers Mike Kekich (left) and Fritz Peterson have their arms full of kids after they showed up at the spring training camp in February 1972 at Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Peterson, who created a controversy when he swapped families with Kekich in 1973, has died.

Fritz Peterson, who traded his wife and children with a Yankees teammate, has died

Peterson swapped families with Mike Kekich, a fellow pitcher, in 1973 and married Kekich's ex-wife the following year.

98.5 The Sports Hub continued its dominance of its competition with the recent release of the winter radio ratings.

Mercy! 98.5 The Sports Hub dominates its competition in the winter radio ratings

The Sports Hub routed its competition in the winter Nielsen Audio ratings period from January 4 to March 27, finishing first overall and across its three daytime programs and second in the evenings in its main targeted demographic, men 25-54.

Jack Edwards and Andy Brickley broadcast a Bruins game high above the Garden ice on Jan. 5, 2018.

Jack Edwards will retire as the voice of the Bruins

Edwards, who had been the team's play-by-play announcer on NESN for the last 19 years, will end his broadcasting career after the conclusion of this season.

What was in runners’ headphones during the Marathon? Coldplay, Carrie Underwood, and more

What makes Caleb Williams the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft?

Brooklyn Dodgers great Carl Erskine, a ‘Boy of Summer’ and 1955 World Series champ, dies at 97

Business

IMF sees steady growth but warns of rising protectionism

In its latest World Economic Outlook report, the International Monetary Fund projected global output to hold steady at 3.2 percent in 2024, unchanged from 2023.

Powell suggests interest rates could stay high for a longer period

Progress on inflation has stalled or even reversed by some measures.

Warren, Markey call on Steward hospital landlords to cut or terminate lease payments

innovation beat

DraftKings employees say rival tried to entice them with multimillion-dollar jobs

College & Careers

We asked 6,000 New Englanders: Is a college degree still worth the cost?

College & Careers

Why conservatives are turning against college, even in New England

As a college student, I’d never written an actual letter. They seemed so old-fashioned.

A couple we were friends with is suddenly avoiding us

metro

The House also endorsed two bills previously approved by the Senate: a 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases and a ban on bump stocks that can transform a regular gun into a semiautomatic weapon.

Several gun bills inspired by mass shooting are headed for final passage in Maine

‘I murdered a woman,’ Chicopee firefighter accused of stabbing girlfriend allegedly tells police

RIPTA approves separation agreement for former CEO

sports

EMass softball: A striking impact for Bedford, Alyx Rossi headlines Players of the Week

EMass girls’ softball: Taunton still stands alone top Globe Top 20

Ex-Celtic Blake Griffin retires after 13 seasons in the NBA

business

Single-family homes in Arlington.

Greater Boston typical home price reaches $900,000, a new March record

Andrea Campbell outlines state crackdown on AI

2 CVS pharmacies in Rhode Island file to unionize

politics

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

House Republicans send Mayorkas impeachment articles to the Senate, forcing a trial

Supreme Court questions obstruction charges brought against Jan. 6 rioters and Trump

Biden visits his Pennsylvania hometown to call for more taxes on the rich and cast Trump as elitist

Nation

Former president Donald Trump awaited the start of proceedings on the second day of jury selection at Manhattan criminal court on Tuesday in New York.

First 7 jurors are chosen for Trump’s hush money criminal trial. 11 more still needed

Supreme Court seems divided over obstruction charge in Jan. 6 case that may affect Trump, rioters

USC cancels valedictorian’s speech after Jewish groups object

World

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak supported a bill on Tuesday that would raise the age to buy cigarettes legally each year. The legislation would ban the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2009 — and then every year, so the prohibition would follow the generation indefinitely.

UK votes on ‘smoke-free generation,’ but conservatives fear ‘nanny state’

IMF sees steady growth but warns of rising protectionism

Fire rages through the 17th-century Old Stock Exchange in Copenhagen and its spire has collapsed

opinion

Then-president Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden during the first presidential debate on Sept. 29, 2020, in Cleveland.

Have presidential debates outlived their usefulness?

The US needs a bipartisan, open-minded gender medicine commission

Should evidence that someone other than Karen Read committed murder be allowed at her trial?

lifestyle

West Virginia University students El Didden, Bri Caison, and Lia Farrell materials in support of transgender individuals.

Federal appeals court overturns West Virginia transgender sports ban

I’m like a bird. Wait, am I like a bird?

Maura Tierney and her family help field Boston Marathon team raising funds for a Southie community center

food & dining

Lamb Tagine with Apricots, Peas, and Lemon

Recipe: Apricot and peas garnish this slow-cooked lamb tagine for the Passover Seder or any spring occasion

Recipe: Serve this almond fig torte, chewy like a macaroon, on the Passover table

Recipe: Make breakfast pancakes during Passover with matzo meal and cottage cheese

travel

Several stretches of British Columbia's Sunshine Coast Trail are known for being dry, including the long grind up Tin Hat Mountain (3,914 feet). Signs warn hikers to load up on water in advance of the climb.

If you go: Tips and resources for the Sunshine Coast Trail

Trailing Detective Gamache in the Eastern Townships

There are many bright spots along the Sunshine Coast Trail. Watching my kids conquer its 112 miles is one of them.

Arts

“Rooted” by artist Cicely Carew arrives at Northeastern next week as part of the university’s Public Art Initiative.

15-foot-tall flower statues to bloom on Northeastern’s campus

Nick Morse paints outside the lines — creating signature pieces

Faith Ringgold, who wove Black life into quilts and children’s books, dies at 93

Books

Runners line up at the starting line of the Half Half Half Half Half Marathon.

You know about the Boston Marathon. But have you heard of the Half Half Half Half Half Marathon?

Two-day event to celebrate the glory of Grolier Bookshop; All She Wrote Books turns five; and more

Claire Dederer on Maggie Nelson and other politically earnest writers

Movies

Ethan de Aguiar speaks at a showing of "Love Letters for New Bedford" at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

New film festival aims to put New Bedford on the global artistic stage

O.J. Simpson, former NFL star acquitted of double murder in ‘trial of the century,’ has died

Revisit the O.J. Simpson trial with these documentaries and TV shows

Television

Justin Hartley as Colter Shaw in "Tracker."

On CBS’s ‘Tracker,’ this is him

This week’s TV: ‘The Jinx’ is back, Conan has left the country, and a shocking divorce

Ryan Gosling just can’t let Ken go in his ‘Saturday Night Live’ monologue, Chris Stapleton performs

music

Hana Nah, of New York, listened to a podcast through headphones on Boston Common as she waited to board a bus to the Boston Marathon starting line.

What was in runners’ headphones during the Marathon? Coldplay, Carrie Underwood, and more

For a trio of emerging artists, a showcase that starts in Somerville

An exuberant ‘Turangalîla’ from the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Theater/Dance

The cast of Praxis Stage's "The Birthday Party" (clockwise, from rear left): Sharon Mason, Paul Valley, Darya Denisova, Kevin Paquette, Zair Silva, and Daniel Boudreau.

With ‘The Birthday Party,’ Praxis Stage makes a welcome return

The Jar aims to double its reach this season

‘Max Roach 100′ at the ICA does the great jazz drummer proud

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

Algerian pianist Maurice El Medioni in an undated family photo.

Maurice El Médioni, Jewish Algerian pianist, dies at 95

Hall of Fame manager Whitey Herzog dies at 92

Akebono, first foreign-born sumo grand champion, dies at 54