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Sunday, March 12, 2023
Today's Headlines
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Crime & Courts

A tiny street in Dorchester is a magnet for street violence. Police say one house is the source of so much trouble.

A teal-colored house at 10 Helen St. has served as a hive of gang activity, raided by police at least three times in as many years, and has been shot at multiple times amid conflicts between rival street crews, including one group that calls the triple decker home, police records and court documents show. Continue reading →

Politics

With a divided Boston City Council, Mayor Michelle Wu often gets her way

Whether due to councilors' internal divisions or the mayor's broad legal power and political savvy, Michelle Wu has prevailed in disagreements with the legislative body. Continue reading →

Health

A deadly cancer you probably haven’t heard of is becoming more common. But a pioneering HIV activist is hoping to change that.

Merkel cell carcinoma is about five times more lethal than the better-known skin cancer, melanoma. Continue reading →

Arts

At 80, Doris Kearns Goodwin has a whole new life

The famed historian lives in a condo in the city and hangs out with illustrious pals at the ’Quin, as she works on a different kind of book. Continue reading →

The Nation

COVID-19

A new study finds 59 percent of long-COVID patients had organ damage, but experts say it’s not that simple

The study analyzed 536 long-COVID patients still reporting extreme shortness of breath, cognitive dysfunction, and poor health-related quality of life. Continue reading →

Nation

Stripping Confederate ties, the US Navy renames two vessels

One night in 1862, as the Civil War raged, an enslaved mariner named Robert Smalls seized an opportunity. Continue reading →

Nation

Oregon closer to magic mushroom therapy, but has setback

Oregon was taking a major step Friday in its pioneering of legalized psilocybin therapy with the graduation of the first students trained in accompanying patients tripping on psychedelic mushrooms, although a company’s bankruptcy has left another group on the same path adrift. Continue reading →

The World

World

Hong Kong activists behind Tiananmen vigil jailed for months

Three former organizers of Hong Kong’s annual vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protests were jailed Saturday for 4½ months for failing to provide authorities with information on the group under a national security law. Continue reading →

World

Front line shifts in Russia’s and Ukraine’s battle for Bakhmut, analysts say

Ukraine insisted Saturday that its forces were fending off relentless Russian attacks in Bakhmut, even as Western analysts said that Moscow’s forces had captured most of the embattled city’s east and established a new front line cutting through its center. Continue reading →

World

In fields sown with bombs, Ukraine’s farmers risk deadly harvest

Oleksandr Hordienko stepped gingerly into a wheat field that had recently served as a Russian tank position, following closely behind an assistant with a metal detector. He stopped when he came to a row of metal disks glinting in the late-winter sun. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

LETTERS

Imagine Boston area as a therapeutic landscape for young people

These are clinical and, importantly, nonclinical spaces where physical and built environments, social conditions, and human perceptions combine to produce an atmosphere conducive to healing. Continue reading →

LETTERS

A ‘national divorce’? Is there no middle ground, or common ground?

Our current problem is not disagreement — that’s what all politics is about — but rather the dysfunctions of our political institutions. Continue reading →

OPINION

Fox News and Tucker Carlson’s big lies

Call Fox what it is — the communications team for Republican extremism and disinformation. Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

Transit Police to monitor for hate group activity on public transportation heading to St. Patrick’s Day parade

Elected representatives from South Boston said they met Friday evening with law enforcement officials after members of a neo-Nazi group gathered last year along the parade route and displayed a banner reading, “Keep Boston Irish.” Continue reading →

Metro

Bob Moses’s family continues his legacy of social impact

The celebrated civil rights leader's family has established the Bob Moses Fund for Education and Organizing. Continue reading →

Maine

Colby College goes into lockdown after shot fired on campus

Colby College said no students were hurt during an altercation that involved a firearm being discharged at the Alfond Senior Apartments on the campus in Waterville, Maine. Continue reading →

Sports

Bruins 3, Red Wings 2

After a slow start, Bruins rally to beat Red Wings on Garnet Hathaway’s first goal as a Bruin

The two teams will meet again on Sunday afternoon, this time in Detroit. Continue reading →

CELTICS NOTEBOOK

Robert Williams ‘feeling good’ and hopeful of return to Celtics lineup during six-game road trip

Williams suffered a left hamstring strain March 3. There is no target date set for the injured center to rejoin the action, and he has no plans to rush back. Continue reading →

stan grossfeld

What’s cooking with Triston Casas? The Red Sox rookie has the fires burning this spring.

Casas is fanatical about nutrition and loves to prepare food. He also is dedicated to improving his craft on the field. And he has some quirks, too. Continue reading →

Business
Ideas

IDEAS

Beautiful ruins: What about those 1 euro houses in Italy?

A wild boar in the garden, a kitchen with goat-height ceilings, and lessons in living, galore. Continue reading →

IDEAS

Did a 21st-century pharmacy really just cave to the threat of a 19th-century antiabortion law?

Walgreens fears that conservative judges will come up with a backwards interpretation of the 1873 Comstock Act. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Eugene Kohn, architect of skyscraping ambitions, dies at 92

An architect who co-founded the firm Kohn Pedersen Fox in 1976, Eugene Kohn's ambitions led it to become, within a few years, one of the most prolific designers of skyscrapers in the world. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Michael Gruenbaum, Holocaust survivor who wrote about boyhood in a Nazi concentration camp, dies at 92

Mr. Gruenbaum called "Somewhere There is Still a Sun," his Holocaust memoir, "a juxtaposition of horror and childhood innocence." Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Arts

Listen: Boston busker is living his dream

For James Bourne, AKA Jimi Blacksheep, the streets are the best venue around. Continue reading →

MATTHEW GILBERT

8 of the most memorable fictional TV music makers

There have been so many fictional music makers on TV over the years, you could fill the Partridge Family's bus many times over. From Mouse Rat in "Parks and Recreation" to The Archies from “The Archie Show," here are eight of the most memorable. Continue reading →

Music

Bill Janovitz goes deep to tell the story of Leon Russell, a rock showman teetering on a tightrope

As an author, the Buffalo Tom frontman manages to be a sure-footed guide through Russell’s extremely complicated personal and professional life. Continue reading →

Travel

FAMILY TRAVEL

The Newport Car Museum is ‘not only a car museum . . . it’s an art museum’

Once you pay the $20 fee and walk inside, it’s impossible to not go all googly eyes. The collection is 90 of the most beautiful muscle cars, classic fin cars, and sleek race cars ever built. Continue reading →

A BUMP IN THE ROAD

A Costa Rican getaway turns into a 17-hour road trip to Texas

Sometimes you have to try really, really hard to enjoy the journey. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Real Estate

Mass. homeowners are taking out equity loans in record numbers

They balk at selling their homes but want to capitalize on skyrocketing appreciation: There were more than five times as many million-dollar home sales in Massachusetts in 2022 than there were in 2010. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Home of the Week: Clinton mansion offers chance at rental income

The property includes a two-bedroom apartment that could welcome your in-laws or tenants. Continue reading →