Brian McGrory

The list gets a dazzling number of contributions from across the Bates community, befitting its No. 1 purpose as a collective gift to the senior class.

Former mayor Thomas M. Menino has been diagnosed months after leaving office with an advanced form of cancer that has spread to his liver and lymph nodes, a jolting discovery that he described as the most profound challenge of his life.

Even before his son died in 1986, Joe O’Donnell began raising money to battle cystic fibrosis, not so much to help Joey, but to help those he didn’t know. After Joey died, he launched the Joey Fund, bringing in many millions of dollars at annual movie screenings, hot dog festivals, and bowling night…

To understand the depths of her sorrow, it’s best to understand the source of her pain, a big blonde bear of a dog with an unimaginably large head, snowshoe-sized paws, and a habit of making such a racket whenever he sprawled on the floor that he sounded like a building tumbling down.

In “Buddy: How a Rooster Made Me a Family Man,” Brian McGrory writes about his new, blended family and the title character who sometimes seemed to rule the roost.

Since the 2005 publication of John Grogan’s mega-bestseller “Marley and Me,” the “pet that rescued me/taught me/helped me grow up” memoir has become a booming literary subgenre. Brian McGrory’s poignant and funny new book, “Buddy,” which traces much of the Globe columnist’s adult life and career, ha…

David Ray, the owner of the venerable Locke-Ober, called this morning to confirm what a city already knew. He has sold the building on Winter Place in Downtown Crossing, shuttered his restaurant, and is moving on. “All done,” Ray said, pausing for a moment. “I think we gave it a good effort. “Here’s…

A few community leaders came together with some receptive state officials, and the results will soon be there for all to see. The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge will be lit by some of the most technologlically advanced bulbs in the world. The bridge will be blue again.

Veteran restaurateur Ted Epstein decided to open a new eatery in the quaint community of Newburyport back in 2009, when nobody was starting anything. You would think the state would have tried to help him. Instead, officials began grabbing his money.

When people lie on their resume, it’s usually to fake an MBA from Harvard or battleground experience in Vietnam. Now along comes Scott Thompson, the recently ousted CEO of Yahoo, who threw it all away on a fake degree from Stonehill College.

Liberty Mutual spent $4.5 million to renovate a 1,335 square foot executive suite that was, in all likelihood, working just fine a month before. It breaks down to $3,370 per square foot, making it perhaps the most valuable real estate in Boston. Put another way, the renovation cost is equal to what …

Liberty Mutual isn’t the only insurance mutual in Massachusetts with a taste for the high life. Springfield-based MassMutual has a pair of planes that regularly haunt airports in Florida, often near where executives own getaway homes.

The travel itineraries for Liberty Mutual’s fleet of five corporate jets read like the table of contents of Travel + Leisure. There were at least six trips to Hawaii at a cost of about $90,000 apiece. There was the 2010 trip to Venice, Italy. There were multiple trips to Palm Springs, as well as to …

Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration issued an announcement with a title that only a federal bureaucrat could write: “FDA approves Kalydeco to treat rare form of cystic fibrosis.’’ In fact, it was a blockbuster development, the first drug that would treat the cause, rather than the symptom…

It’s virtually impossible to imagine that the rarified streets of the Back Bay were ever home to flophouses, or to grasp that outsiders ventured into the South End at their own risk after dark, or to realize that a McDonald’s, a gas station, and a lounge called the Hillbilly Ranch ever fronted the P…

Ten years later, and that day remains brilliantly lit yet deep in shadows, its meaning a work in progress - for the nation, for the world, and for each of us.

Barney Murphy is a 49-year-old Irish-born cop on Cape Cod with a golf game so utterly hopeless that he can’t bring himself to keep score. Rory McIlroy is the new United States Open champion, a 22-year-old Northern Irishman who has captured the hearts and hopes of the entire golfing world.

It’s not easy, being a homicide detective. Their clients are dead. The witnesses can be infuriating. The killings are often so pointless they defy basic logic. Every day, in so many ways, they see the worst of human nature.

Prominent Boston businessman Jack Connors has joined a group of investors preparing an offer to buy The Boston Globe, adding new credibility to an investment team that has worked for over a year to raise funds.

Commencement season is arriving in this grand metropolis, the higher education capital of the world. Every graduate has a story. Tiffany Smalley’s just happens to be 346 years old.