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Prosecutors say Robert Chain made 14 threatening calls to the Globe that were “profane, lewd, and peppered with antigay slurs” after the paper launched a campaign in support of the free press.

As many as 80 buildings burned in Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover, with one person dead and at least 13 injured. Thousands of people fled, and now officials and residents are trying to understand what happened and why.

Richard Paris, president of Local 718, said Wednesday he will step down on Feb. 28 after leading one of the city’s largest and most politically active labor unions for 9 years.

Wu’s prodding from the left on such issues as transportation and the environment have made her one of the leaders of the city’s progressive wave — and sparked speculation about whether she might run for mayor.

Airbnb will drop its opposition to having its hosts register with the city, and display a registration number on their listings.

It pits two impressive candidates — Kenzie Bok and Jennifer Nassour — from opposing political parties in a nonpartisan Boston race. Each one promises to tackle local issues such as parking and traffic, the lack of a school in the district, and soaring housing costs.

By a 2-1 margin, Roxbury voters Tuesday said yes to a referendum asking whether the city should rename Dudley Square to Nubian Square. Now, Mayor Martin Walsh says his administration will meet with the community to figure out what comes next.

A federal appeals court judge questioned Thursday whether jurors who decided the fate of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were properly screened for bias, raising a possible flaw in the proceedings that could force the court to vacate Tsarnaev’s death sentence and require a new trial.

A photograph filed in federal court late Friday shows former City Hall employee John M. Lynch “grabbing thousands of dollars in cash as part of a corrupt bribe.”

Sweeney, who has been Mayor Walsh’s chief of staff for 2½ years, will leave for a private-sector job by the end of February.

The Boston Police Department has touted its use of community policing. But what is community policing, exactly, and how do you measure its effectiveness?

Several area police chiefs, facing tough new calls for reform brought on by the national Black Lives Matter movement, have announced plans to retire.

Today, some officers continue to struggle with telling the truth, whether in court or everyday police matters, and the Boston Police Department has no mechanism to monitor officer testimony or truthfulness. Quite often, records show, internal affairs investigators are reluctant to call a lie a lie.

Though all major candidates in the Boston mayoral race have called attention to the city’s affordable housing crisis, Wu is the only one to publicly endorse rent control.

Mayor-elect Michelle Wu said the appointment of a Cabinet chief to oversee the opioid epidemic at Mass. and Cass will be one of her first priorities, and that she will roll up her sleeves to fix Boston Public Schools, as she reflected on her new reality as the city’s chief executive.

Boston faces a difficult question: How to preserve and sustain the existing, dated public housing system, which experts say is a crucial part of any solution to the city’s housing dilemma.

Here are some of the factors at play.

The shift of Boston residents to Brockton and a few other nearby towns underscores the challenges the city of Boston faces in keeping Black and brown residents who were born there and want to stay, but have been priced out of the city’s sizzling real estate market.

State health officials say they are expanding an effort to get former residents of the Mass. and Cass area in Boston off the streets and into permanent housing.

The racist practice played a large part in why so much of the state is segregated along racial lines, with economic disparities that still resonate.