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Girl gives dramatic
details in abuse case
Haleigh Poutre, a 14-year-old girl once diagnosed as being in an "irreversible vegetative state," has provided police with dramatic testimony about frequent use of corporal punishment during her childhood, but she has not given any specifics about what caused her to suffer a near-fatal head injury more than two years ago. (By Patricia Wen, Boston Globe)
Gas service woes to go on
Residents and businesses in the Financial District and parts of the North End could suffer sporadic failures of gas service through the spring and possibly into summer and beyond, because it will take months for utility crews to remove all water trapped in gas lines by a weekend water-main break, officials said. (By John C. Drake, Boston Globe)
Housing prices keep falling
as slump enters its third year
Home sellers in Massachusetts are slashing prices at double-digit rates to close deals, but there is no evidence the lower prices will end a housing slump now entering its third year. (By Kimberly Blanton, Boston Globe)
- Discuss Where are real estate prices headed?
- data Single-family sales and median prices, 2006-2007
- coverage The Massachusetts housing slump
Skycaps and waiters find a legal champion
Days after a federal jury ordered American Airlines to pay a group of nine local skycaps more than $325,000 in lost tips, the plaintiffs and their legal team celebrated with a boisterous dinner at Ruth's Chris Steak House at Boston's Old City Hall. (By Jonathan Saltzman, Boston Globe)
- Girl gives dramatic details in abuse case (By Patricia Wen, Globe Staff)
- Gas service woes to go on (By John C. Drake, Globe Staff)
- Skycaps and waiters find a legal champion (By Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff)
- GOP fires third salvo at DiMasi (By Andrea Estes, Globe Staff)
- 80 work fatalities in state last year (By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff)
- Recalling the death of cheerleader (By Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff)
- Playground trees, target of vandals, are planted anew (By Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff)
- Adrian Walker Let's you and him fight (By Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist)
- Jury acquits man in ear-biting case (By Maria Cramer, Globe Staff)
- N.H. praised for child abuse disclosure law (By Norma Love, Associated Press)
- Globe reporter given Columbia award (By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff)
- Vt. bill would regulate groundwater use (Boston Globe)
- New England in brief Sleeping man is arrested in vandalism (Boston Globe)
- Maine blueberry growers feel pinch of fuel costs (Boston Globe)
- Wampanoag casino foes sue tribe over shunning (By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff)
- Second boy overcome by fumes is better (By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff)
- O'Connor to hear cases as visiting judge to Hub court (By Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff)
- Robert Collins; Sudan scholar wrote controversial jihad book (By Jocelyn Y. Stewart, Los Angeles Times)
- Diana Aharonian, 106; became inspiration (By J.M. Lawrence, Globe Correspondent)
- Will Robinson, basketball pioneer as coach, scout (By Larry Lage, Associated Press)
- Saadia Touval, noted scholar on mediation in global disputes (By Adam Bernstein, Washington Post)
- Christine Reardon, environmental activist of Plymouth, dies at 59 (By Kate Augusto, Globe Correspondent)
- In brief (Boston Globe)
- Dick Rossi; helped save legacy of Flying Tigers (By Jocelyn Y. Stewart, Los Angeles Times)
- Mike Patrick, at 55; was Patriots punter (Boston Globe)
- Supreme Court upholds voter ID law (By James Vaznis, Globe Staff)
- National Perspective On affirmative action, Obama intriguing but vague (By Peter S. Canellos, Globe Staff)
- Daily Briefing Letters defend detainee tactics (Boston Globe)
- Rush is on for Forever stamps (By Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press)
- Pastor's rebuttals fuel troubles for Obama (By Joseph Williams, Globe Staff)
- Amplifying sound bites from the sermons (Boston Globe)
- Campaign Notebook Clinton joins McCain in hitting Obama on gas tax (Boston Globe)
- Women's heart study casts doubt on 'fat but fit' theory (By Lindsey Tanner, Associated Press)
- Ex-prosecutor alleges pressure over detainees (By Jane Sutton, Reuters)
- Texas determines teens in sect had babies (By Michelle Roberts, Associated Press)
- 4 US soldiers killed by rocket fire in Iraq (By Ernesto Londono and Amit R. Paley, Washington Post)
- Gaza mother, 4 children killed in Israeli operation (By Ethan Bronner, New York Times News Service)
- Daily Briefing Leader decries aborting of girls (Boston Globe)
- 'House of horrors' stuns Austrians (By Veronika Oleksyn and William J. Kole, Associated Press)
- Vietnam puts stop to all US adoptions (By Chris Brummitt, Associated Press)
- Opposition factions in Zimbabwe unite against Mugabe (By Barry Bearak, New York Times News Service)
- Blair urges Israel to lift W. Bank roadblocks (By Adam Entous, Reuters)
- Bush trip to highlight Israel anniversary (By Ben Feller, Associated Press)
- Hussein-era official to face trial in Iraq (By Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press)
Editorial and opinion
- Globe Editorial Down payment on a solution
- Globe Editorial Gunning for Karzai
- Globe Editorial the revenge of e.e. cummings
- Graham Allison and Robbie Diamond Averting an energy crisis
- VoxOp
- David A. Shaywitz and Dennis A. Ausiello Scientific research with an asterisk
- H. D. S. Greenway Britain's latest saga: Obama and Clinton
- Housing prices keep falling as slump enters its third year (By Kimberly Blanton, Globe Staff)
- Virtual crime, it seems, pays well (By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff)
- Overhaul set for old bathrooms (By Binyamin Appelbaum, Globe Staff)
- Will stars align again for biotech backer? (By Todd Wallack, Globe Staff)
- Gillette sues Korean firm in patent case (By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff)
- Boston Capital Public good vs. real world (By Steven Syre, Globe Columnist)
- Mars buys gum maker in $23b deal (Boston Globe)
- Kerkorian discloses 4.7% Ford investment (Boston Globe)
- Blood substitutes raise risk of death, study says (Boston Globe)
- United now setting its sights on partnering with US Airways (Boston Globe)
- Business in brief Summit launches $1.56b European buyout fund (Boston Globe)
- Big papers' circulation falls (Boston Globe)
- Short-term T-bill interest rates higher (Boston Globe)
- JOHN F. WASIK Do you have college-bound kids? If so, it pays to think like a portfolio manager (By John F. Wasik, Boston Globe)
- Quarterly profit rises 28% at Visa (Boston Globe)
- Cost of filling up tops list of family worries (Boston Globe)
- Hawks 97, Celtics 92 Celtics leveled by Hawks (By Marc J. Spears, Globe Staff)
- On basketball Favored Celtics now in tight quarters against Hawks (By Peter May, Globe Staff)
- Red Sox' Ramírez closing in on 500 home runs (By Gordon Edes, Globe Staff)
- Monroe a reel trail-blazer (By Stan Grossfeld, Globe Staff)
- Patriots notebook Patriots draft pick Wheatley lauded as a two-way talent (By Mike Reiss, Globe Staff)
- Flyers 3, Canadiens 2 Biron helps Flyers take fight out of Canadiens (By Dan Gelston, Associated Press)
- Sports Log Report: Brown to take over Bobcats (Boston Globe)
- Red Sox notebook Lester hasn't been a stretch pitcher (By Gordon Edes and Amalie Benjamin, Globe Staff)
- Blue Jays-Red Sox series thumbnails (Boston Globe)
- Roundup Slow-starting Yankees salvage a series split (Boston Globe)
- Notables (Boston Globe)
- Commentary Fine on Celtics' Pierce is a Stern warning (By Peter May, Globe Staff)
- Hawks' Johnson was money in final quarter vs. Celtics (By Ray Glier, Globe Correspondent)
- Celtics notebook Pierce fined $25,000 for hand gesture NBA deems 'menacing' (By Marc J. Spears, Globe Staff)
- NBA playoffs roundup Magic, Lakers move on (Boston Globe)
- 'Coach' Riley resigns (By Tim Reynolds, Associated Press)
- Soccer notes Revolution's Thompson has drive to compete (By Frank Dell'Apa, Globe Staff)
- School roundup Unbeaten Natick beats Brookline in boys' volleyball (By David Benoit, Globe Correspondent)
- Crawley to be named BC women's coach (By Chris Estrada, Globe Correspondent)
- Kelli Pedroia shuns the sun after melanoma diagnosis (By Bella English, Globe Staff)
- 5 questions for Kelli Pedroia (By Bella English, Globe Staff)
- Alex Beam A day that suits some to a tee (By Alex Beam, Globe Columnist)
- CD Review On 'Third,' there's method to Portishead's melancholy (By Sarah Rodman, Globe Staff)
- Stage Review Music propels a serious story about slavery in 'Dessa Rose' (By Louise Kennedy, Globe Staff)
- Music Review Blue Heron choir finishes with revelry, reverence (By Matthew Guerrieri, Globe Correspondent)
- Don Was and his typically atypical band, Was (Not Was) (By Sarah Rodman, Globe Staff)
- Miguel Zenón's fresh sounds draw on his heritage (By Andrew Gilbert, Globe Correspondent)
- Book Review Scott Spencer muddles through a long strange trip of a novel (By Ted Weesner Jr., Boston Globe)
- The Air This Week (Boston Globe)
- Names Missed it by that much (By Carol Beggy & Mark Shanahan, Globe Staff)
- More celebrity news Cyrus apologizes (Boston Globe)
- Music Review Caillat's quick rise to fame shows on stage (By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff)
Sidekick
- DINING Sox on a roll (By Luke O'Neil, Globe Correspondent)
- AIR GUITAR Come on, feel the noise (By June Wulff, Globe Staff)
- SHOPPING TIP OF THE DAY Against the wall (By June Wulff, Globe Staff)
- POP Who's this girl? (By Luke O'Neil, Globe Correspondent)
- TALK Radio active (By June Wulff, Globe Staff)
- TALK Bones to pick (Boston Globe)
- exhibit Land as still life (Boston Globe)
- Yogurt Newbury Blueberry (Boston Globe)
- Talk 'Sociable Robots' (Boston Globe)
- Rock Pat McGee Band (Boston Globe)
- SIDEKICK CHAT Questions of the week (Boston Globe)
- Critic's corner (By Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff)
- POP That's so Raven (Boston Globe)
- HIP-HOP | CHOICE Tearing the walls down (Boston Globe)
- COMEDY Flight of fancy (Boston Globe)
- Still irreplaceable (Boston Globe)
- BLUES-ROCK A fitting finale (Boston Globe)
- Free loading 'Pretty Amazing Grace' by Neil Diamond (By Luke O'Neil, Globe Correspondent)
- INDIE POP Not the center of attention (Boston Globe)
- COUNTRY A voice worth noting (Boston Globe)