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Officials find driver in death of visiting MIT scientist

The driver of the truck that allegedly struck and killed a bicyclist Sunday is cooperating with investigators, an official said.

Gabriel Gomez and John McCain

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US Senate race

Gomez hits Markey on 9/11 vote in appearance with McCain

Appearing in Dorchester with Senator John McCain, Gabriel Gomez slammed his opponent for voting against a 2004 measure to honor the Sept. 11 victims.

Marlena Hodson walked out of her home as her grandsons helped her sort through belongings after a tornado damaged her home in Carney, Okla., Sunday.

Oklahoma tornado kills 2

A tornado Sunday leveled a central Oklahoma mobile home park, killing two men in their 70s.

Devon Wiley of Hingham, who is nearsighted, uses ortho-k contacts, an alternative to Lasik and glasses. The lenses reshape the cornea and improve a patient’s vision.

Dina Rudick/Globe Staff

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Overnight lenses give wearers clear vision during day

A treatment known as ortho-k, in which patients wear contact lenses only at night, is increasingly being used to treat nearsightedness.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/05/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/nurses90.jpg For suspect’s nurses, angst gave way to duty

The nurses assigned to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at Beth Israel Deaconess did what they had to do to care for him, despite the range of emotions they felt.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/05/20/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/clarke90.jpg Seasoned defender for Tsarnaev

Judy Clarke, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s defense lawyer, has previously defended Unabomber “Ted” Kaczynski and Atlanta Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph.

Angelina Jolie is a person of extraordinary privilege.

Opinion | Jennifer Graham

Don’t praise Angelina Jolie

Let’s put the brakes on the canonization of Jolie, a person of extraordinary privilege who has exercised an option that’s not available to most women.

JAMES CARROLL

I failed Barbara Walters

I was disinclined to be the finger-wagging priest on whom Barbara Walters was counting in a 1972 appearance on her daytime show, “Not For Women Only.”