By Associated Press

Paintings, writings, and the iconic blue sweater of the audacious assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian are going up for auction.

New chair of the Joint Chiefs sworn in

By Robert Burns

The Obama administration welcomed Army General Martin Dempsey yesterday, who replaced Navy Admiral Mike Mullen as the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

By John Rogers

Close to a week after his car plunged 200 feet into a ravine, a California man was rescued Thursday by his three adult children.

Syrian troops battle renegades

By Bassem Mroue

The battles reveal the increasingly militarized nature of an anti-Assad uprising that started months ago by peaceful protesters.

By Ellen Barry

President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia explained that he would allow Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to return to the presidency because he is more popular.

Myanmar abandons dam project

By Thomas Fuller

The Myitsone dam project would have been the first to span the Irrawaddy River, the largest waterway in Myanmar, and was a showcase project for the previous military government.

Editorial cartoon: A ‘new’ Washington Monument

The latest editorial cartoon from Tom Toles of The Washington Post.

letters to the editor

“The thought of a productivity clause for Red Sox contracts is as ridiculous as the idea of linking public school teachers’ salaries to standardized test scores.” — Dan Kraft

letters to the editor

Canada committed to cooperating on oil pipeline

“To single out Canadian crude oil is unfair.” — Pat Binns, Consul general of Canada to New England

Dan Shaughnessy

Ignore the spin: Red Sox fired Francona

By Dan Shaughnessy

The manager and the Red Sox brass tried to make it sound mutual, but Terry Francona turns out to be the first victim of the greatest collapse in baseball history.

LAWRENCE

Four robbery suspects attempting to flee from police drove a stolen sport utility vehicle into an abandoned bakery yesterday afternoon, Police Chief John Romero said.

BOSTON

Thomas Scully, a former Beverly Public Library employee who pleaded guilty to child pornography possession in 2009, is entitled to have his retirement allowance reinstated, a three-judge Appeals Court panel ruled yesterday.

Micron, the largest US maker of memory chips, fell after it reported a fiscal fourth-quarter loss on weak PC demand.

Market movers

Casino firms hurt by China forecasts

US casino operators with businesses in Macau fell after a Bloomberg poll showed most global investors predict China’s growth will slow.

Morgan Stanley fell on news it is being priced in the credit-default swaps market as less creditworthy than most US, UK, and French banks.

Roger Kennedy, 85; brought pop culture to Smithsonian

By Emily Langer

Roger Kennedy, the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History who transformed the stodgy repository, died yesterday in Rockville, Md.

Hella Haasse, an award-winning author best known for chronicling colonial life in the Dutch East Indies, has died.

By Daniel E. Slotnik

David Zelag Goodman, a prolific screenwriter who was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on the romantic comedy “Lovers and Other Strangers,’’ died Monday in Oakland, Calif.

From the archives | Sept. 30

Terry Francona, Red Sox part ways

By Peter Abraham

Two days after the Red Sox completed the biggest collapse in MLB history in 2011, the manager who led the team to two World Series titles left the franchise he helped restore to greatness.

Patriots Notebook

By Shalise Manza Young

Bill Belichick interviewed for the Raiders head coaching job after the 1998 season. Would things be different in Oakland (and New England) if he had been hired there?

Progress made as Celtics join NBA labor talks

By Gary Washburn

The intensity and importance of yesterday’s NBA labor meetings were punctuated by the star power of the players association.

STAGE REVIEW

By Don Aucoin

About midway through his spellbinding performance Thursday night in “The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer,’’ John Malkovich, playing a real-life Austrian murderer named Jack Unterweger, gazed coolly out at the audience in the Cutler Majestic Theatre and made an observation about our complicity in the manufacture of celebrity.

Names

Around town

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

WBZ-TV’s new weekend anchor Diana Perez marked National Hispanic Heritage Month at the business networking event Get Konnected.

Names

Boston Lyric Opera off to a spooky start

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

In advance of its fall gala Oct. 22, the Boston Lyric Opera held a tasting at the Mandarin Oriental this week, and the hotel’s pastry chef Nelson Paz was joined by gala co-chairs Willa Bodman and Alan Dynner.