Today’s corrections for The Boston Globe.

By Lolita C. Baldor

The stealth aircraft’s fall from high altitude may prevent Tehran from acquiring information about the classified surveillance program from the recovered parts.

The NAACP hopes to persuade the Justice Department to strike down new state voting laws it claims are intended to thwart growing minority participation at the polls.

Russian election marred by fraud

By David M. Herszenhorn

Western election monitors said yesterday that they had observed blatant fraud, including the brazen stuffing of ballot boxes, in the parliamentary elections.

By Albert Aji

Syria said it would agree to allow Arab League observers into the country as part of a plan to end nine months of bloodshed.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was granted permission by judges Monday to continue his legal battle to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex crimes allegations.

Editorial cartoon: Careful what they wish for

Dan Wasserman, who has been drawing cartoons for The Boston Globe since 1985, offers this view of the Democratic reaction to Newt Gingrich’s position atop the Republican field.

Letters | RAISING CONSCIOUSNESS - AND BLOOD PRESSURE

"In 1927 Eleanor Roosevelt said, 'The big question before our people today is whether we are to be more material in our thinking, judging administrative success by its economic results entirely and leaving out all other achievements.' '' -- Leo Parnes

Letters | RAISING CONSCIOUSNESS - AND BLOOD PRESSURE

"This group of layabouts, malcontents, and outright criminals is dispiriting, not disparate." -- Josh Passell

Wynn, Kraft make case for casino in Foxborough

By Casey Ross and Noah Bierman

Casino mogul Steve Wynn and Patriots owner Robert Kraft made a joint appearance in Foxborough to argue that the casino would be an economic engine for the region.

PROVIDENCE

Thousands of people have lodged complaints over Governor Lincoln Chafee’s decision to call a spruce erected at the Rhode Island State House a holiday tree and not a Christmas tree.

PAWTUCKET

The mother of a Massachusetts National Guardsman who sustained fatal injuries in Afghanistan earlier this year has been forced out of her home by a kitchen fire.

Kelly’s Roast Beef leaving Allston

By Matt Rocheleau

The family-run chain Kelly’s Roast Beef will close its Allston restaurant this weekend, company officials said yesterday.

Indexes rose as optimism that Europe would tame its debt helped stocks weather a late-day sell-off on reports that euro-area nations would be downgraded.

MARKET MOVERS

Upgrade provides boost to media owner

Shares of Gannett Co. Inc. rose after the owner of 82 newspapers, including USA Today, and 23 television stations was raised to “buy’’ from “neutral’’ at Lazard Capital Markets.

Sonia Pierre, Dominican-Haitian activist; at 48

Sonia Pierre, a human rights activist who fought discrimination against poor Dominicans of Haitian descent since she was a child, died Sunday, according to colleagues.

William Waller, prosecutor, ex-governor of Mississippi

By Douglas Martin

William L. Waller twice tried in 1964 to convict Byron De La Beckwith of murdering the civil rights leader Medgar Evers, and in 1971 was elected Mississippi governor.

Paul Doty, presidential adviser on nuclear arms control

By Bryan Marquard

With one foot in Harvard Yard and the other among scientists in the Soviet Union, Paul Doty became a leading presidential adviser on nuclear arms control.

At 16, Diego Fagundez still building pro career

By Frank Dell’Apa

Figuring out where he belongs is not getting any easier for Diego Fagundez, who balances high school and a budding career with the New England Revolution.

Sports Log

Auto racing Kurt Busch and Penske Racing parted ways yesterday after six bumpy seasons, a departure that clouds the former champion’s future in NASCAR as he embarks on a personal journey to reclaim his passion for racing. Both the team and driver said ending the relationship was a “mutual agreement,’’ but most believe Busch was fired in the fallout of yet another embarrassing incident. A fan caught Busch on video verbally abusing an ESPN reporter during last month’s season finale, and Busch was fined $50,000 by NASCAR after the clip was posted on YouTube. Busch, though, insists that leaving Penske is probably the best thing for him personally. “What’s troublesome is this five letter ‘f-i-r-e-d’ word is being used, but it’s obvious to me that looking back, I was very unhappy over the second half of the season,’’ he said. Busch, 33, acknowledged last week during activities surrounding the season-ending awards ceremony that he began seeing a sports psychologist . . . Michael Waltrip Racing hired Brian Pattie as crew chief for new driver Clint Bowyer.

NHL officials approved a radical plan that will give the league four conferences instead of six divisions and guarantee home-and-home series among all teams.

Names

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

“Hardball’’ host Chris Matthews was at the Boston Harbor Hotel yesterday singing copies his book, “Jack Kennedy : Elusive Hero.’’

Names

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

Commonwealth Shakespeare Co. today announces its choice for next summer’s Shakespeare in the Park: “Coriolanus.’’

Names

In helping kids, they’re all fighters

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

Celebration for Kids drew a crowd, including “Irish’’ Micky Ward.