A Texas woman who for months was unable to qualify for food stamps pulled a gun in a state welfare office and staged a seven-hour standoff with police that ended with her shooting her two children before killing herself, officials said yesterday.

Today’s corrections for The Boston Globe.

Blagojevich's lawyer pleads for lighter sentence

By Don Babwin and Michael Tarm

Rod Blagojevich’s attorneys admitted for the first time that the former Illinois governor is guilty of corruption, but said the prison term requested by prosecutors is too harsh.

Sectarian violence blamed for killings in Syrian city

By Anthony Shadid

Dozens of corpses were recovered from the streets of Homs this week, some of them dismembered, decapitated, and bearing signs of torture, activists and residents said.

By Lolita Baldor and Sebastian Abbot

Pakistan temporarily recalled some troops yesterday from border posts meant to coordinate activity with international forces in Afghanistan.

By Yuri Kageyama

Traces of radiation spilled from Japan’s hobbled nuclear plant were detected in baby formula yesterday in the nation’s latest case of contaminated food.

Editorial cartoon: Redefining Newt

Dan Wasserman, who has been drawing cartoons for The Boston Globe since 1985, offers this view of Newt Gingrich’s efforts to redefine himself.

Letters | PLAN FOR FOXBOROUGH CASINO STIRS REACTION

"Kraft and Wynn could win approval by giving every household in Foxborough $5,000." -- Glen Rockwell

Letters | PLAN FOR FOXBOROUGH CASINO STIRS REACTION

"Atlantic City has allowed the State of New Jersey to take over its finances as it operates under a $9.5 million deficit." -- Jane Howard

ARLINGTON

Arlington police are attempting to identify the body of a man found dead in Spy Pond yesterday.

PRINCETON

A 65-year-old woman fell to her death in her Princeton home, and authorities are trying to determine if it is a homicide.

CAMBRIDGE

A Boston man was found guilty yesterday in a 1996 Cambridge home invasion and rape, Middlesex District Attorney Gerald T. Leone Jr. said.

Indianapolis’s Lilly rose after an analyst said success of its experimental Alzheimer’s drug could double the share price.

The biggest professional networking website rose after it was raised to “overweight’’ from “equalweight’’ at Morgan Stanley, which said the stock’s valuation is “much more compelling.’’

MetroPCS Communications Inc. topped the S&P 500 gainers after the pay-as-you-go US wireless carrier was raised to “outperform’’ from “market perform’’ at William Blair & Co.

By T. Rees Shapiro

Hubert Sumlin, a blues guitarist who influenced work by Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, died Sunday at a hospital in Wayne, N.J. He was 80.

Alan Sues, 85; was member of ‘Laugh-In’ comedy troupe

By Daniel E. Slotnik

Alan Sues, an actor whose clownish comedic style made him an invaluable cast member on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,’’ died Thursday. He was 85.

Manuel Gilman, track veterinarian, dies at 91

By Bruce Weber

Dr. Gilman, a veterinarian whose procedure for examining thoroughbred racehorses in New York became standard at racetracks, died Nov. 25.

Guard Freddie Riley scored 14 points in 10 minutes as UMass built a 22-point first-half lead over East Carolina, but the Minutemen had to fight off the Pirates for a 63-58 victory.

David Clarkson scored twice, including 2:40 into overtime to give the New Jersey Devils a 3-2 win over the Maple Leafs last night in Toronto.

On baseball

Red Sox wide open on bullpen possibilities

By Nick Cafardo

If the Red Sox indeed make Daniel Bard and Alfredo Aceves starters, they will need to do a lot of work to fill out the bullpen, including finding a new closer.

Names

Shea Rose rocks the house

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

R&B “it’’ girl Shea Rose impressed the audience at the Fierce Styles Fashion Show the other night.

Names

Peter Wolf at the Addison

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

J. Geils frontman Peter Wolf stopped by the Addison Gallery of American Art the other day to check out an exhibit of Lorna Bieber’s work, and to meet the artist.

More Celebrity News

Rima Fakih was driving with a half-empty bottle of champagne and a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit when she was arrested on a drunken driving charge near Detroit, according to a police report released yesterday.