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Michael Maloney recalled for kindness, love of his work

Maloney was eight days from retirement as police chief of Greenland, N.H., when he was killed on Thursday. The town remembers a leader who “lived and breathed the job.”

Alleged shooter had lengthy record

Cullen Mutrie, who allegedly wounded four Greenland, N.H., police officers and killed the chief Friday, was out on bail and awaiting trial.

The tribulations and (quiet) pride of marathoners’ children

They dread the running clothes, but, deep down, children take great pride in parents who persevere up Heartbreak Hill.

Barry Chin/Globe Staff

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox bring a big win home

They’ve been playing in the old yard for 100 years now, but rarely has a win felt more urgent or welcome for the Sox and their unsettled fans.

Humble hero could get lofty honor

Decades after Thomas J. Hudner Jr. crashed his own plane in the hope of saving another aviator, Massachusetts’s two US senators are pushing to name a warship after him.

The Nation

For the record

■ Correction: Because of a production error, the cover story in Friday’s “g’’ section on the documentary film “For the Love of the Music: The Club 47 Folk Revival’’ omitted a photo caption. For complete caption information, visit www.bostonglobe.com/arts.

Zimmerman used no slur, state says

Prosecutors said George Zimmerman did not utter a racial slur in his call to 911 on the night he shot Trayvon Martin.

Ohio man kills wife, young daughter

A man whose wife had just told him she was leaving him shot and killed her and their young daughter inside a crowded restaurant.

The World

US soldier to remain silent at ‘sanity board’

The soldier charged in the killings of 17 Afghan villagers will not participate in an Army review aimed at determining his mental state, his lawyer said.

Failed satellite launch costs N. Korea $1 billion

By Choe Sang-Hun

For the new North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, his government’s failure to put a satellite into orbit Friday was a $1 billion humiliation.

Islamists rally against candidate in Egypt

A man held a sign with an image of the Israeli flag and a photo of presidential candidate and former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman in Tahrir square in Cairo on Friday.

By Maggie Michael

Egyptians demanded the country’s ruling generals bar Hosni Mubarak’s former spy chief from running in next month’s presidential elections.

Editorial & Opinion

letters | TUNNEL TROUBLES

Leave electricians out of broad criticism

 The state said that the light fixtures in the Big Dig tunnels must be replaced because of design or manufacturing defects that have led to dangerous corrosion.

“Your editorial suggests that the electricians who installed the fixtures are at fault.” — Michael P. Monahan

letters | TUNNEL TROUBLES

State making right move with LED lighting

"I would like to commend the officials at the Massachusetts State Department of Transportation for considering the use of energy-efficient LEDs as replacement lights in the Boston area tunnels." - Keith T. S. Ward

Metro

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox bring a big win home

By Dan Shaughnessy

They’ve been playing in the old yard for 100 years now, but rarely has a win felt more urgent or welcome for the Sox and their unsettled fans.

Brown, wife unhurt in two-car accident

By Eric Moskowitz

Senator Scott Brown and his wife, Gail Huff, were unhurt Friday night after the SUV in which they were passengers struck a telephone pole in Dedham.

LOS ANGELES

Trial date is set for ‘Clark Rockefeller’

The man once known as Clark Rockefeller will stand trial in late January in downtown Los Angeles for the slaying of a man he is accused of beating to death and burying in San Marino, his lawyer said Friday.

Business

Markets downbeat on ebb in confidence

US stocks fell Friday as consumer confidence cooled in April. Also weighing on indexes was a report that China’s growth slowed to the least in three years and the cost of insuring against a Spanish default rose to a record. Concern about the global financial system drove banks lower even after JPMorgan and Wells Fargo reported earnings that beat estimates.

MARKET MOVERS

Redbox brand propels Coinstar results

Coinstar Inc. jumped to a record after the owner of Redbox said first-quarter sales and profit exceeded estimates.

MASS. MOVERS

Struggling Talbots falls on sales forecast

Women’s apparel maker Talbots Inc. dropped after it said first-quarter sales will decline from a year earlier.

Obituaries

Dora Saint, caught village life in her Miss Read books; 98

Dora Saint, a prolific chronicler of English village life who wrote under the pen name Miss Read, has died.

Robert Kennedy, publisher of popular fitness magazines; at 73

Robert Kennedy began his business empire in a 1972 venture when he sold nutrition, bodybuilding, and fitness instruction courses through the mail.

Lili Chookasian, 90; singer was one of the great contraltos

By Margalit Fox

Lili Chookasian, an American singer who was among the most prominent contraltos in the world, died Tuesday.

Sports

Bob Ryan

Rays of light for Josh Beckett

By Bob Ryan

If any team can offer testimony as to what kind of pitcher Beckett can be, it’s the Tampa Bay Rays.

Sports Log

Truex captures pole at Texas Speedway

Martin Truex Jr. won the pole for Saturday’s Sprint Cup race in Fort Worth, followed directly by two drivers from the Roush Fenway team, which has won eight of the last 22 races at Texas Motor Speedway. Truex had a qualifying lap Friday of 190.369 miles per hour in his Michael Waltrip -owned Toyota . Matt Kenseth will ...

NHL roundup

Roundup: Los Angeles wins again

Los Angeles Kings right wing Dustin Brown celebrated his third goal of the night against the Vancouver Canucks with teammate Alec Martinez on Friday.

The visiting Los Angeles Kings beat top-seeded Vancouver, 4-2, on Friday night to take a 2-0 lead in their first-round series.

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Raptors 84, Celtics 79

Celtics’ wake-up call comes a little too late

By Frank Dell’Apa

Celtics notebook

Rivers jockeys with rotation

By Frank Dell’Apa

Marathon day temperatures are a hot topic

By Shira Springer and Carolyn Johnson

School roundup

Roundup: Chris DeLouchrey strikes out 18

By Zac Vierra

On baseball

Losing Jacoby Ellsbury is huge

By Nick Cafardo

Red Sox notebook

Carl Crawford ready to start playing in games

By Peter Abraham

Red Sox 12, Blue Jays 2

Ellsbury hurt in home opening win

By Peter Abraham

Koppen staying with Patriots

By Shalise Manza Young

Capitals aim to rebound

By Nancy Marrapese-Burrell

Krejci banged up by glass

By Fluto Shinzawa

Bruins notebook

Kelly the first link in the chain

By Fluto Shinzawa

G: Family

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Tom Sizemore says he’s doing better

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

Nearly three years sober, Tom Sizemore is in town for a Saturday screening of “Slumber Party Slaughter’’ at the Boston International Film Festival.

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Hats off to Jones show

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

World-renowned milliner Stephen Jones stopped in Boston for tea at the Mandarin Oriental earlier this week.

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Packed house for Fenway opener

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

Familiar faces at Friday’s Red Sox home opener included Senator Scott Brown, Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, and Sox owner John Henry.

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Joe Finder’s ‘Paranoia’ bound for big screen

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

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Turlington Burns screens documentary

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

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Mena Suvari worth the wait

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

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King opens up in her memoir, ‘A Natural Woman’

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

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O’Malley, Valentine party at New Balance store

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

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Chef-author recovering

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

Bring the Family

Scavenger hunts for curious kids and brain-dead parents

By Hayley Kaufman

Television Review

HBO’s ‘Girls’ brings grimaces, grins

By Sarah Rodman

Talking about ‘Girls’

By Sarah Rodman

Key to the Sites

A trail of literary sites for April vacation

By Chelsey Philpot