By Ashley Halsey III

Some of those sleek buses that pass between East Coast cities may be operated by untrained drivers and running on worn-out brakes, federal officials said.

Corrections and a note to readers.

Snigdha Nandipati, a 14-year-old from San Diego, spelled “guetapens,’’ a French-derived word that means ambush, snare, or trap.

11-year-old played dead to survive Syria massacre

By Bassem Mroue and Elizabeth A. Kennedy

A Syrian boy recounted Wednesday how he escaped death when gunmen killed his parents and four siblings last week.

Russian jet’s data recorder found

Villagers have found the flight data recorder from a Russian passenger jet that slammed into an Indonesian volcano three weeks ago and killed 45 people.

A Pakistani militant group has denied any links with the doctor who helped the United States government track down Osama bin Laden, threatening Thursday to kill him for working with the Americans.

Lorraine Egan and Alan Leventhal

By Lorraine Egan and Alan Leventhal

There is no region of the country that will feel a reduction in National Institute of Health funding more acutely than the Boston area, the largest recipient of dollars from the federal agency.

SCOT LEHIGH

What Mitt Romney did and didn’t do for the state

By Scot Lehigh

He doesn’t rank with Bill Weld or Mike Dukakis, the two governors who define the modern era in Massachusetts. But he was hardly a dismal failure.

Editorial cartoon: Can’t stop the bleeding

Tom Toles of The Washington Post gives his view on the United States’ reaction to the crisis in Syria.

Brigham considers first US double arm transplant

By Chelsea Conaboy

A woman from Kingswood, ­Texas, could become the first person in the United States to receive transplants for both arms above the ­elbow.

By Peter Schworm

Michael Boudin’s father was a prominent civil rights lawyer who vigorously defended left-wing activists during the McCarthy and Vietnam era. His sister was a 60’s radical in the Weather Underground who pleaded guilty to murder in a 1981 armored car holdup in which two policemen and a guard were killed. But Boudin, a federal appeals judge who wrote the unanimous decision that declared the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, charted a centrist course and became a jurist known for a moderate temperament, evenhandedness, and independent mind.

Springfield neighborhood still reels a year after deadly tornado

Lower-income areas lack the resources to rebuild from the most destructive tornado to hit New England in 60 years.

By Associated Press

Hopkinton’s EMC Corp., one of the world’s largest makers of data-storage computers, said it had agreed to buy performance management software company Watch4Net Solutions Inc.

By Todd Wallack

The day after 38 Studios released its first game, the former Red Sox pitcher posted 3,200 coins as collateral for a loan from Bank Rhode Island, according to statements.

Massachusetts’ HomeCorps program is on a mission to stop foreclosures

By Jenifer B. McKim

The new program launched by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has stopped dozens of imminent foreclosures.

Jack Twyman; NBA Hall of Famer who helped paralyzed teammate in 1958; at 78

By Lisa Cornwell

The Basketball Hall of Famer was one of the NBA’s top scorers in the 1950s and became the guardian to a paralyzed teammate, Maurice Stokes.

By Margalit Fox

Mr. Dillon, who with his wife and longtime collaborator, Diane, was one of the world’s preeminent illustrators for young people, died Saturday. He was 79.

By Emily Langer

Mr. Slaughter was once described as perhaps the best-known ­D-day veteran in the United States.

Tigers 7, Red Sox 3

Tigers get the last laugh against Red Sox

By Nick Cafardo

Josh Beckett went seven innings but allowed four runs on 10 hits against Detroit on Thursday.

Celtics vs. Heat

Celtics to focus on intensity, not referees, in Game 3

By Frank Dell’Apa

The Heat tend to draw fouls this season, while the Celtics tend to commit more than their opponents. Blame those trends, not referees, for the free-throw disparity.

Patriots’ Tom Brady a team player all the way

By Shalise Manza Young

A decade ago, Tom Brady says he wasn’t nearly as appreciative of organized team activities, the no-pads, on-field work teams do in May and June, as he is now.

Movie Review

Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ rises to the occasion

By Wesley Morris

He lives up to his promise in the tale of very young love.

Theater Review

In Noel Coward’s ‘Private Lives,’ a diamond-sharp production

By Don Aucoin

Now at the Huntington Theatre Company, words can glitter or cut, charm or wound, ­seduce or repel.

Movie Review

In ‘For Greater Glory,’ the only epic is epic failure

By Wesley Morris

Wesley Morris says the film is a total embarrassment, not an epic movie so much as an epic run-on sentence.