Wisconsin temple gunman was white supremacist

By Jennifer Preston and Serge F. Kovaleski

The gunman in the rampage that left six dead and three wounded was identified as Wade M. Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran who played guitar in racist heavy metal bands.

‘Touchdown confirmed,’ as rover lands on Mars

By Kenneth Chang

NASA followed up its picture-perfect landing of a plutonium-powered rover with pictures of the picture-perfect landing.

A Pennsylvania Roman Catholic church official will remain in prison while he fights his landmark conviction for failing to protect a boy from a predator priest.

Prime minister defects in latest blow to Syria

By Damien Cave and Hwaida Saad

Riad Farid Hijab defected to Jordan along with at least two ministers and three military officers, opposition figures said.

14 dead, 5 missing from heavy rains in China

Along with the dead and missing, hundreds of others were trapped by mudslides and floods, state media said.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said he will order his Liberal Democrat lawmakers to block legislation wanted by the Conservatives after they derailed plans to overhaul the House of Lords.

Kirsten Greenidge

Home? Sweet.

By Kirsten Greenidge

Small apartments and microliving spaces are challenging notions of how much space a person really needs.

Farah Stockman

By Farah Stockman

Every international agreement is seen as a threat to US sovereignty in the eyes of some Tea Party activists.

Paul McMorrow

By Paul McMorrow

Boston is demanding that a developer build a hotel on the bratwurst-shaped “Sausage Parcel” even though the economics don’t add up.

Bulger plans to take stand in his defense

By Milton J. Valencia

James “Whitey” Bulger will for the first time address the charges against him, hoping to convince a jury that federal officials once granted him immunity for his many crimes.

Sikhs feel misunderstood, at risk since 9/11

By Lisa Wangsness

Sikhism, the major religion with about 25 million adherents worldwide at the center of the Wisconsin shooting, remains little known and widely misunderstood in the United States.

Around Boston, Wisconsin temple chief praised

By Peter Schworm and Zachary T. Sampson

The president of the Wisconsin Sikh temple, gunned down along with five others, was recalled as an open-hearted man who died defending the house of worship he helped build.

Fed must do more, its Boston chief says

By Steven Syre and Andrew Caffrey

Eric Rosengren is urging the nation’s central bankers to ignore election-year pressures and do more to jump-start the economy.

Calculating the cost of tax breaks in Mass.

By Todd Wallack

A report says state incentives will top $770m in 2012, more than double the amount in 1996. But even as the total grows, there remains little consensus on the value of such deals.

N.J. firm seals deal on Salem power plant

By Dan Adams

The company plans to replace the Salem Harbor Power Station with a state-of-the-art gas-fired plant on a portion of the site

Ignacy Skowron, 97, last Polish soldier of WWII opening battle

When he retired in 1975, Major Skowron dedicated his life to telling the story of the battle to younger generations.

Marcia Dudley Bellermann, 72; Probation officer traveled the world

By Stephanie M. Peters

Beloved by Fitchburg parolees for her kind heart, Mrs. Bellermann visited six continents. Illness ruined her plans to visit Australia, which would have been her seventh.

Karl Benjamin, 86, painter who rebelled against Abstract Expressionism

By Paul Vitello

Mr. Benjamin came to art almost by accident and rose to prominence in the 1950s as part of a West Coast artists’ rebellion against the reign of Abstract Expressionism.

By Michael Whitmer

Winning on the PGA Tour always has been difficult. But this year, it seems even tougher for those who carry a lead into the final round – or deeper. Through 34 stroke-play events, the third-round leader has gone on to win just 11 times. Just ask Adam Scott and Jim Furyk.

Patriots Notebook

By Shalise Manza Young

After a couple of days of looking a little less sharp than he had in the opening days of training camp, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had his new throwing coach, Tom House, on hand to help work on mechanics Monday after practice.

By Julian Benbow

Patriots cornerback Devin McCourty says the secondary is trying to rediscover an aggressive mentality and then maintain it throughout the season.

Author revisits a long-submerged piece of Central Mass.

By Joseph P. Kahn

“Cascade,” Maryanne O’Hara’s debut, takes place in a fictional town modeled on those that were wiped from the map in the ’30s to make way for the Quabbin Reservoir.

Frame by Frame

From an eviscerated body, spiritualism emerges

By Sebastian Smee

Painted in 1952 by Hyman Bloom, one of the most compelling artists to have emerged from Boston in the 20th century, “Hull” shows a human body with its viscera exposed.

CD REVIEW | JAZZ

Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson, Jon Christensen, ‘Sleeper’

By David Weininger

“Sleeper" is a recording of an April 1979 Tokyo concert of Keith Jarrett’s European Quartet, which played sporadically between 1974 and 1979 and produced just four albums.