Calls for Mo. bishop to quit grow louder

By Bill Draper

Calls for Bishop Robert Finn’s resignation intensified after he became the highest-ranking US church official convicted of a crime related to the child sex abuse scandal.

A man who kidnapped his infant daughter from her grandmother’s home and tossed the child over a New Jersey bridge into the icy river below was convicted Friday of her murder.

A pair of earthquakes rattled Beverly Hills this week, but neither did damage.

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy and John Heilprin

Two booby-trapped vehicles exploded within hours of each other Friday in Syria’s once-impregnable capital of Damascus.

Christian girl in Pakistan to be freed

By Rebecca Santana

A judge granted bail Friday to a young, mentally challenged Christian girl accused of insulting Islam by burning pages of the religion’s holy book.

By Eric Schmitt

In a report to Congress on Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton formally designated the militant Haqqani network — responsible for some of the deadliest attacks against US troops in Afghanistan — as a terrorist organization, two days before a congressional deadline.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Political wives and the politics of pretty

By Joan Vennochi

As impressive as they are, Michelle Obama and Ann Romney are embracing a very traditional role — political wives as sprightly accessories. Only now, they are accessories on steroids.

joan wickersham

Do campaign strategists take their cues from ‘The Music Man’?

By Joan Wickersham

Do the polarizing strategies that win elections help us out as a country when it comes to governing?

the angle

Obama makes his case against Romney

Excerpts from the Globe’s opinion and news analysis blog.

By Mary Carmichael

Until Friday’s report, the misbehavior on the hockey team was unknown to nearly everyone at the school, including most of its board of trustees.

iPads in classroom change education

By Billy Baker

Several Mass. high schools have moved away from heavy, expensive and dated textbooks and into the multimedia world of interactive videos and graphics.

Fathers, sons, and friends play dirty in N.H. ‘Mud Bowl’

By Marty Basch

Ten teams from New England are in North Conway for the annual Mud Bowl, the championship of mud football, a three-day, double-elimination tournament.

By Robert Weisman

As they brace for an era of shrinking government funds and more pressure to lower prices on medical services, more than a third of Bay State hospitals lost money last year.

By Megan Woolhouse

US employers added just 96,000 jobs in August, significantly less than the 140,000 gained in July.

EMC’s Joe Tucci pushes back retirement, will stay until 2015

By Michael B. Farrell

The 65-year-old head of the giant Hopkinton data storage company will now stay at the company at least through February 2015, according to SEC filings.

‘Preacher’ Dennis, 96; built roadside religious shrine in Mississippi

The Rev. Herman D. ‘‘Preacher’’ Dennis turned a Mississippi Delta grocery store into a folk-art castle that became a roadside attraction.

Ward Morehouse, 83; battled corporate greed

By Emma Stickgold

Mr. Morehouse was perhaps best known for working to keep focusing public attention on the 1984 toxic leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, which killed thousands.

John F. Stacks, 70; journalist and biographer

By Leslie Kaufman

Mr. Stacks, a former reporter and senior editor at Time magazine, wrote a well-regarded biography of James B. Reston, the influential editor and columnist for The New York Times.

Patriots at Titans, 1 p.m. Sunday

Patriots still waiting on return of Brian Waters

By Greg A. Bedard and Shalise Manza Young

Waters was excused from offseason activities and training camp for personal reasons, but nothing has been said since, and the guard still hasn’t shown up at Gillette Stadium.

patriots notebook

Patriots will be heavily focused on Titans’ Chris Johnson

By Frank Dell’Apa

The Patriots are not revealing their plans for the Titans’ running back, but their strategy is likely to be based on perseverance and strength in numbers.

Player bounty bans are lifted

By Brett Martel

Several banned players will likely be back with their teams this week, but there’s no telling how long the reprieve will last because the ruling does not permanently void their suspensions.

g cover

Best and worst places in Boston for families with strollers

By James H. Burnett III

We quizzed people about the most and least stroller-friendly destinations in and around the city.

From the Archives

From Globe archives: Sacco and Vanzetti

The trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in Massachusetts in the 1920s caused tension around the world.

Book Review

‘In Praise of Messy Lives’ by Katie Roiphe

By Susan Comninos

Katie Roiphe traces becoming an independent, educated woman of a certain age in her worthwhile collection of essays.