No firm is allowed to own or control more than three recreational marijuana stores. But two companies — Sea Hunter and Acreage — are testing the limits.
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Massachusetts marijuana regulators investigating whether companies violated license limits
State regulators said they are investigating whether large marijuana companies are violating license limits and potentially making it harder for independent entrepreneurs to compete.
In the darkest corner of Massachusetts’ justice system, criminal charges often disappear without a trace. There are few rules in these private hearings, and fewer records. They are a place where who you are — and who you know — may be just as important as right and wrong. By Jenn Abelson, Nicole Dungca and Todd Wallack
The story of a profoundly troubled young man and the ugly underside of America’s most popular sport.
The former Patriot was put on trial — and convicted — in the 2013 killing of associate Odin Lloyd.
Podcast
Listen to ‘Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.’
The Spotlight Team’s series looks at the path Hernandez took from Bristol, Conn., to a life sentence in a Mass. prison.
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Aaron Hernandez was emotional, yet hopeful after arrest, new phone calls show
The recordings included conversations with his fiancee and his mother. The release of the calls prompted Terri Hernandez to make a rare public statement.
SPOTLIGHT FOLLOW-UP
Inmate: Hernandez high on K2 for 2 days before suicide
New information that had been redacted by prison officials expands on previous reports of drug use by the former Patriot.
10 key points from the Spotlight Team series
The report the story of a profoundly troubled young man and the ugly underside of America’s most popular sport.
A double life revealed through text messages
Texts between Aaron Hernandez and his teammates and coaches show just how much he was spinning out of control.
Listen to some of Hernandez’s phone calls from jail
At the time of the conversations, Hernandez was just 24 years old and still hopeful about his future.
Episode 7
I Was The One
Why did the thieves take those 13 pieces? The answer to that question could tell us so much.
Episode 6
Befriend + Betray
Did the Boston FBI sabotage another bureau agent’s undercover bid to recover the paintings?
Globe File/1966
A short history of investigative reporting at The Boston Globe. It’s played a defining role in the pages of this newspaper since the 1960s.
The state’s failed mental health care system has led to a public safety crisis, including scores of murders by disturbed people, police shootings, and embattled institutions from courts to hospitals confronting a tidal wave of mentally ill people.
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Information for the team’s tip-line, e-mail, PGP key, and USPS mail.
The movie and the investigations
A look at The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team, its award-winning investigative coverage, and the movie based on its reporting on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
Why did it take a succession of three cardinals and many bishops 34 years to place children out of John J. Geoghan’s reach?
Psychiatric documents offer added insights into the Rev. John J. Geoghan’s troubled mind and the motivations behind his aberrant actions.
An investigation found that dozens of active and retired troopers allegedly put in for overtime shifts they didn’t work.
Federal air marshals have begun following US citizens not suspected of a crime or on any terrorist watch list and collecting extensive information about their movements and behavior.
It’s been more than 40 years since our national image on race was defined by the school busing crisis — years of halting progress, steps forward and back. It is high time to break that pattern.
A growing number of people who say their fathers are priests are speaking out, drawing attention to an invisible legion of suffering.
The only hospital for military veterans in N.H. has become ground zero for an extraordinary rebellion led by doctors who say care for their patients is deteriorating fast.
Coverage of two blasts that shook the city, killing 3 and injuring at least 170, and the ensuing manhunt resulting in the death of a MIT police officer, the death of one suspect, and the capture of another.
