After months of hunting for a buyer, The New York Times Company said that it had decided not to sell The Boston Globe.

Times Co. Will Hold On to Boston Globe

New York State’s fourth and eighth graders made no notable progress on federal math exams this year.

U.S. Math Tests Find Scant Gains Across New York

Off-the-books private deals and upstart electronic markets are eclipsing the Big Board and New York itself.

Rivals Pose Threat to New York Stock Exchange

The Connecticut attorney general said he was investigating a national labeling campaign that promotes products like Froot Loops and mayonnaise as nutritionally smart choices.

Connecticut to Scrutinize Food Labels

To get psychological closure, veterans are returning to scenes where they were maimed.

Wounded Soldiers Return to Iraq, Seeking Solace

Senior Treasury officials would like more of the nation’s biggest banks to repay billions of dollars in taxpayer money that bailed them out over the last year.

Calling on Big Banks to Repay Bailout Now

A day after the Senate Finance Committee approved a measure without a “public option,” the question is how the president can reconcile party divisions on the issue.

Public Option Is Next Big Hurdle in Health Debate

A wave of recent attacks shows that the Taliban, Al Qaeda and militant groups are tightening their alliance.

Pakistan Attacks Show Tighter Militant Links

Anglomaniacs

The House vote, mostly along party lines, was a big step for President Obama’s proposed overhaul of rules covering the nation’s financial system.

Bill Shields Most Banks From Review

A transplanted artist left the pools of Southern California for the landscapes of his native Yorkshire.

David Hockney’s Long Road Home

Flu season appears to have attacked the cast of this revival, with symptoms that include tin ear, loss of comic timing, uncontrollable jitters and a prickly disorientation.

Music to Play, Places to Go, People to See

Last year’s last-minute deals aren’t likely to be repeated as airlines trim schedules and raise fares.

In Shift From ’08, Holiday Airfare Is Soaring Daily

Ferrari has staked a great deal on the California, the company’s first attempt to sell a car with a front-mounted V-8 engine.

Color It Red, Like a Sea of Ink

Technical improvements in the world of virtual auto racing are bringing the simulated experience closer than ever to the real thing.

For Virtual Racers, a League of Their Own

Assuming her maternal grandmother’s voice, the author of “The Glass Castle” recreates an adrenaline-charged existence on the rough-and-tumble Southwest frontier.

Untamed Heart

There are rapturously beautiful passages in Vincent d’Indy’s “Fervaal.” But as performed at Avery Fisher Hall on Wednesday, it comes across as meandering and ponderous.

A Journey of Religion and Love

“Where the Wild Things Are” is an alternately perfect and imperfect if always beautiful adaptation of the Maurice Sendak children’s book.

Some of His Best Friends Are Beasts

“Occupation,” a British look at the Iraq war on BBC America on Sunday, is one of the best television depictions yet of that conflict, and it isn’t even a straightforward war story.

Knocked Around by the Winds of War

Bowing to increasing scrutiny of his compensation, Bank of America’s embattled chief executive, Kenneth D. Lewis, agreed not to take a salary or bonus for 2009.

Bank of America Chief Forgoes Pay for 2009

Despite all the talk, it appears that the dollar is not getting either weaker or stronger.

Weak Dollar? Not So Much in China

A Dow Bubble? It Looks Like It

A picture caption on Tuesday about the aftermath of a bombing in Pakistan misidentified the location of the attack, which killed 41 people and injured dozens. It was in Shangla District, in North West Frontier Province  not in Peshawar, the provincial capital, where some victims were taken for treatment. 

Corrections

An article on Aug. 9 about efforts in Boston to encourage bicycle riding, using information from the mayor’s office, misstated the year that the city hired a bike consultant. It was in 2001, not the late 1990s. The article also misstated the minimum width of a city street necessary for a bike lane. It is 44 feet, not 40 feet. And the article referred incompletely to the liability of drivers who open their doors in the path of a cyclist. Besides being liable when they injure a cyclist, the drivers are also liable if they open the door unsafely. The former bike consultant pointed out the errors on Sept. 30, and this correction was delayed for research and further reporting. 

Because of an editing error, an article on Wednesday about arguments before the State Court of Appeals in two cases concerning same-sex unions referred incorrectly to the legality of same-sex marriage in Canada. It is allowed throughout the country, not just in “parts” of it.

Heinz Versteeg was a Dutch professional footballer active primarily in Germany. Versteeg played as a striker for Meidericher SV and Hamborn 07.

October 15, 2009

Headlines from October 15, 2009

Times Co. Will Hold On to Boston Globe

U.S. Math Tests Find Scant Gains Across New York

Rivals Pose Threat to New York Stock Exchange

Connecticut to Scrutinize Food Labels

Wounded Soldiers Return to Iraq, Seeking Solace

Billboard 200

Love Is The Answer

Brand New Eyes

Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel

Dear Agony

Black Gives Way To Blue

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for October 15, 2009