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by Dan Shaughnessy, Globe Columnist
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
In their trademark eerie unison, the Patriots insist on this: Today has nothing to do with 2008, when the perfect season ended with a football glued to David Tyree’s helmet. This is NOT about payback. Oh, please.
by Matt Viser, Globe Staff
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
Mitt Romney notched his campaign’s second straight victory, while Newt Gingrich reiterated he would stay in the race until the Republican convention in August.
by Bob Hohler, Globe Staff
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
We think we know the man inside the hoodie, the maestro of the monosyllable, the scowl on the sideline, the cold-blooded, humorless molder of champions.
by Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
Benjamin Zander is unhappy with himself and he’s unhappy with New England Conservatory leaders, who he feels rushed to judgment when they fired him last month after discovering he had hired a convicted sex offender to videotape student classes, rehearsals, and performances. But though the crisis threatens what had been, until now, a storied career, Zander refuses to see the dark side. The mess has he says, humbled and transformed him.
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by Nekesa Mumbi Moody, AP Music Writer
5 Feb 2012 at 7:18pm
John Travolta not only knows who's going to win the Super Bowl, but by how much.
by Cassandra Vinograd, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 7:09pm
Internet service providers should do more to prevent the web from playing a role in promoting violent extremism, British lawmakers said in a report published Monday.
by Cassandra Vinograd, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 7:09pm
Queen Elizabeth II marked her Diamond Jubilee on Monday with a message thanking all those who had supported her over her 60-year reign and reaffirming her dedication to serving the British people.
by Jim Morrison, For The Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 6:48pm
Patriots fans packed bars in Boston and across New England on Sunday to watch their team take on the New York Giants in the Super Bowl.
5 Feb 2012 at 6:48pm
by Howard Fendrich, AP Pro Football Writer
5 Feb 2012 at 6:38pm
A rare Super Bowl safety and Eli Manning's 2-yard touchdown pass to Victor Cruz gave the New York Giants a 9-0 lead over the New England Patriots after the first quarter of the NFL championship game Sunday night.
by Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 6:29pm
A stomach virus outbreak delayed the departure of the cruise ship "Voyager of the Seas" from New Orleans in one of three outbreaks of illness aboard U.S.-based cruise ships reported over the weekend.
5 Feb 2012 at 5:19pm
President Barack Obama isn't picking sides this Super Bowl Sunday. In an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer before the championship game, Obama would only say he expects a "great game."
5 Feb 2012 at 5:18pm
Political hopefuls who want to get their names on the September primary ballots in Massachusetts can begin picking up nomination papers.
by Mike Baker and Gene Johnson, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 5:09pm
Days after a judge ruled against him in a child custody hearing, a father and his two young sons were killed Sunday when police said he appeared to intentionally blow up a house with all three inside -- a tragic ending to a bizarre case that began more than two years ago when the man's wife went mysteriously missing in ...
5 Feb 2012 at 5:09pm
President Barack Obama says he deserves re-election, despite the nation's economic troubles. Obama said in a pre-Super Bowl interview on NBC that his administration is creating more than 250,000 jobs a month, the most since 2005, and a reversal from the 750,000 jobs the economy was losing three years ago.
5 Feb 2012 at 5:08pm
The First Fan has only one complaint about Sunday's Super Bowl: his favorite team isn't in it.
by Ben Feller, AP White House Correspondent
5 Feb 2012 at 4:49pm
President Barack Obama said Sunday he does not think Israel has decided whether to attack Iran over its disputed nuclear program, a standoff that has the Middle East on edge.
by Ahmed El-Haj, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 4:39pm
A state-run Yemeni newspaper's office is being occupied by armed men who kicked out the paper's editors and journalists in order to reinstate the outgoing president's picture on the front page.
by Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 4:29pm
For the first time, 21st-century audiences are able to hear the voice of Otto von Bismarck, one of the 19th century's most important figures.
by Ibrahim Barzak, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 4:09pm
Hamas on Sunday endorsed a proposal by Qatar that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas assume the role of prime minister in an interim Palestinian unity government that would prepare for general elections in the West Bank and Gaza, according to two officials close to the contacts.
5 Feb 2012 at 3:18pm
Attorney General Martha Coakley is heading to Washington to make a legal case for the national health care law that was modeled after Massachusetts' own landmark 2006 health care law.
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by The Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 7:08pm
Kelly Clarkson, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert's pregame patriotism is the Super Bowl's opening act before Madonna takes her spot in the Super Bowl halftime spotlight.
5 Feb 2012 at 7:08pm
5 Feb 2012 at 6:38pm
The New England Patriots have kicked off to the New York Giants to begin the Super Bowl.
5 Feb 2012 at 5:18pm
Political hopefuls who want to get their names on the September primary ballots in Massachusetts can begin picking up nomination papers.
5 Feb 2012 at 5:08pm
The First Fan has only one complaint about Sunday's Super Bowl: his favorite team isn't in it.
5 Feb 2012 at 3:18pm
Attorney General Martha Coakley is heading to Washington to make a legal case for the national health care law that was modeled after Massachusetts' own landmark 2006 health care law.
by Kristen Wyatt, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 2:48pm
Note to Republican presidential contenders: Colorado's political terrain is as rocky as its mountains. Once solidly Republican, the state turned just as solidly Democratic in the 2000s as the population swelled with people moving into the state. Colorado's traditional bases of conservatism -- evangelical Christians and Western individualists -- became less influential.
by Jim Morrison, For The Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 1:08pm
Patriots fans packed bars in Boston and across New England on Sunday to watch their team take on the New York Giants in the Super Bowl.
by Steven A. Rosenberg, Globe Staff
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
In the suburbs, Occupy groups haven’t pitched any tents or occupied any territory. Their focus remains on economic inequality in the United States. Local groups, in Somerville, Malden, Salem, Lowell, Woburn, and on Cape Ann, have blended national issues - such as unemployment, homelessness and high corporate earnings - with local concerns, which range from protesting the proposed MBTA fare hikes to keeping a hospital in business in Gloucester.
by Justin A. Rice, Globe Correspondent
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
For roughly 17 years Salem’s Pickering Wharf was the Graceland for witchcraft and Laurie Cabot its Elvis. Cabot, 79, who opened Salem’s first witch shop about 40 years ago on Derby Street, locked her doors at 63R Wharf St. Jan 31 for good. But she is not retiring.
by John Laidler, Globe Correspondent
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
Nearly five years since Lynnfield voters approved a zoning change to allow a mixed-use development on the former Sheraton Colonial Golf Course, the project is moving forward. In December, workers began demolishing the former golf course buildings, opening the way for other site preparation to begin this spring. The project was originally set to be constructed in 2009, but was stalled due to the economic downturn.
by Johanna Seltz, Globe Correspondent
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
The Cohasset Water Department is making waves again - this time for questions about potential conflict of interest involving the chairman of the water commission and over concerns about plans to give a 20-year contract to a company to run the town-owned utility. Commissioners counter there is no conflict and they are only trying to do the best for the town - and wish the town manager would stop sabotaging their efforts.
by Michele Morgan Bolton, Globe Correspondent
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
The state’s top fire official is exploring whether the use of popular floating paper luminaries falls under a Massachusetts law banning fireworks and, if it doesn’t, whether it should. Fire Marshal Stephen Coan’s move follows a Christmas incident in Hanover in which 40 flaming paper sky lanterns, as they are known, launched by a resident at a family party floated above trees and over the town line into a Norwell neighborhood, sparking panic in drivers and others who noticed them in the night sky.
by Christine Legere, Globe Correspondent
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
Two alumni who have been highly successful in their careers returned to their alma mater in Abington to help celebrate St. Bridget’s 50th anniversary last week, reminiscing about long-ago days spent at the parochial school and fielding some tough questions from seventh- and eighth-graders there now. Massachusetts Democratic Party chairman John Walsh, a member of the eighth-grade class of 1971, and state Auditor Suzanne Bump, class of 1969, said values learned at the school still hold true.
by Kathleen Burge, Globe Staff
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
The airport in Stow was a grass landing strip in the early 1960s when Paul McPherson, an instrument-maker who loved to fly, bought the land and renamed it Minute Man Air Field. It’s now home to several flight-training schools, a bakery, a restaurant, a printing company and more than 60 planes and helicopters.
by Lenny Megliola, Globe Correspondent
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
In 2007, Medfield’s Justin Kittredge started an inner city program for youths, Shooting Touch Inc. He charged fees, and then raised additional funds to provide a $25,000 grant to a graduating college senior who could go anywhere in the world for 10 months with a clear mission: to use basketball, through clinics and education, etc., to work with the underprivileged and effect positive change.
by Todd Wallack and Mary Carmichael, Globe Staff
3 Feb 2012 at 11:16pm
The University of Massachusetts has promised its new leader, Robert Caret, up to a year-long sabbatical at his presidential salary when he eventually steps down.
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by Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
Benjamin Zander is unhappy with himself and he’s unhappy with New England Conservatory leaders, who he feels rushed to judgment when they fired him last month after discovering he had hired a convicted sex offender to videotape student classes, rehearsals, and performances. But though the crisis threatens what had been, until now, a storied career, Zander refuses to see the dark side. The mess has he says, humbled and transformed him.
by Yvonne Abraham, Globe Columnist
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
Putting an Eli Manning replica on a flaming spit by the highway might strike some as a little excessive, and perhaps more than a little loopy. But for Eric Danilchuk, it is a solemn duty. Well, not that solemn. But definitely a duty. Danilchuck has been doing elaborate displays for the playoffs for years. This year’s offering - in indisputably questionable taste - outdoes them all.
by Meghan E. Irons, Globe Staff
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
Public outcry over the murder of Woburn police officer John Maguire in December 2010 by a hardened criminal out on parole gave state Representative Brad Hill a chance he’d been waiting for for a decade, to win approval in the House for his tough-on-crime three strikes bill. Now he has another ally in his push to get it passed: An election year, when voting against crime bills like the three-strikes proposal could become ammunition for opponents to accuse lawmakers of being soft on crime.
by Jenna Russell, Globe Staff
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
Jennifer Smith was worried before her son ever boarded the bus. The boy, a 6-year-old kindergartner at Mather Elementary School in Dorchester, had never ridden a school bus before. But when Smith’s work schedule changed, she reluctantly signed her child up for transportation. Samuel “Sammy’’ Aaron rode the bus just once and his mother has regretted it ever since. In January, Jennifer Smith arrived at the Mattapan bus stop on time, but her son failed to show.
by Martine Powers, Globe Staff
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
A 13-year-old Masai giraffe at Franklin Park Zoo is having the battle of his life. A team of more than two dozen zoo staff and large animal veterinarians from Tufts University gathered at the zoo yesterday to save Beau, who has been suffering from a urinary obstruction. After sedating Beau yesterday, the veterinary team injected him with aggressive amounts of diuretics, anti-inflammatory medications, and steroids as a last-ditch attempt to avoid surgery. Finally, the giraffe began to show signs of improvement.
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5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
In this week’s Starts and Stops, a primer on how the MBTA came to be so indebted that it has proposed steep fare increases and dramatic service cuts merely to survive next year’s looming deficit, with more problems looming on the horizon. Plus, the MBTA - however lean on funds - achieves some recognition for leading the way on mobile and web applications for riders, while a new app touts its arrival.
by Glen Johnson, Globe Staff
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
Mitt Romney and Scott Brown are two different political animals with two different political goals this year, yet their fates are intertwined with two offsetting challenges. Romney must convince the broader electorate that the policy flip-flops and other machinations he engaged in to become the GOP nominee won’t continue in the White House. Brown has to prove to Bay State voters the bipartisan streak the Republican has shown in the two years since his special election win will continue.
by Kathleen Burge, Globe Staff
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
Not far from Old Ironsides yesterday, 70 model ships were on a table inside the USS Constitution Museum. It was the first day of the annual ship model show of the USS Constitution Model Shipwright Guild. Tony Colton, 62, a model ship builder from Quincy, demonstrated how he builds tiny ships that fit inside narrow-necked bottles. Ray Crean, a 74-year-old retired teacher from Beverly, was working on a model of a German ocean liner that first sailed in 1897.
by Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
Two windows were broken at the home where 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds was reported missing seven weeks ago, officials said yesterday.
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5 Feb 2012 at 6:29pm
A stomach virus has stricken people on a third U.S. cruise ship, with a vessel sailing from New Orleans delayed by norovirus.
5 Feb 2012 at 5:19pm
President Barack Obama isn't picking sides this Super Bowl Sunday. In an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer before the championship game, Obama would only say he expects a "great game."
5 Feb 2012 at 5:09pm
President Barack Obama says he deserves re-election, despite the nation's economic troubles. Obama said in a pre-Super Bowl interview on NBC that his administration is creating more than 250,000 jobs a month, the most since 2005, and a reversal from the 750,000 jobs the economy was losing three years ago.
by Mike Baker and Gene Johnson, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 5:09pm
The long, bizarre case of a Utah woman missing for two years took a horrific turn Sunday when a powerful house explosion killed the woman's husband and his two young sons, moments after the boys arrived for a visit that was supposed to be supervised by a social worker.
by Ben Feller, AP White House Correspondent
5 Feb 2012 at 4:49pm
President Barack Obama said Sunday he does not think Israel has decided whether to attack Iran over its disputed nuclear program, a standoff that has the Middle East on edge.
by Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 4:29pm
For the first time, 21st-century audiences are able to hear the voice of Otto von Bismarck, one of the 19th century's most important figures.
by Verena Dobnik, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 3:39pm
A protest against embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh outside a luxury hotel in New York got heated Sunday when demonstrators saw him leave the building, with one charging toward him and another throwing a shoe.
5 Feb 2012 at 3:39pm
5 Feb 2012 at 2:39pm
A Georgia megachurch leader is apologizing to a Jewish group that criticized him for taking part in a ceremony in which he was wrapped in a religious scroll and exalted as a "king."
5 Feb 2012 at 1:39pm
Fire officials say a blaze in a north Philadelphia row home injured seven people, including three firefighters, one critically.
5 Feb 2012 at 1:39pm
Authorities say a Hagerstown, Md., mall was closed temporarily after a crowd became unruly while waiting for a shoe store to open and begin selling Nike's new Foamposite sneaker.
5 Feb 2012 at 1:29pm
A Chicago college is offering a class on the Occupy movement. Thirty-two undergraduate students are enrolled at Roosevelt University's "Occupy Everywhere" class. It's a three-credit political science course that looks at the movement that started last summer near New York City's Wall Street and spread nationwide.
by Brian C. Mooney, Globe Staff
2 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
In the first presidential election since the Supreme Court opened the floodgates of campaign financing, new super PACs have poured tens of millions of dollars into the Republican campaign, financing negative ads that have damaged the public’s view of the leading candidates. When the primary season began four years ago, the five top GOP candidates had reported raising $217 million. This cycle, the top seven hopefuls had raised about $133 million, nearly 40 percent less. Filling some of that gap are the newly authorized super PACs, which can collect donations of any size and so far have spent $40 million.
by Shira Schoenberg, Globe Correspondent
2 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
Restore Our Future, a super PAC supporting Mitt Romney, raised $30.1 million last year and has played a major role in his success in the race for the Republican nomination.
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5 Feb 2012 at 5:14pm
The chief executive of Italian energy company ENI says the country's natural gas supplies are OK through Wednesday but if Russia's Gazprom makes more cuts there could be problems.
by Ahmed El-Haj, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 4:39pm
A state-run Yemeni newspaper's office is being occupied by armed men who kicked out the paper's editors and journalists in order to reinstate the outgoing president's picture on the front page.
by Ibrahim Barzak, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 4:09pm
Hamas on Sunday endorsed a proposal by Qatar that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas assume the role of prime minister in an interim Palestinian unity government that would prepare for general elections in the West Bank and Gaza, according to two officials close to the contacts.
by Juan Zamorano, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 3:49pm
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, who was toppled by a 1989 American invasion and later convicted of drug running, was transferred from prison to a hospital on Sunday, possibly because of a stroke, police said.
5 Feb 2012 at 3:29pm
The Netherlands' state broadcaster NOS says the organizing committee of the country's traditional Eleven Cities Tour natural ice skating marathon is gathering for the first time in 15 years to consider whether the race can be skated next week.
5 Feb 2012 at 2:09pm
The head of the IMF mission in Romania has criticized politicians and media for accusing him of misconduct for having attended a party held by government officials at a time of harsh austerity measures.
by Ezequiel Abiu Lopez, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 1:29pm
Rescuers have recovered 17 bodies and pulled 13 survivors from white-capped waters off this coastal town after an overloaded boat carrying migrants from the Dominican Republic capsized, officials said Sunday.
5 Feb 2012 at 11:59am
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says he will visit the U.S. next month for the annual conference of AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby.
5 Feb 2012 at 11:59am
5 Feb 2012 at 11:49am
Underwater operations have resumed aimed at readying the shipwrecked Costa Concordia for the removal of tons of oil from its tanks.
by Juergen Baetz, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 11:19am
A German reporter says he was beaten by guards during his nearly five months of imprisonment in Iran and that he heard constant, "horrible cries" of other inmates being tortured.
5 Feb 2012 at 10:49am
Murder rates in the northeastern city of Salvador have more than doubled since the start of a police strike, media reports said Sunday, although they added that the situation in Brazil's third most populous city appears to be improving.
by Ian Deitch, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 10:19am
Israel's military has picked a new air force chief at a time of growing tension with Iran.
by Aye Aye Win, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 10:09am
A U.N. human rights envoy said Sunday that Myanmar is considering letting foreign observers monitor April elections that are viewed as crucial for gauging the nation's much-heralded democratic reforms.
by Martin Vogl, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 10:09am
More than 15,000 people including Malian military personnel have fled into neighboring countries since members of the nomadic Tuareg ethnic group launched a new rebellion against the Malian government last month, aid officials say.
by Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press
5 Feb 2012 at 8:39am
Iran will target any country where an attack against it is staged, a senior Guard commander warned Sunday, the latest Iranian threat tied to growing tensions over its nuclear program and Western sanctions.
by Mirwais Khan, Associated Press
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A car bomb exploded yesterday outside a small NATO military base in southern Afghanistan’s largest city, wounding two Afghans and destroying several cars, police said.
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5 Feb 2012 at 1:29pm
A Chicago college is offering a class on the Occupy movement. Thirty-two undergraduate students are enrolled at Roosevelt University's "Occupy Everywhere" class. It's a three-credit political science course that looks at the movement that started last summer near New York City's Wall Street and spread nationwide.
4 Feb 2012 at 12:29am
Competitive-eating champ Takeru Kobayashi (tah-kah-roo koh-bee-yah-shee) conquered Philadelphia's annual gustatory gorge-fest by eating 337 chicken wings in a half-hour before a crowd of nearly 20,000 at Wing Bowl XX.
by Louise Nordstrom, Associated Press
3 Feb 2012 at 7:19am
Champis the bunny doesn't only hop -- he also knows how to herd his masters' flock of sheep, possibly having picked up the skill after watching trained dogs do the job.
3 Feb 2012 at 7:19am
3 Feb 2012 at 6:49am
A runaway elk can't go home to Pennsylvania, even if it wanted to. More than a year after the 3-year-old elk escaped from his paddock, he's being denied re-entry to the state from West Virginia.
3 Feb 2012 at 6:30am
A woman who called the wrong number when she suffered a stroke still found help a couple of time zones away.
2 Feb 2012 at 10:01pm
A 250-pound man with a history of jumping on the backs of student athletes in the Pacific Northwest has pleaded guilty to assault.
2 Feb 2012 at 9:50pm
A 55-year-old Montana man who says he "always wanted" to be part of a police chase can check that off his bucket list.
by Lisa Rathke, Associated Press
2 Feb 2012 at 4:40pm
A prison inmate who makes stationery and license plates pulled a fast one on state police by adding the image of a pig to the state decal on their cruisers.
2 Feb 2012 at 12:59am
With 120 lions, tigers and other big cats on the grounds, the owner of a Colorado refuge didn't think he needed a security system.
1 Feb 2012 at 11:19am
A woman's speeding got her a warning from an Ohio state trooper but wasn't enough to keep her grandchild from being born in her car.
1 Feb 2012 at 9:09am
A woman who appeared to not have any teeth in surveillance photos from a bank robbery last month has confessed, apologized and told police she planned the heist because she needed the money for dentures.
31 Jan 2012 at 11:50pm
A large seabird found in the back of a pickup truck in Los Angeles has been released to begin its long flight home across the Pacific.