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US jobless rate drops to 7.7%

The US economy added 146,000 jobs in November as the unemployment rate fell to a four-year low.

Scott Brown ends race with extra campaign funds

While perhaps not enough to intimidate potential opponents, the up to $200,000 could be enough for a head start in a campaign.

Day-care worker charged in abuse was a sex offender

John Burbine, accused of sexually assaulting 13 children while working for his wife’s day care service, was a registered Level 1 sex offender with three convictions.

Mike Napoli joins others in getting paid before tax hikes

The prospect of potentially higher taxes in 2013 is driving big earners, including the new Red Sox slugger, to try to collect some of that money this year.

MBTA driver in crash also worked overnight for BHA

The Green Line operator fired following last week’s crash had for years worked two full-time jobs without drawing scrutiny.

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The drug lab scandal: Who’s cleaning it up?

Veteran Boston lawyer David Meier was handed the unenviable task of fixing the drug lab debacle, one of the state’s biggest law enforcement scandals ever. Is he up to the job?

Fenway Center in jeopardy due to impasse with MassDOT

A stalemate between the developer and state officials is stalling what could be the first successful project involving turnpike air rights projects since the 1980s.

‘Worn out’ Frank ready to hit the lecture circuit

With his political career winding to a close in a matter of weeks, 72-year-old Barney Frank says he’s eager to begin a new chapter.

Brian McGrory

A bright life, a needless end

It’s painful to even think about the death of Christopher Weigl, the Boston University graduate student, Eagle Scout, and bicyclist who died in a crash Thursday.

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The attack on Pearl Harbor

The attack on Pearl Harbor left over 2,400 dead, 68 of them civilians, after waves of Japanese carrier-based fighters and bombers turned the naval base in Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor into an inferno.

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General manager Ben Cherington signed autographs last Saturday before going to Nashville to sign new free agents like Mike Napoli and Shane Victorino.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox moving in right direction

US Attorney Carmen Ortiz is conducting a Beacon Hill inquiry.

Carmen Ortiz may be in Mass. governor’s mix

Jack Taylor isn’t shy about shooting — he took 108 field goal attempts in his 138-point game last month.

Jack Taylor’s 138-point game part of ‘the system’

“Our Town” director David Cromer says the meaning of the Thornton Wilder play has often been misunderstood.

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Blowing the dust off ‘Our Town’

Tom Brady carried his son Benjamin as he walked off the practice field with wife, Gisele Bundchen at the end of a practice in August.

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Bundchen, Brady have baby girl

Sports Media

Burton’s NHL report in limbo

Scot Lehigh

Reforms to help solve our fiscal problems

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Olive Another as Herbie (left) and Jesse James Wood as the title character in “Rudolph the Red Necked Reindeer.”

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‘Rudolph’ a classic with a twist

A video capturing James Groccia’s exultation in opening a long desired, but rare, Lego set is a hit on YouTube.

Boylston boy’s joy delights web viewers

Complaint that judge shows bias dismissed

Stanley Forman of the Boston Herald American took this terrifying image of a 2-year-old girl and her godmother falling from a broken fire escape, a photograph that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1976. The girl survived the fall; her godmother did not.

Joan Vennochi

Are photojournalists obligated to help in rescues?

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In 36 innings last season, Koji Uehara struck out 43 batters and walked only three.

Despite critics. Red Sox happy with moves

If the criterion for “winning” the Winter Meetings is being active and aggressive, the Red Sox can make a case for victory.

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A small number of BU students and others gathered in front of Marsh Chapel Thursday night to honor Christopher Weigl.

BU bicycle crash victim is remembered

Christopher Weigl, a Boston University graduate student, was the fifth bicyclist killed in a crash in Boston this year.