Mass. to get more than $300m in foreclosure deal

The $25 billion settlement between 49 states and five major US banks will provide money to help troubled homeowners.

Mass. granted ‘No Child’ waiver

The state - one of 10 awarded the waiver - sees it as a way to give educators the flexibility needed to target improvements at troubled schools.

Brian McGrory

Driven by loss, father inspires tireless pursuit of a cure

Joey O’Donnell’s death from cystic fibrosis led to an unusual collaboration between his father, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to find a treatment for the disease.

House passes insider trading bill

The bill to ban members of Congress and executive branch officials from insider trading will likely be sent to a House-Senate conference to reconcile differences.

Social networking helps singer land unlikely Grammy nod

Linda Chorney, a singer-songwriter originally from Sudbury, got on the ballot after connecting with Recording Academy voters through Grammy365.com.

Sudbury native Linda Chorney is nominated for a Grammy Award for best Americana album, alongside musicians like Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams.

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Sudbury native Linda Chorney is nominated for a Grammy Award for best Americana album, alongside Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams.

Grammy award nominated musician Linda Chorney poses in Hollywood

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As a relative unknown singer-songwriter, Chorney's path to the Grammys is a testament to the role of social networking in music.

In this Jan. 11, 2012 photo, Grammy award nominated musician Linda Chorney poses for a portrait in New York. Chorney is nominated for a Grammy Award for best Americana album. (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri)

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She got on the Grammy ballot after connecting with Recording Academy voters through Grammy365.com, a social-networking site.

Grammy award nominated musician Linda Chorney poses in Hollywood

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Recent fame aside, she has been a full-time musician for 30 years and has self-released six albums.

Gareth Cook

Why scientists are boycotting a publisher

A major scientific publisher is charging exorbitant rates to see its articles, and scientists, including some at MIT and Harvard, are crying foul.

Santorum surge is telling for Romney

Rick Santorum’s three-state sweep Tuesday is sending a message in the political world: Many voters remain dissatisfied with Mitt Romney’s business-minded appeal.

“I am like the Boston Red Sox before 2004. The nominees in my category won’t know the joy I will feel if I actually pull this off and win.”

Linda Chorney,  on her Grammy nomination

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Join the Boston Globe’s movie critics, Ty Burr and Wesley Morris, for a conversation about this year’s Academy Awards.

Inside The Boston Globe

‘Oil Can’ Boyd says he used cocaine with Sox
Kodak says it will phase out its digital camera product lines in the first half of this year.

Kodak to stop making cameras

STAGE REVIEW

Fairy tale characters to the rescue in ‘Calvin’s Monster’

The dos and don’ts of date night

On football

Patriots’ offense a failure in Super Bowl
Boston--02/08/12 House Speaker Robert DeLeo goes over his speech in his office prior to speaking to house members on priorites for the next six months. Boston Globe staff photo by John Tlumacki (metro)

DeLeo rejects Patrick’s tax proposals
Roast Beef, a dapper-looking penguin at the New England Aquarium, visited Hannah Duston Health Care Rehabilitation Center in Haverhill today.

A happy visit from a guy in a tuxedo

Missing: 5.4 million workers from labor force

Dining Out

The Blue Room is still strong on hospitality

Longfellow loses outbound car lane in new design

No say for some who would be casinos’ neighbors

Giving voice to slain social worker

Columnists

Tech Lab

Epic game, epic endeavor
Mattapan, MA 020412 Jennifer Smith (cq), of Mattapan picks up her son Sammy Aaron, (cq), 6, his Mather School in Dorchester elementary school every day. She doen't let him ride the school bus since he was dropped off at the wrong stop on January 4, 2012.(Essdras M Suarez/ Globe Staff)/MET

Yvonne Abraham

Wrong bus stop, wrong response

Brian McGrory

Joey’s long legacy

Juliette Kayyem

Tweeting with a pile of Saudi money

Gareth Cook

Why scientists are boycotting a publisher
FOR SPORTS. Foxborough, MA 2/6/2012 Gabriel Pelletier (cq) of Lunenberg shows off his Patriots helmet with signatures from the 2007-2008 team. New England Patriots fans gather outside of Gillette Stadium to greet the team the day after their Super Bowl loss to the New York Giants, in Foxborough, MA on Monday, February 6, 2012. (Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff) Section: SPORTS Slug: superbowlfolo Reporter: Travis Andersen LOID: 5.0.833220238

Tony Massarotti

The true Golden Age of Boston sports

Scot Lehigh

DeLeo’s success with health reform

Derrick Z. Jackson

An environmental chain reaction
Bill Belichick took questions for the final time this season yesterday.

Dan Shaughnessy

As losses go, we’ve seen worse than Patriots’

Jeff Jacoby

Ganging up on Ginsburg — way too quickly

alex beam

Eat free or die

boston capital

Staples sees slow sales in economic recovery

Metro

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Two Mattapan slay suspects seek dismissal

Lawyers for two defendants slated to go trial in the fatal shootings of four people are seeking a dismissal because authorities recently turned over evidence implicating someone else.

Business

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Greek Prime Minister Loukas Papademos enters the meeting room at Maximos mansion in Athens on Wednesday Feb.8, 2012. After three days of delays, Greek coalition leaders began crucial debt talks Wednesday with the prime minister to review a draft deal on steep cutbacks demanded by creditors in return for a euro 130 billion ($170 billion) bailout. (AP Photo/Orestis Panagiotou, pool)

Greece reaches austerity deal

The country has reached a tentative agreement on new austerity cuts demanded by creditors to release a $173 billion bailout, the prime minster’s office announced.

Nation & World

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Washington state legislators OK same-sex marriage

Washington was poised yesterday to become the seventh state to allow same-sex couples to marry after the state House approved such a bill.

Politics

Political Notebook

Turnout in latest GOP primaries lagged vote in 2008

The reduced turnout may have been because the contests in Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri were nonbinding.

Sports

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On basketball

Celtics, Lakers are both in slow decline

The Celtics and Lakers enter tonight’s showdown in nearly identical positions trying to stay competitive and avoid not living off of tradition and past accomplishments.

Style

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Sealed with a kiss: Valentine’s Day gift guide

For all its heartfelt sentiment, Valentine’s Day has acquired a cheesy sheen, becoming the holiday equivalent of a carnival midway.

Arts

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Arts events around Boston

Boston Globe critics put together a list of upcoming theater, art, gallery, and museum events around the area worth checking out.

Magazine

The cover for the February 5 2012 issue

What if the lights go out?
The cover for the January 29 2012 issue

Reversing a restaurant curse
The cover for the January 22 2012 issue

Mother worries about her Occupy Wall Street protester son
The cover for the January 15 2012 issue

Mass. voting maps reflect State House evolution

Opinion

“Academic publishers can choose to make a decent profit, or they can choose to extract from the system as much money as they think they can get away with.”

Gareth Cook 

Ideas

“For American enthusiasts of the Kagame regime, the Ingabire case points to a dilemma: Rwanda’s remarkable reconciliation and success have gone hand in hand with severely curtailed freedom of speech.”

Peter Canellos,  on free expression in Rwanda