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Arrest made in arson spree

A 45-year-old Middleborough man was linked to two dozen arson fires in Southeastern Massachusetts.

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Moore, 25, died a week after a dramatic crash when he attempted a backflip on his snow machine.

Gerard Leone and John Kerry

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John Kerry visits Mass. for farewell tour

The newly confirmed secretary of state returned to the Middlesex district attorney’s office, where he spent his early days as a prosecutor.

Friday Preview | Movie Review

‘Warm Bodies’ is a zombie flick with real heart

“Warm Bodies” pulls off a pretty impressive trick: It has its “Twilight” and goofs on it too.

Phil Mickelson hit his tee shot on the 15th hole during the first round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open golf tournament Thursday.

Mickelson just misses a 59

Phil Mickelson finished with a 60, tying his career-best round and the course record at the Phoenix Open, but missing the hallowed mark by a stroke.

Wedding blogger is married to her job

Abby Larson, founder of Boston-based Style Me Pretty, talks about how she built her blog into a respected online resource for brides-to-be.

Hopefuls face fight to lead state’s Republican Party

A battle between the handpicked candidate of former senator Scott Brown and a conservative challenger is expected tonight.

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino arrives for his annual State of the City address at Faneuil Hall Tuesday.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Menino, the king incumbent

With this week’s State of the City address, the five-term mayor put another generation of Bostonians dreaming of taking his seat on hold.

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The Mystic Bridge opened for traffic on Feb. 26, 1950, and was renamed in honor of former Boston mayor and Massachusetts governor Maurice J. Tobin in 1967.

Globe exclusives

The “1,000 Cranes of Hope” installation at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, which is searching for cancer cures.

13 Massachusetts companies make best-workplaces list
BlackBerry’s Z10 is expected help reverse a slide in sales.

Tech Lab

BlackBerry poised to win affection anew
Governor Deval Patrick (left) tapped William

news analysis

Patrick confident in choosing confidant
San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick was a three-sport star in high school and he was drafted by the Chicago Cubs.

Dan Shaughnessy

Kaepernick looks like future of NFL
A BU student was stabbed and robbed at the intersection of Browne and Pleasant streets Tuesday.

Spate of armed robberies leaves many at BU on edge
1366 Technologies technician Becky Allen handled a solar cell at the company’s pilot plant in Bedford. 1366 was founded in 2007.

1366 Technologies opens $6m Bedford plant
Robert Spencer is director of the blog Jihad Watch and a leader of the American Freedom Defense Initiative and Stop Islamization of America.

Catholic event cancels talk by Islam critic
Susan Battista and Fritz Klaetke of Visual Dialogue creative agency.

Fritz Klaetke has designs on a Grammy

Book review

‘The Best of Youth’ by Michael Dahlie
Michelle Gordon with the chicken dish she often serves for dinner in her Dorchester home.

On the family menu: What’s familiar
Work stalled on the Filene’s project in 2008 as the economy sputtered, leaving a crater at the construction site.

New deal may restart Filene’s project
Terry Francona oversaw a dramatic collapse in 2011, his final year with the Red Sox.

Book excerpt

How trust evaporated between Sox, Francona

Sports

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Bruins notebook

Nathan Horton has scored two of his three goals in the third period for the 5-0-1 Bruins, who have yet to lose in regulation.

Nathan Horton picking his spots well for Bruins

The forward has scored two of his three goals in the third period for the 5-0-1 Bruins, who have yet to lose in regulation.

Metro

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Heavy winds blew a billboard onto an SUV at Roxbury Motors on Columbus Avenue in Boston.

Hurricane-force winds wreak havoc

Almost 60,000 people lost power as some wind gusts reached 80 miles per hour.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

Where is our state’s official groundhog?
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino arrives for his annual State of the City address at Faneuil Hall Tuesday.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Menino, the king incumbent

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Immigration commission brings border states to table

SCOT LEHIGH

Cowan isn’t the best option
William ‘Mo’ Cowan

Yvonne Abraham

Cowan pick is 100 percent Patrick

Opinion | NICHOLAS BURNS

Kerry must engage China
San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick was a three-sport star in high school and he was drafted by the Chicago Cubs.

Dan Shaughnessy

Kaepernick looks like future of NFL
BlackBerry’s Z10 is expected help reverse a slide in sales.

Tech Lab

BlackBerry poised to win affection anew
Mayor Thomas M. Menino gave few clues about whether he will seek reelection.

Adrian Walker

Menino back in action
Former Republican presidential candidate and Massachusetts Governot Mitt Romney.

SCOT LEHIGH

How Romney can stay relevant
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, and Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera review an honor guard before a flag return ceremony last week.

JEFF JACOBY

Conservatism in Japan
Ray Lewis was the center of attention at Super Bowl media day.

Dan Shaughnessy

Ray Lewis will tackle (almost) any subject

Nation & World

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Authorities investigated the scene of a school shooting in Atlanta.

Teen wounded, suspect in custody after Georgia school shooting

A 14-year-old student is ‘‘alert, conscious and breathing’’ after being shot in an Atlanta middle school, authorities said.

Politics

US Representative Stephen F. Lynch (center) greeted Mike Gagnon (left) of West Springfield and John Blanchard Chicopee as Lynch kicked off his campaign for US Senate at a stop at O'Brien's Corner Restaurant in Springfield.

Stephen Lynch officially launches Senate campaign

Lynch released a video emphasizing his blue-collar roots and provided some tough talk for Edward J. Markey.

Business

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If Anheuser-Busch owned Grupo Modelo, makers of Corona, the company would control 46 percent of annual US beer sales.

US challenges $20b Anheuser-Busch takeover

The Department of Justice argued that the $20 billion merger would reduce competition in the US beer market.

Arts

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Television Review

Steven Pasquale stars as a doctor with an alternate personality in “Do No Harm.”

NBC’s ‘Do No Harm’: a Jekyll-and-Hyde operation

“Do No Harm” isn’t a psychological exploration so much as a medical drama with a gimmick, but it’s pretty darned silly.

Style

Screen Actors Guild wins the fashion award

The Screen Actors Guild Awards’ underdog status results in some fun and downright risky fashion extremes.

Magazine

The cover for the January 27 2013 issue

Tried and true Northeast fashion staples
The cover for the January 20 2013 issue

My friend Tito
The cover for the January 13 2013 issue

Alfresco fabulous
The cover for the January 6 2013 issue

Best Boston Globe photos of the year, 2012

Opinion

“For people along the Southwest border, immigration enforcement is more than an unpleasant duty that the president has to perform to maintain his public-safety credentials.”

Juliette Kayyem 

Ideas

“Ten years after ‘victory’ in Iraq, we still don’t know what victory means. Without a clearer idea of what winning wars looks like, we risk falling into situations where they could go on forever”

Gal Beckerman on what victory means now 

“This appears to be a slow quarter, but the Massachusetts economy is growing still.”

Alan Clayton-Matthews,  Northeastern University economist