Boston Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas (4) drives the lane in the first quarter of an NBA basketball game against the Miami Heat, Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, in Boston. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

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CELTICS 117, HEAT 114

Isaiah Thomas scores 52 as Celtics beat the Heat

Thomas?s 29 points in the final quarter is a franchise record.

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Homicides in Boston are up slightly this year after reaching a 15-year low in 2015.

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President-elect Donald Trump is considering George Conway to be US solicitor general, according to two sources.

It?s All Downhill

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/30/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/gunstock1[1].jpg There is much rejoicing in New England?s ski country

Thursday?s storm made for one of the best powder days in recent memory.

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Even the so-called special relationship is subject to limits, it seems.

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Reisa Clardy filed a negligence lawsuit Friday in Middlesex Superior Court.

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Charter Spectrum and NBCUniversal have been unable to reach a new national agreement to carry more than a dozen of the media giant?s channels.

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Globe Magazine

The best photos of 2016 from the Boston Globe

Globe staff photographers share their most memorable pictures of the year, and the stories behind them.

New Year?s Eve

Globe magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/29/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/151231_kdb_firstnight_004.jpg Guide to New Year?s Eve 2016

Picks for the best events and performances happening around Boston to ring in the new year.

Democrats fret over identity politics in Trump era

Representative Keith Ellison is seeking to become the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

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To varying degrees, black and Latino lawmakers are pushing back on Beltway consensus.

Sanctions against Russia

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The move by the incoming president to side with a foreign adversary over the sitting president was a dramatic departure from typical practice.

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A code associated with a Russian hacking operation has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to officials.

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Hours before he disappeared on Christmas Eve, Luis Fernando Orellana Ruano spoke with his mother in Guatemala.

Two dead, two injured, in Easton crash

Two people are dead, and two others seriously injured in a head-on collision on Route 123 in Easton.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/09/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Boghosian_25fish3_MET.jpg A high-tech battle for the future of the fishing industry

The high-tech battle for the future of the Massachusetts fishing industry is being waged aboard a western rigged stern trawler named the Miss Emily.

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Fifty-one percent of adults fail to finish treatment in state-licensed residential substance abuse programs.

Michael Skakel.

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Conn. court reinstates Skakel murder conviction

Connecticut?s highest court has reinstated the murder conviction of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel.

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It?ll be highly ironic if, instead of curbing the flow of immigrants, Donald Trump?s climate policy ends up accelerating it.

Special reports

special report

Every doctor told the Lacey family their son would die ? except one

Pat and Dina Lacey had been parents for only a few months when doctors discovered a tumor in their new baby?s chest. Told to take their son home to die, they put their faith in a young doctor who wouldn?t accept death as the answer.

Life sciences

STAT, a national publication from Boston Globe Media Partners, covers health, medicine, and life sciences.

Investigations

The Desperate and the Dead | Part 7

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/20160923_SAMentalHealth_312.jpg The San Antonio solution

One Texas city took on mental health as a community and became a national model. Why can?t Mass. do the same?

The story behind ?Spotlight?

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?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.