Boston to launch effort to solve more homicides
The Boston Police Department plans to bolster homicide squads in an effort to combat one of the city’s most intractable problems: the slow rate at which most killings are solved.
Santorum enjoying late boost in Iowa
Rick Santorum’s sudden surge in the CNN poll has fueled Iowa religious conservatives to ask Michele Bachmann to drop out so the religious right-wing vote will be more unified.
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Bearing no grudges, NBA fans flock back
Less than a week into the lockout-shortened NBA season, fans are filling arenas and watching games from home in record numbers.
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Chelsea housing tenants suffer, officials benefit
After Francine Dorrance was evicted from her Chelsea Housing Authority apartment over $276 in unpaid rent, the Authority’s housing manager moved in, paying $25 a month in rent.
R.I. to ask voters to approve table games
In an effort to hang on to their share of the market, state leaders will ask the voters in November to authorize the addition of Las Vegas-style table games at Twin River.
No stock answers | The bull
Look at US companies first, bull says
You might expect John Roth to have an upbeat take on the new year. But like many other investors who are normally bullish, he is hardly predicting good times.
Peabody honors ‘great firefighter’
More than 300 Peabody firefighters and police officers marched in a solemn procession to the wake for James M. Rice, who died after battling a fire last week.
“Part of my happiness about how it’s going in the first week is we hoped it would go this well and that’s one of the reasons we’re back playing this soon.”
Wyc Grousbeck, Celtics owner
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Metro
Cabdriver tells of run-in with fleeing suspect
Police said the woman went into a Roxbury bank yesterday, told employees she had a gun, and then took a cab to a park where she handed out money.
Business
No stock answers | The bear
A bear who sees a bright side, too
Ben Inker and his partner Jeremy Grantham’s almost perpetually gloomy outlooks have often paid off. But for all the gloom now, Inker is practically sunny.
Politics
political notebook
Jon Huntsman deflects skepticism in New Hampshire
The center of the GOP political universe right now may be Iowa, but Jon Huntsman insists his own marathon orbit around New Hampshire will boost his candidacy.
Nation & World
Muslims to skip Bloomberg breakfast
Religious leaders upset at police efforts to spy on Muslims plan to skip Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s annual year-end interfaith breakfast, saying Bloomberg shouldn’t be defending the tactics.
Sports
Harvard 67, BC 46
Harvard basketball blows out BC
Coach Tommy Amaker’s 24th-ranked Crimson showed again why they may be one of the best Harvard teams ever, posting a 67-46 victory over Steve Donahue’s Eagles.
Movies
NEW YEAR’S EVE: MOVIES
New Year’s Eve picks: film
If high-decibel parties, chilly strolls, or waiting around for the midnight hour to strike are not your idea of a memorable New Year’s Eve, there’s always the movies.
Arts
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A guide to New Year's Eve in Boston
Our critics give their picks for what to do leading up to midnight.
Opinion
“The voters I spoke with weren’t in search of a tough-talking conservative who would wage a no-holds-barred battle with the Democratic incumbent.”
Scot Lehigh
Ideas
The practice of sending commercially printed cards soon became wildly popular. It reached the United States in 1875…By 1958, the average US family mailed 100 Christmas cards.
Mark Feeney on the history of Christmas cards