DiMasi ordered to jail during appeal
Former House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi today lost his bid to stay out of prison while appealing his conviction on federal corruption charges.
Mass. blue laws push back Black Friday store openings
Mass. retailers with midnight sales are amending plans because 17th-century rules prohibit employees from working until 12 a.m. after Thanksgiving.
Opinion
The still-leaderless revolution
The Occupy movement’s problem is what’s happening once the marching starts. The modern left has never excelled at mounting a cohesive protest movement, writes Paul McMorrow.
House-Senate panel reaches compromise on casino bill
By passing the final compromise that eliminates the proposal for happy hours at bars, lawmakers may vote on the bill sometime today.
Volunteers give second life to Vermont ski area
Once-struggling Magic Mountain is approaching a milestone in its effort to become a skier-owned cooperative: nearly $1 million raised from the sale of shares to patrons.
Magic Mountain
Six years ago, the Vermont resort lost half a million dollars. Now, signs of improvement are abundant.
Magic Mountain
Chairlifts had a reputation for being unreliable, but the main lift has been repaired. A second lift, idle for three years, is running again.
Magic Mountain
The turnaround has been fueled by tight-knit community of Magic skiers, 252 of whom have plunked down $3,000 apiece to become shareholders.
Magic Mountain
Volunteers have been active in the restoration, even painting chairlifts at the 200-acre ski area.
Magic Mountain
Volunteers have been rewarded with an expansion of off-trail skiing trails, to 60 acres.
Running for pride - and pie
Since 1896, runners in the Northfield Mount Hermon School’s annual Bemis-Forslund Pie Race who finish in “pie time’’ is awarded one of the prized apple pies.
Giffords shows progress, but still struggles
In her first public interview since being shot on Jan. 8, Representative Gabrielle Giffords last night appeared confident and determined, but still far from able to carry on a detailed conversation.
“The blue laws are clear as mud in Massachusetts.”
Jon Hurst, Retailers Association of Mass. president
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Metro
Sisters slain in Dorchester apartment
Two sisters were found fatally shot inside a Dorchester apartment yesterday morning, a double homicide that has unsettled police and horrified the neighborhood.
Business
Deal reached on naval air base land
The developer building a mini-city on the former South Weymouth naval air base has reached a deal to buy the remaining 830 acres of the sprawling station from the Navy.
Politics
Gingrich coming to Mass. Friday
GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich will visit Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Friday to screen his film, “A City Upon a Hill.”
Nation & World
Court to hear election-year health care law challenge
The move by the Supreme Court could salvage or doom Obama’s signature domestic initiative just months before voters go to the polls to consider his reelection.
Sports
NBA season in jeopardy after players’ balk
The players rejected the owners’ latest proposal and chose to disband their union, which could set up a lengthy work stoppage.
Arts
BOOK REVIEW
‘That Is All’ by John Hodgman
The TV celebrity and writer offers random rants in the third of his “tri-pendium’’ of knowledge books.
Lifestyle
alex beam
Much ado about nothing
The quest for the historically correct William Shakespeare, Homer and Jesus Christ is so much sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Special reports
Globe Spotlight Report
Under the influence
Full coverage of the Globe’s investigation into OUI acquittal rates.
Ideas
“It may seem intimidating when we say you are going to help transcribe ancient Greek papyri, but it’s all about pattern recognition, and the brain excels at pattern recognition.”
James Brusuelas, an Oxford classicist who is part of the Ancient Lives team