Lottery profits surge close to record levels

Buoyed by Mega Millions sales, the Mass. State Lottery is on pace to turn a $936 million profit this fiscal year, which would approach its 2006 record of $951 million.

Boston College players celebrated a goal in the third period.

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BC advances to Frozen Four title game

Boston College defeated Minnesota Thursday night and will face Ferris State on Saturday.

Red Sox catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia (left) and pitcher Alfredo Aceves (center) walked off the field after Detroit’s Danny Worth scored the game-winning run.

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Loss stings, but it’s just one game

Red Sox fans should resist the temptation to overreact after this Opening Day loss, writes Chad Finn.

Obama campaign slams Romney’s energy stance

Mitt Romney was accused by President Obama’s campaign of supporting a policy that Romney himself had attacked in the past.

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Romney is clueless on who is ‘out of touch’

People who plan to live in 11,000-square-foot beach homes with car elevators should think twice before accusing others of being out of touch, writes Scot Lehigh.

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Jessica Lider is a roller derby dame

A middle school teacher by day, the 31-year-old Lider leads her team in the Boston Derby Dames league of the 2012 Women’s Flat Track Derby season.

Obama, Romney say women should be allowed at Augusta National

President Obama and Mitt Romney became the latest public figures to endorse female membership at the all-male golf club, home to The Masters tournament.

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After delays, SouthField takes shape

Construction workers are putting the finishing touches on the first apartments to be built on the property formerly known as South Weymouth Naval Air Station.

The buildings at Pruitt-Igoe being imploded in a scene from “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth.”

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‘Pruitt-Igoe Myth’ asks: Did what went up have to come down?

This documentary is about the massive St. Louis housing project whose demolition, just 20 years after residents moved in, made it a byword for urban-planning failure.

The key to designing a home office is to make it a place that you would want to spend a lot of time in.

How to create a cozy home office

As long there’s natural light, a comfy work space can be carved out almost anywhere.

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Keith Olbermann sues Current TV for $50m
The romance is still alive between Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in the 3-D version of “Titanic.”

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With ‘Titanic 3-D,’ the bigger, the better
Video game fans played a game at last year’s PAX East convention in Boston.

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75,000 expected for PAX East show

Big Dig needs $54m light fix
Eugene Levy and Jason Biggs in “American Reunion,” the third sequel to “American Pie.”

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‘American Reunion’ gets ‘Pie’-eyed

Dartmouth medical school gets a new doctor: Seuss
Co-workers AndrewRuddock (left) and Ruth Rivera (holding check) gathered with others from Belmont Medical Associates on Wednesday to celebrate the Mega Millions lottery haul.

Lottery winners share $250,000

Red Sox fans hope for a team they can love

App keeps whales, ships safely apart

Mass. OK’s merger of NStar and Northeast
Opponents of the proposed MBTA fare increases wore signs at a board meeting at the State Transportation Building.

MBTA board approves fare hikes, service cuts
Michelle Smith, a designer for Milly, and Craig Reingold, president of Sperry, at a party in February celebrating their collaboration.

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How Sperry got its groove back

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Mayor lauds hero in East Boston fire

A man who entered a blazing building to warn East Boston residents of a fire was recognized by the mayor of Boston Wednesday.

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Clouds gathered overhead at one entrance of the BSkyB headquarter complex in London on Tuesday.

Murdoch’s Sky News admits to phone hacking

The British TV news outlet said that the actions of its reporters were “editorially justified and in the public interest.”

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

Correcting corrections
State Attorney General Martha Coakley announced the indictment against Timothy Cahill at a press conference Monday.

Joan Vennochi

The AG’s easy target

Dan Shaughnessy

Don’t expect a playoff run from 2012 Red Sox

Juliette Kayyem

Don’t let bin Laden family become martyrs

Brian McGrory

Tim Cahill’s done, overkill isn’t

Derrick Z. Jackson

Imprisoned by their fears

Bob Ryan

Kentucky: Thanks for one great year

Jeff Jacoby

An uncivil income tax system

scot lehigh

Coakley’s case puts focus on Cahill’s cynical practices

Opinion | Joanna Weiss

Marriage, managers, ‘mommy wars’

Bob Ryan

Ex-Celtic Don Nelson gets rightful place in Hall of Fame
Jacoby Ellsbury worked out during spring training last month.

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The pulse of Red Sox Nation

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Holder assures judge of administration’s respect

In a letter written at the request of a federal judge, Attorney General Eric Holder offered assurances that the Obama administration respects the authority of the courts.

Politics

Rick Santorum taking break from campaign trail

After suffering three defeats this week, Santorum is taking an extended break before the critical Pennsylvania primary.

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The Bruins celebrated a goal in the first period.

Bruins upend Senators

The Bruins downed the Ottawa Senators Thursday night in a preview of a likely first-round playoff matchup.

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Kerry Washington (center, with Darby Stanchfield and Henry Ian Cusick) heads the cast of Shonda Rhimes’s new series.

At heart of ABC’s ‘Scandal,’ dirty deeds, fast talk

Maybe creator Shonda Rhimes is just trying to hustle past all the exposition necessary to introduce her latest ensemble of beautiful, smart, and twisty people.

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Dress offers markdowns on chic spring styles

Dress has a modest but well-curated selection of Spring 2012 pieces from 3.1 Phillip Lim, Twelfth Street by Cynthia Vincent, Vanessa Bruno, and others marked down 30-40 percent.

“You don’t expect them to win all the time, or make the playoffs every year. But you do expect them to act like adults.”

Pixie Brudnick,  on the Red Sox

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45 best breakfast joints around Boston
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Snorkeling vacations you can’t miss
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Grover Norquist: Emperor of no
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Stoughton’s Lori McKenna is writing her heart out

Opinion

“Since losing to Scott Brown, Coakley has been carving a path to public redemption through a series of high-profile lawsuits and settlements.”

Joan Vennochi 

Ideas

In the realm of politics, in fact, the demand for sincerity is relatively new, a legacy of Reformation-era religion that only in recent decades has come to seem as important, or even more important than, qualities like leadership, managerial skill, or knowledge.

R. Jay Magill Jr.