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Former highway safety chief resigns

Sheila Burgess resigned as a state employee three days after the Globe revealed that she had been cited for numerous driving violations.

Study finds mammograms lead to unneeded treatment

A new study shows that mammograms can lead to overdiagnosis, or finding cancer that is present but does not need treatment.

State allows hospitals to share drugs to avoid shortages

Following the national meningitis outbreak, Massachusetts public health regulators adopted emergency regulations to prevent drug shortages.

Jesse Jackson Jr. resigns from Congress

Jackson resigned after a months-long leave for mental illness, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday.

Palestinians celebrated a cease-fire agreement in Gaza City.

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Israel, Hamas agree to cease-fire

The agreement was aimed at quieting an escalating aerial battle that had threatened to turn into an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza.

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A recipe for the star of the Thanksgiving show: roast turkey.

At Thanksgiving, the food is what’s truly divisive

With every passing year, the once-simple act of sharing a holiday meal feels ever more complicated, as Americans layer food issue on top of food issue.

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The first games were played in Boston Common 150 years ago — the start of a great American tradition that endures today.

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This e-cookbook is filled with 26 delicious fall recipes, from potato curry to stir-fried noodles with spicy beef and Napa cabbage.

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Alex Latteo (left) and Debra Davis were killed in a car accident in Wrentham on July 26, 2008.

Kraft Group sued over deaths after tailgating

Derrick Z. Jackson

Retailers shouldn’t open on Thanksgiving

Mass. medical researchers’ funds at risk
Tom Zekos of Newbury, N.H., searched tubs of confiscated pocket knives for sale at the surplus property store.

TSA airport seizures create new market
Barry Cadden of the now-closed New England Compounding Center invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and declined to answer questions.

Pharmacy case may see call for jail time
The surviving members of the Oneida team at the Nov. 21, 1925, dedication of the marker on Boston Common, where they played football (top) and descendants of the players at the marker last month, with Oneida club president Tom McGrath (third from right).

Remembering the first high school football games
Governor Deval Patrick said he is encouraged by the state’s talks with Amazon. But “I’m just not sure that we’re going to have an agreement in place in time for the holidays.”

Mass. prods Amazon to collect sales taxes
Irma Morales and Sonam Dorjee assembled pies at Whole Foods’ bakery.

At bakeries, it’s all about the pies for Thanksgiving
Jeff Perrott’s “RW 114 (Odiris)” from his show “Vitavulnus,” at LaMontagne Gallery.

Galleries

Reviews of Boston-area art gallery exhibits
Co-owner Ajay Sachar (left) in the kitchen.

Cheap Eats

Fine-tuning heat and spice at this Northern Indian spot
Chicken is on St. Anthony Shrine’s holiday menu.

Turkey price has pantries parting with custom

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Holiday arts preview

Sports

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Natick is quarterbacked by Troy Flutie who has a Division 2A-leading 27 touchdown passes and 12 touchdown runs.

High school games to watch on Thanksgiving

Several playoff spots are on the line during the annual holiday games. Here’s our guide to the best contests.

Metro

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Alex Latteo (left) and Debra Davis were killed in a car accident in Wrentham on July 26, 2008.

Kraft Group sued over deaths after tailgating

Lawyers for the Kraft Group and the family of a car-crash victim argued over a lawsuit that faults the Gillette owners for the fatal accident.

Columnists

An Israeli couple watched the Gaza Strip in the background as they stood on a hill at the Israeli town of Sderot on Tuesday.

jeff jacoby

A vast moral difference

Derrick Z. Jackson

Retailers shouldn’t open on Thanksgiving
The wooden foreparts of Viking ships are thought to have been carved in dragon shapes to ward off sea monsters.

Carlo Rotella

The doomsayer in his hot tub

Kevin Cullen

The truth never dies

Opinion | Farah Stockman

Don’t break up, America

Joanna Weiss

Organizing a real Dumbledore’s Army
Rob Gronkowski will likely be out for several weeks with a broken forearm.

Dan Shaughnessy

Why are Patriots mum on Gronkowski injury?

Boston Capital

Comptroller takes tough line with banks
Wily veteran Tom Brady got the better of rookie Andrew Luck in their first career meeting.

Christopher L. Gasper

Luck won’t always be this easy to beat

INNOVATION ECONOMY

App lures football fans with rewards

Juliette Kayyem

BP lets employees take the fall
MA350 earphones, by Reid and Heath Acoustics Ltd.

Tech Lab Plus

Cheap earbuds, rich sound from Reid and Heath

Nation & World

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US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (left) signed the deal with Commissioner Roberto Salmon of Mexico.

US, Mexico reach deal on Colorado River sharing

The agreement gives Mexico badly needed storage capacity by granting rights to put some of the Colorado River’s water in Lake Mead.

Politics

President Obama departed Phnom Penh Tuesday after attending an Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Obama’s Asia trip viewed as validating area’s import

With his quick trip, the president appeared to achieve the goal of conveying the importance the nation attaches to Southeast Asia.

Business

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“This tax relief is critical for helping struggling homeowners stay in their homes as we work to repair the damage from the foreclosure crisis,” Martha Coakley said in a statement.

Martha Coakley calls for extended tax relief

The Mass. attorney urged Congress to extend a tax break for struggling homeowners.

Arts

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Movie Review

Suraj Sharma as Pi Patel, adrift in a lifeboat with a tiger, and amid oceanic bioluminescence in Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi.”

Ang Lee’s ‘Pi’ is a marvel

Ang Lee’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel, “Life of Pi,” is a marvel of contradictions. The movie shouldn’t work at all, but it does.

Food & dining

From left: Guy LeBlanc, Michael Brentana, and John Cowden with a statue of Longfellow outside the Wayside Inn in Sudbury.

Over the river and through the wood to the Wayside Inn

Longfellow’s Wayside Inn in Sudbury has served Thanksgiving dinner to generations of locals and travelers.

“The average human could not do what our team members do. It’s amazing.”

Buck Rollins,  on his 38-person pastry team at the Whole Foods Bread and Circus Bakehouse

Magazine

The cover for the November 18 2012 issue

7 holiday styles that shine
The cover for the November 11 2012 issue

Vacation options for single seniors and gays and lesbians
The cover for the November 4 2012 issue

How to be a New England vegetarian in winter
The cover for the October 28 2012 issue

The PANDAS puzzle: Can a common infection cause OCD in kids?

Opinion

“So long as Gaza remains a Hamas-ruled tyranny, peace will remain but a dream.”

Jeff Jacoby 

Ideas

“Funded in large part by the United States and its allies, Cambodia’s war-crimes court seeks to plant the seeds of Western-style justice in Eastern soil, transforming an entire legal system rather than merely putting aging war criminals behind bars.”

Peter Canellos on the power of imported justice