Officials: ‘We got it right’ at end of Patriots’ loss

Referee Clete Blakeman said his crew determined that the initial pass interference call drawn by Rob Gronkowski was unnecessary because the pass was uncatchable.

Latest news

 

New tests could replace MCAS

The state will conduct trials this spring of a new testing system that aims to replace the MCAS in English and math in two years.

Virginia State Police said in a news release Tuesday that Democratic Sen. Creigh Deeds had suffered serious injuries in a home attack.

Va. state senator critical after assault

Creigh Deeds, a former Va. gubernatorial candidate, is in critical condition at a hospital and another is dead after an assault in his home.

Woman struck, dragged to her death in Wrentham

The woman was hit by a vehicle and then dragged for nearly three miles, authorities said.

Scott Jones and Mei Kum Jones, both 43, and their sons, Colt and Cameron were found dead in their home Monday.

Yoon S. Byun/Globe staff

Scott Jones and Mei Kum Jones, both 43, and their sons, Colt and Cameron, were found dead in their home Monday.

Neighbors said Mei Kum Jones was a shy woman who was very attentive to the children.

Facebook

Neighbors said Mei Kum Jones was a shy woman who was very attentive to the children.

Twin boys Colt and Cameron would have been 1 on Nov. 26.

Facebook

Twin boys Colt and Cameron would have been 1 on Nov. 26.

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan described the deaths as a “very troubling,” but assured the public there was no threat to public safety.

Steven Senne/Associated Press

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan described the deaths as a “very troubling,” but assured the public there was no threat to public safety.

Authorities would not address how the family died or what weapons may have been used.

Steven Senne/Associated Press

Authorities would not address how the family died or what weapons may have been used.

Family of 4 dies violently in Arlington

Scott Jones, Mei Kum Jones, and their twin boys were found dead in their home. Authorities said the couple had been planning to divorce.

Kevin Cullen

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/11/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/cullen.jpg How to respond to morons

Does canceling the Lunenburg football season validate students’ racist acts? What to do about Bill Maher’s comments on the Marathon?

Milford vote could change the game in casino quest

With casino proposals on a losing streak in Mass., the last of 11 original gambling applicants faces the voters on Tuesday.

Opinion

PAUL MCMORROW

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/11/18/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/1119oped_mcmorrow.jpg Get rid of this downtown garage — and one more

The behemoth Government Center Garage is set to go, and the Harbor Garage should be next.

Globe exclusives

Flag picked up and game over, Tom Brady tries to state his case to referee Clete Blakeman.

Dan Shaughnessy

Patriots’ loss was very unexpected
Construction activity and employment have jumped since August 2012, and now cranes are a common sight.

Construction industry bouncing back
Bonnie Raitt (left) surprised the Orpheum’s audience by inviting Bonnie Hayes, new on Berklee’s faculty, on stage.

Berklee brings in Bonnie Hayes
Actors with books in the Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black”: (from left) Michelle Hurst; Laura Prepon and Taylor Schilling; and Danielle Brooks.

bookish | matthew gilbert

Scanning TV’s bookshelves
Dean Mozingo emptied motor oil from Kurt Busch’s car after a NASCAR event at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in September.

Firm seeks boost from NASCAR link
Greyhound Friends in Hopkinton estimates it has found homes for more than 9,000 dogs, like the dog above.

Greyhound Friends expands mission
Director Meg Fofonoff works on a scene from “A Little Princess,” which will have its New England premiere at the Strand.

Dorchester’s Strand fit for a ‘Princess’
Katie Lockwood (with her husband, Arden) has cystic fibrosis and always valued being part of the CF patient community which provided answers, guidance, and support.

Health

Cystic fibrosis patients losing a connection
Tom Clark of the Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury inspected a branch. Hundreds of thousands of black oaks in Southeastern Massachusetts have shown signs of infestation by tiny gall wasps this year.

Puzzling pest imperils trees by acre
Harvard Apparatus researcher Linghui Meng checked one step in the company’s process of creating artificial tracheas.

Biotech ruse may save transplanted organs
Jehuda Reinharz, former president of Brandeis University, has remained among the highest paid people on campus.

Colleges may foot big bills as presidents leave

From Sunday’s Globe | Top Places to Work

Top perks offered by Mass. companies

Sports

Tags in this section:

Panthers 24, Patriots 20

Carolina’s Robert Lester (38) secured this Tom Brady interception to seal the win.

Patriots on wrong end of late non-call

For the second time this season, the officials became the story line at the end of a Patriots loss, this time to the Panthers.

Metro

Tags in this section:

The median strip at the Cambridge Street overpass in Allston is uneven, adding to the unsafe conditions that pedestrians face.

Allston fights for overpass change

It is a near-constant spectacle on Allston’s Cambridge Street overpass, one that residents joke is akin to “Frogger.”

Columnists

farah stockman

Israel’s nuclear precedent

Kevin Cullen

How to respond to morons

Boston Capital

Mass. lesson was lost on Obamacare

Adrian Walker

All bets may be off in Mass.
Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote in support of ENDA.

JEFF JACOBY

Workplaces don’t need ENDA

JOAN VENNOCHI

Pressure is on the Gaming Commission

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Championing 2004 Sox’ claim as favorites

Bob Ryan

The inherent conflict of football

JOANNA WEISS

Gun debate hate
It’s easy to see why Martha Coakley would make a good candidate for governor, Yvonne Abraham writes, thus making her campaign missteps all the more mystifying.

Yvonne Abraham

Unforced errors from Martha Coakley
It will be interesting to see if Michael Astrue can transform InVivo from a company fueled by hype to one focused on demonstrating effectiveness in humans.

Innovation Economy

Can InVivo live up to its hype?
A pedestrian passed in front of the Olympic rings up the street from Turner Field, which originally opened as the 85,000-seat main stadium for the 1996 Olympics.

Derrick Z. Jackson

An Olympic-size illusion

Nation & World

Tags in this section:

Twin suicide bombers detonated explosions outside the Iranian Embassy in a mainly Shiite district of the Lebanese capital on Tuesday.

Suicide blasts near Iran Embassy in Beirut kill 23

The bombings appeared to be another strike in an intensifying proxy battle over Syria’s civil war that is rattling Lebanon.

Politics

Mayor-elect Martin J. Walsh and Governor Deval Patrick met privately in the governor’s office at the State House Monday.

After a break, Martin Walsh centers on work

The mayor-elect met with residents in Dorchester to talk about their priorities and, earlier in the day, with Governor Patrick.

Business

Tags in this section:

The New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass., shut down after being implicated last year in a meningitis outbreak from one of its steroid injections.

Congress OK’s stiffening drug compounding rules

Congress took a step toward increasing federal oversight of compounding pharmacies that custom mix medications in bulk.

Arts

Tags in this section:

Music Review

Singer Alexis Krauss (pictured in California in 2011) and Sleigh Bells rocked the Royale on Saturday.

Sleigh Bells’ relentless energy powers show

Here was a band determined to make an impact and relentless in hammering it home.

Globe Insiders

Globe Talk | Dec. 4

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/11/18/BostonGlobe.com/Special/Images/tomp.jpg A conversation with author Tom Perrotta

The best-selling author of “Little Children” discusses his craft with the Globe’s new book critic, Matthew Gilbert.

Boston Globe ePaper

ePaper

Read the ePaper edition

The complete print edition, in its exact layout. Browse the print edition page by page, including stories and ads.

Magazine

The cover for the November 17 2013 issue

The state of extramarital affairs
The cover for the November 10 2013 issue

Just the right kind of cold
The cover for the November 3 2013 issue

Top 100 women-led businesses in Massachusetts
The cover for the October 27 2013 issue

A First Period home gets a second life

Ideas

“Researchers believe there’s something uniquely and inherently difficult about the in-law relationship itself — as one psychologist put it, ‘The problem is really structural.’”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the weird science of in-laws