Drunken-driving arrests becoming rare in Boston

Police last year made 241 drunken driving arrests, a sharp decline from recent years and far fewer than in cities of similar size.

South Boston politicians have fought to keep preserve the Marine Industrial Park for manufacturing, fish processing, and other blue collar work.

A quiet deal done on a prime Boston waterfront site

Developer Joe Fallon brought buildings and jobs to Fan Pier where others could not. But that doesn’t explain his no bid rights to another Seaport parcel.

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Rob Gronkowski, seen before the Patriots’ playoff game with the Texans in Foxborough Jan. 13, may need more surgery.

Gronkowski is reported to need more surgery

Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski may still have an infection in the area where he had surgery to repair a broken arm, according to a report.

Some of Mark Rappaport’s film materials are stored in the office of Ray Carney’s lawyer.

COURTESY OF MARK RAPPAPORT

BU caught in middle as filmmaker, professor feud

A battle over a movie archive between filmmaker Mark Rappaport and professor Ray Carney is getting stranger by the day.

The Schifters plan to move their buildings back from the shore in a never-ending battle with erosion.

What money can’t buy: a break from nature’s fury

Scouring seas were closing in on a Chappaquiddick mansion. The owner is now moving it all — but to what end?

Drone manufacturers struggle for acceptance

The domestic drone industry is trying to purge the word “drone’’ and its lethal connotations from the lexicon — an effort that is failing dismally.

Among the exhibits at the Cambridge Science Festival are (clockwise from top left): The Physics of Billiards; Visual-Eyes Art, a multimedia exhibit that explores animal vision and perception; and Sidewalk Astronomy, on the moons of Saturn.

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Cambridge Science Festival, by the numbers

The seventh Cambridge Science Festival runs Friday through April 21, bringing knowledge to more than 50 sites in Cambridge, Boston, and surrounding towns.

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Calle Cronk waits anxiously at her Norwell home for visiting nurse Pat Hayes (left) to draw blood and do other routine health checks.

Hope for Caroline | Norwell

Town rallies behind ill 5-year-old
Former Montreal Expos baseball player Warren Cromartie is part of an effort to bring back Major League Baseball to Montreal.

Sunday baseball notes

Montreal is exploring a major league return
Artistic director Anthony Trecek-King works with the Boston Children’s Chorus at the Institute of Contemporary Art, with accompanist Sarah Koonce.

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Children’s Chorus crowns 10th year
Patrice Bergeron

Sunday Hockey Notes

Bergeron must weigh price being paid
Cycling siblings Tom and Laura DiNardo on the final day in Fitzwilliam, N.H., where the family noted the first sign for Boston.

A family bike trip from Montreal to Boston
The Golden Gate Bridge’s main towers are 746 feet high.

Cities in the States

Three days in San Francisco
It helps to move the ball around and tire your opponent out, says Paul Mathieson, the head squash pro at Dover Squash and Fitness in Natick.

On the Job

For coach, a ‘physical game of chess’
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino

Lawrence Harmon

No salvation for anyone on the wrong side of Menino

Does Boston need a CEO as mayor?
Keer Deng, 19, was blinded by a slave master, who rubbed chili peppers in his eyes and hung him upside down from a tree.

From torment in Sudan to a life of hope, promise
Tammie Lampes, 48, of Derry, said she thought New Hampshire would be open to a Scott Brown Senate candidacy.

N.H. voters OK with Brown, but perhaps not in Senate run
Paul Bernon and Sam Slater’s indie comedy “Drinking Buddies” was just picked up for distribution.

Young Massachusetts film producers finding early success

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Quinnipiac, UMass-Lowell, Yale, and St. Cloud State are the fresh faces in the 2013 Frozen Four in Pittsburgh.

Surprise New England trio crashes Frozen Four party

Quinnipiac, UMass-Lowell, Yale, and St. Cloud State are the fresh faces in the 2013 Frozen Four in Pittsburgh.

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Bill Walczak brings a different sort of resume to a race thus far dominated by candidates who hold elected office.

Bill Walczak jumps into race for Boston mayor

The community organizer becomes the fifth major declared candidate in the race to replace Mayor Menino.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

An eloquence born of pain

JEFF JACOBY

Boston’s taxi industry deserves better

JOANNA WEISS

Left’s money play on the environment

Amazon’s same-day service is just the beginning of a new wave of experimentation.

Innovation Economy

Delivering a new threat to retailers
Tiger Woods

Christopher L. Gasper

Tiger Woods needs to win a major
Steve Lynch is right — he is not the pick of the Democratic party establishment.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Lynch, the party outsider

Bob Ryan

Frozen Four breaks from tradition
Maria Rindenello plays harp with Boston’s Discovery Ensemble.

RENÉE LOTH

The millennial generation, in A flat
Courtney Lewis, 28, is the music director and conductor.

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Discovery Ensemble keeps the music alive
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino

Lawrence Harmon

No salvation for anyone on the wrong side of Menino
Coach Norm Bazin has goaltender Conor Hellebuyck and the UMass-Lowell team in the Frozen Four.

Kevin Cullen

UMass-Lowell hockey is soaring

SCOT LEHIGH

What are Markey, Lynch promising to interest groups?

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Afghan forces rushed to the scene of car bomb blast in southern Afghanistan on Saturday.

6 Americans killed in attacks in Afghanistan

Militants killed six Americans, including a diplomat, and an Afghan doctor in a pair of attacks on Saturday.

Politics

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

President Obama

Obama says plan for budget is practical

The president said his soon-to-be released budget is not his “ideal plan” but offers “tough reforms.”

Business

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Fay Donohue, Susan Windham-Bannister, and Helene Solomon.

Career-defining moments of three top women executives

The Globe asked women business leaders to recount the decisions that made their careers.

Family Entertainment | Arts & Movies

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In “Tappin’ Thru Life,” Maurice Hines looks back on a passion for tap that began when he was tiny.

Maurice Hines reflects on past in ‘Tappin’ Thru Life’

The show traces Hines’s six decade-plus career and is a tribute to his brother Gregory, who died in 2003.

Travel

Essay

The author’s sons, Brendan, Aidan, and Evan Glenn, wearing the national dress, and the family’s driver, Kezang, right, head for school.

Shangri-la or not, Bhutan leaves you smiling

With weather that can freeze, soak, and bake you all in a day, Bhutan is a place of seeming contradictions.

Books

Book review

James Salter .

‘All That Is’ by James Salter

The book follows a man’s tumble through life from the deck of a destroyer to the deck of a weekend house in Long Island.

Magazine

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The complete guide to Boston’s food trucks
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A living room design for grown-ups

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Azores, a perfect destination for Boston travelers
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Could rookie Jared Sullinger be the next Kevin Garnett?

Opinion

“No one imagines that City Hall should decide the number of bookstores or florists Boston needs; an official ceiling on the number of cabs is no less irrational.”

Jeff Jacoby 

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No matter how the fans are feeling about the Red Sox, devotees fill Fenway excited to cheer on the home team for the first game of each year.

Ideas

“Tax season doesn’t have to feel like a root canal. According to a group of tax scholars, Americans could just as easily take pride in paying our share, and the government ought to be trying to help get us there.”

Leon Neyfakh, on the joy of taxes