Martha Coakley widens probe of for-profit schools

The Mass. attorney general has broadened her investigation into recruiting and lending practices at for-profit colleges and trade schools.

Tim Kardatzke and Kristina Muskiewicz concentrated on their needlework at a Cambridge coed knitting group.

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Men finding new hobbies to help relax, socialize

More men are taking up what might seem surprising group experiences: Not just cooking groups, but book clubs, and even, yes, knitting.

Gun-related crimes on the rise in Massachusetts

Crimes and injuries related to firearms have risen since the state passed a comprehensive package of gun laws in 1998.

Ex-House speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi (above) and lobbyist Richard McDonough were convicted of bribery in 2011.

DiMasi appeal to test ruling on bribery

The case of former House speaker Salvatore DiMasi and a lobbyist friend could help to redefine the standards for political bribery in federal courts.

Try as they might, the 49ers couldn’t contain MVP Joe Flacco, who threw for 287 yards and three touchdowns.

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Dan Shaughnessy

This Super Bowl was one of the greatest

Ray Lewis, Joe Flacco and the Ravens beat the 49ers in a game that had everything — including a 34-minute power outage.

Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, who announced his retirement before the playoffs, went out a winner, capping a 17-year career with his second Super Bowl title.

Ravens 34, 49ers 31

Ravens hold off 49ers to win Super Bowl

The Ravens fended off a second-half comeback by the 49ers, and a momentum-killing stadium power outage, to win the championship.

The mobile app from Ubersense is used by elite athletes from 20 different sports — among them bobsledders.

Data from apps help athletes raise the bar

The Boston area is developing a large family of companies that have created apps and Web programs to help usher in a new age of self-­measurement.

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s portrait is the most recent addition to the “They Also Ran Gallery,” above a bank lobby in Norton, Kan.

Kansas gallery recalls presidential also-rans

Mitt Romney’s portrait is the most recent addition to the “They Also Ran Gallery,” above a bank lobby in Norton, Kansas.

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The Mystic Bridge opened for traffic on Feb. 26, 1950, and was renamed in honor of former Boston mayor and Massachusetts governor Maurice J. Tobin in 1967.

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Finding the best therapist can be confusing
Singer Nate Ruess and guitarist Jack Antonoff (pictured performing last year in New York) and their Fun. bandmates played to a sold-out Orpheum on Friday.

Music Review

At Orpheum, Fun. and lots of it
“I think this was really the wake-up call for me,’’ Dr. Jonathan R. Welch says of the circumstances that led to his mother’s death.

Q&A

Mother’s death prompts doctor to critique her care
“When I landed the role, [Sarah Jessica Parker] sent me a very lovely note just kind of giving me her blessing and encouraging me,’’ says AnnaSophia Robb of playing the younger version of Carrie Bradshaw.

Filling big Manolos on ‘Carrie Diaries’
Going back to her days on the Boston Latin Academy track team, Annie Dookhan relentlessly pursued prestige.

Chasing renown on a path paved with lies
Bertil Hult, founder of EF Education First, in front of a piece of the Berlin Wall at the company’s Cambridge office. EF is doubling the size of its Cambridge campus.

Education First aims to bridge barriers
Dr. Gerard Hayes, who specializes in pulmonary and critical care, monitors patients remotely from the “e-ICU” command center in Westwood. Video screens show patients in Steward hospital intensive care units from Methuen to Fall River.

Steward reshapes Mass. health care business
Broadway tryouts could bring weeks of work to Boston theaters, the bill’s proponents say. But even some producers wonder if there is an audience here for so long a run.

Bill aims to woo Broadway-bound shows

Mystery surrounds ‘Side Effects’ and Soderbergh
Peter Catanese III started JustForJeeps.com out of his family’s auto dealership in Norwood.

On The job

Riding the ‘Jeep wave’
Professor Jonathan Garlick and his co-teacher, Lara Park, got into the groove at a recent class.

Tufts professor turns to rap to reach students
“Omnibus Paris,” from 1892, the first painting Anders Zorn sold in the US, was purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner, who became a patron of Zorn’s.

winter arts guide: art

Revisiting Anders Zorn at the Gardner

Sports

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Celtics 106, Clippers 104

Paul Pierce, being defended by the Clippers’ Matt Barnes, steps back and hits a clinching 3-pointer with 2.5 seconds remaining.

Celtics win fourth in a row without Rajon Rondo

The Celtics survived a late rally by the Clippers for a 106-104 win.

Metro

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Amanda DiBattista of Peabody saved by using the EBT discounted admission program offered by the Boston Children’s Museum to bring her daughter, Amelia, 6, on a visit.

Children’s Museum offers low-income discount

The discount program allows families on government subsidies to show their EBT cards and pay $2 for admission.

Columnists

Tina Fey has been both entertaining and inspirational.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Hillary, Tina, and girls like them

Adrian Walker

Seat may slip from Southie
Try as they might, the 49ers couldn’t contain MVP Joe Flacco, who threw for 287 yards and three touchdowns.

Dan Shaughnessy

Super Bowl was one of the greatest

Yvonne Abraham

Small ending, big results?

JOAN VENNOCHI

How Patrick is shaping the face of Mass.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived at the State Department in Washington on Sept. 12 to speak about the deaths of Americans in Libya.

Opinion | JEFF JACOBY

One of the greatest secretaries of state? Not Hillary Clinton
After reading to a kindergarten class at Linden School in Malden last February, Governor Deval Patrick sat in on a music lesson for a P.A.C.E. class (Practical Academic Community Education).

Opinion | JOANNA WEISS

Deval Patrick’s public school legacy
49ers coach Jim Harbaugh and Ravens coach John Harbaugh.

Dan Shaughnessy | Super Bowl XLVII Ravens vs. 49ers, 6:30 p.m.

Harbaughs make family history
Erika Murphy works at Enservio, a Needham company that creates software for the insurance industry.

Innovation Economy

Investment in enterprise firms is picking up

JOAN VENNOCHI

Despite loss, Brown taught Democrats a lesson

RENÉE LOTH

A path or a roadblock to citizenship?
Bill Parcells left the Patriots after coaching them to a loss in Super Bowl XXXI.

Dan Shaughnessy

Bill Parcells’ legacy with Patriots still strong

Nation & World

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Chris Kyle, fatally shot along with another man on a gun range, had devoted his life to helping struggling soldiers.

‘American Sniper’ author shot to death in Texas

Former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle was shot to death on a shooting range by a former soldier he was trying to assist.

Politics

Political Notebook

John Kerry also spoke with other heads of state from around the world.

John Kerry reaches out to Middle East leaders

The new secretary of state assuring them the Obama administration will continue to pursue a Middle East peace agreement.

Business

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The deal raises the minimum price at which Mexican tomatoes can be sold and strengthens enforcement of trade rules.

US, Mexico agree to end dispute over tomatoes

The deal raises the minimum price at which Mexican tomatoes can be sold and strengthens enforcement of trade rules.

Arts

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BOOK REVIEW

“Detroit” by Charlie LeDuff.

‘Detroit: An American Autopsy’ by Charlie LeDuff

The colossal struggles of Detroit have not been traced with half the aptly abrasive flair of LeDuff.

Health and wellness

Daily Dose

Can eating earlier help you lose weight?

Do the calories you consume earlier in the day cause you to put on less weight than those you consume later on?

Magazine

The cover for the February 3 2013 issue

Back Bay renovation
The cover for the January 27 2013 issue

Cambodian-Americans confronting deportation
The cover for the January 20 2013 issue

My friend Tito
The cover for the January 13 2013 issue

Alfresco fabulous

Opinion

“It turns out that the best theories about how to live are those with the least theorizing and the most flexibility. Just don’t think about it too much.”

Juliette Kayyem 

Ideas

“To rein prosecutors back in, these scholars argue, America should reinstate ordinary citizens to their rightful place in the process, and with them a common-sense vision of fairness.”

Leon Neyfakh on how to solve prosecutorial overreach 

“If you’re a kid in New Bedford and you had a beef with somebody, what do you do? You drive three hours to Maine to buy a gun.”

New Bedford Mayor Jonathan Mitchell