Snow begins falling as storm enters region

A potentially historic storm could bring up to 3 feet of snow and hurricane-strength wind gusts that will lash the coast.

People walked along Ocean Side Drive in Scituate as snow began to fall this morning.

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People walked along Ocean Side Drive in Scituate as snow began to fall this morning.

Travelers lined up to catch flights out of Logan Airport Friday morning.

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Travelers lined up to catch flights out of Logan Airport Friday morning.

Cars were stuck in traffic in Newington, N.H., as the winter storm arrived Friday morning.

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Cars were stuck in traffic in Newington, N.H., as the winter storm arrived Friday morning.

A sign warned motorists of the impending storm on the Southeast Expressway early Friday.

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A sign warned motorists of the impending storm on the Southeast Expressway early Friday.

Jack Percoco of Cambridge reached into depleted shelves for milk at a supermarket in Somerville.

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Jack Percoco of Cambridge reached into depleted shelves for milk at a supermarket in Somerville.

The storm system approached the Northeast Friday morning.

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The storm system approached the Northeast Friday morning.

Snow began falling Friday morning in New York City.

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Snow began falling Friday morning in New York City.

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Kevin Cullen

Whitey Bulger’s wily ways

If I were Whitey, I would think I had immunity, too. Whitey’s problem is the immunity was in his head.

Calle Cronk (center), who spends much of her time undergoing medical tests, enjoyed a recent dance class.

5-year-old Calle Cronk, her family fight rare illness

Calle’s parents have raised $100,000 to support an ambitious clinical trial that aims to cure a disease that has spawned a tumor in her brain.

Kobe Bryant (right) was sitting late, coach Mike D’Antoni (second from left) sparing him the indignity of a blowout.

Christopher L. Gasper

Celtics, Lakers at opposite ends of the court

The two flagship franchises of the NBA share a pedigree and a rivalry, but that’s all they have in common right now.

Boston school chief knew of investigation of headmaster

Carol R. Johnson has known since November that Queon Jackson was part of a US Secret Service fraud probe, but she took no action because officials swore her office to secrecy.

Mass. to lower cap on emissions by power plants

Massachusetts and eight other states are slashing by nearly half the amount of carbon dioxide power plants are allowed to emit.

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The Boston area was surprised by the Valentine’s Day Blizzard of 1940, which left cars and people stranded overnight, and 31 New Englanders dead.

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Mike Eruzione is selling all of his 1980 Olympic memorabilia but his gold medal and his ring to benefit his family and a local charity.

Mike Eruzione selling his Olympic memories

Guest conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi led the Boston Symphony Orchestra and French violinist Renaud Capucon on Thursday night.

Music Review

Dohnanyi back with a well-crafted program at BSO
A third party recently conducted a focus group on behalf of WEEI, asking questions about personalities such as John Dennis, and Gerry Callahan.

Sports media

WEEI convenes focus group of Sport Hub listeners
Franklin Evans’s installation “paintthinks” in “PAINT THINGS” at the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park.

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‘PAINT THINGS’ is off the wall
M.C. Schmidt (left) and Drew Daniel make up the electronic band Matmos.

Matmos play mind games on new album
Neal Ferreira, David McFerrin, Samuel Levine, Christine Abraham, and David Kravitz in “Clemency.’’

Opera Review

BLO’s Opera Annex premieres MacMillan’s ‘Clemency’
Students walked out in protest at Madison Park Vocational Technical High School in Roxbury after headmaster Queon Jackson was placed on leave.

Madison Park students walk out to support acting headmaster

Having it all ... wrong
Dr. Carol Warfield (second from left) is flanked by attorneys (from left) Ellen Zucker, Laura Studen, and Lynn Norton.

Doctor gets $7m in gender bias suit
Receiving the highest marks for their play this season were: Tom Brady (left), who had the lowest interception rate in the league; Vince Wilfork (center), who did it all along the defensive line; and Jerod Mayo, who improved all his impact numbers.

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Councilor Matt O’Malley (left) promotes Boston’s water. He wants to add fountains, all of which would work in winter too.

Councilor touts year-round outdoor drinking fountains

Yvonne Abraham

Marty Walz a loss on Beacon Hill

Sports

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Celtics 116, Lakers 95

Paul Pierce lets it out after hitting a 3-pointer to give the Celtics a 95-69 lead in the third quarter.

Celtics take Lakers by storm

Paul Pierce led the onslaught with 24 points and Kevin Garnett scored 15 as the Celtics butchered their archrivals.

Metro

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The new reports detail efforts by the government to trace 29 weapons that the FBI found stuffed in the walls and bookshelves in the Santa Monica, Calif., apartment where he was captured in June 2011.

US traces, tells of Whitey Bulger’s arsenal on the run

James “Whitey” Bulger bought at least 15 handguns and a shotgun while he was a fugitive, purchasing from private sellers, according to reports.

Columnists

SCOT LEHIGH

Patrick’s tax-and-spending plan too ambitious

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Grief doesn’t have a timeline

Kevin Cullen

Whitey Bulger’s wily ways

Kobe Bryant (right) was sitting late, coach Mike D’Antoni (second from left) sparing him the indignity of a blowout.

Christopher L. Gasper

Celtics, Lakers at opposite ends of the court
The Superdome in New Orleans was darkened during a power outage in the third quarter of the Super Bowl Sunday.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

‘Frank, we lost the A feed’

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Boston’s plague of cheap parking

Yvonne Abraham

Marty Walz a loss on Beacon Hill
The Surface with Windows 8 Pro, is a full-fledged Windows laptop crammed into a sleek black touchscreen tablet.

Tech Lab

Microsoft’s tablet laptop-hybrid misses the mark
US Attorney Carmen Ortiz spoke at a news conference in Boston Jan. 17 regarding her office's case against Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz.

JOAN VENNOCHI

The fallout for Carmen Ortiz

Adrian Walker

Roxcomp missed payday

JEFF JACOBY

A guaranteed flop for Mass.
State Representative Dan Winslow talked with bank officials last March during a meeting at the Wrentham Co-operative Bank.

SCOT LEHIGH

Finally, Mass. GOP has some likely candidates

Nation & World

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Mountain manhunt for ex-cop accused of killing 3

A fired police officer who threatened to bring ‘‘warfare’’ to the Los Angeles Police Department set off a manhunt Thursday.

Politics

Protesters disrupted the Senate hearing on John O. Brennan’s nomination as CIA chief.

John Brennan is grilled on drones

Brennan came under unexpectedly intense questioning about drone strikes, information leaks, and the CIA’s former interrogation program.

Business

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A second act, banker style, for former Sovereign CEO

Jay Sidhu, pushed out as chief executive of Sovereign Bancorp in 2006, could be making a New England comeback.

Arts

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Art Review

“Solomon Enthroned,” a folio from a 16th-century manuscript of the “Shahnama” (“Book of Kings”), from the “In Harmony” exhibit of Islamic art at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum.

The appeal of the Persianate

The beguiled collection of Islamic art the late Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood donated to Harvard University is on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum.

Movies

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Movie Review

Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum as a troubled married couple in Steven Soderbergh’s “Side Effects.”

Sex, lies, and prescription drugs in ‘Side Effects’

Director Steven Soderbergh’s puzzle of a murder mystery is a challenge and a delight.

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South End remodel: Rear window
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New England traditional, with a twist
The cover for the January 20 2013 issue

My friend Tito
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Alfresco fabulous

Opinion

“As he looks to his legacy, Patrick has offered a plan that’s clearly too ambitious for these times.”

Scot Lehigh 

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 

“This is supposed to be quite a damaging storm. It’s very important for customers to be prepared for widespread, prolonged power outages.”

Deborah Drew,  a spokeswoman for National Grid