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Timothy Murray broke state law, regulators say

Regulators have asked the attorney general to conduct a criminal probe after concluding the lieutenant governor violated campaign finance laws on political donations.

Russ Caswell who, with his wife, Pat, are the second generation owners of Motel Caswell in Tewksbury, are awaiting the decision of a federal judge, who will determine whether law enforcement agencies can seize the motel from the Caswells, who have never charged with a crime, due to drug activity that has occurred there. JOSH REYNOLDS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE (Regional, Marcia Dick)

Judge declines to seize Tewksbury motel

A federal judge has rejected law enforcement officials’ attempt to seize a motel due to drug activity that had taken place there.

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At his confirmation hearing for secretary of state, John Kerry talked about the “monumental transformation” in the wake of the Arab Spring.

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Ex-officer reportedly attempted suicide before driving at police

The wife of the Bridgewater man wrestled a shotgun away from him after finding him with it pointed in his mouth, officials said.

From left: Billy Connolly, Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, and Pauline Collins star in “Quartet.”

Kerry Brown

Friday preview | Movie Review

A noteworthy cast lifts Hoffman’s ‘Quartet’

Directed by a first-timer named Dustin Hoffman, the movie gives its actors and story line space to breathe, make mistakes, and forge connections.

Dec. 28, 1963: E. Virginia Williams, founder of the Boston Ballet School, directed practice at her studio on Massachusetts Avenue in Boston. A Ford Foundation grant of $144,000 given to the Boston Ballet School several weeks earlier created Boston’s first and only professional ballet company.

From the Archives | Photo gallery

The Boston Ballet

Dancers took to the stage at the John Hancock Hall on January 25, 1965, to present a program that included Apollo by George Balanchine.

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The Red Sox icon is expected to help GM Ben Cherington improve scouting and the development of pitching.

Coakley, Grossman endorse Markey for Senate

The endorsements solidify establishment support behind Representative Edward Markey as other would-be challengers consider running.

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Globe subscribers will get a firsthand look at the “68 Blocks” special project from the journalists who created the series.

Globe exclusives

Facebook is testing a service called Graph Search, which may help it compete with Google Plus social network.

Tech Lab

With new Facebook search, there’s nowhere to hide
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill Wednesday.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Clinton’s reality check
Tom Brady, of course, will still be the on-field leader for the Patriots, but which players will have his back next time around?

Patriots face many questions for 2013 team
Flowers for the parents of Rehma Sabir were left in the entryway of their apartment building in Cambridge.

Older injuries raise questions for nanny

Yvonne Abraham

A parent’s child-care nightmare
Ryan Andaluz dined at the Panera Cares cafe in Government Center on opening day. Patrons pay what they can afford at the cafe.

Panera opens nonprofit Hub cafe
Michael E. McLaughlin

McLaughlin charged in hiding of pay
The Christian Science Plaza.

Two towers to rise next to Christian Science site

Jon Napoli taught a

With medical marijuana legalized, a grow-your-own effort

Patrick would bolster pharmacy oversight
Copa Airlines’ Panama City hub. Passengers will be able to connect from there to popular cities including San Jose, Guatemala City, and Sao Paolo.

Copa Airlines’ Boston-Panama flight opens up Latin America

Cooking up a connection

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On basketball

Paul Pierce and the Celtics went 20-21 in the first half of the NBA schedule.

Disintegrating Celtics must step up now

Even with a 20-21 record, the Celtics can still be a factor in the East, but first they have to decide if they still want to be a good team.

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An arctic blast continues to hit Boston with below-zero wind chills.

Deep freeze continues in Mass.

Wintry blasts have sent wind chills to bone-rattling lows.

Columnists

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Invest in Massachusetts, but don’t play Robin Hood
Bill Belichick now must contemplate what his 2013 roster will look like.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots must change ways and personnel
Beyonce performed at President Obama’s second inauguration.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Unlike Beyonce, Hillary faces the music
Facebook is testing a service called Graph Search, which may help it compete with Google Plus social network.

Tech Lab

With new Facebook search, there’s nowhere to hide

Yvonne Abraham

A parent’s child-care nightmare
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill Wednesday.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Clinton’s reality check

scot lehigh

Obama must take his case to the people

Adrian Walker

Patrick’s call to pay for the future

Kevin Cullen

Antibullying idea clicks
The Ravens celebrated after stopping Patriots quarterback Tom Brady on a critical fourth-down play late in Sunday’s contest.

Dan Shaughnessy

An abrupt end for the Patriots
A girl played near a UN armored vehicle belonging to Jordanian peacekeepers at slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

farah stockman

Outsourcing peace
Sean Penn is Mickey Cohen in the new film “Gangster Squad.”

JOANNA WEISS

Hollywood and its gun fetish

Nation & World

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cretary of Defense Leon Panetta and General Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announcd the lifting of the ban on women serving in front line combat roles.

Panetta officially lifts ban on women in combat

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that while not everyone is qualified to be a combat soldier, everyone is entitled to the chance.

Politics

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

Bay staters John Quincy Adams (1817- 1825) and Christian Herter (1959- 1961) served as secretaries of state.

Kerry appointment would revive Bay State connection

So here’s a trivia question: how many secretaries of state have political roots in Massachusetts?

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The median sale price of single-family homes in Massachusetts rose more than 12 percent in December.

Mass. single-family home prices rose 18% last year

The median sale price rose to $300,000 in December, another sign that the state’s housing market may be on the mend.

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Book Review

Rosie Schaap, author of

‘Drinking With Men’ by Rosie Schaap

Rosie Schaap’s memoir “Drinking With Men,’’ blends her accounts of growing up as a woman and a drinker.

Style

First lady Michelle Obama.

Should you start 2013 with a bang?

Not long after Kate Middleton was caught with side bangs, Michelle Obama debuted bangs of her own, and celebs like Jennifer Lawrence and Kerry Washington continue to rock fringe like champs.

Magazine

The cover for the January 20 2013 issue

My friend Tito
The cover for the January 13 2013 issue

Alfresco fabulous
The cover for the January 6 2013 issue

Best Boston Globe photos of the year, 2012
The cover for the December 23 2012 issue

Bostonians of the Year: Raisman and Harrison

Opinion

“The threat of outmigration may explain why state and local taxes, in Massachusetts and elsewhere, are generally regressive.”

Edward L. Glaeser 

Ideas

“With just a few exceptions, the majority of gun deaths in the United States have been self-inflicted every year since at least 1920.”

Leon Neyfakh on the gun toll we’re ignoring 

“Now you don’t have to say [hydroponics are] just for growing tomatoes.”

Jonathan Napoli owner of Boston Gardener and The Hempest, about his medical marijuana growing classes.