Lynch’s health care vote at issue in Senate campaign

US Representative Stephen F. Lynch’s opposition to the Affordable Care Act remains one of the better known moments of his career.

A Japanese helmet in the form of a conch shell is one of the items on display.

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Higgins Armory Museum to close

The museum, the only one in the country devoted solely to arms and armor, will give its collection to the Worcester Art Museum.

Nathaniel Fujita was sentenced to life in prison without parole by Middlesex Superior Court Judge Peter Lauriat. “I am Lauren Dunne Astley’s mother. But never again will I be called mom, or mommy or mother,” said Mary Dunne, below left, with Lauren’s father, Malcolm Astley.

Nathaniel Fujita found guilty in Wayland murder

Fujita, 20, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing his former high school girlfriend, Lauren Astley, in 2011.

Kentucky forward Nerlens Noel grimmaced in pain after he injured his knee during a basketball game in February.

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Injury revives NBA age feud

Everett native Nerlens Noel’s injury at Kentucky rekindled a national debate about the NBA’s eligibility rule.

Thomas J. May

AG wants utility chief’s pay revealed

Martha Coakley called to eliminate the reporting technicality that allowed Northeast Utilities to withhold a full accounting of Thomas J. May’s pay in 2012.

Kevin Cullen

Bill Bratton is America’s most wanted

Bratton, a Dorchester boy made good, has led New York and LA police. Could a top US post or job in London be next?

The headstone of Mary Paine, who died Dec. 31, 1713, at 15 months old, was discovered by Roland McCandlish during a 1955 tour of Copp’s Hill Burying Ground in the North End of Boston.

300-year-old headstone returned

The sailor who took the stone in 1955 sees his act as rescuing it from the North End toolshed where he found it.

Dan Shaughnessy

Maryland was the best to not make NCAAs

The 1974 Terrapins, ranked fourth with six NBA draft picks on the team, didn’t make the tournament.

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SCOT LEHIGH

Charter school results too good to ignore
Television personality Regis Philbin, left, and Michael Strahan attend the Fox Sports Media Upfront party celebrating the new Fox Sports 1 network on Tuesday.

Sports Media

Fox Sports 1 hopes to challenge ESPN
“Work 0808,” a glazed stoneware piece by Harumi Nakashima, from “New Blue and White” at the Museum of Fine Arts.

Art Review

‘New Blue and White’ at the MFA
Arnel Pineda performs with Journey in a scene from the documentary “Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey.”

MOVIE REVIEW

Born and raised in south . . . Manila?
Stephanie Hunt (left) and Megan Mullally are Nancy and Beth, a band the two actresses only recently formed.

Megan Mullally takes it on the road with Nancy and Beth
The 2013 film “Oz: The Great and Powerful,” directed by Sam Raimi.

Movie review

‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ never finds its groove
Logan airport on Feb. 10, after the blizzard.

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Funds up in the air
June 13, 1926: The play of light on the marble of the grand staircase lead one up to the twin lions on pedestals at the turn of the stairs. The lions were made from unpolished Siena marble by sculptor Louis Saint-Gaudens. They are memorials to the Second and Twentieth Massachusetts Civil War infantry regiments.

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Names

Overcrowded RH party still talk on the town
Kayvan Khalatbari, who runs a dispensary, has branched out into medical marijuana business consulting.

Medical marijuana firms eye Mass.

Former House speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi with his wife, Debbie, in Boston.

Imprisoned DiMasi weak with cancer, wife says
Thomas J. May of Westwood, chief executive of Northeast Utilities.

Northeast Utilities won’t reveal chief’s full pay

Sports

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Bruins 4, Maple Leafs 2

The scorching line of Brad Marchand, Patrice Bergeron, and Tyler Seguin punched in three of the Bruins’ four goals.

Bruins stop skid with win over Leafs

The scorching line of Brad Marchand, Patrice Bergeron, and Tyler Seguin punched in three of the Bruins’ four goals.

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More than 150 parents and students attended a public meeting on Thursday.

Parents sound off on school plan

At public meeting some parents said the proposed new assignment system would not resolve problems.

Columnists

JOAN WICKERSHAM

The children of ‘1984’

SCOT LEHIGH

Charter school results too good to ignore

JOAN VENNOCHI

With Cahill, a good law and a weak case

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Chavez death creates risk, opportunity
Mitt Romney told Chris Wallace, “It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.”

SCOT LEHIGH

Romney’s look back
Red Sox starter Clay Buchholz is seeking a return to his 2010 form — a 17-7 record and 2.33 ERA.

Christopher L. Gasper

Now must be Clay Buchholz’s time to shine
A man carried a bucket filled with waste to be discarded, in a slum area in Port-au-Prince in this Dec. 17, 2012, photo. The country is fighting a cholera epidemic in the wake of the January 2010 earthquake.

Adrian Walker

From Andrew Square, taking on the UN for Haiti
Is Jackie Bradley Jr. ready for his closeup as a major leaguer? Maybe not, but he is creating a lot of buzz in Red Sox camp.

Christopher L. Gasper

Is Jackie Bradley Jr. ready for Boston?

JEFF JACOBY

English language unites Americans
Jose Iglesias

Christopher L. Gasper

Will Iglesias still have a place with Red Sox?
A family walked past a campaign billboard for presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate, William Ruto, on the outskirts of Nairobi on Feb. 26.

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Dan Shaughnessy

Dan Shaughnessy’s random sports thoughts

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Hugo Chavez’s brother Adan, mother, Elena Frias, and father, Hugo, viewed his body in Caracas Thursday.

Thousands flock to say goodbye to Chavez

The lines, steeped in loyalty and grief, started Wednesday and stretched through the night at a military academy Hugo Chavez attended.

Politics

John Brennan is a former CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia and has served as President Obama’s principal counterterrorism adviser for the past four years.

Senate confirms Brennan to CIA

The Senate, nudged off its axis by Senator Rand Paul’s 13-hour filibuster about threats from the nation’s drone policy, voted to confirm John Brennan as CIA director.

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New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning was expected to join Reebok’s announcement event on Friday in Washington.

Reebok plans $30m gift to aid youth fitness

Reebok International Ltd., the Canton athletic shoe and apparel maker, will donate $30 million over three years to a kids’ fittness nonprofit.

Arts

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BLO music director David Angus will be joined by Caroline Worra, John Tessier, Emily Hindrichs, and Sarah Coburn for performances in the upcoming season.

Boston Lyric Opera announces new season

The 2013-14 season will feature new productions of four operas: Mozart’s “Magic Flute,” Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” Bellini’s “I Puritani,” and Jack Beeson’s “Lizzie Borden.”

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MOVIE REVIEW

Noomi Rapace and Colin Farrell costar in “Dead Man Down.”

‘Dead Man Down’ has its loopy charms

Niels Arden Oplev’s film is a violent crime thriller that has its melodramatic charms before the story gets stupid.

Magazine

The cover for the March 3 2013 issue

Getting through to your kids in the digital age
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James ‘Whitey’ Bulger & Catherine Greig’s story
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A trip to Rio de Janeiro, without leaving Boston
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Change on the Mystic

Opinion

“This state’s charter school results have become too compelling for policymakers truly concerned about education to ignore.”

Scot Lehigh 

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Ideas

“To proponents of this speculative new field, understanding the legal status of robots is key to how we want society to work once humans are no longer the only ones making important decisions.”

Leon Neyfakh on robot law