Energy pick’s ties to oil, gas examined
MIT professor Ernest Moniz’s history of straddling academia and the private sector is coming under fire after he was nominated to be secretary of energy.
So far, Senate special election race lacks pizazz
What the political world thought would be a barn-burning race has fizzled into a slumberous event.
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Pride and joy at Harvard after hoop upset
In their low-key way, alumni, students, and faculty are rejoicing in the basketball team’s NCAA Tournament win.
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Senate gives pre-dawn OK to Democratic budget
The Senate approved a $3.7 trillion budget for next year that has nearly $1 trillion in tax increases over the coming decade but shelters domestic programs.
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Boston far short of goal to shed 1 million pounds
Mayor Thomas Menino challenged Bostonians to lose a collective 1 million pounds by April 23. There’s only 904,303 to go.
Prison visitors irate about plan for drug-sniffing dogs
Families, civil libertarians, and prisoner advocates say the searches will discourage relatives from visiting loved ones in prison.
Suspension lifted for 5-year-old who brought toy gun to school
Hopkinton’s Jonah Stone had been given a half-day suspension, but toy guns are not covered by the current school handbook.
On College Hockey
BU’s Jack Parker to make Garden farewell
The Boston University hockey team came from two goals down to avoid an unacceptable ending to the coach’s 40-year career — a loss to archrival BC.
Gish Jen goes from novels to nonfiction
Since 1991, Jen has published four acclaimed novels and a prizewinning collection of short fiction, and now she has her first nonfiction work, “Tiger Writing.”
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Sports
Mavericks 104, Celtics 94
Celtics lose third straight
The Mavericks took advantage of every Celtic mistake and never trailed.
Metro
Lawyer for nanny held in baby death seeks reduced bail
The lawyer said Aisling Brady is wrongly accused and has been held in custody more than two months without being charged.
Columnists
Nation & World
Punxsutawney Phil ‘indicted’ over spring forecast
Authorities in still-frigid Ohio have issued an ‘‘indictment,” charging the rodent with misrepresentation of spring.
Politics
Senate reaches first budget in four years
After hectoring Democrats to put their political and fiscal priorities to paper, Republicans got their wish Friday and answered the effort with hundreds of amendments.
Business
PAX East packs gamers in on first day of show
This weekend Boston is the center of the video gaming universe and host to some 70,000 enthusiasts — some dressed in costumes.
Arts
Book Review
‘Margaret Fuller’ by Megan Marshall
Margaret Fuller, so often misunderstood in life, richly deserves the nuanced, compassionate portrait Marshall paints.
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Video tips with Dina Rudick
Video tips with Dina RudickAttend a session on photography and videography with the host of BostonGlobe.com’s “Back Story” series.