Dan Shaughnessy

Patriots ride LeGarrette Blount to AFC title game
LeGarrette Blount scored three touchdowns in the first half of the game. With his fourth, he set a postseason team record.

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Blount ran for four touchdowns against the Colts, including a fourth-quarter 73-yard burst up the gut that broke the game open.

Patriots 43, Colts 22

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The Patriots advance to the AFC Championship game for the third straight season, and await the winner of Sunday’s Chargers-Broncos matchup.

On Football

Patriots relying heavily on balanced running attack

The strength of this team is the three-headed monster at running back of LeGarrette Blount, Stevan Ridley, and Shane Vereen.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots forcing teams to beat themselves

The Patriots pounded the Colts into submission and 2013 extinction with pragmatic play that is suited for the vagaries of the postseason.

Maria Carrasquillo, who was the UNH campus coordinator for the Obama campaign in 2012, said students are stepping back. “What we wanted to happen hasn’t happened.”

Obama’s grip on younger voters slips

Surveys show that the electorate’s newest generation is disappointed by government’s performance.

Bridge Over Troubled Waters’ shelter in Boston focuses on helping young adults such as Anthony Rodrigues, 20.

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More young adults call streets of Boston home

The contrast is stark in a changing downtown booming with pricey condos, boutique hotels, and upscale eateries.

In October, Olga Roche became the permanent chief of DCF.

DCF chief tries to right agency as scrutiny grows

Advocates say the problems plaguing the Department of Children and Families may be too massive and longstanding for Olga Roche to fix.

Melvin Miller and the Bay State Banner celebrated the paper’s 40th anniversary in 2005.

Should Boston have bailed out the Bay State Banner?

In 2009, the city made $200,000 in loans to save the troubled newspaper. Four years and only one payment later, was it the right thing to do?

Opinion

Opinion | TOM KEANE

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Can Mayor Marty Walsh beat Tom Menino’s record of 20 years in office?

Globe exclusives

Jim Lambie cut the shape of a hugely magnified eyelash out of aluminum for “Blue Monday.”

Art Review

Body of work, full of associations

Scarlett Johansson was the Siri-like voice of an operating system in “Her.”

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Superlative roles that won’t win Oscars
Flavio Sutti, wildlife care manager at Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm, readied for cold weather by moving animals, like this kestrel, to indoor cages.

On the Job

He works for wildlife’s well-being
The village architecture at Sun Peaks Ski Resort is in the style of the southern Alps.

Travel

Sun Peaks is a great place for family fun
Students from Roxbury’s Orchard Gardens school, which has dramatically improved since arts were reintroduced, painted portraits in memory of community activist and Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance employee Edna Viola Bynoe.

opinion | Jon Garelick

Arts in education
Justina Pelletier has been at Boston Children’s Hospital for almost a year.

Teen in custody battle to be moved
Hiawatha Bray was enamored with the Oculus Rift virtual reality goggles.

Hiawatha Bray

CES 2014 offers a feast of consumer electronics
Stephen Colbert is scheduled to be a keynote speaker at RSA’s upcoming annual conference.

Digital activists pressure Colbert to skip RSA Conference
Patricia Campatelli was sworn in as register of probate by Paula M. Carey on Jan. 2, 2013.

After this holiday party, talk was of ‘punch’
Wellesley designer Yumi Barnett-Nakamura has worked with Harvard student Christina Gao.

US Figure Skating Championships

Rink becomes runway for female skaters
Herb and Dorothy Vogel in the documentary “Herb & Dorothy 50X50.”

Bowdoin receives a major gift from Vogels
The Northeast Passage Wildcats between periods of their sled hockey game against the New Jersey Freeze at the Newington (Conn.) Ice Arena. The Wildcats won, 4-0.

Their shot at winning

Sports

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Bruins 1, Sharks 0

On the strength of Carl Soderberg’s late goal, the Bruins earned a 1-0 win at the SAP Center, allowing for a much more pleasant plane ride back to Boston on Sunday.

Carl Soderberg lifts Bruins over Sharks

Soderberg got his sixth goal of the season as the Bruins earned a 1-0 win at the SAP Center.

Metro

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Sam Berns with his parents, Scott Berns and Leslie Gordon.

Foxborough teen who battled progeria dies

Sam Berns’s battle with progeria inspired a monumental effort to treat the rare “accelerated aging” disease.

Columnists

Mayor Martin J. Walsh hammered nails into a gable wall while participating in a Habitat for Humanity project on Saturday.

Yvonne Abraham

A solid first week for Marty Walsh
City councilors Ayanna Pressley, left, and Michelle Wu are sworn in Jan. 6.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Michelle Wu talks of change, votes otherwise
Thermo Fisher Scientific’s TruNarc is a hand-held device that analyzes narcotics. It is being used in 17 countries, by police, customs, and border patrol officers. The Quincy Police Department has three of them.

Innovation Economy

Thermo Fisher thinks smaller

JOANNA WEISS

In child welfare agencies, small solutions work

Bob Ryan

Problem is with PEDs, not voting process
LeGarrette Blount scored three touchdowns in the first half of the game. With his fourth, he set a postseason team record.

Dan Shaughnessy

Patriots ride Blount to AFC title game

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots force teams to beat themselves
The Saratoga Springs History Museum occupies an 1800s building once billed as the finest casino in the world.

JOAN WICKERSHAM

The ghosts of casinos past
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie spoke during a news conference Thursday at the Statehouse in Trenton.

SCOT LEHIGH

Will Chris Christie be a slow fade?
Danny Amendola (above) was supposed to fill the slot of Wes Welker, but it didn’t work out that way.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

Time for Danny Amendola to shine now
Eugene O’Flaherty was tapped to be Boston’s lead attorney.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Red flags in Walsh’s picks for key jobs

Yvonne Abraham

Still speaking up for his sister

Nation & World

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Mourning Israelis gathered at the farm of Ariel Sharon on Saturday in Sderot.

Death of Ariel Sharon elicits mourning, joy

The nation — and the world — grappled with the mixed legacy of one of Israel’s most influential leaders.

Politics

The congressional push comes as President Obama and his Cabinet draw attention to the issue of mandatory sentences, particularly for nonviolent drug offenders

Sentencing laws draw attention in Congress

An unusual alliance of Tea Party enthusiasts and liberal leaders is pursuing major changes in the country’s mandatory sentencing laws.

Business

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Aleta Moncecchi (right) kept in touch with Mindy Shoestock over the years. And when a position opened up at Berkshire Community Action Council, she persuaded her supervisor to hire Shoestock.

Temp job and a friend’s help offer new hope

Aleta Moncecchi saw beyond Mindy Shoestock’s missteps and poverty, helping her land a job at the Berkshire Community Action Council.

Arts

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Critic’s Notebook

John Kuntz in “The Salt Girl.”

Actor-playwrights are a force in local theater

These multitasking hyphenates are an especially welcome presence in the theater just now.

Travel

Brava Beach gets its nickname “Beach of the Fingers” from the sculpture of cement fingers seeming to rise from under the sand.

A beach tour of Uruguay

A flurry of resort and condo building reflects Punta del Este’s ambition to bolster its cachet as a vacation spot for jet-setters.

Books

New England writers at work

Geraldine Brooks finds a warm sunny spot to work in her room.

How Geraldine Brooks’s characters emerge

The Australian-born writer and her husband, writer Tony Horowitz, live on the Vineyard with two children, two dogs, and a horse.

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From the Archives | photo gallery

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Amid images of enthusiasm and devotion, signs of frustration are also seen among Patriots fans throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

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The revolt of the unpaid intern
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Charmed, I’m sure
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2013 Bostonians of the Year
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The best Boston Globe photos of 2013

Ideas

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A new wave of thinkers says yes — and is looking to Scripture for support.