State health officials press marijuana winners

State health regulators ordered companies that received marijuana dispensary licenses to submit sworn statements that their applications were truthful.

Comcast to acquire Time Warner Cable for $44 billion

The deal would combine the two biggest US television cable operators and would shift the country’s media landscape.

Success of gun buyback programs is debated

Gun buybacks often bring in a impressive stockpile of firearms, but not the ones sought by law enforcement.

Nearly 9,000 state workers earned at least $100,000

About 8,850 state employees earned more than $100,000 last year, a significant increase from 2012, according to a Globe analysis of public payroll records.

Spurs point guard Shannon Brown went up for two points in the third period.

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spurs 104, celtics 92

Celtics can’t keep up with Spurs in fourth quarter

The Celtics stayed close in the second and third quarters, but couldn’t keep pace with the Spurs in the game’s home stretch.

Bob Boehm of Lowell dons his hat adorned with Olympic pins that he wears to Olympic Games and collector shows. Boehm has accumulated some 5,000 pins and other Olympic memorabilia over the past 40 years.  The map on the wall marks the 13 Olympic Games that he has attended. He did not go to Sochi as he had planned due to personal reasons.

Dedicated collectors trade Olympic pins — and memories

Olympic pin collectors hope to take home a different kind of metal at Sochi.

2014 winter olympics

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/02/12/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/04072203.jpg Davis looks ahead after 8th-place finish in 1,000 meters

Shani Davis, the two-time defending champion and world record-holder at 1,000 meters, will race in the 1,500-meter Saturday.

Snow plows cleared a highway in Atlanta on Wednesday.

Southeast is struck by another winter storm

Nearly 500,000 homes and businesses were without power, and at least nine traffic deaths were linked to the storm.

Opinion

JEFF JACOBY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/02/12/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/jacoby-1422.jpg Death for Tsarnaev is a matter of justice

The death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is appropriate, even with the risk that he might become a martyr.