Eastern Mass. could get 12 inches of snow

The heaviest snowfall will kick in around 6 p.m. and continue until midnight, according to the National Weather Service.

John Farrell spoke with reporters as spring training began in Fort Myers, Fla.

Farrell doesn’t want Drew situation to linger for Red Sox

John Farrell said the Red Sox remain in contact with Stephen Drew’s agent.

UAW falls short in effort to unionize at Tenn. plant

Auto workers at a Volkswagen plant rejected efforts to be the first workers to organize at a foreign-owned plant in the South.

US bobsled pilot Steve Holcomb is vying for a second gold medal.

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Bobsled driver Steve Holcomb goes for second gold

Holcomb won gold four years ago in four-man bobsled, and is hoping for the first US win in two-man bobsled since 1936.

T.J. Oshie scored four goals in the shooutout.

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US defeats Russia in shootout

T.J. Oshie scored four times in the shootout and got the winner in the eighth round as the US won in a preliminary-round game.

Shani Davis, left, raced against Zbigniew Brodka of Poland, who won the gold.

Shani Davis disappoints, US medal drought continues in speedskating

Davis, who was silver medalist in the 1,500 in the previous two Olympics, finished 11th. Zbigniew Brodka of Poland won the gold.

Opinion

Derrick Z. Jackson

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The US attorney general has spent the past several months restoring compassion and sanity to criminal justice.

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Colin Farrell and Jessica Brown Findlay (top) as Gilded Age mansion burglar and resident, and Eva Marie Saint (above) as an acquaintance Farrell runs into in modern day.

‘Winter’s Tale’ fails to go with flow of Mark Helprin novel

Writer-director Akiva Goldsman takes Helprin’s book — a work overflowing with events, ideas, characters, passions — and pounds away at it until it’s mush.