WENDY VON ZIRPOLO
Hundreds awaiting deportation have been kept for months or years, often on what critics say are shaky legal grounds.
The Pentagon is exploring a novel way to extend troops’ attention spans: stimulate the brain with low levels of electricity.
Districts have started fingerprinting employees and forwarding the information to the FBI for national background checks.
With snow piles growing, many residents and business owners have a hard time keeping pace with shoveling.
JESSICA RINALDI FOR THE GLOBE
Representative Joseph Kennedy III is a man playing the long game, still figuring out his mission.
Traffic radio station prefers humans to high techThe Internet radio station J4Traffic brings traffic reports straight from the commuters.
Dan shaughnessy
One aborted trade changed Jon Lester’s futureThe Red Sox ace, then only two years out of high school, was included in a deal that would have sent A-Rod to Boston for Manny Ramirez.
Alex Deibold captures snowboardcross bronzePierre Vaultier of France won gold, while the American grabbed bronze after narrowly edging teammate Trevor Jacob in the semifinals.
TOM KEANE
Is college worth it? Jobs of the future will require greater skills, but not necessarily a degree.
The league has more than its usual share of rebuilding squads hunting for assets to help get them back on their feet.
Professional developers sat across the table in a classroom inside the Fenway exam school, judging six student proposals.
A Russian human rights activist says two members of the band have been detained near the Olympics in downtown Sochi.
Older Americans hurt by the recession have emerged as early winners under the nation’s new insurance law.
Residents in retraining programs have had their benefits cut off or delayed by another defect in the state’s troubled computer system.
Easter Quillby is the tough, self-sufficient 12-year-old heartbeat of Wiley Cash’s feel-good thriller.
Globe Talks
A conversation with Neil SwideySwidey discusses his new book “Trapped Under the Sea” with Harvard’s Amy Edmondson on Feb. 24.
For pregnant women, two sets of rights in one bodyA new wave of fetal-protection measures creates a collision in American law — and exposes a moral conundrum.
