Health licensing boards voted without quorums

A state audit found four boards met without enough members present, casting a legal cloud over numerous votes.

Thousands still without power across the region

Power was out for 37,000 customers in New Hampshire, 3,000 in Maine, and about 1,400 in Massachusetts, officials said.

The studies will attempt to measure the local effects of casinos, including the slots parlor at Plainridge Park.

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State to study impact of new casinos

The studies will test if new casinos affect problem gambling in the population, as well as if they lead to societal woes.

Members of the Missouri National Guard stood guard outside the Ferguson, Mo., police headquarters on Friday.

15 arrested in latest Ferguson protests

Demonstrators also temporarily shut down three large St. Louis-area malls on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

Two shot, one fatally, in Chicago Nordstrom

A man is dead and a woman is critically injured after an alleged domestic-related shooting inside the store.

Unless the issue is resolved over the next day or so, local FiOS subscribers also will miss Sunday?s New Orleans Saints vs. Pittsburgh Steelers game on Fox 25.

Verizon-Cox standoff over Fox 25 continues

A blackout of Fox 25 continued for 400,000 Mass. FiOS customers as the companies fight over carrying fees.

Boston University president Robert Brown.

BU fights City Council?s summons for president

The university argues that the summons is ?an undue burden, is oppressive, and was intended to harass? school president Robert Brown.

Simmons College seeks charges against former employee

The employee, who was fired over the summer, is accused of misappropriating student funds for her own use.

Cast and crew from ?Tumbledown? took over a street in downtown Concord while filming an outdoor scene in April.

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Suburban businesses cash in when Hollywood comes to town

In many ways, film production helps small businesses and tourism in suburbs ranging from Lincoln to Quincy to Saugus.

Patriots linebacker Akeem Ayers has logged nearly three-fourths of the defensive snaps over the last four games.

Newest Patriots linebackers relish chance to contribute

Akeem Ayers and Jonathan Casillas have seen their playing time rise significantly since joining the team.

Ray Rice and his wife, Janay, attended a two-day appeal hearing of his indefinite suspension from the NFL in New York.

Ray Rice didn?t mislead NFL, ruling states

The independent arbitrator said Rice didn?t lie to league officials during a June 16 meeting about his assault case.

Governor-elect Charlie Baker.

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Charlie Baker?s big choice: Whose portrait?

By tradition, each incoming governor chooses the portrait of a predecessor to hang in the corner office.

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The Bidens spend Thanksgiving on Nantucket

Vice President Joe Biden made an appearance at the Nantucket Atheneum?s annual Cold Turkey Plunge.

Movie reviews

Channing Tatum (left) and Mark Ruffalo play the Schultz brothers, wrestling gold medalists who fell into the orbit of an unstable du Pont heir, portrayed by Steve Carell (top),

?Foxcatcher? a quietly devastating drama

As the reclusive millionaire John E. du Pont, Steve Carell gives a career-changer of a performance.

?Penguins of Madagascar?: big-screen liftoff

Espionage-obsessed ?Madagascar? birds Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private get promoted to multiplex-marquee status.

Top (from left): Jason Sudeikis, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jennifer Aniston in a scene from ?Horrible Bosses 2.? Above: Christoph Waltz (left) and Chris Pine.

?Horrible Bosses 2? works better

The sequel is a new misadventure whose negligibly refined formula somehow ends up being more consistently entertaining.

Opinion

DANTE RAMOS

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Even if a Boston startup doesn?t succeed in bringing this level of workplace transparency into the mainstream, someone else will.

The Big Picture

Nia Richardson, 16, of Roxbury, wets the reed of her saxophone as she prepares for practice in Jamaica Plain Nov. 19.

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English High?s marching band

The marching band at English High brings back a tradition that has been dormant at Boston public schools for about 40 years.