Group opposes pension bump for city retirees

The request to add $90 on top of the $360 cost-of-living increase could add up to $70 million to the city?s pension liability.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/01/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/tsarnaevsketch.jpg Marathon bombing trial to commence tomorrow

Monday begins the search for jurors capable of deciding whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is guilty, and if so, if he should be put to death.

Boston officer charged with assaulting Uber driver

Officer Michael Doherty allegedly assaulted the driver before getting behind the wheel and driving off in South Boston.

Nancy McGeoghean (center) asked the state Advisory Board of Pardons last month to allow her to leave prison.

Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff

Woman who killed her child seeks early release

The rare hearing comes 26 years after Nancy McGeoghean, 45 and serving life in Framingham, killed her 2-year-old daughter.

Ron Walker. (Handout)

Labor pick left board as trouble began

Ronald Walker was a past chairman of a Roxbury health center that shut down for unsafe patient care and dysfunctional management.

Outgoing Governor Deval Patrick addressed supporters during a State House reception after his portrait was unveiled.

Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff

At portrait unveiling, supporters pay tribute to Patrick

The painting of Deval Patrick, by the same artist who did Bill Clinton?s portrait, will hang in the State House.

The building is backlit at night in a rainbow of colors from teardrop-shaped lanterns hanging in the atrium.

Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff

UMass Boston hopes new facility will draw attention to its academics

The $182 million science complex serves as a loud punctuation to the academic progress the urban college has made in recent years.

Mark Lawhorne and family.

location, location, location

What is it like to live in Malden?

?Friends from Boston come here to eat. They?ll say, ?I can?t believe I?m in Malden!? I don?t know whether to feel offended or complimented.?

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Patriots in for a fight against Ravens

The Ravens have won two of the last three playoff meetings against the Patriots, all at Gillette Stadium.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/12/23/BostonGlobe.com/Regional/Images/greenhouse_04zodevelopment-2_regional.jpg Mayors preparing development wish lists for Baker

Waltham, Lawrence and Brockton are hoping the new governor will help fund buildings and improve transportation.

Stuart Scott.

Longtime ESPN sportscaster Stuart Scott dies at 49

Scott had fought cancer since a diagnosis in late 2007.

The Moscow School of Management in Skolkovo.

ideas

Why hasn?t Russian science taken over the world?

We should all worry about a great power?s failure to convert on its knowledge, says MIT?s Loren Graham.

Alec Guinness: eluding description

From ?The Bridge on the River Kwai? to ?Star Wars,? Guinness?s identity, ego ? and face ? disappeared into his many famous roles.

Magazine

How could a woman just vanish?

On July 22, 2013, 66-year-old hiker Geraldine Largay stepped into the Maine woods and disappeared without a trace.

Opinion

Mike Ross

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/01/02/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Mike_Ross-1101.jpg CSA programs expand healthy options

By shifting some of their produce buy to local small farms, Boston?s corporations and nonprofits would put regular people to work.

The Big Picture

John Tlumacki/Globe Staff

Globe photos of the month: December 2014

Photographers captured images of Boston protests and holiday events.