Marathon bombing trial to start today with jury selection

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

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With the long-awaited trial scheduled to begin Monday, survivors are grappling with whether they want to be there.

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.

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.

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

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.

Boston, MA 110614 Attorney General elect Maura Healey (cq) addressed a group of environmentalists at a conference on the Challenges and Opportunities of the Evolving Electric Grid at JFK Library in Boston, Thursday, November 6 2014. () section: Metro slug: 07healeyreporter: Akilah Johnson

Incoming AG seeks tighter prescription monitoring

Maura Healey said the campaign is the result of an alarming uptick in heroin overdoses and prescription drug addiction.

Ron Walker. (Handout)

Baker?s 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.

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

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UMass Boston hopes new facility highlights academics

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

Tim Coco (left), and Genesio Oliveira, married since 2005, bought a cake at the Market Basket in Plaistow, N.H., to celebrate Oliveira?s long-awaited permanent residency.

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Arrival of green card ends couple?s 12-year battle

Because the federal government didn?t recognize the Haverhill couple?s same-sex marriage, Tim Coco couldn?t sponsor Genesio Oliveira for legal residency.

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

At portrait unveiling, supporters pay tribute to Patrick

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

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.

David Ortiz, now 39, has the most career games, hits, home runs, and RBIs for a DH. (Nick Wass/Associated Press)

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Around the Horn: At DH, nobody better than David Ortiz

David Ortiz is a seven-time winner of the Edgar Martinez Outstanding DH Award, two more times than Martinez.

Mass. State Police attended the funeral of slain NYPD officer Wenjian Liu.

Mass. officers pay respects at NYPD funeral

Hundreds of police officers from Mass. traveled to New York for the funeral of officer Wenjian Liu.

Adrian Walker

Ed Brooke?s lasting gift

As the first popularly elected black senator in US history, Edward Brooke enlarged our collective sense of possibility.

Rhonda P. Patrick, a postdoctoral fellow at Children?s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, is studying what role vitamin D has in serotonin production.

Research suggests vitamin D could affect brain function

New studies on the relationship between vitamin D and serotonin production are taking researchers down a new path, beyond bone health.

The albums we?re looking forward to as 2015 arrives

Here are some major releases already scheduled for the first few months of 2015 ? subject to change, naturally.

Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz in the Boston area-filmed ?Sex Tape.?

Names

Boston on a Razzie roll

The Massachusetts movie ?Sex Tape? has earned the attention of the Razzie Awards, which honor the worst of the worst in the year of film.

Opinion

Francis Bellotti

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The former senator?s passing marks the approaching end of an era in politics that will never return.

The Big Picture

John Tlumacki/Globe Staff

Globe photos of the month: December 2014

Photographers captured images of Boston protests and holiday events.