Olympics group calls on wealthy executives

Organizers of Boston?s 2024 campaign have created the ?Founders 100? group, with entry starting at $50,000.

Judge Mark Coven (left) will preside over the inquest into the death of patient Joshua K. Messier (right), who a Globe report found was manhandled by attendants at Bridgewater State Hospital in 2009.

Inquiry into state hospital death set

The review involves the 2009 death of a young mental health patient in Bridgewater who died as guards forcibly strapped him to a bed.

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Mitt Romney at times sounds like a Democrat, with comments on fighting poverty, raising the minimum wage, and combating climate change.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/01/23/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/0e714131358442ea9c3c1437fc3b8a24-0e714131358442ea9c3c1437fc3b8a24-0-1164.jpg No apparent solution in meeting between Romney, Bush

The pair did not emerge with a proposal on how to reconcile their competing plans to run for the White House, advisers indicated.

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Massachusetts? problem with transparency

What?s your government up to? It?s harder than you might think to find out.

Mayor Martin Walsh shook hands following a news conference on Jan. 9 about Boston?s selection as the US choice for teh 2024 Olympics.

Walsh tries to clarify USOC rule on bid talk

Mayor Marty Walsh sought to calm employees worried about an agreement he signed that forbids them from criticizing Boston?s bid for the Olympics.

Alan Dershowitz.

Harvard Law professors defend Dershowitz

Harvard?s Alan Dershowitz was named by a woman as one of several men with whom she allegedly had sex as a minor.

NFL playoffs

Ben Volin | On football

NFL?s silence on Deflategate is deafening

The NFL hasn?t yet interviewed the person whom most everyone else in the league believes is the central figure in this mess ? Tom Brady.

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady speaks at a news conference in Foxborough, Mass., Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015 as he addresses the issue of the NFL investigation of deflated footballs. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

Belichick, Brady provide no insight on Deflategate

The coach and quarterback, famous for their preparations, claimed to know little about the process of getting footballs ready for play.

Foxborough-01/22/15-Patriots qb Tom Brady speaks to the media at a press conference at Gillette Stadium about the under inflated footballs. Boston Globe staff photo by John Tlumacki (sports)

?I would never do anything to break the rules,? Brady says

The Patriots quarterback denied any involvement in the Deflategate controversy, adding that he felt like ?we won the game fair and square.?

Shirley Leung

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/01/22/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/shirleyleung_150-4006.png Imagine what we could accomplish if we weren?t debating Deflategate

Look at how much brain power grown men have expended on how to handle just one tiny aspect of the sport ? game-day footballs.

Up to 7 inches of snow expected in parts of state

A winter storm watch was issued for much of Central and Eastern Mass. for the coastal storm beginning Saturday morning.

KEVIN CULLEN

Making the case for a change of venue

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?s lawyers say questionnaires show a whopping 68 percent of the jury pool already think he is guilty.

Stephen D. Pasceri.

Shooter ?lost it? after mother?s death, says brother

Suspected Brigham shooter Stephen Pasceri apparently suspected that medication his mother took during her most recent illness led to her death.

Marion Cotillard stars in the drama ?Two Days, One Night.? The French actress was nominated for a best actress Oscar for her role.

Movie Review

Marion Cotillard shines in ?Two Days, One Night?

The phrase ?triumph of the human spirit? has been overused. ?Two Days, One Night? freshly reminds us what it means.

Author James Patterson in Florida in 2006.

James Patterson?s new novel has an explosive twist

The author?s new book takes the concept of ?explosive? to unforeseen levels.

Opinion

editorial

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/01/22/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/ryan_patriotballs1_spts.jpg Deflategate? NFL?s integrity was already in doubt

It was only a few months ago that public conversation about the league was focused on far more serious issues.

The Big Picture

An abandoned tourist Boat shipwreck lying at the Dead Sea coastal resort near Ein Gedi, Israel.

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The Big Picture

Declining water levels in the Dead Sea

Originally one of the world?s first health resorts, the Dead Sea has a far from healthy future as its water levels decline.

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