For Boston Olympics, the story can win the Games

For Boston, presenting the most persuasive elevator pitch for the city?s bid is as important as providing a credible plan.

Snow, cold temperatures expected during Boston parade

Forecasters said attendees at Boston?s St. Patrick?s Day parade can expect about an inch of snow and falling temperatures.

One person killed, one injured in Hyde Park shooting

Police were called to 23 Lincoln St. at about 4 a.m., where one person was dead at the scene and one person was taken to a hospital.

Kerry says GOP letter meant to interfere with Iran talks

Secretary of State John Kerry said a letter by Senate Republicans to Iran?s leadership was ?unprecedented.?

David Carlson of Brighton marched in the Veterans for Peace parade in 2013. The organization has been barred from joining the main St. Patrick?s Day parade in South Boston, so it follows with its own separate march.

Kevin Cullen

Gays in parade, but Veterans for Peace shunned

When it comes to the Southie parade, peace is the last taboo.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/03/12/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/14emptynest.jpg Stay or go? The aging homeowner?s dilemma

Dennis E. Noonan of Wellesley takes you through the angst of trying to decide whether to downsize.

Clinician who may have Ebola was with Boston group

The Partners in Health medical worker was taken from Sierra Leone to the National Institutes of Health in Maryland.

Prosecutors (from left) Aloke Chakravarty, Steven Mellin, Nadine Pellegrini, and William Weinreb are working on the Marathon bombing case. The US attorney has declined to say whether any prosecutors refused involvement in the case.

Prosecutors often balk at capital cases

Though working on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?s trial would be career-defining, finding prosecutors for such cases is not always smooth.

During a tour of Built-Rite Tool & Die, president Craig A. Bovaird (center) spoke with tour organizer Chris Denney and visitor Erik Sobel, a principal at Technology Research Laboratories.

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Factory fans love to see ?how it?s made?

New England Factory Tours arranges visits to local plants, an example of the cachet manufacturing has gained in recent years.

State Senator Linda Dorcena Forry hosted the St. Patrick?s Day breakfast at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

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Jokes, songs mark St. Patrick?s Day breakfast

Snow, space savers, and Scott Brown ? all were topics of jokes at South Boston?s traditional breakfast for politicians.

2015

A crime for the ages, still a mystery, at 25

The unresolved Gardner Museum heist case is a shadow across director Anne Hawley?s largely sunny tenure.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/03/11/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/gardner1a.jpg An open letter: Return Gardner Museum treasures

They belong in the museum, an extraordinary place, which should not be connected with empty frames and heist stories.

Book review

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/03/09/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/thieves15n-21-web.jpg ?Master Thieves? a compelling story about Gardner heist

Stephen Kurkjian?s book doesn?t solve the art heist, but it does offer a pretty good road map for the FBI to follow 25 years later.

Among the additions in Buffalo is Pro Bowl running back LeSean McCoy.

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BEN VOLIN I SUNDAY FOOTBALL NOTES

AFC East rivals serious about raising their game

Top to bottom, the division has improved the most of any division in the NFL.

Globe Magazine

Feeling Irish from afar

The Dropkick Murphys spurred a realization for one fan, who isn?t even a little bit Irish.

Ideas

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/03/11/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/132048476A.jpg Fight for black voting rights precedes the Constitution

There?s a comforting myth in the United States that suggests African-Americans steadily moved from absolute slavery to complete freedom following the Civil War.

Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant could be the first among a new breed of power hitters, who might capture fans? interest.

NICK CAFARDO I SUNDAY BASEBALL NOTES

Baseball has trouble keeping children interested

In the good old days, it was easy to be a fan, but now children and adults alike are finding the game boring.

Marathon trial podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/02/28/BostonGlobe.com/Special/Advance/Images/podcast.jpg Days 5 & 6: The fourth murder and a carjacking victim?s harrowing account

This interactive timeline highlights trial coverage and a podcast featuring Globe columnist Kevin Cullen and WBUR reporter David Boeri.

Opinion

Judith A Garber and Russell F. Smith III

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/06/15/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/lorenz_14portland_0014.jpg A bold plan to combat illegal fishing, seafood fraud

The Obama administration?s proposal sets out how the US will improve the flow of information along the supply chain.

The Big Picture

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The big picture

Children of war

Some fear that living amid severe violence will permanently scar the young generation in Syria and Iraq.