Insults fly during GOP debate

Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump shows off the size of his hands as Fox News Channel moderators Brett Baier (L) and Megyn Kelly (R) look on at the U.S. Republican presidential candidates debate in Detroit, Michigan, March 3, 2016. REUTERS/R

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Donald Trump and Marco Rubio traded a new round of insults, and then Trump made a crude sexual reference.

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From Mitt Romney to Chris Christie to Donald Trump, the GOP had a busy day ahead of the debate tonight on Fox News.

Adrian Walker

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The former governor says Donald Trump is a fraud, but it was people like Romney that legitimized Trump to begin with.

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The president said he plans to stay in D.C. for a couple of years so that his youngest daughter can finish high school.

Sportscaster and television host Erin Andrews is cross-examined Tuesday, March 1, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn. Andrews has filed a $75 million lawsuit against the franchise owner and manager of a luxury hotel and a man who admitted to making secret nude recordings of her in 2008. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, Pool)

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CHAD FINN | SPORTS MEDIA

No matter verdict, Erin Andrews cannot undo pain

Her testimony this week in a civil lawsuit against Marriott Nashville has been jarring.

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Dramatic weight gain while locked up is not an unprecedented phenomenon, researchers have found.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

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If the power of positive thinking wins baseball games, the Red Sox can book postseason plans.

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The US Marshals Service in Boston has offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a fugitive wanted for the murder of two women in Boston.

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Astronomers say they have discovered a hot, star-popping galaxy that is far, far away ? farther than any previously detected.

Louanne Clavette, the mother of Caitlin Clavette held one of her favorite photographs of her daughter.

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For teacher?s family, ski getaway ended in heartbreak

Caitlin Clavette died Feb. 12 after a manhole cover became airborne and slammed into her windshield on the Southeast Expressway.

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As Newton struggled to cope with the crash that shattered the neighborhood, about 400 people gathered Thursday for a vigil.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/02/12/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/160212_WALKER_CraftBeer_15093x.jpg A rare glimpse into a beer distributor?s ?pay-to-play? tactics

The owner of a Mass. company also runs a beer distributor in Brooklyn that gave gifts to New York area bars and retailers, according to court documents.

Attorney Jeffrey Kessler, right, who represents New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, leaves the 2nd U.S. District Court of Appeals, Thursday, March 3, 2016, in New York, after NFL lawyers asked a panel of judges to restore the league's four-game suspension of Brady in connection with the

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At appeal hearing, Brady?s lawyer is pressed hard by judges

The comments of two of the three judges on the panel appeared to favor the NFL.

Former nanny for Bain executive sentenced to 40 months for thefts

Stephanie Fox, 30, was also ordered to repay her former employer.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/03/04/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/511769530.jpg Where ?Cards? fell last season

A mere three days after our nation?s Super Tuesday, Netflix blesses us with 13 new episodes of ?House of Cards.?

Globe investigations

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A look at high-impact investigations from The Boston Globe, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning report on abuse in the Catholic Church.

The story behind 'Spotlight'

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?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

BetaBoston

BETABOSTON

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/03/01/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/2016-03-01/Client251_7.png Video games that can read your emotions

?Nevermind? will use a standard webcam to watch the fright on players' faces as they tackle levels, and respond based on the emotion they display.

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JOHN L. ALLEN JR. | ALL THINGS CATHOLIC

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/Production/BostonGlobe.com/WebPages/Homepage/Components/allen-189.jpg An Australian lesson in telling the whole Catholic story

There are salt-of-the-earth folks, who quietly carry out a staggering variety of good works.