?Heroin is the worst thing in the world?

Bonnie Bruce is the mother of a Vermont woman, Tamara, who was found the day after Thanksgiving passed out from heroin in her car with her fiance and their two young children.

Caleb Kenna for the Boston Globe

The public saw only the sordid side: two parents passed out on drugs, two little children in the car. Unseen was the circle of love trying to save them.

Spotlight Follow-up

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Boston?s Thornton Law Firm, already under investigation for campaign donations, is at the center of controversy over overstated legal fees.

Yvonne Abraham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/17/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/abrahamy-12285.jpg It is time to fight to maintain choice

When it comes to choice, women in Massachusetts will not be dragged back into the last century. If only those in other states were as fortunate.

Starts & Stops

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/04/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Boghosian_05piketolls1_MET.jpg MassDOT loses chance to save nearly $70m

?It?s unfortunate that things didn?t line up perfectly,? said the chief financial officer of MassDOT.

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About 4. 5 inches of snow fell in Boston, and roads could become icy this evening, forecasters said.

The transition to Trump

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/30/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/626524652-548.jpg Romney was ?more than a little surprised? regarding Trump?s interest

In a letter in The Salt Lake Tribune, Mitt Romney said he would have ?been more than willing? to shape US foreign policy.

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President-elect Donald Trump said in a tweet Saturday night that China can keep the US Navy drone they seized.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/18/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/630160048.jpg How a Putin fan overseas pushed pro-Trump propaganda

Operators of the Patriot News Agency had an explicitly partisan motivation: getting Trump elected.

Babson College.

Joanne Rathe/ Globe Staff

Kevin Cullen

On campus, lines blur between what?s hate and what?s not

It might have been fitting if Dean Wormer, he of ?Animal House? fame, magically appeared at a Babson College disciplinary board meeting Friday.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/15/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Riecken_JohnKerry04_nat.jpg Kerry leaving legacy of hope in role at State

The secretary of state reflected on his tenure in a wide-ranging interview with the Globe.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/greenhouse_14chrismukkah-4_metro.jpg Now bring us the Yuletide brisket: Dec. 24 is Chrismukkah

Christmas Eve collides with the first night of Hanukkah on Dec. 24 this year, giving interfaith families lots to celebrate.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

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Brady is 2-7 in Denver (and one of those was against the Tim Tebow Broncos).

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/lower%20basin%20from%20web.JPG Charting project reveals Charles River?s depths

The first survey of the river in 16 years found intriguing traces of its past ? and concerns about its future.

Far right, Jaime DeRocker, 25, wore a costume donated by the Kansas City Ballet for the Festival Ballet Providence performance of the Nutcracker.

Lisa Hornak for the Boston Globe.

?Nutcracker? dancers go onstage in borrowed costumes after theft

The generosity of dance troupes across the country who loaned costumes allowed the show to go on, said the Festival Ballet Providence dancers.

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Blackberry vanilla? Champagne? Just regular vanilla? The Internet can?t seem to agree on what the new mystery drink tastes like.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/09/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Bedford_161207_SCHOLASTIC_003.jpg Fall 2016 Globe All-Scholastics: Honoring the area?s best

We look back at the sports season that was and recognize the team and indivdual achievements that happened along the way.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/17/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/wiggs_Pond_702390.jpg Belmont stands in solidarity for all

After a divisive national election season, hundreds united around an icy pond Saturday.

Special reports

special report

Every doctor told the Lacey family their son would die ? except one

Pat and Dina Lacey had been parents for only a few months when doctors discovered a tumor in their new baby?s chest. Told to take their son home to die, they put their faith in a young doctor who wouldn?t accept death as the answer.

Opinion & Ideas

EDITORIAL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/green%20line-111445.jpg After hedge-fund debacle, change MBTA pension system

The lack of public oversight at the agency, even as taxpayers pick up the bill, has no justification.

Life sciences

STAT, a national publication from Boston Globe Media Partners, covers health, medicine, and life sciences.

Investigations

The Desperate and the Dead | Part 7

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/20160923_SAMentalHealth_312.jpg The San Antonio solution

How one Texas city took on mental health as a community and became a national model.

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.

Real Estate

Home of the week: A five-bedroom fully restored Victorian in Dorchester

Everybody needs options, the opportunity to see what life is like on the other side of the door. This fully restored Victorian in Dorchester?s Meetinghouse Hill neighborhood offers choices, particularly for where the master can lay his or her head.