Patriots 16, Broncos 3

Special teamer Jonathan Jones (center) stood out after recovering a fumbled punt in the first quarter.

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BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

Patriots learned lessons from last year?s losses

The Patriots did not turn the ball over and ran the ball well, something they didn?t do in 2015.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/10/06/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/shaughnessy_20131006.jpg Are Patriots this good, or is every other team a Tomato Can?

The list of inept offenses the Patriots have faced staggers the mind.

The relationship between Cheers and Tom Kershaw and Globe Santa is a story of 36 continuous years of generosity to the holiday fund from the famed Beacon Street establishment. Last week, the generosity was extended by another $11,000 in a presentation at the Hampshire House. From left, Markus Ripperger, Sara O?Malley, Stephanie Vetter, CEO Thomas A. Kershaw, Bill Connolly of Globe Santa, John Vo, and Ciara Ripperger.

Globe Santa

A plea for three children from a shelter

From a safe house for battered women, a mother writes to Globe Santa on behalf of her kids.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/19/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/gabor2.jpg Zsa Zsa Gabor, who helped invent a new kind of fame, dies at 99

The middle and most famous of the sisters Gabor died Sunday of a heart attack at her Bel-Air home.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/15/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/davis_world5_met.jpg What came first, the chicken feathers or the bureaucratic nightmare?

Importer Paul Swope?s N.H. business ran afoul of federal officials over ? yes ? feathers.

Anne Frank in 1942. The Jewish teenager died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in May 1945 at the age of 15.

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Was Anne Frank?s family actually betrayed?

For decades, her father tried to figure out who tipped off the Nazis. Now, the Anne Frank House museum has put forth a new theory.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/greenhouse_19christmasincity-7_metro.jpg Joy to the world at Christmas in the City

The holiday spectacle began Sunday morning with about 150 buses traveling through Greater Boston to pick up homeless families.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/14/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Bred1_biz.jpg Harvard students help mom and pop shops get off the ground

A Harvard business class asks students to apply their classroom skills to help yoga studios, pho restaurants, and bakeries thrive.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/19/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/hecray150-1866.jpg ?SNL? spoofs ?Love Actually? with Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton

?Saturday Night Live? gifted viewers with another Kate McKinnon-as-Hillary Clinton skit.

SPOTLIGHT FOLLOW-UP

Across region, outdated sex abuse laws have loopholes

Laura and Tony Siracusa, photographed in their daughter?s bedroom.

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Laura and Antonio Siracusa were shocked to learn police could do nothing when a teacher allegedly had sex with their 16-year-old daughter.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/17/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/PresidentJohnF.Kennedy.jpg Library reveals yearlong events for JFK centennial

Initiatives include an exhibit that includes precious private mementos and touch football games across the state.

Adrian Walker

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/walker-11327-12270.jpg Should Marty Walsh be worried if Tito Jackson runs for mayor?

Whatever one makes of the councilor?s chances ? which, on paper, look rather slim ? his candidacy would be a jolt for the city.

The transition to Trump

President-elect Donald Trump addressed supporters Saturday in Mobile, Ala.

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The Electoral College meets today. Here?s what to expect.

Electors will meet to officially determine who will be the next president.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/15/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/8589a49a9485488aa62442ebcf23ac4e-8589a49a9485488aa62442ebcf23ac4e-0.jpg Will Trump?s embrace of Russia upend foreign relations?

The president-elect has a 180-degree shift in attitude toward a nation that?s been viewed as America?s enemy since the end of World War II.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/02/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/03statshyman1_stat.jpg Shy man made outsize impact in online patient community

Stephen Wheeler was a manufacturing specialist by trade and a shy man by nature.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/McCrimmon_03potczar06_met.jpg Colo. pot czar seen as possible Mass. regulator

Said Andrew Freedman: ?We see problems. We solve problems. We?re fast-acting. We?re responsive to data as it comes in.?

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

Opinion | Christine Lagarde

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/16/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/income%20inequality.jpg The challenge of economic inclusion

A more equitable income distribution is not only sound social policy, but also sound economic policy.

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'

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/11/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/spotlight-9497.jpg Boston Globe coverage and the movie ?Spotlight?

?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.