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For harbor garage project, space is the current frontier

Don Chiofaro plans office space, housing, a hotel, and shops for the site of the Boston Harbor Garage (at right in photo).

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We end 2016 the way we started: fussing over the details of Don Chiofaro?s Boston Harbor Garage project.

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One high school student was killed and another suffered life-threatening injuries in a one-car crash in Falmouth Thursday night.

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Chiefs of staff usually work in the shadows. But in Dan Koh, Boston City Hall has something it has not seen since 1968.

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It is the first time the public has heard from the 57-year-old Sampson since his violent crime spree in 2001.

The transition to Trump

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As the FBI director?s boss, the attorney general could have given an order to not send the letter. But Lynch feared Comey would not listen.

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The charity had been facing questions about whether it was auctioning off access to members of the first family.

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Before lunchtime Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump said he would expand the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

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A man claims he and his husband were removed from a Florida-bound flight after his spouse ?expressed displeasure? about flying with Trump and her husband.

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Changing the game, one YouTube video at a time

Toy companies are releasing a new category of board games that embrace, not avoid, our smartphone habits.

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Katherine Russell?s lawyer says the portrayal of his client in ?Patriots Day? is unfair because it suggests she knew something was up before the attack.

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Fourteen days since its delayed grand opening, the village has attracted 5,000 weekday and 15,000 weekend visitors on average.

CHAD FINN | SPORTS MEDIA

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The long-established veterans will be terminated at the end of the year.

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Maine dad Dan Howard shared a two-minute video of himself describing what life is like now that his daughter has moved back in for Christmas break.

Celtics 109, Pacers 102

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Isaiah Thomas scored 28 points and Boston outscored Indiana, 29-9, in the second quarter.

BRUINS 3, PANTHERS 1

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Frank Vatrano scored in his season debut for Boston.

Patriots - New England Patriot's Michael Floyd (14) and Malcom Mitchell (19) during Thursday's practice at Gillette, Dec., 22, 2016. (Gretchen Ertl for The Boston Globe)

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BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

Michael Floyd saying right things, but isn?t doing them

The Patriots receiver has had four alcohol-related incidents in his young adult life.

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Could the end be in sight for Punter?s Pub?

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A Florida-based modern art dealer said the bank?s inadequate fraud detection systems allowed criminals to steal $1.4 million from his account.

THINGS TO DO

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The Globe?s picks for the best ways to spend your weekend.

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SCOT LEHIGH

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We are about to see a collision between complexity and simplicity ? and it will be a public-policy pile-up for the ages.

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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.

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The Desperate and the Dead | Part 7

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One Texas city took on mental health as a community and became a national model. Why can?t Mass. do the same?

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.

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