Racial bias alleged in Google’s ad results

A research project concludes that searches of names more likely associated with black people often yielded ads for a criminal records search in that person’s name.

John Lackey said he had no regrets about coming to Boston and vowed to change the narrative.

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After bruising years, John Lackey ready to take mound

The Red Sox pitcher said he had no regrets about coming to Boston and vowed to change the narrative.

Rob Gronkowski needs to get his head on straight when it comes to the nightlife and endangering his well-being.

Christopher L. Gasper

Rob Gronkowski’s antics are growing old

There are two things that can stop the Patriots star: injuries and himself. They crashed together on the floor of a Las Vegas nightclub this week.

Judge Raymond Dougan said to face new inquiry

The judge’s acceptance of at least $85,000 in free legal services from the law firm that defended him during a bias inves­tigation is reportedly being scrutinized.

J. Chris Romero, director of operations at Albuquerque’s R. Greenleaf Organics, inspected bud development.

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New Mexico marijuana program a guide for Mass.

Industry watchers say New Mexico, with one of the country’s strictest medical marijuana programs, provides a model for Massachusetts.

State Representative Dan Winslow talked with bank officials last March during a meeting at the Wrentham Co-operative Bank.

SCOT LEHIGH

Finally, Mass. GOP has some likely candidates

Kudos to Dan Winslow and Gabriel Gomez, the two Republicans in this state willing to join the race for US Senate. Apparently willing, anyway.

British officials have high hopes for the Silicon Roundabout and the nearby former Olympic Park as a home to a new technology center.

London’s tech hub looks to capture ‘MIT magic’

British officials are studying the success of Kendall Square and the influence of MIT as they try to turn London into a global technology center.

The girlfriend of Aaron Swartz blamed US Attorney Carmen Ortiz of Massachusetts for his decision to take his life.

Activist Aaron Swartz’s suicide echoes in Congress

Family members urged passage of legislation that would soften some Internet laws and a House committee is investigating whether his prosecution went too far.

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Chef CK Sau serves up Chinese cuisine at his CK’ Shanghai restaurant in Wellesley. He worked at the former Sally Ling’s.

Evolution in Chinese food in eastern Mass.
Simen Johan’s “Untitled #133,” part of his “Until the Kingdom Comes” exhibit at Brown University’s David Winton Bell Gallery.

Galleries

What’s up at Boston-area art galleries
Duy Tran, the 25-year-old owner of DooWee & Rice in Somerville, serves up such dishes as (from top) Vietnamese marinated beef noodles, spicy soy chicken wings, and pork baobaos.

Cheap Eats

Vietnamese fare far from traditional
Mumford & Sons front man Marcus Mumford performed at TD Garden.

Music Review

Passion marks Mumford & Sons show
The BSA national council announced they were considering to leave the decision of inclusion of gays to the local unit level.

Opinion | The Podium

A failure of leadership at the Boy Scouts of America
Devin Mahoney and Jon Niedzwiecki star in the A&E television show “Southie Rules.”

How real is Southie’s new reality show?
Paul Pierce, left, Courtney Lee, and the Celtics have yet to lose since Rajon Rondo was ruled out for the season.

Are Celtics really better without Rondo?
Three moose, spotted from a helicopter, are among the 76,000 counted thus far in Maine’s first aerial census.

From on high, an eye on moose
Thomas Neel, owner of Candia Road Brewing Co., said demand for his craft product has been unexpectedly high.

N.H. law gives nanobreweries a larger standing
Student Lucy Zhao studied table settings at an MIT miniclass on enhancing social skills.

Engineering etiquette at MIT’s charm school
Cowbells once hung from the back of a warning sign at an entrance to Memorial Drive from the Longfellow Bridge.

Bridge lacked height warning
Brenda Wernikoff was arrested for refusing to leave a woman’s bathroom at a homeless shelter in Boston.

Boston, transgender woman settle lawsuit

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Patrick Chung (beaten by Buffalo’s Donald Jones for a TD) had problems at strong safety.

Why the Patriots actually improved in 2012

New England watched Super Bowl XLVII instead of playing in it, but the Patriots did get better this season.

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Michael Beaudry, 20 of Weymouth, was ordered held without bail and is due back in court for a probable cause hearing on Feb. 27. He is charged with murdering his father following an argument.

Relations between son, father called abrasive

Michael Beaudry allegedly murdered his father during a fight in front of their Weymouth home.

Columnists

Adrian Walker

Roxcomp missed payday

JEFF JACOBY

A guaranteed flop for Mass.
State Representative Dan Winslow talked with bank officials last March during a meeting at the Wrentham Co-operative Bank.

SCOT LEHIGH

Finally, Mass. GOP has some likely candidates
Rob Gronkowski needs to get his head on straight when it comes to the nightlife and endangering his well-being.

Christopher L. Gasper

Gronkowski’s antics are growing old
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco celebrated as his team won the Super Bowl.

joanna weiss

Partnering up to battle TV violence
A home in San Antonio in 2009.

Opinion | FARAH STOCKMAN

The hazards of optimism

Kevin Cullen

Real-deal candidates

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Hillary, Tina, and girls like them

Adrian Walker

Seat may slip from Southie
Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco won his first Super Bowl on Sunday against the 49ers.

Dan Shaughnessy

Super Bowl was one of the greatest

Yvonne Abraham

Small ending, big results?

JOAN VENNOCHI

How Patrick is shaping the face of Mass.

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Third graders Qwalynde Cain (left) and Sata Lumpkins worked on a reading assignment in Wichita, Kan.

More states toughen grading on readings

Increasing numbers of states are not promoting students who are struggling to read at the end of the third grade.

Politics

President Obama’s Israel trip could offer a chance to repair relations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Obama to make first visit to Israel as president

President Obama’s Israel trip could offer a chance to repair relations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Customers checked out a Dell computer at a store in Miami on Tuesday. Dell’s share of the contracting market for PCs slipped to 10.7 percent last year.

Dell deal gives founder a chance to remake company

Slumping personal computer maker Dell is bowing out of the stock market in a $24.4 billion buyout.

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‘All This Talk of Love’ by Christopher Castellani

Castellani introduces twin themes in his entertaining novel about an Italian immigrant family in America.

Food & dining

Student farmer Caitlin Sargent of San Anselmo, Calif., looked out at one of The Farm School's Red Devon cows during chore time on Jan. 16, 2013.

Letter from Farm School: Spring seems far away

Outside, life has retreated deep within the soil to await the springtime thaw, apprentice Erik Jacobs writes from The Farm School.

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Back Bay renovation
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Cambodian-Americans confronting deportation
The cover for the January 20 2013 issue

My friend Tito
The cover for the January 13 2013 issue

Alfresco fabulous

Opinion

“In their willingness to step forward, both [Dan] Winslow and [Gabriel] Gomez aren’t just helping the GOP. They are doing the entire state a favor.”

Scot Lehigh 

Ideas

“To rein prosecutors back in, these scholars argue, America should reinstate ordinary citizens to their rightful place in the process, and with them a common-sense vision of fairness.”

Leon Neyfakh on how to solve prosecutorial overreach 

“We are changing the perception of marijuana. This is a wellness issue and we treat it that way.”

Willie Ford,  president of R. Greenleaf Organics