Novelist Patricia Cornwell wins $50.9m in lawsuit

In Boston federal court, the award-winning writer sued her former financial management company for negligence.

Former Chelsea housing chief Michael McLaughlin left Moakley Federal Court after pleading guilty Tuesday to four counts of deliberately concealing his ­inflated salary.

Ex-Chelsea housing chief pleads guilty

Michael E. McLaughlin, who has agreed to help officials prosecute others, pleaded guilty to concealing his ­inflated salary.

Cardinal Sean O'Malley spoke to the press last week at the Pastoral Center in Braintree.

Cardinal O’Malley’s name floated as possible pope

Although many say the chances of an American pope are slim, a widely respected Vatican reporter says buzz is building for the Boston archbishop.

Alliance cracks down on teens’ sagging pants

A new cable TV ad campaign from the Black Mental Health Alliance of Mass. aims to discourage the rogue fashion.

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Jail time for saggy pants?

Kids at the Dorchester Youth Collaborative say pants hanging low is a matter of style.

David A. Shaywitz and Dennis A. Ausiello

Medicine by metrics

Health care must learn how to use digital technology to increase our fundamental understanding of disease and generate profound new treatments.

Scenes from Disney’s “Brave,” featuring the independent-minded Merida (above) open the second act of Disney on Ice’s “Rockin’ Ever After.”

Stage Review

Costumes, skating make Disney’s ‘Rockin’ Ever After’ a cool treat

The films chosen for this go-round of Disney on Ice include “The Little Mermaid,” “Tangled,” “Beauty and the Beast” and a snippet from “Brave.”

Stage Review

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From few available facts about Shakespeare’s life, Robert Brustein weaves a tragic speculation in “The Last Will.”

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David Ortiz and Bobby Valentine talk last spring; this spring Ortiz ripped the now ex-Sox skipper.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox put blame on Valentine

College score card contains eye-openers
Scott Brown said he is taking time to recharge at home — studying Spanish and learning to play the guitar.

Scott Brown ‘thinking about’ run for governor
Representative John Tierney met with constituents, including Lynnette Alameddine of Saugus (left), whose son was killed at Virginia Tech in 2007.

Tierney finds D.C. a refuge after race
Caitlin LoCascio-King, a lawyer, estimates that she will be the primary wage earner in her family this year.

More women become breadwinners

A data gap on Mass. doctors’ troubles
Summer is a client at Patricia Dowd’s Chez Mieux in Natick.

Cat fever goes viral in America
Teenagers at the Dorchester Youth Collaborative talked about their preference for sagging pants.

Alliance cracks down on teens’ sagging pants

Book Review

‘Whitey’ by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill
Gretchen Monahan and Ricky Paull Goldin.

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Power couple building a family
Scenes from Disney’s “Brave,” featuring the independent-minded Merida (above) open the second act of Disney on Ice’s “Rockin’ Ever After.”

Stage Review

Disney’s ‘Rockin’ Ever After’ a cool treat
Brooke Adams (left) and Allyn Burrows in “The Last Will,” the conclusion of Robert Brustein’s staged trilogy on the life of William Shakespeare.

Stage Review

Shakespeare faces bitter end

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PATRIOTS NOTEBOOK

Wes Welker

Patriots have three candidates for the franchise tag

Wes Welker is one of three candidates to get the tag this year, along with cornerback Aqib Talib and offensive tackle Sebastian Vollmer.

Metro

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Michelle Martens was a third-generation firefighter on the Ashby force.

Second driver in fatal crash also a firefighter

Everyone involved in the Ashby crash knew one another, said the father of the woman who was killed.

Columnists

Kevin Cullen

Grounded, but uplifted
Rabbi David Hartman

JAMES CARROLL

Rabbi Hartman bridged the gap
A small, unmanned aerial vehicle, during a demonstration at a Navy testing facility in Dahlgren, Va.

JOHN E. SUNUNU

For Obama, a license to kill

Adrian Walker

Roxbury center on the right path
David Ortiz and Bobby Valentine talk last spring; this spring Ortiz ripped the now ex-Sox skipper.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox put blame on Valentine

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JULIETTE KAYYEM

Cruise ships too big to bail
Jacoby Ellsbury’s contract is up at the end of the season.

Dan Shaughnessy

No chance Ellsbury is staying with Sox
Brad Rosen, of Drync.

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Innovation Economy

Exploring the age divide in Boston start-ups
LeBron James is looking to add to his trophy case with more NBA championships to go along with the first one he earned last year.

Bob Ryan

In praise of LeBron James
Mike Napoli made the stunning statement, “I want to be able to walk when I’m older.”

Dan Shaughnessy

Downsized expectations for Mike Napoli

Nation & World

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Surrounded by first responders who may be hurt by looming budget cuts, PresidentObama spoke Tuesday in Washington, DC.

Obama urges GOP to halt automatic spending cuts

As a March 1 deadline approaches, President Obama warned that the jobs of essential government workers are on the line.

Politics

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Rhonda Fields, a Democratic legislator who represents Aurora, sponsored the Colorado gun bill. Aurora was the site of the mass shooting in a cinema last year.

Colo. House approves limits on ammunition clips

New ammunition limits and universal background checks passed the Colorado House on Monday.

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Macs at Apple offices hacked

Apple says a small number of computers at its offices were infected by malicious software.

Arts

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Stage Review

In his monologue “American Utopias,” Mike Daisey visits Disney World, Burning Man, and Occupy Wall Street.

Utopian tales and a search for community

In his monologue “American Utopias,” Mike Daisey visits Disney World, Burning Man, and Occupy Wall Street.

Lifestyle

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The TV show ‘‘Downton Abbey’’

A glimpse downstairs at America’s Downton Abbey

The success of ‘‘Downton Abbey’’ has piqued interest in the life of servants in the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, R.I.

Magazine

The cover for the February 17 2013 issue

A trip to Rio de Janeiro, without leaving Boston
The cover for the February 10 2013 issue

Change on the Mystic
The cover for the February 3 2013 issue

South End remodel: Rear window
The cover for the January 27 2013 issue

New England traditional, with a twist

Opinion

“Principal write-downs work, but Fannie and Freddie have dodged them because they’re politically poisonous.”

Paul McMorrow 

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New England traffic has long negotiated the effects of our repetitive freeze-thaw cycle that leaves roads an obstacle course of potholes.

Ideas

“In 1925, Time Magazine reported on a doctor in Ann Arbor, Mich., who believed the average man’s hands were ‘contaminated with...secretions,’ and that people who insisted on shaking hands anyway were ‘purveyors of death.’ ”

Leon Neyfakh, on the risks of handshakes