NFL playoffs

Ben Volin, Chris Gasper on Pats heading to the Super Bowl

Patriots 45, Colts 7

Patriots Super Bowl bound yet again

The Patriots advanced to their sixth Super Bowl in the Tom Brady-Bill Belichick era.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

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Redemption in the Desert won?t be easy. A much tougher opponent than the callow Colts is on the agenda.

The Patriots? LeGarrette Blount averaged 4.9 yards per carry on his 30 attempts in Sunday?s AFC title game against the Colts. He also scored three times. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

LeGarrette Blount, offensive line paved the way for Patriots

For the second straight postseason, Blount (148 yards rushing, 3 TDs) carved up Indy?s run defense.

The last time the Seahawks and the Patriots met, Richard Sherman (left) picked off Tom Brady once.

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Super Bowl XLIX: How the Patriots match up vs. Seahawks

Two of the NFL?s best defenses will go head-to-head when they meet in the NFL championship game.

Offensive lineman Nate Solder showed off his speed and pass-catching ability on his 16-yard TD catch. (Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff)

The line on the Patriots? Nate Solder: receiving threat

The veteran tackle caught a 16-yard TD pass as the Patriots broke out another trick play.

Patriots notebook

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Arrington held the Colts? top receiver to just one catch, for 36 yards in Sunday?s AFC title game win.

FOXBORO, MA - JANUARY 18: Darrelle Revis #24 of the New England Patriots is tackled by Andrew Luck #12 of the Indianapolis Colts after intercepting Luck's pass in the third quarter of the 2015 AFC Championship Game at Gillette Stadium on January 18, 2015 in Foxboro, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)

Colts QB Andrew Luck struggles vs. Patriots but not all blame goes to him

Luck had a 23.0 QB rating in the Colts? 45-7 loss to the Patriots in the AFC title game.

01/18/2015 - Boston, MA - Topic: 19patsfans - Indiana Colts fan Jack Cox, cq, of Nashville, TN (in blue) and Patriots fan Derek Keith, cq, of Hamilton, MA, watched the AFC playoffs matchup featuring their two teams while sipping beers at the Cask 'n Flagon (cq) in Boston on Sunday evening, January 18, 2015. The two met while in school at Indiana University. Story by Zolan Kanno-Youngs. Photo by Dina Rudick/Globe Staff.

Patriots fans savor team?s triumph

New England fans at Cask ?n Flagon near Fenway were elated as the Patriots took a commanding victory in the AFC Championship Game.

Google is celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a local artist?s illustration.

Roxbury artist creates Google Doodle for MLK Day

Ekua Holmes?s illustration honoring the civil rights leader is the featured image on Google?s US homepage today.

18loosenukes - In this Wednesday, Dec. 24, 1997 file photo, soldiers prepare to destroy a ballistic SS-19 missile in the yard of the largest former Soviet military rocket base in Vakulenchuk, Ukraine, 220 kilometers (137 miles) west of Kiev. The U.S. helped Ukraine and other ex-Soviet nations secure former Soviet nuclear weapons and dismantle some of them under the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program initiated by Sens. Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar. (Associated Press)

Russia ends US nuclear security alliance

The declaration ended one of the most successful areas of cooperation between the former Cold War adversaries.

2010 killing by police still haunts parents

Though a federal inquiry was opened after a N.Y. policeman shot an Easton college student, the victim?s family is still waiting for answers.

Most suppliers are now completely out of wood, and what is available costs 15 to 25 percent more than last year.

Firewood shortage becomes fuel for frustration

Most suppliers are now completely out of wood, and what is available costs 15 to 25 percent more than last year.

In a temporary step, Old South Church has two rooms where the homeless can come in from the cold.

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Old South Church adds warm spot

Clergy spearheading the ?Boston Warm? effort say the need for the shelter underscores the shortcomings of the city?s response to displaced homeless

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Senator Elizabeth Warren has boosted her status in recent weeks as an impediment to the weakening of financial reforms.

Opinion

JEFF JACOBY

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King evoked the shame of his nation?s grievous racial injustices ? yet he never broke faith with that nation.

The Big Picture

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The Naga tribes of Myanmar

Around 120,000 people live in the Naga Self-Administered Zone, where they survive mainly by subsistence farming and hunting.

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