A call, then a scramble to stop runaway train

The lever used to regulate speed on a 01500 series redline car.

MBTA

The supervisor and the dispatcher had 48 years of MBTA experience between them, but neither had game-planned for this. Nobody had.

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The unmanned subway train is the latest in a string of controversies for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

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The city has not determined exactly how the virus got into food at the restaurant, which was shuttered after inspectors found three serious violations.

A DraftKings logo was displayed on a board inside of the DFS Players Conference in New York.

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Fantasy sports firms get break at last minute

DraftKings and other fantasy sites can temporarily operate in New York until a panel rules on whether to allow the sites? operation while the fight plays out in court.

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The shooting on Waite Street claimed the lives of two people and left a third person with serious gunshot wounds.

Plowed snow and blizzard conditions during one of last year?s  many storms.

Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff

Enjoy the warmth while you can ? we could still get blizzards

Winter has not even begun yet (it starts Dec. 21.), and last year?s first meaningful snowfall didn?t come until late January.

US Army Ranger from N.H. dies in live fire exercise

Corporal Andrew A. Aimesbury, 21, died from his wounds on Wednesday after he was taken by Medevac to a treatment facility.

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The family of a black teen shot 16 times by a white police officer joined the call for change in local leadership and policing in the city and nationwide.

Sophie Fellows played violin during a holiday concert at the Boston Children's Hospital in Boston.

Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff

Holiday concert brings hope and holiday cheer to Children?s Hospital

When Sophie Fellows got out of a hospital bed to play in a Christmas concert last year, she wondered if she would be able to perform again.

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The nation?s highest-profile congressional lobbyist snuck up behind Stephen Colbert on the CBS ?Late Show,? willing even to wear a Donald Trump wig to get his point across.

warriors 124, Celtics 119

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Stephen Curry scored 38 points as Golden State improved to 24-0

Celtics notebook

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Thompson has not recovered from an ankle injury he suffered Tuesday night against the Pacers.

12bra- A rendering of Harvard Business SchoolÕs proposed $171 million Klarman Hall, a modern, media-equipped 1,000 seat auditorium with reception, meeting, and service space to accommodate the schoolÕs signature events. (William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc.)

BRA approves six projects, totaling $224 million

The biggest project is a $171 million auditorium at Harvard Business School in Allston.

BuzzSaw | Matthew Gilbert

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The FX TV show has absolutely no right to work as well as it does.

For Farragher column -- Amid the celebrities and celebration at the rededication of the Lower Mills campus of Saint John Paul II Catholic Academy, Devin Allen, a fourth-grader, reached out to an emotional Jack Sebastian. (Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff)

THOMAS FARRAGHER

Two sons find strength after losing their fathers

The exchange lasted barely a few minutes. But a Goldman Sachs executive and a 9-year-old straight-A student won?t soon forget it.

Nicholas Abreau posed for a portrait with the bullet resistant backpack his father Charles bought him in their home in Lowell, MA.

Keith Bedford/Globe staff

Lowell firm that makes bulletproof backpacks sees business grow

As the number of mass shootings mount, a fearful public is increasingly trying to protect itself.

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In 2011, and at long last, the party was on in Dublin, and a rollicking good party it is.

Book review

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/12/09/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/GettyImages-3426343.jpg ?America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk? by Megan Pugh

What is it, as Megan Pugh asks, that makes a dance American? She suggests it ?should be welcoming, strong, beautiful, and free.?

There?s an app for that

Architecture of Radio lets you catch the waves

Architecture of Radio uses your GPS and data from cell towers, Wi-Fi, and satellites to synthesize a 360 degree visualization of the ?infosphere.?

Ground Game

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/12/08/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/trump150-2064.jpg Three scenarios for Trump and the GOP

What happens after Donald Trump, particularly for the Republican Party?

Globe Santa

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Globe Santa delivers holiday gifts to local children in need.

Globe investigations

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A look at high-impact investigations from The Boston Globe, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning report on abuse in the Catholic Church.

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.

The Big Picture

Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff

The best Boston Globe photos of 2015

Staff photographers share the stories behind the year?s most powerful pictures.