Patriots 16, Broncos 3

Denver CO 12/18/16 New England Patriots Jabaal Sheard (left) celebrates his teammate Malcom Brown's sack as Trey Flowers (right) joins the celebration against the Denver Broncos during fourth quarter action at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium (Photo by Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff) topic: Patriots-Broncos reporter:

MATTHEW J. LEE/GLOBE STAFF

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Are Patriots this good, or is every other team bad?

The list of inept offenses the Patriots have faced this year staggers the mind.

BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/19/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/630217220.jpg Patriots learned lessons from last year?s losses

The Patriots did not turn the ball over and ran the ball well, something they didn?t do in the 2015 AFC title game.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/18/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/anne150-1519.jpg Was Anne Frank?s family actually betrayed?

For decades, her father tried to figure out who tipped off the Nazis. Now, the Anne Frank House museum has put forth a new theory.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/19/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/gabor2.jpg Zsa Zsa Gabor, who helped invent a new kind of fame, dies at 99

The middle and most famous of the sisters Gabor died Sunday of a heart attack at her Bel-Air home.

Paul Swope in his store ?A World Apart? located in the Mall of New Hampshire.

Jim Davis/Globe Staff

What came first, the chicken feathers or the bureaucratic nightmare?

Importer Paul Swope?s N.H. business ran afoul of the US government over chicken feathers.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/16/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/shutterstock_46253608%20(1).jpg So what kind of performance review do you want, anyway?

Dozens of online programs are helping companies ??fix?? the process of rating and ranking employees.

?SNL? spoofs ?Love Actually? with Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton

?Saturday Night Live? gifted viewers with another Kate-McKinnon-as-Hillary-Clinton skit this weekend, spoofing a famous ?Love Actually? scene.

SPOTLIGHT FOLLOW-UP

Across region, outdated sex abuse laws have loopholes

Laura and Tony Siracusa, photographed in their daughter?s bedroom.

Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

Laura and Antonio Siracusa were shocked to learn police could do nothing when a teacher allegedly had sex with their 16-year-old daughter.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/McCrimmon_03potczar06_met.jpg Colo. pot czar seen as possible Mass. regulator

?We see problems. We solve problems. We?re fast-acting. We?re responsive to data as it comes in,? Andrew Freedman said.

Adrian Walker

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/walker-11327-12270.jpg Should Marty Walsh be worried if Tito Jackson runs for mayor?

Whatever one makes of the councilor?s chances ? which, on paper, look rather slim ? his candidacy would be a jolt for the city.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/greenhouse_19christmasincity-7_metro.jpg Joy to the world at Christmas in the City

The holiday spectacle began Sunday morning with about 150 buses traveling through Greater Boston to pick up homeless families.

The transition to Trump

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/15/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/8589a49a9485488aa62442ebcf23ac4e-8589a49a9485488aa62442ebcf23ac4e-0.jpg Will Trump?s embrace of Russia upend foreign relations?

The president-elect has a 180-degree shift in attitude toward a nation that?s been viewed as America?s enemy since the end of World War II.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/18/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/boots.jpg Voter fraud? Across US, officials found next to none

After more than 137.7 million Americans cast ballots, officials in 26 states said they knew of no credible allegations of fraudulent voting.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/18/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/360d884a2241464191e6254fbe258a8a-360d884a2241464191e6254fbe258a8a-0.jpg The Electoral College meets Monday. Here?s what to expect.

On Monday, 538 people will meet to determine who will be the next president.

celtics 105, heat 95

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/19/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/d49a9fbdf0a44c169bd7b37bf6f37a7c-d49a9fbdf0a44c169bd7b37bf6f37a7c-0.jpg Celtics hold on without Isaiah Thomas

Al Horford (17 points, 8 assists, 7 rebounds) had two huge baskets after Isaiah Thomas was ejected.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/02/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/03statshyman1_stat.jpg Shy man made outsize impact in online patient community

Stephen Wheeler was a manufacturing specialist by trade and a shy man by nature.

Special reports

special report

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.

Opinion & Ideas

JEFF JACOBY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/16/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/jacoby-1952.jpg The bitterest of enemies can become the most trusted of friends

The US-Japanese relationship today is a pillar of stability and trust. Yet within living memory, the people of Japan and of the US despised each other.

Life sciences

STAT, a national publication from Boston Globe Media Partners, covers health, medicine, and life sciences.

Investigations

The Desperate and the Dead | Part 7

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/20160923_SAMentalHealth_312.jpg The San Antonio solution

How one Texas city took on mental health as a community and became a national model.

The story behind 'Spotlight'

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/11/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/spotlight-9497.jpg Boston Globe coverage and the movie ?Spotlight?

?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

Real Estate

Home of the week: A five-bedroom fully restored Victorian in Dorchester

Everybody needs options, the opportunity to see what life is like on the other side of the door. This fully restored Victorian in Dorchester?s Meetinghouse Hill neighborhood offers choices, particularly for where the master can lay his or her head.