Russian ambassador to Turkey shot

The ambassador was hospitalized with a gunshot wound, but his condition was not immediately known.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/19/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/629890418.jpg Maine elector says he?ll vote for Sanders

It appears that Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is going to get at least one of Maine?s four electoral votes.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Bedford_161219_PROTEST_002.jpg Mass. protesters participate in nationwide anti-Trump rallies

At state capitals around the nation, demonstrators gathered as electors met to cast their votes for president.

Manchester, NH- 12-14-16:

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A bureaucratic odyssey that cost thousands of dollars ? over chicken feathers

Importer Paul Swope?s N.H. business ran afoul of federal officials.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/19/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/d7eedf0d14db43259aefcff94fb7e87b-d7eedf0d14db43259aefcff94fb7e87b-0.jpg N.C.?s bathroom law that prompted a national outcry is going away

Governor-elect Roy Cooper said legislators will repeal the contentious law that limited protections for LGBT people.

Man weeps through arraignment in Braintree hit-and-run fatal

A relative of the victim lunged at him, shouting ?Murderer!? but was restrained.

The transition to Trump

FILE - This Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016, file photo shows Exxon Mobil's Billings Refinery in Billings, Mont. President-elect Donald Trump this week tapped ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to serve as his secretary of state. If confirmed by the Senate, where opposition is emerging, the move could have broad consequences for U.S. environmental policy and affect the role the U.S. plays in multinational discussions about climate change. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

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Trump?s State pick has a long history with Mass. politicians

The confirmation hearings for chief executive Rex Tillerson could become a forum on greenhouse gases and climate change.

Man arrested after allegedly breaking into police detective?s personal car

The Boston detective, who was off-duty at the time, confronted the 46-year-old suspect.

Bonnie Bruce is the mother of a Vermont woman, Tamara, who was found the day after Thanksgiving passed out from heroin in her car with her fiance and their two young children.

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They passed out from heroin with kids in the car. But there was more.

?Heroin is the worst thing in the world,? said a grandmother whose daughter and her fiance passed out in a car, a sign of the drug?s scourge plaguing New England.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/5bbcf65831cb48b1955cc178f17dc5fa-5bbcf65831cb48b1955cc178f17dc5fa-0.jpg Merriam-Webster?s word of the year is pretty ?surreal?

According to the Springfield-based company, the word was looked up more frequently on their online dictionary than in previous years.

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

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SPOTLIGHT FOLLOW-UP

Across region, outdated sex abuse laws have loopholes

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

Patriots 16, Broncos 3

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/10/06/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/shaughnessy_20131006.jpg Are Patriots this good, or is every other team a Tomato Can?

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

BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/19/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/lee_patritotsbroncos13_spts.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 2015.

Names

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/19/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/ScholarAthleteGala13-4987.jpg Gronk?s girlfriend stars in ?Westworld? parody

The short video, featuring model and former Patriots cheerleader Camille Kostek, was made by a local company as a holiday card.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/19/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Radwan16-11602.jpg Ex-UConn player who lost her scholarship for flashing middle finger now suing the school

Noriana Radwan made the obscene gesture to a TV camera during a postgame celebration with teammates.

The relationship between Cheers and Tom Kershaw and Globe Santa is a story of 36 continuous years of generosity to the holiday fund from the famed Beacon Street establishment. Last week, the generosity was extended by another $11,000 in a presentation at the Hampshire House. From left, Markus Ripperger, Sara O?Malley, Stephanie Vetter, CEO Thomas A. Kershaw, Bill Connolly of Globe Santa, John Vo, and Ciara Ripperger.

Globe Santa

A plea for three children from a shelter

From a safe house for battered women, a mother writes to Globe Santa on behalf of her kids.

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

Opinion | Christine Lagarde

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/16/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/income%20inequality.jpg The challenge of economic inclusion

A more equitable income distribution is not only sound social policy, but also sound economic policy.

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.