State troopers nearly doubled their use of force in 2016

The increase was attributed to troopers? widespread use of Tasers for the first time.

Messages were left last year on a ?wall of hope? during a remembrance event. Search crews have finished their operation in the Indian Ocean and failed to find any trace of the doomed Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which went down in 2013.

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After 3 years, search for missing Malaysian Airlines plane ends

Crews completed their deep-sea search of a desolate stretch of the Indian Ocean without finding a trace of the plane.

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Theresa May has no interest in ?anything that leaves us half-in, half-out? of the EU, according to speech excepts.

The transition: Obama to Trump

Elisabeth DeVos, shown last month at an event in Grand Rapids, Mich., is Donald Trump?s nominee to be education secretary.

Associated Press/File

For many Cabinet picks, a steep learning curve is ahead

Donald Trump says he?s picked ?the best people? for his Cabinet. But many lack one thing: Expertise.

Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke Monday during the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast in Boston.

Warren won?t say Trump is ?legitimate president?

Elizabeth Warren decried President-elect Donald Trump?s negative comments about civil rights hero John Lewis.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/16/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Bedford_170116_BIKE_002.jpg Clark says she?s received ?positive? reaction to her boycott of inauguration

Congresswoman Katherine Clark is one of about two dozen members of Congress who said they would protest Donald Trump?s win.

Metro

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Officers haven?t been able to catch the coyote, which attacked Skippy, a 10-month miniature poodle, on Sunday.

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As cars evolve, gas are falling behind

With more hybrid, electric, and possibly driverless cars hitting roads in coming years, gas stations are under pressure to adapt to the needs of the industry, but can they?

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Senator Elizabeth Warren greeted City Councilor Tito Jackson Monday during the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast.

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KEVIN CULLEN

Incumbency, in black and white

The daunting nature of Tito Jackson?s challenge for Boston mayor has been made clear in recent days.

Business

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The Needham company known for sprawling games such as Lord of the Rings Online is downsizing in more ways than one.

Apptopia executives Eliran Sapir (left) and Jonathan Kay. The monitors display crucial company data in real time.

Open for business: companies letting workers see it all

Organizations are increasingly opening their finances, e-mails, performance data, and employee salaries for all workers to see.

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The pension fund too easily dismissed concerns over its money management, a Boston think-tank said.

AFC Championship: Steelers at Patriots

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/10/17/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/gasper_20131017.jpg A legitimate debate about Patriots will end soon

There will be no more free passes in the playoffs, just capable passers.

BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/15/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/Grossfeld11-001.jpg How the Texans exposed flaws in the Patriots? offense

Houston had its pass rushers line up inside, and they were able to get favorable 1-on-1 matchups.

Passengers rode the Route 7 bus in Boston last week.

Keith Bedford/Globe Staff

?Making Buses Sexy?: The new goal for transit advocates

?Buses are not the second-class citizens of the transit system. They can be awesome,? said one transportation backer.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/16/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/IMG_1673.PNG Adults present at party where man was stabbed, UMass Boston chancellor says

UMass Boston chancellor J. Keith Motley said adults were at his home early Sunday when a 20-year-old man was stabbed at a party there.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/16/BostonGlobe.com/Obits/Images/AFP_K18JW.jpg Gene Cernan, last astronaut to walk on the moon, dies at 82

Mr. Cernan, commander of NASA?s Apollo 17 mission, set foot on the lunar surface in December 1972 during his third space flight.

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They are fulfilling their promise of broad-based economic development.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/14/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/unbowed_tiled-11878.jpg As Obama departs, black youth question place in Trump?s America

Black youth in Ferguson, Baltimore, and Boston are confronting the paradox of President Obama?s historic ascension and the start of the Donald Trump era.

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

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One Texas city took on mental health as a community and became a national model. Why can?t Mass. do the same?

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.