The Patriots safety provides an anchor while the NFL is rocked to its foundation by bigger issues than we?ve seen in decades.  

More snow is possible Tuesday morning, and temperatures will fall later in the week.  

Totals ranged from over seven inches in areas near Framingham and Littleton to lesser amounts near the rain-snow line on the South Shore.  

Late last month, when a Maine hunter stumbled on a deer in need, he did something that might seem counterintuitive.  

Even Santa Claus can?t escape the chaotic and sometimes troubling news cycle, as last night?s cold open of ?Saturday Night Live? showed. 

The Globe?s Spotlight Team confronts one of Boston?s most vexing issues ? racism ? in a seven-part series that examines the city?s pervasive and persistent national image as a place unwelcoming to black people. Spotlight attempts to answer an important question: Is this reputation still deserved? 

Giancarlo Stanton, who led the major in homers last season with 59, was precisely the type of slugger the Red Sox needed in their lineup.  

Making a hasty move in the wake of the Giancarlo Stanton deal proves nothing.  

There are only about 450 of the whales left and 17 of them have died so far in 2017.  

No excursion can capture this city unless you?re willing to leave the flats, get off your bike, and huff it up its hills to spellbinding views.

Find presents for everyone on your list, in local shops right around the corner. 

The vital luminosity of Handel?s work contributes to its perpetual presence in December, but even more so does a performance like this one.