Since 1994, Wendy MacLean of Lowell has been creating a Victorian-inspired dollhouse with painstaking detail. Most of it handmade, with a precision that defies belief. 

With the last few critical days before Christmas approaching, stores have been amping up their efforts to ensure procrastinators get what they need.  

Asked how special it is to play on Christmas Day, Irving starts, ?I?m excited for...? before trailing off and restarting his answer.  

?I mean sometimes, you?ve gotta bend some rules, don?t you?? said Bruce Bowen, Duncan?s former teammate, about the star?s free agency courtship with the Magic.  

But Belichick also did not deny a Globe report that Tom Brady?s trainer has been limited at Gillette Stadium.

Tom Brady is turning into Tom Cruise ? it?s only a matter of time before he jumps on the couch with Oprah in defense of Alex Guerrero.  

Boston?s reputation for a sleepy, sometimes underwhelming night life has long been a buzzkill. 

Dick Clark Productions says it has cut ties with the Miss America Organization over internal emails by pageant senior leadership that ridiculed past winners? appearance, intelligence and sex lives. 

Enberg got his big break with UCLA basketball and went on to call Super Bowls, Olympics, Final Fours and Angels and Padres baseball games. 

MGM Springfield is drawing inspiration from famous locals as it prepares for its grand 2018 opening.  

A British Army sergeant and a former diving instructor tied the knot in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.  

Lithuania has given Pope Francis a Christmas present that is invisible to the naked eye: a Nativity scene where baby Jesus is smaller than a human cell.  

So goes Will Smith?s tongue-in-cheek summation of why he took on what has turned into one of the worst reviewed films of the season, the big-budget Netflix release ??Bright.?? 

Since 1961 Boston Public School students, families, and employees have donated some $550,000 to Globe Santa.