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Homicide investigation underway at a home in Franklin where a large fire then broke out

A person was killed inside a home in Franklin Friday morning where firefighters then had to battle a large blaze, according to Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey’s office.

Firefighters from several towns along with police and SWAT members converged at Grace Lane in Franklin Friday morning after a fire.

Dave Epstein | Forecast

Some snow moves into the area Saturday

Snow will break out between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. west of Boston Saturday and overspread the rest of the area during the second half of the afternoon.

Saturday’s Bruins-Canadiens game postponed as COVID-19 spreads through NHL

Boston is dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak, as seven players and one staffer have entered protocols this week.

Celtics’ Al Horford, Grant Williams join Jabari Parker in COVID-19 protocols

COVID cases are rising dramatically in the UK and Denmark, partially fueled by Omicron. What does that mean for the US?

Both Denmark and the United Kingdom reported new daily highs for coronavirus cases on Thursday, partially fueled by the highly transmissible Omicron variant.

Experts worry COVID pills could hinder vaccine efforts

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Study finds no evidence Omicron cases are less severe than Delta

Bold Types | Ross Chanowski

Ross Chanowski has created a new way to help launch local businesses. And it couldn’t come at a better time. ( Produced by Anush Elbakyan/Globe Staff, Produced & edited by Caitlin Healy/Globe Staff, Reporting by Janelle Nanos/Globe Staff, Camera: Lucie McCormick/Special to the Globe, Caitlin Healy/Globe Staff )

BOLD TYPES

Ross Chanowski has a new kind of crowdfunding with NuMarket

Its premise is simple: People who want to support a upcoming business offer what they can. In exchange, they receive a 120 percent credit back when it launches.

Alexis Cervasio just opened EBO & Company Grocery on Meridian Street in East Boston.

From oysters to Cheetos: EBO & Co. Grocery has something for everyone

The long-running East Boston Oysters event series has been reimagined into a physical retail store — a visually-arresting riot of color and condiments, with oysters, of course.

Larry Edelman | The 2-minute drill

The Massachusetts workforce is almost back to its pre-pandemic size

The state’s unemployment rate ticked up to 5.4 percent last month, the US Labor Department said Friday, but that’s actually good news. The increase was caused by more people starting to look for work.

Even bigger changes coming to Dorchester Ave. in Southie

A relocated college. A life sciences lab. And a 1 million square foot development. Take a look at the seven major proposals that got the go-ahead from the Boston Planning & Development Agency Thursday night.

Chad Finn | Unconventional Preview

The Colts put their cards on the table, but expect Mac Jones and the Patriots to have the upper hand

The Colts made it clear during the buildup to Saturday's game that they are going to dare Jones to beat them.

Five Colts players to watch against the Patriots in Week 15

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Tanner Lazaro broke apart frozen bait while working as a sternman on Frankie Thompson’s boat, Obsession, which launches out of Vinalhaven, Maine.

The Lobster Trap

Lobstering, climate change, and Maine. Read 7 takeaways from our ‘Lobster Trap’ series

The bounteous catch that brought wealth to fishing families is declining, as climate change warms the Gulf of Maine. A way of life is on the line, but lobstermen can't, or won't, imagine another.

Read Part 1: Where lobster is king Read Part 2: Protests and prayers About this project

Cathy Watt broke down after learning of the new regulations, including a seasonal closure for offshore lobstermen on Aug 31. “These kids did it right. The men who are offshore did it right. They work their way up. They work hard. And then someone comes and just flips it upside down on you... You’re out of a job, that’s it. You’re too high for the birds.”

Black News Hour

Episode 4: Bostonian Dart Adams shares the experiences of Black sports fans in the city

Then, Sheena Collier, founder and CEO of Boston While Black, details what her organization has done to create community amongst Black people living in the Boston area.

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The 10 best TV shows of 2021 (and 10 more that almost cracked the list)

Rich people behaving badly. An all-female Muslim punk band. A stand-up comic who’s lost her zing. This was the stuff of some of the season’s very best series.

Blind date: ‘He was good at keeping a conversation and I learned a lot about him’

Will these two transportation workers be heading in different directions?

Choreographer Ebony Williams has created moves for Beyoncé, Doja Cat, Alicia Keys, "In The Heights," and more.

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Finding freedom in the rhythm of dance

Black choreographers and dancers use movement to move us forward. They use dance to tell stories, evoke memories, and unite us.

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OnPoint in Harlem, the newly formed nonprofit running two safe injection sites in New York.

EDITORIAL

New York is home to the first supervised injection sites in America. Let Boston be next.

People struggling with addiction need places to go with medical supervision and services.

An unlikely source has offered a helping hand to local newspapers and sites: Congress.

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Street vendors in Port-au-Prince in July.

Andy Levin

A path back toward democracy in Haiti

It would be best if Governor Charlie Baker not name someone to the Suffolk DA job who would make any radical departures from Rollins’s broader criminal justice agenda.

EDITORIAL

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Firefighters battle massive fire in Brighton commercial building

One Boston firefighter was injured battling the eight-alarm blaze at a former music school in Brighton.

Area school districts respond to national threat shared on TikTok

School districts across the state have become aware of a TikTok post shared widely this week that refers to a threat to safety “for every school in the USA” to occur on Friday. They do not believe there is a credible threat.

He’s been stuck with nearly 200 plush elves for a year. Now, this New Hampshire resident is trying to find them a proper home.

Kevin Sutton wanted to start a side business on Etsy selling $1 elf dolls embroidered with people’s names. His plans fell through, and so he’s hoping to get the excess toys into the hands of kids for the holidays.

Providence man pleads guilty in fake catering scam

Paul Diogenes pled guilty Dec. 17 to charges of wire fraud and assault. He was arrested in August and accused of creating a fake catering company, buying and reselling $831,000 in lobster, shrimp, and steak — and that’s before he allegedly rammed FBI vehicles with his car, tried to run down officers, and then went on the lam for nine days

Connecticut school board member punched in face during mascot meeting

A suburban school board member was sent reeling to the floor by a punch to the face during a recess of a meeting about the high school’s mascot.

Mayor Wu names longtime aide Brianna Millor chief of community engagement

Brianna Millor, who served on Wu’s City Council staff and has been serving as a senior adviser, will take over the cabinet-level post designed to carry out Wu’s vow to bring City Hall services into Boston’s neighborhoods.

Best of the holidays

People under the holiday lights on Boston Common.

9 places around Boston where you can get into the holiday spirit (for free)

Every holiday season comes with a gamut of things to do and gifts to buy, and it can take a toll on the old wallet. That got us thinking about some activities in and around the city where you can revel in the holiday spirit for free.

Boston is dressed in its wintery best. Here’s where to see Christmas trees, menorahs, and other decorations 20 family-friendly events to put you in the holiday spirit

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‘It’s unbelievable. It’s the stuff of movies.’ New details emerge about a most-wanted fugitive who taught golf at a country club in Pembroke.

When Glenn Kelly got a job at the Pembroke Country Club as a teenager in the 1970s, he had no idea that he would be working alongside one of the most wanted fugitives in the country.

THE BIG IDEA | KARA MILLER

Has COVID made us too clean?

Cleanliness has been dispensed in squirts, wipes, and sprays for two years of the pandemic. But to scientists looking back on this time, the upsides may be outweighed by some serious downsides.

Have we started aging in dog years? Science is trying to put a number on it (but we already know the answer).

One poll found women feel they aged four years in 2020. Others say: That’s all???

KEVIN CULLEN

The oldest weekly newspaper in Vermont is on its last legs

The Vermont Standard began publishing 168 years ago, but its owner says its days are numbered — unless someone with big pockets and a love for small-town newspapers shows up in the picturesque village of Woodstock.

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Genesis performed at TD Garden Wednesday.

MUSIC REVIEW

At TD Garden, Genesis answers their own question

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Tim Colegrove, owner of the BYTE Shop, posed for a portrait at his Jamaica Plain store on Thursday. The BYTE Shop, home to one of the largest collections of historic home computers in New England, also offers electronics repair, resale, and recycling.

At Jamaica Plain’s new BYTE Shop, you can geek out over very old computers, or get your 21st-century model fixed

Dawn Simmons and Jazzmin Bonner of Stage Source, at a pre-pandemic NAAC/Boston reception.

ArtsBoston program pairs emerging BIPOC arts administrators with sponsors and mentors

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The 2021 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts

Is your employer among the 150 companies to make the list?

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A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

Special Report

In Harm’s Way

Vehicle rammings against protesters are on the rise, but the justice system often sides with drivers

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Michelle Butler of Eutaw, Ala., holds her son Curtis, who was born at 21 weeks of gestation.

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Roe’s ‘viability’ standard has been overtaken by science

Jerry Rappaport auctioned off his Holstein herd in East Montpelier, Vt., in 2018.

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Jerry Rappaport was a great philanthropist — and a developer who helped destroy a neighborhood

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The truth will come out on the Jan. 6 insurrection

Tatiana Ly, 10, is in a hydroponics room at the Jean Charles Academy, an independent school in Lynn.

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New school in Lynn is a call to arms against public education’s failings

A person wearing a mask emerges from a shop in Provincetown on July 30.

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Massachusetts needs another mask mandate

Tourists observe the lava flow from the Cumbre Vieja volcano on Spain's La Palma island.

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Study finds no evidence Omicron cases are less severe than Delta

The latest news and guidance on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic in New England and beyond.

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Providence man pleads guilty in fake catering scam

CDC endorses schools’ coronavirus ‘test-to-stay’ policies

US health officials are endorsing “test-to-stay” policies that allow close contacts of students infected with the coronavirus to remain in classrooms if they test negative.

Mayor Wu names longtime aide Brianna Millor chief of community engagement

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Danny Ainge spent 26 years in the Celtics organization.

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Danny Ainge says he wasn’t pushed out by the Celtics when he ‘retired,’ and other picked-up pieces from the sports world

Ainge, who recently took a job in the Jazz's front office, also said he thinks "today’s Celtics have a very bright future."

The Bruins lost to the Islanders on Thursday.

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The Bruins were destined to lose before the puck dropped Thursday, and now it’s time to shut them down for a while

The case doesn’t need to be made yet to shut down the league, but it does need to apply the same logic across the board when dealing with COVID issues.

Indianapolis Colts running back Jonathan Taylor leads the NFL with 1,348 yards.

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The Patriots will look to stop running back Jonathan Taylor, but they can't forget about breakout receiver Michael Pittman Jr. or Indianapolis's dynamic defense.

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Pfizer shifts study of 4-and-under shot to focus on three doses

When tested in children ages 2 to 4, the two-shot regimen failed to meet a laboratory standard for immune response set in an older age group.

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Homicide investigation underway at a home in Franklin where a large fire then broke out

Some snow moves into the area Saturday

Saturday’s Bruins-Canadiens game postponed as COVID-19 spreads through NHL

COVID cases are rising dramatically in the UK and Denmark, partially fueled by Omicron. What does that mean for the US?

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