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A federal judge has thrown out a legal challenge to the US government’s attempts to obtain interviews with former IRA members. More >

Orlando Magic forward Glen “Big Baby” Davis’ first game back in Boston was hardly the homecoming he was hoping for.

When Davis stepped on the parquet floor Monday night at TD Garden wearing an opposing team’s jersey for the first time, he seemed set on showing his former team just what it was missing.

Boston College says it will consider its legal options following a federal order to hand over more recorded interviews with former members of the Irish Republican Army, the mostly Catholic guerrilla group that waged war on British targets in England and Ireland for more than a quarter century. More >

Fresh off a big win in the New Hampshire primary, Mitt Romney returned to his Massachusetts headquarters for a brief visit before heading off to campaign in the next state on the primary line-up: South Carolina. More >

The Boston Globe will print and deliver the Boston Herald, starting this month, as the tabloid seeks to cut costs and prepares to move from its headquarters in the South End, the two newspapers said.

Under terms of the deal, the Herald will pay the Globe an undisclosed sum to print and distribute its editions in the Boston area, enabling the Herald to eliminate the jobs of 53 truck drivers and other delivery personnel through layoffs and buyouts.

In its endorsement of Jon Huntsman, the Boston Globe made largely the same case for the Utah governor’s candidacy that the candidate himself has to New Hampshire voters — that he is the rare GOP candidate prioritizing the national interest over ideology. More >

Ten years after the sex abuse scandal erupted in the Archdiocese of Boston, Cardinal Sean O’Malley has written a contrite public letter, faulting the church’s response and insisting that the church can never again fail to protect the young.

“As a church we must continue to express the depth of our sorrow and contrition for how badly we failed those entrusted to our care,” O’Malley wrote in a Wednesday (Jan. 4) pastoral letter.

Authorities say one person has died and five others, including a firefighter, have been taken to hospitals after an early morning fire at a Boston apartment complex for the elderly.

The fire at the Harbor Point apartments was reported at about 3 a.m. Tuesday.

Firefighters focused on a fourth-floor apartment where the blaze is thought to have originated. That’s where the victim, described as an elderly man, was found.

In a scene straight out of a movie, former New England Patriots defensive tackle Houston Antwine and wife Evelyn tragically died within 24 hours of each other after long bouts with heart failure and lung cancer, respectively. More >

Make way for visitors with neck lanyards on the streets of Boston in 2012.

The Hub is set to have its strongest year for convention business since 2007, according to the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority. More >