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The Patriots have several important defensive players listed as questionable for Sunday’s game.

Why college football and not the NFL for Bill Belichick? BC coach Bill O’Brien joined the Patriots Talk Podcast to discuss that topic and more.

Will Tee Higgins get to free agency. And if he does, should the Patriots make him their top target? Check out a new episode of the Next Pats Podcast.

Toys are flooding into a Boston nonprofit after concerns earlier this week that no donations were coming in for its annual toy drive. Friday, we got a look at the holiday haul at Action for Boston Community Development – or ABDC – and where those gifts are headed. It may feel like a cliche, but in many ways it’s a…

A major water main break is making a mess of a stretch of Boylston Street in Boston on Friday afternoon. The water main break was reported shortly after 1 p.m. The Boston Water and Sewer Commission said on social media at 1:16 p.m. that they were responding to a leak in the street in the vicinity of 364 Boylston St….

After a rather wet week – we’re now in a drier pattern. This air, originating from Canada, will bring the coldest air the region has seen since February. So how the sudden flip? Wednesday’s air felt more tropical, and now mark’s the arrival of Arctic air.This is always one of my favorite tools for visualizing why the sudden change....

Boston, are you ready to discover your inner child? (Think unlimited ice cream and a world-famous sprinkle pool.) The Museum of Ice Cream is opening in the Seaport on Saturday.

Celtics big man Kristaps Porzingis offered an interesting retrospective of his career to date after Boston’s win over the Pistons.

Gene-editing pioneer Editas lays off more than half its employees

Two Massachusetts corrections officers were arrested Friday on federal COVID unemployment and loan fraud charges. Christnel Orisca, 25, of Boston, was indicted by a federal grand jury on five counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement to a financial institution. Jasmine Murphy, 38, also of Boston, was indicted on seven counts of...

A former top partner at McKinsey has also agreed to plead guilty to obstruction of justice in the federal probe, according to court filings Friday

The regional supermarket chain Stop & Shop said Wednesday that it would install kiosks in all of its U.S. stores to make digital-only coupons more accessible to customers. Stop & Shop, which operates in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island, said the kiosks will let customers scan a loyalty card or enter a phone ...

What led Bill Belichick to eschew the NFL to lead a middling North Carolina program? Tom E. Curran dives into the fascinating dynamics at play.