Boston Celtics forward Jae Crowder (99) yells after scoring a basket against the Memphis Grizzlies during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Boston, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016. The Celtics defeated the Grizzlies 113-103. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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CHAD FINN | SPORTS MEDIA

Celtics fans cheered an opposing player. Then came the ridiculous ancillary maelstrom.

It mushroomed into one of the most transparent and irresponsible themes imaginable: Boston sports fans are racist.

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The Celtics forward says he reacted too strongly but still believes the Boston fans shouldn’t have cheered for Gordon Hayward.

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A tale of young love drove a son on an eye-opening journey. And in the process, a musical legacy that was all but lost has been found, and a life revealed.

Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson

Opinion | Marcela García

Sheriff’s proposal to have prisoners build Donald Trump’s wall is absurd

The inevitable Trump mini-mes are beginning to surface from the brush of the political landscape, and even Massachusetts is not immune.

Names

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Red Sox chairman Tom Werner said it’s not for a lack of trying that Fenway has hosted mostly white male artists.

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Five Globe sports writers vote in the election. See how they cast their ballots for the Class of 2017.

Electricians from Local 103 posed with Juno after finding the cat along a steel girder on I-93 this week.

Local 103

Cat that fell out of vehicle on I-93 found safe 9 days later

Juno was hiding along a steel girder high above I-93 when electricians from Local 103 rescued her.

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Here’s your recap of the most important business news for Thursday.

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A yellow Lamborghini was involved in a crash on I-93 south in Quincy on Thursday, according to State Police.

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The Globe’s picks for weekend fun in Boston and beyond.

R.I. escapee captured in Somerville

MANDATORY CREDIT: STANLEY FOREMAN, WCVB 06morales - State Police brought Morales to the barracks in Medford, where he will be booked. He had a bandage on his left leg and appeared to be in some pain. (Stanley Forman/WCVB)

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James Morales, who escaped a federal jail in R.I. on Saturday, was captured after a foot pursuit in Somerville following a days-long manhunt.

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If Charlie Baker is re-elected, the MBTA would not seek an extension of its current commuter rail contract with Keolis.

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Marijuana advocates are trying to block an anti-legalization lawmaker from becoming the state Senate’s point person on pot.

The transition to Trump

Former Indiana Senator Dan Coats spoke with the press following a meeting with Donald Trump in November.

Trump selects Dan Coats as director of national intelligence

Donald Trump’s decision to select the former Indiana senator comes as the president-elect has been sharply critical of the nation’s intelligence agencies.

President-elect Donald Trump.

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Evan Horowitz | Quick Study

Massachusetts immune to Trump health care changes? Think again.

The state is reliant on federal dollars for whatever health care insurance plan we use.

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The congresswoman said she believes attending the inauguration would “normalize” Trump’s promotion of “bigoted, misogynist, anti-Semitic, and racist claims.”

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/05/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/33aa1c4c7f22436384569460a59435ac-33aa1c4c7f22436384569460a59435ac-0.jpg Sears to close 150 stores, sell Craftsman brand for $900m

With Sears’s department-store business continuing to bleed cash, its CEO has turned to selling and spinning off assets to keep the company operating.

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Opinion | Michael D’Antonio

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The challenges Barack Obama confronted during his eight years as president remain under-appreciated, as do the successes he achieved.

Special reports

special report

Every doctor told the Lacey family their son would die — except one

Pat and Dina Lacey had been parents for only a few months when doctors discovered a tumor in their new baby’s chest. Told to take their son home to die, they put their faith in a young doctor who wouldn’t accept death as the answer.

Life sciences

STAT, a national publication from Boston Globe Media Partners, covers health, medicine, and life sciences.

Investigations

The Desperate and the Dead | Part 7

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One Texas city took on mental health as a community and became a national model. Why can’t Mass. do the same?

The story behind ‘Spotlight’

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“Spotlight” is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.