The Patriots say there's no finger-pointing after their Super Bowl loss, even if supermodel Gisele Bundchen won't abide by that code.

Members of the state's all-Democratic U.S. House delegation are stockpiling cash as they prepare to run in districts that in some cases have been radically redrawn under the state's new congressional map.

Former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi has left the federal prison in Kentucky where he's been held since last fall, but it's unclear where he is headed or if the move is permanent.

Massachusetts residents are paying two more cents a gallon at the gas pump, the seventh consecutive week of increases.

For the third consecutive year, the Super Bowl set a record as the most-watched television show in U.S. history.

The future of a Holyoke church where parishioners have been holding a 24-hour vigil to protest its closure by the Diocese of Springfield is now in the hands of the Vatican.

Animal welfare officials have rescued four more dolphins that stranded on Cape Cod over the weekend.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has responded to a subpoena from the Department of Justice and Office of the Inspector General regarding its billing of Medicare for short-stay hospital admissions. The federal government is investigating whether the hospital admitted patients who should have been cared for as outpatients for less money. This is an area of increasing scrutiny by the federal government, in part because there is a lot of money at stake.

How science is revealing the roots of romance and debunking myths.

In the suburbs, Occupy groups haven’t pitched any tents or occupied any territory. Their focus remains on economic inequality in the United States. Local groups, in Somerville, Malden, Salem, Lowell, Woburn, and on Cape Ann, have blended national issues - such as unemployment, homelessness and high corporate earnings - with local concerns, which range from protesting the proposed MBTA fare hikes to keeping a hospital in business in Gloucester.

For roughly 17 years Salem’s Pickering Wharf was the Graceland for witchcraft and Laurie Cabot its Elvis. Cabot, 79, who opened Salem’s first witch shop about 40 years ago on Derby Street, locked her doors at 63R Wharf St. Jan 31 for good. But she is not retiring.

Nearly five years since Lynnfield voters approved a zoning change to allow a mixed-use development on the former Sheraton Colonial Golf Course, the project is moving forward. In December, workers began demolishing the former golf course buildings, opening the way for other site preparation to begin this spring. The project was originally set to be constructed in 2009, but was stalled due to the economic downturn.

The Cohasset Water Department is making waves again - this time for questions about potential conflict of interest involving the chairman of the water commission and over concerns about plans to give a 20-year contract to a company to run the town-owned utility. Commissioners counter there is no conflict and they are only trying to do the best for the town - and wish the town manager would stop sabotaging their efforts.

The state’s top fire official is exploring whether the use of popular floating paper luminaries falls under a Massachusetts law banning fireworks and, if it doesn’t, whether it should. Fire Marshal Stephen Coan’s move follows a Christmas incident in Hanover in which 40 flaming paper sky lanterns, as they are known, launched by a resident at a family party floated above trees and over the town line into a Norwell neighborhood, sparking panic in drivers and others who noticed them in the night sky.

Two alumni who have been highly successful in their careers returned to their alma mater in Abington to help celebrate St. Bridget’s 50th anniversary last week, reminiscing about long-ago days spent at the parochial school and fielding some tough questions from seventh- and eighth-graders there now. Massachusetts Democratic Party chairman John Walsh, a member of the eighth-grade class of 1971, and state Auditor Suzanne Bump, class of 1969, said values learned at the school still hold true.

The airport in Stow was a grass landing strip in the early 1960s when Paul McPherson, an instrument-maker who loved to fly, bought the land and renamed it Minute Man Air Field. It’s now home to several flight-training schools, a bakery, a restaurant, a printing company and more than 60 planes and helicopters.

In 2007, Medfield’s Justin Kittredge started an inner city program for youths, Shooting Touch Inc. He charged fees, and then raised additional funds to provide a $25,000 grant to a graduating college senior who could go anywhere in the world for 10 months with a clear mission: to use basketball, through clinics and education, etc., to work with the underprivileged and effect positive change.