Community rips BRA at Parcel 3 meeting
Roxbury residents who packed an auditorium at the Dudley Square branch of the Boston Public Library blasted the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) and Mayor Thomas M. Menino during a meeting of the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan Oversight Committee on Monday. More »
States pull back on get-tough crime laws
NEW YORK - For the last four decades, the laws of the land were all about cracking down on crime by locking away criminals for a very long time. Some carried scary names like "Three Strikes and You're Out" - as in cast out of society. The harshest penalties for drug offenders, the notorious so-called "Rockefeller laws," were named after a New York governor battling a 1970s heroin epidemic. More »
Yancey's annual fair gives 50,000 books to Hub kids
An overflow crowd packed Dorchester's Prince Hall Grand Lodge last Saturday for the 23rd annual Charles C. Yancey Book Fair. Some families waited outside on the drizzly afternoon, hoping to catch some of the fair's musical and dance acts and take home a backpack full of new books. More »
BE HEALTHY: Lupus - Hope for a lupus patient
Say this about Hope White. For the last 20 years, lupus and all its complications have altered her life in devastating ways. But one thing remains constant: her parents named her right. "They named me that for a reason," White explained. "Hope" is an understatement. Since her diagnosis, White, 44, has had one complication after another. As it is now, she takes 16 different medications, and is in and out of doctor's offices almost every week. More »
