LOCAL NEWS
Deval heads Far East to stir up business for the Bay StateGov. Deval Patrick will depart tomorrow to lead a trade mission to the People's Republic of China with a team of Massachusetts business executives, academics and senior government officials. More » |
Mass. bumps presidential primary up a monthMassachusetts moved its presidential primary to Feb. 5, joining some two-dozen states holding contests on what amounts to a mega-primary day. More » |
Tough work to come next year for Patrick, lawmakersIn one of their final votes before heading out on holiday recess just before Thanksgiving, lawmakers handed Gov. Deval Patrick a win, passing the first bill he filed as governor - legislation creating a volunteer "Commonwealth Corps." More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
Dem hopefuls setting sights on Iowa winWASHINGTON - For now, the Democratic presidential campaign has become a four-letter word: Iowa. More » |
Desegregation rulings causing confusionOfficials in Shelby County, Tenn., complain they'll have to spend millions to satisfy a federal judge's "arbitrary" desegregation order. It'll mean busing minority students up to an hour away and replacing hundreds of white teachers with black ones, they say. More » |
Government study finds Americans now reading lessNEW YORK - The latest National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) report draws on a variety of sources, public and private, and essentially reaches one conclusion: Americans are reading less. More » |
Report: College costs continue rising in U.S.The price of college again rose faster than the inflation rate this year, climbing 6.6 percent at four-year public schools and outstripping increases in the financial aid that lowers what most students actually pay. More » |
Diversity training planned for Olympic Trial volunteersEUGENE, Ore. - Earlier this year, black high school students from Portland's Roosevelt High School were subjected to racial slurs at a boy's basketball tournament in Eugene. More » |
WORLD NEWS
Ex-Mozambique leader wins African governance prizeALEXANDRIA, Egypt - Mozambique's former president was honored Monday by Africa's elite with a prize of more than $5 million designed to promote good governance in a continent often blighted by misrule. More » |
Life still grim in French suburbs, despite pledgesPARIS - Life has not improved for the inhabitants of France's poor, ethnically diverse suburbs since the riots of 2005, despite millions of euros in cash pledges and President Nicolas Sarkozy's election promises. More » |
Katrina-damaged cars now flood foreign auto marketsCOCHABAMBA, Bolivia - The bathtub ring of mold on the ceiling of Colleen McGaw's Mini Cooper marks how high Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters rose inside the sporty red coupe. More » |
Ian Smith, ex-PM of Rhodesia, dies at 88HARARE, Zimbabwe - Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last white prime minister whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war, has died. He was 88. More » |
