LOCAL NEWS
'Sober houses' under legal review by cityThe Roxbury development that has become Safe Haven Sober Houses started quietly enough a decade ago when a one-man real estate company based in Hull bought an undeveloped parcel on the eastern foot of Fort Hill. More » |
The story behind the misidentification of Rev. Bruce Wall's sonAs armed robberies go, this one was pretty tame. On Nov. 9 at around 2:30 p.m., two young black men crossed paths with three other young black men on West Street near Cleary Square in the Hyde Park section of Boston. More » |
Hub youth leaders speak out about unhealthy storefront adsLeaders from Sociedad Latina and other youth-oriented community groups hosted a hearing at City Hall Monday to raise awareness about advertisements promoting unhealthy lifestyles, like smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol, in the storefront windows of Boston establishments. More » |
Jury says rights of ACLU official violated at LoganState police unlawfully detained an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) official who was stopped by police and questioned at Logan International Airport in 2003, a federal jury ruled. More » |
BPD gun search plan under fire at City Council hearingCommunity leaders, local politicians and city residents came together Monday for a City Council hearing on the potential benefits and dangers of the Boston Police Department's controversial new Safe Homes initiative to residents of Roxbury and Dorchester. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
West rethinks lopsided agricultural subsidiesNGIRESI, Tanzania - Farmer Loi Bangoti picks corn by hand on the lush, cool slopes of his land, nestled under the cloudy shadow of Africa's highest mountains. More » |
Army pays black vet $725 for '44 wrongful convictionSEATTLE - In 1944, an Italian prisoner of war was found lynched following a night of rioting at Fort Lawton in Seattle. More » |
Panel allows easing of old crack prison sentencesWASHINGTON - The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to allow some 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them black, to seek reductions in their crack cocaine sentences. More » |
