LOCAL NEWS
City setting sights on lead poisoning in kidsWhen Taina Polanco bought her South Dorchester home in February of 2006, she worried about plenty of things: her job, improving her English, and making sure her 3-year-old daughter brushed her teeth in the morning. More » |
A hunger to serve For clients of Community Servings, the path to health goes through the stomachFrom succulent peach cobbler to hearty macaroni and cheese or spicy Spanish beef, there are certain foods that just always taste like home. These are the dishes Community Servings is intent on delivering. More » |
Hub nonprofits cultivate small business ownersThese days, sunshine greets Yvonne Jones as she enters her recently opened Halisi Day Spa & Salon in the Crosstown Center in Roxbury. More » |
Mass. woman misdiagnosed with HIV gets $2.5M verdictA Massachusetts jury awarded $2.5 million in damages last week to a woman who received HIV treatments for almost nine years before discovering she never actually had the virus that causes AIDS. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
Yale study: Race bias mars Conn. death penalty casesHARTFORD, Conn. - Lawyers for state death row inmates last week released a study that concludes minorities are disproportionately sentenced to die for their crimes in Connecticut, and decisions to seek the death penalty are often arbitrary. More » |
Clinton dig at Obama has ring to his own '92 raceSPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Bill Clinton says Sen. Barack Obama is a highly ambitious, political prodigy who is asking voters to "roll the dice" and elect him president. More » |
Thousands of black farmers may get boost from farm billWASHINGTON - The farm bill approved by the Senate last week moved Congress a step closer to reopening a landmark discrimination case against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). More » |
Federal Reserve taking on abusive lending practicesWASHINGTON - People taking out home mortgages may gain new protections soon against shady lending practices as the Federal Reserve seeks to back even the riskiest borrowers, already hit hardest by the housing and credit crunches. More » |
Carson, Indy's first black congresswoman, dies at 69INDIANAPOLIS - Rep. Julia Carson, the first black and first woman to represent Indianapolis in Congress, died Dec. 15, a family spokeswoman said. She was 69. More » |
WORLD NEWS
Under new leader, Liberia tries its hand at democracyMONROVIA, Liberia - Rarely in Africa has the human cost of war and greed been clearer than in this dingy, broken, sweltering corner of hell. Yet nowhere has the expectation of change created so much hope. More » |
Zuma on course for S. African presidency with ANC vote winPOLOKWANE, South Africa - South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) elected Jacob Zuma as its new leader on Tuesday, dumping President Thabo Mbeki and putting the populist politician on course to lead the country in 2009. More » |
