LOCAL NEWS
Federal judge sentences Chuck Turner to three yearsFormer Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner has been sentenced to three years in prison for taking a $1,000 bribe and then lying about it to FBI agents. More » |
'No House Left Behind,' say volunteers in Grove Hall 'Barnraising'Betty Maguire has a problem. As a grandmother living on a fixed income, she can hardly afford her winter heating bills. More » |
Call for a paradigm shift in public safetyIn the aftermath of Domenic Cinelli's killing of a Woburn police officer we find ourselves in a moral quagmire. Nothing short of a tectonic paradigm shift in how we create public safety will put us on steady ground. More » |
'Sweet Life' for young singer and songwriter WhitlockMaggie Whitlock may have started and stopped learning a number of musical instruments. What she has never given up on are singing and songwriting. More » |
Debut film set during Black Power movement"Night Catches Us" is the debut feature film by writer and director Tanya Hamilton. Set in the late 1970s amidst the backdrop of a struggling Black Power movement, this film stars Kerry Washington and Anthony Mackie. Marcus, played by Mackie, is the main character and a former member of Philly's Black Power movement. When he returns home after being away for several years, he finds himself caught up in a hornet's nest of unresolved issues that include his former Black Power cronies and Patricia, his former lover, played by Washington. More » |
Mass. AG: Tougher laws needed to target pimpsAttorney General Martha Coakley is joining with lawmakers and police to push a bill to toughen criminal penalties against pimps and others profiting from human trafficking. More » |
Patrick proposes $65M local aid cut in Mass.Gov. Deval Patrick told Massachusetts city and town leaders Friday he will cut some of their local aid in the fiscal 2012 budget he proposes this week, but attempt to offset the reduction with legislation granting them long-sought power to trim municipal employee health insurance costs. More » |
Mass. gov. wants to end private lawyers for poorGov. Deval Patrick on Monday proposed ending the state's practice of hiring private attorneys to represent most indigent criminal defendants in Massachusetts, a proposal the administration says will save $45 million a year, but is drawing criticism from defense attorneys. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
Obama popular, but doubts remainWASHINGTON - An overwhelming majority of Americans like Obama, but most say he hasn't accomplished much on two top goals - fixing the sluggish economy and changing how Washington works, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll midway through the first term of his presidency. More » |
MLK's daughter exits, SCLC future in doubtATLANTA - The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), founded by the giants of the American civil rights movement, has spent years in decline and power struggles. Now the once-proud organization faces what might be a final blow with the refusal of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter to take the helm. More » |
On JFK 50th anniversary, family gathers in WashingtonWASHINGTON (AP) - Fifty years ago last Thursday, President John F. Kennedy told the world that "the torch had been passed to a new generation of Americans" whom he challenged to "ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." More » |
WORLD NEWS
Project MEMA touches lives in Tanzanian nursery schoolWhen asked why she started the nonprofit organization Project MEMA, Amy Wendel takes a serious tone and describes the conditions at Magereza Nursery School in Moshi, Tanzania. "I just couldn't get them out of my head, it's that simple," she says More » |
'Baby Doc' Duvalier: I came to take part in reconstructionPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier ended his silence, telling Haitians he returned after 25 years in exile because he wanted to participate in the reconstruction of the earthquake-shattered country. More » |
Future of Sudan's Darfur uncertain post-referendumKHARTOUM, Sudan - Years before Sudan's south began casting votes for succession, the woes of Africa's largest country were defined by the ethnic bloodshed in the western Darfur region. More » |
