LOCAL NEWS
Mothers unite to harness grief into action, justiceIn the framed photograph on Sarah Flint's desk, James "Jimmy" Flint looks straight at the camera. He's a handsome boy, with smooth caramel-colored skin and close-cropped hair. It's summer, and the short sleeves of his polo shirt fit snugly around youthful muscle. He's not exactly smiling, but there's an openness in his face, an adolescent mix of vulnerability and defiance. More » |
District 7 campaign pulls crowded fieldRoxbury voters will head to the polls next week to narrow the field of candidates seeking to replace ousted Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner in the District 7 seat. More » |
In new play, the words of Sophocles still ring trueToday, some American soldiers come back from Iraq and Afghanistan with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Is this something new? More » |
Mass. human service groups step up lobbying pushHuman service advocates have dramatically ramped up their lobbying efforts on Beacon Hill in recent years as the state plunged into a recession and lawmakers scrambled for areas to slash spending. More » |
Smith at home on stage in BostonKami Rushell Smith was virtually weaned on music and musical theater during her Tupelo, Miss. childhood. More » |
Mass. Egyptian watches Cairo protests from afarLAWRENCE, Mass. - For the past week, Amir Ghali has been either glued to the television watching the unrest unfold in his native Egypt or streaming live coverage on Al-Jazeera. More » |
Bill T. Jones' 'Body Against Body' sold out ICAAs a dancer and choreographer, Bill T. Jones finds the material of his artistry in the human body as it suffers, ages, loves, exults, labors and struggles - alone and with others. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
Census estimates big gains for minoritiesWASHINGTON - Racial and ethnic minorities accounted for roughly 85 percent of the nation's population growth over the last decade - one of the largest shares ever - with Hispanics accounting for much of the gain in many of the states picking up new House seats. More » |
Obama to Mubarak: Time to goWASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said Egypt's Hosni Mubarak should do the statesmanlike thing and make a quick handoff to a more representative government. More » |
'Actual malice'... debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public official - U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan More » |
Health care fraud no longer a faceless crimeWASHINGTON - Health care fraud used to be a faceless crime - until now. Medicare and Medicaid scams cost taxpayers more than $60 billion a year, but the average bank holdup is likely to get more attention. Seeking the public's help to catch more than 170 fugitive fraudsters, the government has launched a new health care most-wanted list, with its own website. More » |
Obama says people who hate him don't know himWASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says he doesn't take it personally when people say they hate him. And the thing he dislikes most about being president is the constant, intense scrutiny. "The people who dislike you don't know you. The folks who hate you, they don't know you," Obama said Sunday in an interview broadcast during Fox's pre-game coverage of the widely watched NFL football Super Bowl. More » |
Houston black leaders laud release of police videoHOUSTON - Prosecutors and Houston Mayor Annise Parker criticized a community activist's release last week of a surveillance video that appears to show four former city police officers kicking and stomping a black teenage burglary suspect last year, saying it could jeopardize the cases against the officers. More » |
Stop the presses: First iPad newspaper debutsNEW YORK - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. launched the first iPad-only newspaper last week. It is hoping the right combination of traditional reporting and technological wizardry will lure enough subscribers and advertisers to pay for a new way of delivering journalism. More » |
WORLD NEWS
Afro-Colombian rappers vie for GrammyBOGOTA, Colombia - For the descendants of African slaves who populate Colombia's poorest, most corruption-ridden corner, music has long been the most natural of distractions from a very hard life. More » |
