LOCAL NEWS
Advantage: Tito JacksonWaging an aggressive, well-staffed campaign, Tito Jackson won a landslide victory in the preliminary balloting for the District 7 City Council seat vacated by Chuck Turner. More » |
Officer still awaiting his day in courtAfter 20 years as a Massachusetts court officer, Thomas Flint is still waiting for his own day in court. More » |
The elite serve the homeless at Harvard shelterCAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - As darkness falls on Harvard Square, students wrapped tight against the freezing cold hustle down icy, red-brick sidewalks and past snow banks, eager to reach the warmth of dorms and libraries. More » |
Panel: Don't consolidate Mass. probation, paroleA task force appointed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to review the state's troubled Probation Department is rejecting key proposals made by Gov. Deval Patrick and House Speaker Robert DeLeo. More » |
Mass. gov. unveils plan to curb health care costsMassachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick unveiled legislation last week he says will rein in spiraling insurance costs by setting boundaries on the health care market. More » |
Award-winning film producer Aloyce Beth Deare dies in tragic house fireAloyce Beth Deare, the former producer of WGBH's "Say Brother," died in a four-alarm blaze that destroyed her Newton Corner home early Monday morning. Stricken with cancer, the Emmy award-winning Deare, 63, recently had taken time off as an English professor at Bunker Hill Community College. More » |
US banker to match immigrants' college savingsCHELSEA - It started with an immigration raid four years ago. From his Melrose home, Bob Hildreth watched the aftermath of federal immigration agents storming a New Bedford, Massachusetts, leather factory and netting 350 suspected illegal immigrant workers from Guatemala and El Salvador. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
Washington: the 'blackest name' in AmericaGeorge Washington's name is inseparable from America, and not only from the nation's history. It identifies countless streets, buildings, mountains, bridges, monuments, cities - and people. More » |
Clinton helps dedicate Little Rock Nine exhibitLITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - Former President Bill Clinton joined the eight living members of the Little Rock Nine on Saturday to dedicate an exhibit in the Clinton Presidential Center commemorating the black students who were pioneers in school integration more than five decades ago. More » |
Are companies excluding jobless from applying?WASHINGTON - Are some companies weeding out job applicants just because they are unemployed? After news accounts about the practice and requests from concerned lawmakers, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has jumped in, trying to figure out whether it?s a widespread tactic that could violate federal job discrimination laws. More » |
NY group says juries should weigh witnesses' raceALBANY, N.Y. - New York juries should consider the greater inaccuracy of identifications made by crime witnesses when the suspect is a different race, according to a judicial task force. More » |
Aretha Franklin talks return to stage, diet changeNEW YORK - Aretha Franklin, who says she's back at "150 percent," is planning to return to the stage in May for her first post-surgery performance. More » |
Confederate descendants mark 150th anniversaryMONTGOMERY, Ala. - Confederate descendants and re-enactors dressed in soldiers' uniforms and hoop skirts marched down the main avenue in Montgomery on Saturday to mark the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. More » |
WORLD NEWS
Libyan forces fire on mourners at funeral againCAIRO - Libyan forces fired machine-guns at mourners marching in a funeral for anti-government protesters in the eastern city of Benghazi Sunday, a day after commandos and foreign mercenaries loyal to longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi pummeled demonstrators with assault rifles and other heavy weaponry. More » |
Bahrain's Sunni outreach fuels protestsMANAMA, Bahrain - Among the marchers pledging loyalty to Bahrain's embattled king were many from afar: other Sunni Arabs and South Asians granted citizenship and jobs in the tiny Gulf nation. More » |
Veteran Egypt activist sees revolution as ongoingCAIRO - He organized his first demonstration while still a student in 1998, then got arrested and tortured by Egyptian police two years later at age 23. Now he has seen the fall of the president he spent his adult life struggling against. More » |
Aristide backers march amid talk of Haiti returnPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Several thousand supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide protested in Haiti's quake-torn capital Friday, waving photos of their exiled leader and vowing to derail a runoff election next month unless he returns. More » |
Jordan's king wants effective political partiesAMMAN, Jordan - Jordan's King Abdullah II on Sunday called for "quick and real" political reforms to give the public a greater role in governing and to eliminate corruption, favoritism and nepotism. More » |
