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Boston's public schools are in for a shakeup. Superintendent Carol Johnson has laid out a five-year timetable for bringing the whole district up to par with 14 schools listed for restructuring. WBUR's Bianca Vazquez Toness reports.

While swine flu cases have dipped in the last week or so, health officials warn that it’s not over yet. Flu activity is still far higher than it has been in prior years – and there were two deaths this week of Massachusetts residents who tested ...

HARWICH, Mass. -- Teens at a local high school staged a sit-in that ended with two arrests. "Respect. That's all we're trying to get out of it," said Ana Nocchi, a senior at Cape Cod Technical High S...

The Harvard Crimson student newspaper the cuts could come through attrition, by leaving vacancies unfilled and through retirement packages.The scale of the reduction hasn't been determined.There are 7...

H ARWICH - Police have sealed off Cape Cod Regional Technical High School this morning following a student protest demonstration earlier today and arrested three students. The scheduled sit-in at 8 a...

The Massachusetts unemployment rate fell last month for the first time in nearly 2 and a half years as the job market was spurred by expansion in the science, health and business services sectors. The unemployment rate dropped from 9.3 percent in ...

As attorney general, Martha Coakley has made many decisions that affect citizens of the commonwealth. But in her campaign for Senate, you don't hear her talk about the one with the news coverage and potential impact: choosing to settle the criminal case against the contractors of the Big Dig for $458 million, instead of going to trial.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has made it into the history books, defeating Michael Flaherty to win an unprecedented fifth term. But it was his tightest re-election and some were surprised how close his challenger came to unseating him.

Chestnut Hill, MA (Sports Network) - Boston College has suspended three players, including starters Corey Raji and Rakim Sanders, for the first two games of the season for violating team rules. The un...

Four police officers, one firefighter and a woman were treated for smoke inhalation following a house fire in Scituate. Police were called to the home on 24 Borden Road around 3:00 p.m. after a n...

F AIRHAVEN — When the Lavalettes first went off-grid, there were times the family needed to check its bulletin board to know which energy system was in use. "Today we’re on solar," the bo...

AMHERST, Mass. -- A convicted terrorist's on-again-off-again speech at UMASS Amherst is on again -- with a twist. Raymond Levasseur was originally scheduled to address the crowd, but it was his attor...

The former governor spoke at Harvard about policing Wall Street. But mention of the prostitution scandal that brought him down sandwiched his address.

WASHINGTON – States that allow gay marriage can’t force the federal government to provide benefits to those couples, the Obama administration argued Friday in court papers in a lawsuit by Massachusetts. The Justice Department is at odds with ...

C olby Cohen took a Kevin Shattenkirk pass and beat goalie Carter Hutton at 3:54 of overtime to push the Boston University men’s hockey team (2-2-0) to a 5-4 win against UMass-Lowell (3-2-0) at ...

O n Halloween 10 years ago today, EgyptAir Flight 990 nose-dived into the ocean off Nantucket from 33,000 feet, leaving the families of 217 children, grandparents and lovers forever haunted by the que...

A husband, a hero and a heartbroken friend caught up in the same tragedy all struggled to understand yesterday what caused a bipolar patient earlier this week to nearly slash his doctor to death. &ld...

RAW VIDEO: Paul Langone speaks with 7News BOSTON -- The security guard who fatally shot a patient who was attacking a doctor at a medical office made his first public appearance on Friday. Paul Lango...

Police have accused a 35-year-old Providence man of abducting a 14-year-old girl in Rhode Island, then bringing her to New Bedford, Mass., and sexually assaulting her. Lawrence Clay was ordered hel...

Hundreds of fishermen from the Northeast have rallied in Gloucester against what they say are "unrealistic" regulations and "dysfunctional" management. Some carried signs that said "Let Fishermen F...

Hundreds of fishermen from the Northeast have gathered in Massachusetts to rally against what they say are "unrealistic" regulations and "dysfunctional" management.Some carrying signs that said "Let F...

Even though many analysts are saying the housing market in Massachusetts is stabilizing, foreclosures are spreading to more middle-class Massachusetts neighborhoods and threaten to depress the housing market further.

The governor outlined a five-point approach to reducing spending by $600 million that includes job cuts, consolidating state agencies and slashing local aid. WBUR's Curt Nickisch reports.

About 10,000 students across Massachusetts drop out of school each year. On Wednesday, a key commission is issuing recommendations to slash that number in half over five years. WBUR's Monica Brady-Myerov reports.

Swine flu vaccinations are underway in Massachusetts, but so far there aren't nearly as many suspected H1N1 cases this fall as there were in the spring. Still, as WBUR's Sacha Pfeiffer reports, public health officials aren't letting their guards down.

WASHINGTON - A Senate plan to tackle global warming would add about $100 a year to the energy costs for a typical American household, according to an analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency. The analysis released late Friday by the office of ...

Republican state lawmakers are pushing for a change in law that would require public elementary and high schools to instruct students on the proper use and display of the American flag.The bill would ...

A Roman Catholic bishop wants an apology from U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy for criticizing church leaders who will oppose universal health care plans unless there are tighter abortion restrictions. Pr...

Bio-IT World | Using a new technique, researchers revealed the first complete view of the 3-D structure of the genome and the way chromosomes arrange themselves in the nucleus. The work was done by scientists at Harvard University, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and published in Science .

The authorities said the man had conspired with others to attack people at a shopping mall and to attack two members of the executive branch of the federal government.

BOSTON, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- A tooth containing valuable DNA information was extracted from the head of a 4,000-year-old mummy's head, scientists in Boston said.

As part of the Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series on Nature and the Environment, Dr. Kerry Emanuel, a professor of Atmospheric Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presented the audience with a sober look at global warming. "I want to give them [the audience] a feeling for the science of global warming and climactic change," Emanuel said after the lecture.

More than two dozen state affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union, including the one in Massachusetts, want the FBI to disclose information that civil libertarians say the government is gathe...

Four large sea turtles from species threatened with extinction were struck and killed by boats off the coast of Massachusetts over the past three weeks, marine specialists said yesterday.

WOBURN — Prosecutors who won the first-degree murder conviction of John Odgren asked a Middlesex Superior Court judge yesterday to let the decision stand, in opposition to a request to scale the...

But after years of toil and dwindling demand for the crops he produced, the thick-armed 63-year-old has decided the family legacy will end with him. His landmark property — passed from father to...

Governor Deval Patrick still maintains a lead in his race for reelection, according to a national poll that shows little change in the standings despite the approximately $2 million spent by his rival...

DERRY, N.H. — A former high school teacher won’t be going to jail after pleading guilty yesterday to a charge she e-mailed nude photographs of herself to a 15-year-old student.

Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley reported for jury duty recently but was not picked to serve. (Suzanne Kreiter/ Globe Staff/ File)

Mayor James M. Ruberto of Pittsfield and former Boston Red Sox general manager Daniel Duquette violated state conflict-of-interest laws in the exchange of World Series tickets in 2004 before a deal th...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Charles D. Baker stepped up his criticism of the Patrick administration yesterday for its decision to replace the state’s highly regarded academic standards wi...

Come next winter, every property owner in the Bay State will have to follow the example of Felix Delvalle of Roslindale and make sure snow and ice are cleared from walkways, regardless of how it got t...

But something that arrived in the mail this year made it easier. It was a box of letters that Sarah wrote in high school and summer camp to her best friend growing up, Noelle Borelli.

The new review — which follows a Spotlight Team report Sunday highlighting the Probation Department’s mismanagement and inflated claims — will likely examine the department’s e...

House and Senate leaders attempted yesterday to jump-start stalled negotiations over legalizing Las Vegas-style resort casinos, even as advocates for a variety of other measures grew increasingly conc...

Clinton will speak on Lynch’s behalf at the rally, which will begin at 12:30 p.m. at the Ironworkers Local 7 union hall. The event is open to the public, with tickets available from Lynch’...

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- David Ortiz hit two homers in the same stadium where he won the Home Run Derby nearly two weeks ago, and Clay Buchholz pitched seven strong innings in the Boston Red Sox's 6-3 vict...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — David Ortiz hit two homers in the same stadium where he won the Home Run Derby nearly two weeks ago, and Clay Buchholz pitched seven strong innings in the Boston Red Sox's 6-3 v...

Fenway hosts Cape All-Stars Wednesday ANAHEIM -- While the Red Sox are getting healthier as a team, Mike Cameron's lower abdominal injury is something he will have to play through for the rest of the ...

Behind two homers by the big slugger, the Red Sox pulled out an 6-3 victory over the Angels in the first of a three-game set in Anaheim. It was the 35th multihomer game Ortiz has hit for the Red Sox, ...