Medical Records Could Yield Answers On Fracking

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will unveil a multi-facted strategy in an effort to curb violence in Boston this summer.

Congressional candidates are increasingly raising money from supporters and groups who outside their district.

• "Joe The Plumber" race a "microcosm" of 2012 politics

Marine biologist Rodney Rountree said fish sounds are key to understanding fish behavior and could even help us protect many species from overfishing.

The Senate on Tuesday began debating a bill that aims to reduce projected health care costs.

Fuentes was one of the premiere and most prolific authors in the Spanish language.

The significance of Warren claiming to be 1/32 Cherokee is that it raised as many questions about her Senate campaign as about her personally.

Peter Fuller owned the only horse ever to be disqualified after winning the Kentucky Derby. He was also an amateur boxer who once sparred with Muhammad Ali for charity. He was 89.

The former Red Sox pitcher moved 38 Studios to Providence from Massachusetts in 2010 after Rhode Island offered the company a $75 million loan guarantee.

Morrison's latest novel revisits the story of the prodigal son, as a Korean War veteran returns to his hometown in the pre-civil rights era South.

It's not whether you win or lose — it's how you play the game. But Frank Deford says its downright un-American to have a tie in sports.

In the late 1980s, woodworker Gregory Bover decided to build a pretty incredible gift for his wife. Twenty-five years later, it will be played in public for the first time in Rockport.

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Democrats charge Republicans with being prisoners of special interests. A young conservative turns that charge around.

Same-sex marriage advocates scored another minor but meaningful victory this week, in Rhode Island — Governor Lincoln Chafee signed an executive order recognizing out-of-state gay marriages.

Presidential candidate Ron Paul is not expected to ultimately endorse presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney, Paul's chief strategist said Tuesday.

The new French president and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have different ideas about how to address Europe's financial turmoil.