WBUR Newsroom Election 2008 CommonHealth Blog Boston Weather BBC World News NPR Top Stories NPR's Morning Edition NPR Topics: Books NPR Topics: Movies Fresh Air All Things Considered Marketplace Submit a Story Idea RSS Feeds Podcasts Leave Tough for Guard Family By Monica Brady-Myerov Listen to story (Real Audio) Amber Scanlon at her first communion. (Photo by Monica Brady-Myerov) WALTHAM, Mass. - May 21, 2007 - In our ongoing series on the effect of deployment on one Waltham family, we check in while the father is home on leave from Iraq, and find the readjustment is tough for everyone. RELATED LINKS National Guard Family Deploys Father Thanksgiving While Father is Away Valentines Day Without a Husband Leave Tough for Guard Family Series Homepage War on the Homefront See photos of Scallon's reunion with his two children upon his return from Iraq.    From The WBUR Newsroom Trial for Ex-FBI Agent Opens BOSTON (September 08, 2008) WBUR's David Boeri speaks with Bob Oakes about the first-degree murder trial of John Connolly, the former FBI handler of James "Whitey" Bulger already serving 10 years in prison for racketeering. Kennedy Stays Home BOSTON (September 08, 2008) The U.S. Senate returns from its summer recess today, but Senator Edward Kennedy will not be in Washington, instead recuperating from his brain cancer on Cape Cod. Curbing Campus Drinking BOSTON (September 08, 2008) As thousands of new college students settle into Boston, one topic on the minds of administrators is curbing college drinking. Kennedy Will Not Return for Fall Session HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (September 07, 2008) Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) will stay at home as Congress reconvenes for the fall this week. Kennedy's doctors have avised him to work from home.