BOSTON — Officials with the Food and Drug Administration said bits of steel, rubber and fiber have been found in drugs made by Cambridge-based biotechnology company Genzyme.
BOSTON — An attorney for the Sudbury man accused of plotting terrorist attacks, says his client was charged only after he refused to become an informant for the FBI.
A Belmont High School student was killed by a commuter train on the tracks behind the school Thursday afternoon.
The U.S. House appears poised to pass a bill filed by Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank that would allow parents to be buried in national cemeteries with children who are veterans and killed in battle or preparation for battle.
BOSTON — BOSTON — The Department of Justice has filed a motion to dismiss Massachusetts’ challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act, the law that defines marriage as being between a man and a woman.
Attorney General Martha Coakley filed the challenge in July, saying the act undermines the state’s effort to recognize same sex marriage. The state’s [...]
BOSTON — As concerns over swine flu continue to grow, some Massachusetts hospitals are barring young people from visiting patients, even if the children are healthy.
BOSTON — Harvard University lost almost $2 billion from a cash account it uses to pay for daily operations, after investing the money with its endowment, which fell by 27 percent in the last fiscal year.
BOSTON — Attorney General Martha Coakley has picked up the endorsement of one of the state’s largest unions — the Service Employees International Union — in her bid to fill the late Senator Edward Kennedy’s Senate seat.
BOSTON — Four environmental groups allege the Patrick administration has ignored them over clean water policy, so they have resigned from an advisory panel.
BOSTON — Just three months into the current fiscal year, the state is already facing an almost billion-dollar budget gap. At the same time, experts are already warning of a $2.25 billion budget gap for the next fiscal year.
BOSTON — State lawmakers Tuesday voted to postpone when new lobbying laws take effect in Massachusetts. The new start date is Jan. 1, 2010.
BOSTON — The lawyer representing a group of Massachusetts Turnpike drivers says he will appeal a ruling rejecting their effort to block the state from diverting their toll money to the Big Dig.
BOSTON — The revenue numbers for the fiscal year that ended in June show Massachusetts collected $2.6 billion, or 12.5 percent less revenue than it did in fiscal year 2008.
BOSTON — The governor’s new pieces of education legislation are raising concern among teachers’ union officials.
BOSTON — Patrick administration officials say they will build the state’s first official memorial honoring service members killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
BOSTON — Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital say results from a new study could offer hope to people with sleep problems.
BOSTON — Federal investigators say a trolley operator killed when her train rammed another apparently ignored a faulty red stop signal.
BOSTON — A Pakistani scientist educated at Brandeis University and MIT and accused of aiding al-Qaida, appeared in federal court in New York Monday, as a judge sought to determine whether she is competent to stand trial.
BOSTON — Officials say an 83-year-old woman drove her car through the front of a Natick liquor store this morning, pinning the 51-year-old cashier behind the counter.
BOSTON — A federal judge has ordered prosecutors to explain why photos and other information were released in connection with the arrests of former Sen. Dianne Wilkerson and Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner.
