BOSTON — State health officials have announced that New England Sinai Hospital in Stoughton has voluntarily suspended admission of new patients after state officials cited the hospital for “serious concerns.”
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Boston Red Sox minor league prospect Ryan Westmoreland has been out of the intensive care unit and into the neuro rehabilitation unit at the St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix on Friday.
HOUSTON — Paul Pierce scored 26 points, Ray Allen hit five 3-pointers and had 19 points, and the Boston Celtics snapped Houston’s four-game winning streak with a 94-87 victory over the Rockets on Friday night.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has rebuked Irish bishops for “grave errors of judgment” in handling clerical sex abuse and ordered a Vatican investigation into the Irish church to wipe out the scourge.
WASHINGTON — Claiming unstoppable momentum but still short of the goal line, President Barack Obama is heading to Capitol Hill to rally House Democrats for a final push on landmark health care legislation.
Top international diplomats on Friday called on Israel and the Palestinians to return to peace negotiations with a goal of reaching a final settlement that would create an independent Palestinian state within 24 months. They reiterated their condemnation of Israel’s latest move to add Jewish housing in disputed east Jerusalem but did not escalate criticism of the Jewish state.
WASHINGTON — President Obama and Democratic leaders lobbied intensely for historic health care legislation Friday, gaining momentum and another precious “yes” 48 hours ahead of a climactic vote.
BOSTON — The revenge-minded Boston Bruins got in some early shots. The Pittsburgh Penguins connected on the ones that counted.
WASHINGTON — House Democrats are pushing to the brink of passage a landmark, $940 billion health care overhaul bill that would simultaneously deliver on President Obama’s promise to expand coverage while slashing the deficit, a strategy aimed at winning over the party’s fiscal conservatives.
BOSTON — Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett played their best game together in more than a month. Pierce scored 29 points, Garnett had 22 and Boston cruised to its third straight lopsided victory at home, 109-97 over the New York Knicks on Wednesday night.
WASHINGTON — Companies that hire unemployed workers will get a temporary payroll tax holiday under a bill that won final congressional approval Wednesday by a bipartisan 68-29 Senate vote.
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s much-challenged health care overhaul gained traction Wednesday as liberal Rep. Dennis Kucinich became the first to switch his opposition, and Catholic nuns publicly broke with the bishops to declare their support.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Five players scored goals Tuesday night for the Bruins, who got 30 saves from Tuukka Rask to hold on to eighth place in the Eastern Conference with a 5-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes.
BOSTON — A former Harvard University student was indicted Tuesday on accessory and firearms charges in a 2009 shooting death inside a dormitory.
Tiger Woods said Tuesday he will return to golf next month at the Masters, ending a four-month hiatus brought on by a sex scandal that shattered his image as the gold standard in sports.
WASHINGTON — Days away from critical decisions on President Obama’s health care overhaul, Republicans assailed Democratic plans to push the massive legislation through the House without a direct vote.
WASHINGTON — More corners of the country would have high-speed Internet access and existing connections would become much faster under a sweeping proposal to overhaul U.S. broadband policy that is being unveiled Tuesday.
BOSTON — “It’s coming around,” Doc Rivers said Monday night after Paul Pierce scored 12 points in the first quarter to set up a 119-93 victory over the Detroit Pistons. “It’s still not there, but that was great to see. He looked explosive. I think he’s getting closer, and our team’s getting closer.”
NEWARK, N.J. — Now that the New Jersey Devils are making a push back to the top of the Atlantic Division they can stop peeking at the standings.
Suspected drug gang hit men separately ambushed two cars carrying families with ties to the U.S. consulate in this violent border city, killing an American couple and a Mexican man. Three young children survived, although two suffered wounds.
