October 28, 2009, 12:51 PM
NATICK, Mass. — Ten years ago, Kyle Van De Giesen, of North Attleboro, was the reluctant quarterback on Saint Anselm College’s new football team. Now he is gone, killed in a helicopter crash over Afghanistan last week. A remembrance from a reporter who interviewed him.
September 27, 2009, 3:09 PM
NEW YORK — Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his assistant said. He was 79.
September 17, 2009, 2:05 PM
WASHINGTON — President Obama will award a posthumous Medal of Honor on Thursday to Army Sgt. First Class Jared Monti, who was shot to death in the Afghan mountains in 2006 while trying for the third time to save a wounded comrade.
September 16, 2009, 10:24 PM
DANBURY, Conn. — Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died.
September 16, 2009, 5:27 AM
BOSTON — The longtime play-by-play voice of the Boston Bruins, died at his Barnstable home after suffering from cancer.
September 16, 2009, 1:08 AM
BOSTON — The late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s new memoir, “True Compass,” provides an inside look at some of the most formative times in the senator’s life. Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin was a long-time family friend of Ted Kennedy’s. She spoke to us from her home about the book and its insights into Kennedy’s life and legacy.
September 14, 2009, 8:36 PM
LOS ANGELES — Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers’ hearts with “Dirty Dancing” and then broke them with “Ghost,” died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.
September 14, 2009, 6:20 PM
BOSTON — Only six Medals of Honor have been awarded for bravery during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, all of them posthumously. The latest will be awarded Thursday at the White House when the family of Army Sgt. First Class Jared Monti accepts his from President Obama.
September 11, 2009, 3:38 PM
BOSTON — Remembrances were held across Massachusetts on Friday to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray led a reading of of the names of Massachusetts victims at the State House in Boston.
September 03, 2009, 5:56 PM
BOSTON — Gennaro “Jerry” Angiulo, the former New England Mafia underboss who was the crime king of the North End, died Saturday at age 90. After serving 24 years in prison, he died a free man. WBUR’s David Boeri followed his career for four decades and has this remembrance.
August 30, 2009, 5:10 PM
BOSTON — Gennaro “Jerry” Angiulo, once a Boston Mafia kingpin who famously shouted, “I’ll be back before my pork chops get cold!” after the FBI arrested him in a North End restaurant, died Saturday. He was 90.
August 29, 2009, 6:00 PM
BOSTON — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s funeral Mass was held Saturday, Aug. 29, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Roxbury. Below is the schedule of proceedings, as provided by tedkennedy.org.
August 29, 2009, 5:08 PM
BOSTON — A contingent of friends and family sat vigil Friday for Sen. Edward Kennedy, including a federal judge, the family of an Iraq war soldier and a Sept. 11 widow. The senator’s body lay in repose at the John F. Kennedy Library for a two-day public viewing.
August 29, 2009, 3:35 PM
BOSTON — Hundreds of mourners lined the sidewalks of Mission Hill on Saturday morning, watching and waiting for the motorcade that would deliver Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to his funeral.
August 28, 2009, 11:58 PM
BOSTON — The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum occupies a unique place in American life. But it has also become a special place for the Kennedy family, not just in their public presence but also in their more private life.
