March 17, 2010, 8:06 AM
BOSTON — The political team that helped Sen. Scott Brown stage a stunning electoral victory is hoping to apply that strategy in other races this year — beginning with another former Kennedy seat in Rhode Island. Politico’s Mike Allen joined WBUR to discuss whether the so-called “Brown model” can be applied successfully elsewhere.
March 16, 2010, 7:43 AM
BOSTON — Craig Mullaney is a Rhode Island native and an accomplished soldier, but a 2003 death of a Massachusetts soldier in Afghanistan made him question his military training. Mullaney joined WBUR recently to discuss his book and his war experiences.
February 20, 2010, 11:01 AM
BOSTON — New Englanders are mourning the loss of two of their own who were killed in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province.
February 12, 2010, 1:05 PM
BOSTON — Rep. Patrick Kennedy has decided not to seek re-election in Rhode Island after eight terms in Congress, saying his life is “taking a new direction” just months after the death of his father and mentor, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
February 11, 2010, 11:17 PM
WASHINGTON — Rep. Patrick Kennedy has decided not to seek re-election after eight terms in Congress, saying his life is “taking a new direction” just months after the death of his father and mentor, Sen. Edward Kennedy.
November 18, 2009, 10:33 AM
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device. Again, a Massachusetts Maritime Academy graduate was involved.
October 07, 2009, 3:02 PM
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A former Boston University medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist has been indicted on charges that he assaulted a stripper in Rhode Island.
June 22, 2009, 6:14 AM
CAPE COD, Mass. — Perhaps the biggest wind power battle in the Northeast has been over a stretch of open ocean off the shores of Cape Cod. The Cape Wind project has recently received all of its state permits and is awaiting federal approval. The fight over what could be the country’s first off-shore wind farm is framing the debate in other places.
June 19, 2009, 12:12 PM
WASHINGTON — The unemployment rate in the West jumped over 10 percent last month, the first time that regional threshold has been broken in about 25 years. On the state level, eight set record-highs and only two — Nebraska and Vermont — did not report increases.
June 12, 2009, 3:05 PM
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy, the son of Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, has checked himself into a medical facility for treament.
June 09, 2009, 5:36 AM
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — Transportation officials in northeastern states are beginning to team up in the hope that working together will increase the chance of winning economic stimulus funding to upgrade high-speed rail service in the region. Nancy Cohen reports as part of our Northeast Environmental coverage.
May 04, 2009, 12:33 PM
WARWICK, R.I. — A medical student accused in Boston of killing a masseuse he met on Craigslist has been charged in Rhode Island with pulling a gun on a stripper in a hotel, Attorney General Patrick Lynch said Monday.
April 24, 2009, 5:28 PM
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island authorities have found evidence linking a medical student accused of killing a masseuse in Boston to a hotel near Providence where a third crime occurred, a law enforcement official said Friday.
