CAMBRIDGE, MASS., OCT. 10 -- As she sits quietly in a bland courtroom here, listening to the testimony and charges against her, Louise Woodward, a 19-year-old British nanny, has come to represent the worst nightmare of every working parent. Cut…

For more than 20 years, James J. "Whitey" Bulger allegedly ran rackets, dealt drugs and ordered murders as a chieftain of South Boston's Winter Hill Gang, perhaps the last of the great Irish mobs. Repeatedly evading snares set by state lawmen and…

BOSTON, NOV. 29 -- John C. Salvi III, who killed two women and wounded several others in a rampage at two Massachusetts abortion clinics, was found dead this morning in his prison cell, an apparent suicide, authorities said. Cut through the 2024…

WESTBOROUGH, MASS., JUNE 26 -- Swedish drugmaker Astra-USA announced today it had fired its U.S.-based president after finding that he engaged in "inexcusable" behavior, and it accused him of swindling the company of nearly $2 million. Lars Bildman,…

BOSTON, MARCH 18 -- John C. Salvi III, the troubled young man who went on a shooting rampage at two suburban abortion clinics, was found guilty of murder today and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Cut through the 2024 election noise. Get…

BOSTON, MARCH 8 -- For generations, maybe forever, parents have been telling their children to settle their differences with words, not fists. But usually those words didn't include phrases like "subpoena," "restraining order" or "temporary…

BOSTON -- Sandy-haired and square-jawed, 32-year-old David Schultz has spent much of his life in, on and around the water. An accomplished competitive swimmer who sails, swims and dives for fun, Schultz also has made the water his career. He has been…

GALILEE, R.I., JAN. 23 -- Federal and state officials battling to clean up 828,000 gallons of oil that leaked from a barge mired on a sandbar off the Rhode Island coast suspended operations late this afternoon as more bad weather approached. Cut…

BOSTON -- Every December, as the year draws to a close, about half a million lobsters fly from New England to France. The French, who know a thing or two about good food, are mad about L'Homard Americain, which they devour in quantity on New Year's…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The citizens of Rhode Island could be forgiven if they thought they had seen it all two years ago, when the chief justice of their state's Supreme Court was hauled into court for misusing court funds to buy himself liquor, pay…

BOSTON -- For three years, Republican Gov. William F. Weld of Massachusetts has tried and failed to get a $591 million prison construction bill through the Democratic-controlled state legislature here. Meanwhile, prison overcrowding in Massachusetts…

CAMBRIDGE, MASS., OCT. 25 -- The radiation poisoning of a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was not an accident, federal authorities concluded today as they prepared to leave the campus. Cut through the 2024 election noise. Get…

CAMBRIDGE, MASS., OCT. 24 -- Smiling and speaking of peace, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was cheered at Harvard tonight by the university's president and hundreds of faculty members and students. Arafat, visiting the United States for the 50th…

CAMBRIDGE, MASS., OCT. 21 -- Federal authorities are investigating a puzzling incident of radioactive poisoning in a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a school spokesman confirmed today. Cut through the 2024 election noise. Get…

A Boston University scientist added to the controversy yesterday over the turnout at the Million Man March in Washington, saying his analysis shows the crowd was more than twice the 400,000 people estimated by the National Park Service. Cut through…

BOSTON, OCT. 10 -- A Massachusetts judge has awarded more than $1 million to a controversial school for the severely autistic and ordered state regulators to end their "war" against the school and its practice of using electric shock and other…

Boston is an old city. By the lights of the New World, it is an ancient place, one of the oldest sites of continuous English-speaking habitation in North America. More than most Americans, Bostonians esteem old things. Boston is also a bookish city.…

BOSTON, Sept. 29 -- -- One of the most notable results of the killing earlier this week of a Boston prosecutor has been something that has not happened. So far at least, this city has avoided the bitter racial polarization that many had feared in the…

BOSTON, SEPT. 26 -- A state prosecutor who led an anti-gang task force was shot dead by a hooded teenager in a train station parking lot as he headed home from work Monday night. The slaying -- which police said might have been a gang-ordered…

CAMBRIDGE, MASS., AUG. 3 -- After more than a year of closed-door hearings, Harvard officials disclosed today they will not discipline psychiatrist John Mack, who has gained notoriety for taking seriously people who say they have been abducted by…