Boston Globe latest News

Boston Globe latest News


Correction: Gulf Boating Deaths story

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 12:31 PM PST

In a story Feb. 12 about a boating accident in the Gulf of Mexico that left four people dead, The Associated Press reported erroneously, based on incorrect information from authorities, that Wayne Dowsey was the father of the man who survived and that Randy Dowsey was the uncle of the man who survived. Authorities now say Wayne Dowsey was the ...

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article

That brief time out from heated discourse? No more

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 12:21 PM PST

President Barack Obama? Weak, a socialist and a liar. Liberals? Monsters and a cancer. Former Vice President Dick Cheney? Called a war criminal, "murdering scum" and a draft dodger -- by people in his own party.

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article

Police chief: NC hostage-taker did not use a gun

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 11:31 AM PST

Authorities say a North Carolina teenager who held several people hostage inside a bank did not have a gun.

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article

A look inside America's poorest county

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 10:51 AM PST

In the barren grasslands of Ziebach County, there's almost nothing harder to find in winter than a job. This is America's poorest county, where more than 60 percent of people live at or below the poverty line.

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article

No bond for Ga. father accused of killing 2 sons

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 10:11 AM PST

A Georgia father accused of fatally stabbing two of his sons and injuring a third has been ordered held in jail without bond.

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article

MIT grad's invention turns brewery waste to fuel

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 10:11 AM PST

Before he started "saving the earth, one beer at a time," all inventor Eric Fitch knew about home brewing was that it could make quite a mess.

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article

Founder of 2 natural food grocery chains resigns

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 10:01 AM PST

The founder of two chains of natural foods grocery stores has resigned after he was arrested in a child prostitution sting in Phoenix.

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article

Mob arrests raise issues of crime, port security

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 09:21 AM PST

Law enforcement officials have called the stretch between Port Newark and Newark Liberty International Airport the most dangerous two miles in America.

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article

Speaker's NY death highlights assisted-suicide law

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 09:21 AM PST

The motivational speaker's death looked like a sinister tale of a suburbanite who strayed into a rough city neighborhood. He was found stabbed in the chest in his station wagon in East Harlem, his hands tied behind his back, hours after telling his wife he'd gotten a flat tire.

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article

AD:

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 09:21 AM PST

LA County probes Playboy Mansion illness reports

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 09:17 AM PST

Health officials on Saturday were investigating complaints of respiratory illnesses that a media report said affected dozens of people after a fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles that was part of a larger conference.

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article

Foes seek to de-fund, discredit Planned Parenthood

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 09:11 AM PST

From its defiant origins in 1916, Planned Parenthood has not shied away from controversy -- fighting to legalize birth control, offering candid sex education to adolescents, evolving into America's largest provider of abortion.

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article

Victims of Flight 3407 remembered in NY

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 09:11 AM PST

Friends and relatives of the 50 people who died in a Continental Connection plane crash outside Buffalo gathered at the scene of the disaster Saturday night to mark the second anniversary of the disaster.

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article

Beckham takes fashion risks -- and sees payoff

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 08:21 AM PST

Victoria Beckham says, five seasons into her fashion brand, she's a more confident designer and a more confident person, and that allows her to take risks beyond the structured cocktail dresses that gave her cred with a famously finicky industry.

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article

Group wants to link US fliers to Mexican airport

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 08:10 AM PST

The Flores family's frequent trips to visit family in Mexico begin with a two-hour drive from their suburban Los Angeles home to San Diego, followed by a jaunt across the border to the Tijuana airport for the flight to Guadalajara.

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article

Boehner says facts show Obama a Christian citizen

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 07:51 AM PST

House Speaker John Boehner says Americans have a right to think what they want to think, even when they are wrong about President Barack Obama's citizenship and his religion.

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article

Pipe 'imperfection' found after fatal blast in Pa.

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 07:51 AM PST

Investigators looking into the cause of a gas explosion that killed five people in Allentown, Pa., last week are focusing on an "imperfection" in a pipe near the blast site.

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article

Short on men, retirement home hires dance partners

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 07:31 AM PST

Hewitt Bruce extends his hand to a waiting lady pining for a dance -- and someone with whom to share it. He twirls and waltzes and makes exacting steps; she has become the woman to envy. And as one song fades to another, he is off again, never far from making his next sweetheart a little less lonely.

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article

Top US military official visits Jordan's leader

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 05:51 AM PST

Jordan's state news agency says King Abdullah II has met with a top American military official visiting to reassure the U.S.-allied leader as the uprising in Egypt reverberates around the Middle East.

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article

Mental health a frequent theme in threats cases

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 05:51 AM PST

One man posted a message to the White House Web site threatening to kill the president. "This is not a joke," he warned, and typed in his name.

Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us Email this Article