Boston Globe latest News

Boston Globe latest News


Report: US has fewest cattle in at least 4 decades

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:29 PM PDT

A new report shows the U.S. with the fewest cattle in at least four decades as a widespread drought forces ranchers to sell off animals.

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: 20 Jul 2012 02:29 PM PDT

Ark. school nurse worked 5 years without license

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:29 PM PDT

A woman who worked for five years as a nurse at an Arkansas elementary school never actually had a license, authorities said Friday.

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

ACLU: Emails show racial bias in immigration law

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:29 PM PDT

Opponents of Arizona's hardline immigration enforcement law contend that emails sent, received and forwarded by a former legislator who championed the law support allegations it was racially motivated.

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

Feds take ailing boy to NM from tough Mexican city

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:19 PM PDT

A 9-year-old boy with a massive tumor was whisked from a dangerous neighborhood in Mexico in an armored vehicle by U.S. federal agents and taken across the border for treatment in New Mexico, his family said.

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

Ex-NYPD officer sentenced in gun case

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:09 PM PDT

A ringleader of off-duty New York Police Department officers who were caught in a sting agreeing to smuggle illegal guns and stolen merchandise was sentenced on Friday to nearly five years in prison.

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

Documents reveal details of Lejeune's toxic water

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 01:59 PM PDT

A North Carolina congressman says thousands of newly released documents about water contamination at Camp Lejeune add to the evidence that the military knew about and covered up the tainted water that is blamed for deaths and illnesses among Marines and their families.

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

Yale defends plans for new college in Singapore

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 01:49 PM PDT

Yale University says students at its new liberal arts college in Singapore will have academic freedom but won't be able to stage protests on campus.

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

AMC won't allow costumes after Colorado shooting

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 01:49 PM PDT

Movie giant AMC Theatres says it won't be allowing people to wear costumes or face-covering masks into its theaters after a shooting in Colorado that killed at least 12 people and injured dozens more.

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

Campus research buildings evacuated after shooting

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 01:29 PM PDT

Police have evacuated two research buildings at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus where the suspect in the Colorado shootings was a graduate student.

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

Boston U graduate student dies in fall in Turkey

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 01:29 PM PDT

A Boston University graduate student has died while researching ancient cultures in western Turkey. The university said Friday that 26-year-old Chad DiGregorio, of Upton, Mass., was found dead Thursday from an apparent fall in a rugged area in Manisa province.

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

3 service members wounded, 1 missing in shooting

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 01:10 PM PDT

The U.S. Department of Defense says three members of the U.S. Armed Forces were wounded in a movie theater shooting in Colorado and one is unaccounted for.

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

LA drivers told to prepare for 'Carmageddon II'

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 11:20 AM PDT

Remember "Carmageddon"? Get ready for the sequel. Southern California drivers were urged Thursday to stay off the roads when a 10-mile section of busy Interstate 405 is closed this fall.

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

Security increased at movies following shootings

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 09:29 AM PDT

New York police posted officers at dozens of theaters around the city, while ticket-takers at a multiplex in Washington searched moviegoers' bags and purses.

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

Parallels between the film and the shooting

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 08:19 AM PDT

   In "The Dark Knight Rises," a masked villain leads a murderous crew into a packed football stadium and wages an attack involving guns and explosives. It's just one of the more haunting scenes in what was one of the most anticipated movies of the summer, if not the year.

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

Judge slaps mining company with $2 million penalty

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 10:10 AM PDT

A federal judge is ordering a Canadian mining company to comply with the nation's clean water laws and pay at least $2 million in penalties for polluting a tributary of the Boise River system.

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: 20 Jul 2012 10:10 AM PDT

Mom's boyfriend arrested in Mo. closet abuse case

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 09:59 AM PDT

Police have arrested the boyfriend of a woman whose 10-year-old daughter weighed just 32 pounds when she was found locked in a closet at a Kansas City apartment.

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

Mixed verdict in trial of NYC crane inspector

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 09:49 AM PDT

An inspector accused of falsely claiming he had examined a construction crane before it collapsed and killed seven people was acquitted Friday of all charges related to the 200-foot-tall crane that smashed through midtown Manhattan.

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

Shooting at Colo. theater shocks movie industry

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 09:40 AM PDT

The movie industry was grappling on Friday with the deadly Colorado shooting at a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises," as one of the most anticipated films of the decade became enmeshed with a horrifying tragedy.

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