The show is an erratic production that does little to conceal the fundamental mediocrity of the musical.

Those who say that opening casinos would doom the Mass. Lottery lack support for their prediction, a Globe analysis found.

Many people who attend for-profit colleges and career schools end up with lofty debts, but no jobs and few prospects.

Some worry the midterm rhetoric could complicate the party’s efforts to remold its image to Hispanic voters.

Though Markey is the most experienced US Representative to enter the Senate, he is now one of the lowest-ranking members.

Think adding something green to your turkey sandwich is good? Maybe not.

Save the dogs, yes, but grief should be reserved for our own losses.

Marie Deltufo racked up $26,000 in debt from two training programs and few good-paying employment prospects. She finds herself back in school, this time at a community college

A year enrolling at New England Institute of Art in 2006, Michael DiGiacomo was tens of thousands of dollars in debt, without a degree, and working a FedEx Kinko’s for $15 an hour.

Will Puntarich came to Boston to get a college degree. He left owing more $180,000 in loans for his schooling, with little hope ever being able to repay them.

Brittney Patient was persuaded that training as a medical administrative assistant would land her a good-paying job. But the promise haven’t materialized.

Cockatiels make for imperfect pets. They screech and they bite and they poop on the furniture. And most confounding to those who love them, they are fundamentally built to disappear into the uncaged world. But beloved cats sometimes claw the couch, and the bladders and bowels of even the most obedient old dogs can’t be trusted. When they’re family, we forgive. And when they’re lost, we look for them.

With polls showing a neck-and-neck race, the gubernatorial candidates are marshaling their networks for Nov. 4.

The Boston Fed’s Working Cities Challenge program could become a model for struggling cities across the country.

Turkey views the main Syrian Kurdish group, the PYD, as an extension of the PKK, which has waged a 30-year insurgency in Turkey.

The Pentagon also announced it was forming a team to assist medical staff in the United States, if needed.

“Someone Else’s Country: Photographs by Jo Ractliffe,” at the Peabody Essex Museum, looks at post-war Angola.

Recent acts have led to a growing feeling among Europe’s Jewish communities that it is not safe to live there.

A host of researchers are developing tools to let doctors work on their patients while inside the MRI cocoon.

Authorities interviewed residents and picked through leaves after finding remains that could be University of Virginia student Hannah Graham.

On his first album of new material in eight years, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legend is in good form.