State files No Child waiver with US
Nearly a decade after the passage of the No Child Left Behind law, Mass. moved yesterday to replace some of its strictest provisions with a more flexible system.
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High Court to hear health care law challenge
The move by the Supreme Court could salvage or doom Obama’s signature domestic initiative just months before voters go to the polls to consider his reelection.
Feeney, long on council, leaves quietly
Maureen Feeney’s departure from the City Council may have been strategically timed: Feeney will now be in a position to become Boston’s next city clerk.
Mass. blue laws push back Black Friday store openings
Mass. retailers with midnight sales are amending plans because 17th-century rules prohibit employees from working until 12 a.m. after Thanksgiving.
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Grisly details of Weymouth killings draw gasps
Horrific details emerged yesterday about a triple killing Thursday in Weymouth, eliciting gasps and tears from relatives of the victims seated in a courtroom.
Sisters slain in Dorchester apartment
Two sisters were found fatally shot inside a Dorchester apartment yesterday morning, a double homicide that has unsettled police and horrified the neighborhood.
Running for pride - and pie
Since 1896, runners in the Northfield Mount Hermon School’s annual Bemis-Forslund Pie Race who finish in “pie time’’ is awarded one of the prized apple pies.
