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Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is accusing Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown of launching attacks on her family over her claims of Native American heritage.
Police in a Mexico City suburb arrested a mother and several relatives Thursday for allegedly gouging out the eyes of her 5-year-old son in what authorities said appeared to have been a drug-fueled ritual.
Massachusetts senators have passed a budget amendment that would keep a state psychiatric hospital in Taunton open, despite efforts by the House of Representatives and Gov. Deval Patrick to close the facility.
Police say a roving group of cows crashed a small gathering in a Massachusetts town and bullied the guests for their beer.
Venezuela's defense minister says about 3,000 soldiers have been sent to bolster security along the border with Colombia after the neighboring country's main rebel group staged a deadly attack on a Colombian army patrol from Venezuelan territory.
Three high-ranking police officials in the Dominican Republic have been accused of providing security to drug traffickers, marking the latest public corruption case to hit the Caribbean nation as it tries to clean up its military and police.
Five environmental activists have been arrested after chaining themselves to a coal barge in protest of mountaintop removal mining operations.
The Senate on Thursday voted to extend the life of the National Flood Insurance Program for 60 days, giving lawmakers time to work on a long-term extension that would seek to restore fiscal solvency to the debt-ridden plan.
Police in Boxford say a roving group of cows crashed a small gathering in town and bullied the guests for their beer.
Arwa el-Hussein, a 20-year-old pharmacy student, has been quarreling with her father for weeks, trying to get him not to back Hosni Mubarak's former prime minister for president.
Iran and six world powers wrapped up talks Thursday still far apart over how to oversee Tehran's atomic program, but with resolve to keep dialogue going as an alternative to possible military action.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says significant differences remain between Iran and world powers after talks in Baghdad over its nuclear program.
The Senate rejected dueling Democratic and Republican plans on Thursday for averting a July 1 doubling of interest rates on federal college loans for 7.4 million students, pushing back efforts to resolve the election-season showdown until next month.
For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents once known derisively as the Melungeons. Some speculated they were descended from Portuguese explorers, or perhaps from Turkish slaves or Gypsies.
The dealer who supplied a border town smuggling ring that shipped nearly 200 guns to Mexican drug cartels was handed a five-year prison sentence Thursday along with a stern lecture.
A Senate panel on Thursday rejected the Pentagon's proposed cuts in personnel and equipment for the Air National Guard as it completed a far-reaching, $631 billion defense budget for next year.
Moving quickly to stem a controversy, President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated an expert on nuclear waste to lead the federal agency that regulates the nation's nuclear power plants.
Global warming is rescuing the once-rare brown Argus butterfly, scientists say. Man-made climate is threatening the existence of many species, such as the giant polar bear. But in the case of the small drab British butterfly, it took a species in trouble and made it thrive.
U.N. climate talks ran into gridlock Thursday as a widening rift between rich and poor countries risked undoing some advances made last year in the decades-long effort to control carbon emissions that scientists say are overheating the planet.
An experimental solar-powered airplane took off from Switzerland on its first transcontinental flight Thursday, aiming to reach North Africa next week.
The world's first private supply ship flew tantalizingly close to the International Space Station on Thursday, acing a critical test in advance of the actual docking.
John K. Dvorak’s Massachusetts law license was suspended, following federal sanctions for failing to provide accurate information in visa applications.
The fortunes of former convicts seeking employment have changed little since the passage of a 2010 law that overhauled the state’s criminal records system.
Arlington's Cary Conrad has worked tirelessly to revive a sport that was once as much a part of Americana as a ’57 Chevy.
Romney proposed revamping the funding formulas, encouraging more charter schools, and reviving the debate over how poor and disabled students choose schools.
Federal officials overseeing a fast-growing $10 billion children’s disability program have failed to follow up on the progress of 400,000 beneficiaries with behavioral, learning, and mental disorders, allowing their families to receive monthly cash benefits for years even if their conditions have improved, according to a draft government report obtained by the Boston Globe. The report estimated the Social Security Administration might save $9 for every $1 it spends on disability reviews by determining that some children no longer qualify.
A privately built space capsule that's zipping its way to the International Space Station has also launched something else: A new for-profit space race.
Thousands march for peace in Mexico TENS of thousands of people have marched in Mexico's second most populous city, angry at the inability of authorities to end a crime wave.
(heraldsun world)
Fake Android apps scam cost users £28,000 Malicious Android apps posed as Angry Birds and Cut the Rope in a scam that used premium rate text messages to defraud customers of £27,850.
(telegraph technology)
First creature to walk on land 'dragged itself along' - like it was on crutches The creature lived in floodplains on what is now Greenland during a period known geologically as the Devonian period - about 360 to 410 million years ago.
(dailymail sciencetech)
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