WASHINGTON (AP) — Is it really more expensive to eat healthy? An Agriculture Department study released Wednesday...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — MIT provost L. Rafael Reif, an internationally recognized electrical engineer who learned to...

Without fanfare, the nation's nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has named L. Rafael Reif (RIFE) as its new president.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has named L. Rafael Reif (RIFE) as its new president.

MADRID (AP) — Martha Nussbaum, a U.S. philosopher who has defended a strong role for humanities in education, has...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A midday bombing that killed two bodyguards of an archconservative former interior minister and...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A bomb targeting a hardline former interior minister killed two of his bodyguards and...

"Battleship" is big, dumb fun that knows it's big, dumb fun and enthusiastically embraces its big, dumb, fun nature. ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A week ago, doctors gave her little chance of survival. Now a Georgia grad student who is...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — At the gallows, the condemned prisoner Tuesday repeated the allegations Iran lodged against him: That...

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — No one's talking about giving intelligence tests, but researchers say they've shown that...

Thumbnail sketches of the eight female and four male jurors who will decide whether pitcher Roger Clemens lied to Congress...

Like the inventors of the vibrator it depicts, "Hysteria" really aims to please. And like an inattentive lover...

For months Sanford Wittels made little headway with the magistrate or with U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter, who...

In February, U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck of federal court in Manhattan gladdened the hearts of legal technophiles...

In April, the Kentucky Supreme Court voted to raise bar association dues for Kentucky lawyers. But guess who still...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's state TV says authorities have hanged a man who was sentenced to death for the 2010...

TOKYO (AP) — Look, no hands. Scooting about in a unicycle is no sweat with Honda's new robotics technology. Swaying...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo still has credibility issues, even after casting aside CEO Scott Thompson because his...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Long-running arguments over who needs to do what to stop the planet from overheating are back in...

Nov. 17, 2008: Yahoo Inc. says co-founder Jerry Yang will step down as CEO as soon as a replacement is found. It ends...

EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in accounting from Stonehill College near Boston. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Hired as...

Key points in controversy over inaccuracies in Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's resume — May 3: Yahoo Inc. confirms that...

EDUCATION: Philips Exeter Academy, class of 2002. Studied computer science at Harvard University before dropping out.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is producing little this election year that will become law, yet both parties are...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home Friday after 11 days of cancer treatment in...

PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION, Fla. (AP) — The first man to walk on the moon and the last one to sat side by side...

TROU DU NORD, Haiti (AP) — Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped...

TROU DU NORD, Haiti (AP) — Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped...

TROU DU NORD, Haiti (AP) — Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — President Barack Obama returned his attention to the economy after a day spent raising millions of...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Lynx showed potential for years, with plenty of high draft picks for a...

BOSTON, May 11 (Reuters) - As anyone in the United States with a TV or Internet connection probably knows, lawyers...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Two molecular biologists are being awarded the annual Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Barack Obama is turning his attention back to the economy after a day spent raising...

Litigators will do most anything to get into the minds of potential jurors. In the olden days, they'd drive by a...

BERLIN (AP) — A bad European week for Chancellor Angela Merkel looks likely to end with more electoral woes — this time,...

PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION, Fla. (AP) — The first and the last men to walk on the moon and the commander of the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Barack Obama is turning his attention back to the economy after a day spent raising...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A young male wolf from Oregon that has won worldwide fame while trekking across mountains,...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A published report says Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson didn't provide the information that led the...

ATLANTA (AP) — The warnings about skin cancer from too much sun don't seem to be getting through. Half of U.S. adults...

NEW YORK (AP) — Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like...

In recent years, several deceased football players have been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy. CTE is...

NEW YORK (AP) — Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The giant asteroid Vesta got clobbered not once but twice, and it has the scars to prove it. Ever...

BOSTON (AP) — So you think blue lobsters are rare? The New England Aquarium is holding a lobster that's way rarer...

ATLANTA (AP) — Half of U.S. adults under 30 say they have had a sunburn at least once in the past year, a government...

Falsifying anything on legal documents is never a good idea, but when you've been accused of falsifying your resume,...

One of the most commonly used medical devices is the artificial hip, with hundreds of thousands of hip implant...

It is well known that workers' compensation and liability insurance carriers take drastic measures to mitigate...

In corporate America, it's easy to forget the little guy, but this story illustrates that even a single shareholder...

In our last post, we talked about individuals in Pittsburgh who are wrongly convicted of sex crimes because of...

At first glance, this California couple seems to be living the American dream. They have been married more than 30...

The push toward creating a clear law regarding driving under the influence of marijuana in Colorado continues. ...

Imagine you could prevent a car accident by having your car communicate with other cars on the road. It sounds like...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has come under fire recently because of the length of time it...

In a previous post, we discussed how the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration was seeking to crack down on...

In recent months, there has been a lot of publicity regarding Google's self-driving car. Using a blend of sensors,...

Blood alcohol tests are often used to determine whether drivers were over the legal limit while they were behind the...

DNA samples are one of the most important pieces of evidence in most sex crime cases. If an expert reports that a...

In many sex crime cases, DNA samples can be one of the most important pieces of a case. Often, once an FBI expert...

In our last post, we raised the question as to whether flawed DNA tests were wrongfully imprisoning people in...

Advances in medical science and technology are amazing on one level. But on another, they can sometimes present...

A number of things can lead to CP. A prenatal bacterial infection, a head injury or even a medical mistake during...

Nail salon workers and customers may be getting toxic exposure to chemicals in nail polish, even though the labels...

Cerebral palsy is a disorder that affects babies who have suffered some sort of brain damage. This type of brain...

One of the types of debt consumers will sometimes hold is credit card debt. Struggles with credit card debt can have...

Recent studies have shown that a large percentage of commercial truck drivers are suffering from a condition known...

The stars are aligning to help a start-up company attempt a venture that not long ago would've been dismissed as...

There is certain evidence that courts take very seriously when it comes to convicting a defendant of a crime. ...

For the past two weeks we've been blogging about how cell phone use while driving is under attack by safety...

In 2009 a young woman became a science teacher in Southern California. She was hired to instruct seventh and eighth...

People suffering from mold-related health problems had the proverbial rug pulled out from under the feet four years ago...

The National Football League might be bigger than ever: for three consecutive years, the Super Bowl has scored...

Over the last several years, the topic of mounting national credit card debt levels has been a recurring conversation.

Dmirti Krioukov did what any self-respecting physicist would do when presented with a $400 ticket for a traffic...

On April 13, 2012, Judge Joseph R. Goodwin issued orders identifying Plaintiffs' Steering Committee for the...

One of the things we have pointed out before on this blog is that estate planning, rather than being a one-time...

A California doctoral student who is also an undocumented immigrant recently published a free e-book giving advice...

We are talking about brain science and difficult conversations. Some of the hardest conversations a family can have...

The number of Caesarean sections performed in Pennsylvania and across the United States is extremely high as...

Ray Charles' story is remarkable, really. Even considering his heroin addiction and philandering, just think about...

¿Necesita un abogado hábil y con amplio conocimiento sobre las leyes de Massachusetts para su caso de manejar bajo...

Many people say that there is nothing harder than losing a loved one. For family members who are grieving the loss of...

In our prior post, we discussed the effect that media reports could have on trials for minor offenses and especially...

People who have problems with addiction generally need treatment in order to overcome those problems. This basic...

Many people think that once one has been arrested, his or her criminal case is over. However, this is not true. A...

New drivers in Alabama are simply inexperienced when it comes to driving. This is the reason that they are the cause...

In 2009, a federal law gave the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the ability to regulate tobacco. This came with a...

Some teenagers use high school functions, such as the prom, as an excuse to party. When alcohol is involved, it can...

On March 29, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it is seeking expert scientific and clinical advice...

After two British surgeons released studies predicting that 32 to 49% of patients implanted with the recalled DePuy ASRTM...

A recent investigation by Consumer Reports indicates that medical devices such as artificial hip implants are often...

"These injuries are insidious, they are latent, degenerative, and it gets worse and worse as you get older in...

The Rules of Criminal Procedure in PA require the Commonwealth to disclose certain things to a person accused of a...

New technology developed by a team of physicists and scientists may lead to a cellphone application that could alert...