Mass. AG fines utility for delay in storm pay

BOSTON (AP) -- National Grid has been hit with a $270,000 fine for delays in paying hundreds of Massachusetts workers after Hurricane Sandy. (   01/07/2013 12:42 PM )

• Republican Party seems as divided, angry as ever

• Small fire sends smoke into 787 cabin in Boston

• Police: Springfield man kills mom, steals cab

• Mass. gas prices up another 4 cents per gallon

Obama taps Hagel for Pentagon, Brennan for CIA

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, two potentially controversial picks for his second-term national security team. (   01/07/2013 12:44 PM )

• Mass. AG fines utility for delay in storm pay

• Hepburn house owner loses court fight in Conn.

• Philly mob lawyer: Informants 'playing the FBI'

• Retired Pa. pastor to stand trial in wife's death

Egypt's pope urges Copts to 'not be afraid'

CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's pope urged his congregants to be joyful and "not be afraid" in his Mass for Coptic Christmas, trying to reassure a community feeling anxious about the rise of Islamists to power here. (   01/07/2013 12:44 PM )

• Officials search for casualties in Australia fires

• Bahrain court upholds life sentences on opposition

• British explorer embarks on Antarctica adventure

• Hearings, trial closed in Indian rape case

Class of 2012: Diploma dilemma for Europe grads

PARIS (AP) -- Estelle Borrell knew she wanted to work in law since she was a teenager, when she interned at a court in Versailles, France. "The lawyers in their black robes, they were like gods to me," said the 24-year-old Parisian. (   01/07/2013 12:38 PM )

• Harvard Medical School launches series of e-books

• New evidence delays Ohio school shooting trial

• Conn. mayor: Name school for teacher in massacre

• RI secures student records from closed school

Martian rock from Sahara desert unlike others

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Scientists are abuzz about a coal-colored rock from Mars that landed in the Sahara desert: A yearlong analysis revealed it's quite different from other Martian meteorites. (   01/06/2013 10:24 PM )

• Martian rock from Sahara desert unlike others

• Martian rock from Sahara desert unlike others

• Martian rock from Sahara desert unlike others

• Road trip on tap for NASA's Mars rover in new year