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Alaska Governor Palin is McCain's pick
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff DAYTON, Ohio -- Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, a dark horse candidate with little national prominence, is Republican John McCain's...
Sherborn seeks public input on new commuter bus link
Selectmen are seeking input from residents about whether to allow a commuter bus line to provide daily services between the center of Sherborn and the...
It's not a tax. It's a fee -- for school sports and a whole lot more
Schools throughout greater Boston are raising fees for sports and other activities. While it's not a property tax increase, the school fees are yet another...
Today's Globe: stroke exercise, Alzheimer's protein, salmonella
Walking on a treadmill three times a week helped stroke survivors improve their mobility and physical conditioning but also led to a "rewiring" of the...
Massachusetts news
Court cuts Boston Scientific patent penalty
Boston Scientific Corp. said Friday a U.S. District Court has reduced a patent dispute award owed to rival Medtronic Inc. from $250 million to $19 million. (AP, 2:52 p.m.)
Yellow jackets give Mass. kids extra vacation day
Students at a Westfield elementary school got an extended summer vacation when yellow jackets buzzed into five rooms on the first day back to class. (AP, 12:32 p.m.)
Elderly couple die in car crash
Leicester police say the husband of a woman who was killed in a head-on car crash on Route 9 has died from his injuries. (AP, 11:43 a.m.)
Pilot and passenger banged up, but will fly again
The Massachusetts pilot injured in this week's small plane crash in Bristol, N.H., says he and his passenger are banged up, but will fly again. (AP, 11:37 a.m.)
Rescuers reach stranded hikers in N. Cascades
Rescuers have reached two climbers stranded since Wednesday at the 8,000-foot level of Spire Point, near Darrington, in the North Cascades. (AP, 1:57 p.m.)
Juvenile convicted of starting huge Holyoke fire
Holyoke's fire chief says a 14-year-old boy has been convicted of starting a nine-alarm blaze that destroyed a closed city paper mill earlier this summer. (AP, 10:05 a.m.)
Pilot and passenger banged up, but will fly again
The Massachusetts pilot injured in this week's small plane crash in Bristol, N.H., says he and his passenger are banged up, but will fly again. (AP, 2:30 p.m.)
Former RMV manager faces marijuana charges
The former branch manager of the North Attleborough Registry of Motor Vehicles is charged with buying marijuana while at work. (AP, 7:27 a.m.)
North Adams man charged with killing wife
A North Adams man accused of killing his estranged wife has pleaded not guilty to murder and assault charges. (AP, 7:12 a.m.)
Stow man indicted on murder charge
A Stow man has been indicted by a grand jury on charges that he murdered a Framingham man during a fight. (AP, 6:59 a.m.)
URI football season about to start
A new era in University of Rhode Island football is about to start. The Rams open the 2008 season at home on Saturday against non-league foe Monmouth. (AP, 6:20 a.m.)
Vandals torch Brockton playground
Vandals have torched a playground at a Brockton elementary school just before the start of the school year. (AP, 5:11 a.m.)
State: Safety lapses led to surgery error
State investigators say operating room staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center failed to perform a routine and crucial verbal safety check before surgery on the wrong part of a patient's body. (AP, 5 a.m.)
New England Lottery Roundup
CONNECTICUT Play 3 Day (AP, 2:31 a.m.)
CASH Winfall
The winning numbers drawn Monday night in the "CASH Winfall" game were: 10-18-22-31-40-45 (AP, 12:29 a.m.)
Westwood licensing dispute continues
A squabble over a Westwood liquor license brought business to a halt at the House of Representatives again yesterday. To protest the failure of his home-rule petition, Representative Paul McMurtry, a Democrat who represents Westwood, doubted the presence of a quorum, which automatically ended the session. The bill would allow the town to grant a liquor license to the ... (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Cape employers stretched thin without usual summer workers on visas
WELLFLEET - With summer in full swing, vacationers are clogging the restaurants, shops, and inns of this town on the outer reaches of Cape Cod. But behind the counters, in the kitchens and back rooms, it is another story. Help is in very short supply. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Man, 18, charged in fatal shooting in Lynn
An 18-year-old homeless man has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of another man in Lynn Wednesday night, the Essex district attorney's office said. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Plan puts 200 units on Sudbury site
A Virginia development company has notified Sudbury officials that is has an agreement to buy 35 acres of open land in town and that it plans to build a 200-unit complex, including 50 units of affordable housing. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Police plot strategy in hunt for boy
LYNN - About 25 investigators from the Lynn Police Department, the FBI, and State Police met for several hours yesterday morning to determine the next steps in their search for a 5-year-old boy who disappeared almost two weeks ago. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
At Harvard, blacks perceive blatant culture of prejudice
It was the quintessential college scene: dozens of students from the Harvard Black Men's Forum and the Association of Black Harvard Women picnicking on the Radcliffe Quad, playing capture-the-flag and running relay races at their end-of-the-year field day. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Boston, N.Y. bring duel to chessboard
You could be forgiven if you haven't heard much about what one man called "by far the biggest rivalry going on in the chess world right now." But in the burgeoning United States Chess League, a special community where speech is reduced to board coordinates, a two-year spat between the Boston Blitz and the New York Knights is garnering a ... (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Police seeking four suspects in possible hate crime attack
Four friends were ambling home from a night out at a South End nightclub when they suddenly found themselves under attack by a group of men who beat them and hurled homophobic slurs at them, according to the victims and Boston police. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Violence, grief, and disbelief in Dorchester
Troy West loved to draw, capturing family members and inanimate objects on his sketching pad. He wrote poems with such flair that his male friends asked him to pen love letters to their girlfriends so they could pass the sweet words off as their own. And he often spent hours listening to his vast music collection, smooth oldies that reminded ... (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Grants critical source for emerging biotechs
SMALL BUSINESS Innovation Research, or SBIR, grants, as your Aug. 22 editorial " Lifeline for small researchers " notes, are indeed a critical source of funding for emerging biotech companies. When, after 20 years, the Small Business Administration began excluding companies with majority venture capital backing, promising research to cure and treat common conditions, from autoimmune diseases to the "superbugs" ... (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Crash on the Tobin Bridge injures 13 who were in van
A van carrying 13 people crashed into a tollbooth's barrier on the Tobin Bridge yesterday, injuring everyone inside the vehicle, State Police said. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Lowell man sent to jail for 18 months in baby assault
A 26-year-old Lowell man pleaded guilty yesterday to assaulting his 22-month-old son in November, according to Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr.'s office. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Turtle influx prompts advisory
Federal officials are cautioning boaters in the waters off Massachusetts to keep a sharp lookout, because leatherback turtles, among the world's largest reptiles, have arrived in record numbers. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Joy, tears, a sense of history in the making
Throughout the long speech, they nodded and watched in agreeing silence. And then at the end, they rose to their feet, clapped, cried, and roared in thundering approval. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Scavenging students face stiff competition
Emerson College student David Koenig was walking to work in Cambridge recently when he spotted a computer desk that someone had discarded on a street near Harvard Square. It was in good condition and, even better, had slots for CDs. "Just what I was looking for," he said. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
City's job program for teens gets a lift
The City of Boston is developing a job training program in an effort to stem the increasing number of young men from low-income Boston neighorhoods who are not in school and do not have steady work. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Added slots fail to halt slide in N.E. gambling
Soaring gas prices, job losses, and other components of New England's struggling economy have taken a bite out of slot machine revenues, resulting in the first significant, sustained dip in the region's gambling market since Connecticut opened its tribal casinos in the 1990s. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Exmobster_reportedly_strikes_deal
John Martorano, a ruthless hit man who has admitted killing 20 people -- including a Tulsa millionaire and a pair of unwitting Roxbury teenagers -- could walk free in less than eight years under a deal secretly approved by prosecutors from Massachusetts, Florida, and Oklahoma, according to sources familiar with the case. (Boston Globe, 9/9/99)
Deal_with_killer_dishonors_death
Ever since the revelation last year that John Martorano killed three people in cold blood in 1968 in Roxbury, it has been disturbing how completely forgotten his three victims had become. (Boston Globe, 9/9/99)
Bulger_moves_to_FBI_ton_ten
Legendary South Boston crime boss James J. ``Whitey'' Bulger yesterday became the 458th fugitive to make the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, but he may well be the first former FBI informant to rate such a billing. (Boston Globe, 8/20/99)
Alleged_mobster_labels_Bulger,_Flemmi_'rats'
QUINCY -- Sitting in the dining room of his home, Jimmy Martorano chuckles at the black and white photograph in his hands of two angelic-looking little boys. (Boston Globe, 1/10/99)
Mob_case_hinges_on_depth_of_FBI_ties
The evidence is in and it's overwhelming. Today, after 10 months of stunning pretrial testimony from FBI agents and underworld operatives, even federal prosecutors concede that notorious gangsters James J. ``Whitey'' Bulger and Stephen ``The Rifleman'' Flemmi were protected by the FBI while working as informants. (Boston Globe, 10/18/98)
Doubts_heard_on_FBI_efforts_to_catch_Bulger
In order to get James ``Whitey'' Bulger's longtime girlfriend to cooperate with the FBI, agents told her that Bulger might kill her for knowing too much. (Boston Globe, 9/19/98)
Bulger_companion_adds_little_to_lore
She lived with gangster FBI informant James J. ``Whitey'' Bulger for 30 years and says she never knew his deepest secrets. She didn't ask. And he didn't tell. (Boston Globe, 9/18/98)
Prosecutor_asks_Flemmi_why_he_didnt_flee_indictment
If, as gangster/informant Stephen Flemmi claims, a former FBI supervisor warned him and his fugitive criminal partner James ``Whitey'' Bulger that they were about to be indicted, a federal prosecutor asked yesterday, why did Flemmi stick around? (Boston Globe, 8/29/98)
Realtor_testifies_on_Bulger_ordeal
First, gangster James ``Whitey'' Bulger poked the crown of Raymond Slinger's head with the barrel of a gun and explained there would be little blood if he shot him there. Then, Bulger ordered a henchman to fetch a body bag. (Boston Globe, 8/24/98)
Flemmi_tells_of_wait_for_FBI_call_to_freedom
Sitting in his jail cell, week after week, Stephen Flemmi felt abandoned, double-crossed by the FBI. (Boston Globe, 8/22/98)
Flemmi_details_FBI_favors
On the witness stand in federal court yesterday, gangster-turned-informant Stephen Flemmi explained for the first time how his longtime criminal sidekick James ``Whitey'' Bulger was able to leave town before the law came calling: He was tipped off by FBI supervisor John Morris. (Boston Globe, 8/20/98)
Testimony_cites_soft_spot_for_Bulger
When former FBI agent John Connolly was interviewed by two agents tracking down fugitive James ``Whitey'' Bulger, his prized informant, Connolly told them he hoped Bulger was ``never caught,'' one of the agents testified yesterday in federal court. (Boston Globe, 8/11/98)
Introducing_John_Matorano
His name is John Martorano, and while he may have murdered more people over the course of his career as a huge gangster than get killed in the first 27 minutes of ``Saving Private Ryan,'' he is regarded today as a trophy by the FBI as well as the US attorney's office in Boston simply because he can't stop talking. ... (Boston Globe, 8/4/98)
Bulger_case_sparks_probe_in_US_House
Troubled by recent revelations in the two-decade relationship between the FBI and gangster James J. ``Whitey'' Bulger, US Representative Martin T. Meehan announced plans yesterday to hold congressional hearings on federal agencies' use of criminal informants. (Boston Globe, 7/24/98)
Gangster_set_to_turn_on_Bulger
In a stunning development that may help investigators solve at least a dozen murders, a longtime associate of fugitive South Boston crime boss James J. ``Whitey'' Bulger and reputed gangster Stephen ``The Rifleman'' Flemmi has agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors against the pair, according to sources. (Boston Globe, 7/18/98)
FBI_ties_renews_questions_on_State_St_scandal
As an FBI supervisor, John Morris was overseeing an investigation of then-Senate President William M. Bulger in 1986 when a gift arrived from the politician's big brother, gangster James J. ``Whitey'' Bulger -- a $5,000 cash bribe. (Boston Globe, 6/14/98)
Brothers'_lives_linked_within_city
It's a story of brothers and bosses, blood ties and betrayals. And ultimately it's a story of Boston. (Boston Globe, 5/21/98)