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The faltering US dollar, which has steadily lost value against major currencies around the world, has produced a silver lining for foreign students, and the American universities that recruit them.
For 23 minutes last night, it seemed as though everyone in the city looked in the same direction - skyward - as bold green, peach, and yellow bursts sparkled against the darkness. Willows of white light arched gracefully through the air before fading away. Yellow and white rockets soared through the air by the dozens, brightening the sky and filling ...
SUDBURY - Looking out at a lushly wooded area beyond a stone wall on her 100-acre estate, Carole Wolfe's face darkened. There, in the distance, she said, nervously pointing a finger, stretches a former rail corridor that, if some have their way, could bring trouble upon this town where her family's roots date to Colonial times.
Jesse Helms, the North Carolina Republican whose unyielding conservatism and obstructionist tactics won him the nickname "Senator No" during his five terms on Capitol Hill, died in Raleigh, N.C., on the Fourth of July. He was 86.
ABINGTON - The telephone rang at Nancy Hurst's desk in Abington Town Hall one morning this week, and Hurst had her reply ready.
In the Charles River, beyond the midday sunbathers, obscured from view by a slender island of trees, floats a network of sand-covered, metal barges filled with 16,000 pounds of explosives.
PROVIDENCE - In Bristol, R.I., residents are as high as the American flag recently raised over the town common for the Fourth of July. The parade is coming.
This Fourth of July weekend will mark a historic event for residents of Randolph: the first Independence Day without fireworks in more than a decade.
Holiday observed: Tomorrow. Retail stores: Open. Liquor stores: Open. Supermarkets: Open. Convenience stores: Open. Taverns, bars: Open. Banks: Closed. Stock market: Closed. Municipal, state, federal offices: Closed. Libraries: Closed. Mail: Post offices closed; express delivery only. Trash/recycling collection: Regular collections in Boston proper, Roxbury, and Charlestown. All other districts deferred one day.
PLYMOUTH - Plymouth Rock Studios, the group of California film executives responsible for the 50-foot "Hollywood East" sign on the front lawn of the 1820 Plymouth County Courthouse, couldn't take the heat.
A lawyer for David Woodman's family voiced outrage yesterday after learning that two of the nine officers who were with the 22-year-old Brookline man when he stopped breathing as he was being taken into custody during the Celtics championship celebration on June 18 had previously been disciplined, one for domestic violence and the other for a lack of judgment in ...
The Department of Social Services investigated the parents of cancer-stricken Jeremy Fraser four times since 2005, but officials said yesterday that the agency only substantiated child abuse allegations in February, after doctors discovered that the boy's cancer had returned because his mother had allegedly failed to get him medical care.
The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 60-year-old Quincy man who fell from a motorboat into Boston Harbor.
Police say a Waterville man faces felony charges for firing a pistol several times into the air as part of his Independence Day celebration.
The City Council in Franklin, New Hampshire, votes Monday night on whether to remove almost half of the city's street lights.
With the recreational boating season getting into full swing, some boat and marina owners across northern New England are less worried about the cost of gas than the type of fuel that's going into their fuel tanks this holiday weekend.
An expansive red tide has abated, allowing the state to reopen some of its most productive shellfish beds.
Nearly 200 New Hampshire residents will have a special reason to celebrate the Fourth of July from now on.
Police are investigating a hit-and-run crash in Belmont, New Hampshire, that killed a motorcyclist from Laconia.
Two people face charges after zipping snowmobiles across crowded Lake Winnipesaukee this holiday weekend. The New Hampshire Marine Patrol says it had to pull one snowmobile driver from the water Friday evening after getting a report that he was zipping through Meredith Bay in heavy boat traffic. The snowmobile sank and the driver, 20-year-old Jonathan Miller of Wolfeboro, was charged ...
When residents of a tiny Kenyan village sold their chickens and cattle to buy Milton Ochieng's $900 plane ticket to Dartmouth College, they told him they wanted something in return.
Highlights of the history of Old Point Comfort and Fort Monroe: -- April 28, 1607: Capt. Christopher Newport and English settlers land on peninsula before sailing on to Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
John McCain calls himself an underdog. That may be an understatement. The GOP presidential candidate trails Democrat Barack Obama in polls, organization and money while trying to succeed a deeply unpopular fellow Republican in a year that favors Democrats. McCain also doesn't seem to have a coherent message let alone much of a strategy despite securing the nomination three months ...
Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama envision the Federal Housing Administration backing new, cheaper mortgages for distressed homeowners who otherwise would have difficulty refinancing into more secure government-insured loans with lower monthly payments. For the plans to work, lenders would have to be willing to take a substantial loss by reducing the amount owed on the loan in the ...
Home foreclosures will keep rising next year no matter who is elected president in November.
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