MEDFORD, Mass. - Massage therapist Marriam Donovan says she grew up watching her stepfather beat her mother, so she's familiar with domestic violence. Now she's being asked to look for similar abuse among her clients ( Read more... )

"....Oooh, I know! I'll start a fake bomb threat!"

Harvard student is arrested after bomb scareA Harvard student trying to get out of a final exam admitted to the FBI that he sent a bomb threat that forced the university to evacuate multiple buildings and rattled the campus, federal officials said Tuesday ( Read more... )

A longtime government professor at Harvard lashed out Tuesday at what he deemed a system of rampant grade inflation after learning that students are receiving mainly A’s.

- The Boston Globe, Dec. 4

From: The Dean of Harvard College

To: The Faculty

In light of the controversy regarding so-called grade inflation, please take a moment to review ( Read more... )

A waiter at a Boston-area restaurant witnessed an act of kindness Tuesday night that's warmed hearts across the internet ( Read more... )

BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Wednesday charged three men with interfering with the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing, saying they hid fireworks and a backpack belonging to one of the suspected bombers as a manhunt was under way ( Read more... )

Body of Missing Student at Brown Is Discovered
By JESS BIDGOOD
Published: April 25, 2013

( The family of Sunil Tripathi, a Brown University student who disappeared last month - and was briefly misidentified as a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings - confirmed Thursday that his body had been found near Providence, R.I. )

The Boston Marathon bombing suspects - armed with explosives and guns - battled law enforcement officers in a Boston suburb early Friday morning, unleashing chaos until cops took one of the men into custody and the other fled, law enforcement sources said.

Officials later said the suspect taken into custody died and authorities identified the man ( Read more... )

Police: Campus officer shot at MIT

William M. Welch USA Today12:06 a.m. EDT April 19, 2013
A campus police officer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology outside Boston was shot Thursday night, a Cambridge, Mass., officer said.

MIT campus police referred a caller to the campus news bureau, where no one answered calls.

The school posted a statement on ( Read more... )

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Promoting safe sex could be dangerous for some Boston College students after school officials threatened them with disciplinary action for distributing condoms on campus, a practice administrators say violates the mission of the Catholic institution.The email warning - which has spurred outrage and threats of legal action from the ACLU foundation ( Read more... )