A local quartet has been invited to perform at the Boston Pops fireworks spectacular. Syncopation, a group of jazz singers who also play instruments, will sing U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and "On A Clear Day",

UMass Amherst radar experts have just returned from the biggest tornado chase in history. During May and early June, Project VORTEX 2, as the "chase" is being called, gathered over 100 storm experts and an armada of chase equipment to

Recent rain in the Bay State is encouraging indoor growth of mold, which can pose significant health hazards. While the problem is expected to get worse, mold removal companies are already busy.

A Worcester man accused of beating of his 7-year-old son into a coma on Father's Day is set to be arraigned on a murder charge.

Dunkin' Donuts is suspending sales of hot chocolate and Dunkacino's for the next few days because of a risk of salmonella.

It's a crime that happened almost 20 years ago. But it could change laws in this state forever. At just 16 years old, Liz Holmes was raped. But when she finally found the courage to tell police, it was too

The little boy who was beaten to death in Worcester earlier this month, allegedly by his father, has given the gift of life to another child.

Grieving relatives of a four year old killed by an elderly driver took center stage on Beacon Hill Tuesday, the issue: should older drivers be re-tested.

Boston Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell was placed on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday with a strained right hip.

Two elderly drivers were involved in a serious car collision Tuesday afternoon in Woburn, police officials said. The wreck happened the same day a transportation panel is reviewing several bills to test or restrict elderly drivers.

The Air Force successfully launched an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile Monday from the California coast to an area in the Pacific Ocean some 4,200 miles away.

Democrat Al Franken won a unanimous ruling from the Minnesota state Supreme Court on Tuesday. The court ruled that Franken should be certified the winner of Minnesota's hotly contested Senate race. Given that, Republican Norm Coleman conceded, ending a nearly

The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that in the midst of the court hearing that ended in former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle being ordered tried for murder in the slaying of Oscar Grant was testimony about another officer's expletive

What did help some of the victims - if anything could - was the sentence Mr. Madoff received minutes later: 150 years in prison for operating one of the largest frauds in Wall Street history, an operation that ensnared millionaires,

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Tuesday after talks with the U.S. Middle East envoy that it was too soon to say whether Israel would freeze West Bank settlements as demanded by President Barack Obama, Reuters reported. Barak said

The Israeli navy boarded a boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists and humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip Tuesday in defiance of an Israeli blockade and brought the vessel to a port in Israel, Reuters reported. "No shots were fired during the

Policies of Azerbaijan have never brought harms to other states, the head of international relations department of Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Novruz Mammadov briefed the media on June 30. "Azerbaijan has always independently pursued its foreign policy, not bringing harm

Overcoming the current conflict between European countries and Iran, as well as building relations between these countries depends entirely on Iran, the British Foreign Ministry's official who asked to remain anonymous wrote to Trend News in an email. "We have

Honduras' post-coup leader, Roberto Micheletti, joined a rally of sympathizers in a public park in Honduras capital Tegucigalpa on Tuesday, a day after anti- government rallies were dispersed by troops with tear gas and shooting, Xinhua reported. "They told me

The contract for the sale of Azerbaijani gas, which was signed on Monday in Baku between SOCAR and Gazprom, is for five years with a possibility to export at least 500 million cubic meters of gas per year, said the