The shooting at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” Friday underscored a chilling trend: While gun violence has plummeted over the decades, mass murder has increased slightly. Shooting massacres do not mirror the more volatile statistical curve of individual gun violence. Recent incidents — such as the shooting at a […]

In the wake of the Colorado movie theater shootings — with a 24-year-old gunman allegedly opening fire during a screening of the Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises, leaving many dead and wounded — many Americans may wonder whether a shooter can be spotted before they commit a violent act. Are there signs, symptoms, a […]

Jack Levin, a professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University, joins Jim to talk about the Colorado shootings.

The Massachusetts economy lost jobs for the first time in seven months in June, reflecting a sharp slowdown as looming uncertainties about the economic crisis in Europe and political gridlock in the United States make employers cautious to hire. “The state’s economy is still growing, but it’s also slowing,” said Northeastern University economics professor Alan […]

New Japanese plant in Rochelle promises to bring jobs to state, 160 rail cars to Metra. Joan Fitzgerald, co-author of the report “Reviving the U.S. Rail and Transit Industry: Investments and Job Creation,” said that in deciding when to use subsidies, states should require companies to buy parts and other products locally to create additional […]

The third and final film in the Northeastern University Marine Science Center’s 2012 Cinema by the Sea program, “Ocean Frontiers,” is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday at 430 Nahant Road.

Fleura Bardhi believed what many of us do about members of car-sharing services like Zipcar. They care about the environment. They want to take cars off the road. They’ve created a trusting community to share assets that previous generations insisted on owning. This is all a very European notion, and it made sense to Bardhi, […]

Will Boynton is 17, lives in Newburyport, and put in dozens of applications for a summer job. He applied to nearby Water Country, to restaurants and stores. An amateur disc jockey, he looked all over for gigs. Finally, he found a part-time job doing photography for a business website and playing music at the owner’s […]

Northeastern University School of Law has named Jeremy Paul as its next law dean. Paul is now dean of the University of Connecticut School of Law, but announced plans in March to step down once his replacement had been found. He will assume the top post at Northeastern on Aug. 13.  

It’s 9:30 on a recent Sunday morning. Most people are either in church or in bed, depending on whether they worship the Holy Spirit or imbibed too many spirits the night before. But the Pilgrim Lanes are rocking. A busload of Canadians has journeyed 14 hours to bowl in the Candlepin for Kids International Teams […]

VIDEO: Northeastern University’s Athletic Director Peter Roby discusses the Red Sox’s adviser defending the tarnished football icon

Jeff Born, a Northeastern University finance professor and director of the executive MBA program, told the Christian Science Monitor it will only get worse. “If you like bacon [and] pork, you should buy it now, because by the fall you are going to be stunned at what it will cost,” he wrote in an email.