“€œCold, cruel and insensitive”€, was how France’€™s Interior Minister Claude Gueant described the killer responsible for the horrific murder of three children and a teacher at a Jewish school in Toulouse in the aftermath of the killings.

In a sign of the growing reach of public health and antitobacco forces, Boston’s largest condominium complex has voted to go smoke free.

The Summer Olympics in London could be a watershed event for international sports as every participating nation is expected to field at least one female athlete, including three Muslim countries — Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Brunei — that have previously sent only male competitors.

A gruesome discovery in Atkinson, New Hampshire has left many unanswered questions. The burned body of an adult male was found on Monday night and now many people are wondering who would do such a thing? Criminologist Jack Levin visited FOX 25 to discuss the burning of bodies.

Last year, Pablo Cano put to rest 12 murder victims, the most he’s handled in four decades as an undertaker in this troubled city. Many of the dead were still in their teens.

Tomorrow morning, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases, Jackson v. Hobbs and Miller v. Alabama, challenging the controversial practice of sentencing juvenile offenders to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

In 2005, a Suffolk County jury decided that Dr. Mary Ames-Castro and another obstetrician caused irreversible brain damage to an infant girl during a delivery at Massachusetts General Hospital. The $23.8 million malpractice judgment was one of the largest in state history.

Riots broke out on the French island of Reunion last month over oil prices and the cost of living. In an email interview, William Miles, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, discussed the political and economic status of France’s overseas departments and territories, known as DOM-TOM.

Sixteen years ago, it appeared that Dr. Scott S. Reuben, an anesthesiologist at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, had found the holy grail of pain management.

He is accused of the kind of crime that makes people shiver, the killing of families in their own homes under cover of night, the butchery of defenseless children. Under normal circumstances, Americans would dismiss such an act as worthy of only one response: swift and merciless punishment.

A man acquitted of an attempted-murder charge by reason of insanity after an armed standoff with police is now suing the state, saying his confinement at Connecticut Valley Hospital for six years was illegal because he was never insane.

As someone who teaches college students, I am reminded daily of the importance of helping them find meaningful work with internships, co-ops and jobs. I gather whatever info I can and pass the opportunities along to my current and former students. Thankfully, there are some other people in Boston who have been focusing on this […]