A gunman opened fire Monday at a Christian university in California, killing at least seven people, wounding three more and setting off an intense, chaotic manhunt that ended hours later with his capture at a shopping center, authorities said.

A state bailout of the cash-strapped MBTA won the backing of 40 percent of Massachusetts voters surveyed in a new Boston Globe poll, outstripping those who said they would categorically oppose an infusion of aid.

Brookline roommates Bob Hertig and Peter Maltzan were in the market for a new turntable for their extensive vinyl record collection, but couldn’€™t find what they were looking for.

It was a mob hit in a cannoli shop. But cash not crooks descended on The Cannoli Guy Café here Friday at the city’s first “cash mob.’’

Nineteen-year-old Jonathan Knowles has an array of hoodies hanging in his dorm room closet, scattered among his suits, dress shirts and ties. But the moment he walks out in a hoodie, he said, he is no longer just a Northwestern University engineering student. In the eyes of some, he is a threatening menace.

In the 21st century, natural resource battles will be fought not only over oil and water, but over elements with tongue-twisting names like dysprosium, yttrium, and neodymium.

Though the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends breastfeeding infants exclusively for six months, nursing doesn’t come easily to every mom – Yahoo! Shine recently uncovered six rarely discussed breastfeeding challenges.

There seems to be no end to the proliferation of puzzling information in the wake of the tragic killing of Trayvon Martin. While the evidence suggests that George Zimmerman racially profiled Trayvon Martin before killing him, many now wonder whether the Sanford Police posthumously profiled Trayvon as well by failing to conduct a thorough and […]

Government should work more closely with academia to address cyber vulnerabilities at an early stage of technology development, rather than waiting until flaws are discovered once the products hit the market. This argument was made by Stephen Flynn, codirector of Northeastern University’s George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security.

News of a Vermont mother found murdered has shocked people all across New England. Now, a couple is facing charges in her death. FOX 25’s Bob Ward sat down with Northeastern University criminologist James Allen Fox to discuss the horrific crime.

For Martha F. Davis, a law professor at Northeastern University, the Supreme Court debate on the Affordable Care Act could not have come at a better time: the week before her constitutional law class’s annual mock trial.

As the Supreme Court weighs the fate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) this week, it should consider the law’s international significance as well as its domestic impact.