Apple’s reputation for building a highly protective environment for its apps, fiercely filtering third party applications available for iDevices, has been called into question in a recent report.

“Race, gender, youth and attractiveness are all factors in whose stories are found to be media-worthy,”€ said Sheri L. Parks, an American studies professor at the University of Maryland. In Love’s case, she said, “the vigorous young athlete turns into the imperiled damsel in distress. .?.?. Young, white and attractive women are often positioned this […]

Most people know by now that healthy habits make a happy body. But some lifestyle changes also can help your wallet:

L’Esperance was at the presentation of a new Northeastern University study that examined troopers’ responses to traffic stops between July 2010 and June 2011. The analysis of nearly 50,000 stops showed the vast majority of drivers who were pulled over were white: more than 95 percent of the total number of traffic stops. That’s logical […]

How far have home values dropped in this Central Massachusetts town? The answer sounds like the punch line to a joke, but no one is laughing: They’€™ve eroded so much that you can buy a house for about the cost of a Toyota Camry.

Alexandria Harding wonders how different things might have been. She and her siblings might have had a mother who took care of them. Her grandmother’s home might have been a place to go for special visits. “She would’ve been like the fun grandma.”

In November, according to Newt Gingrich, voters will decide whether “to decisively repudiate an 80 year drift to the left: a drift in our newsrooms; a drift in our colleges and universities; a drift with our judges; and a drift among elected politicians.”

Northeastern University students, faculty and alumni will have the chance to show off their latest innovations this week’s fourth Northeastern Entrepreneurship Expo.

President Obama is expected to use his budget unveiling today to flesh out his threat last month to curb runaway college tuition increases – potentially by withholding federal student aid from those colleges that fail to keep prices down.

It’€™s Julia Child’€™s fault. That’s how Sara Noonan explained the extra pounds she acquired during 2010 and into 2011. “I started doing a lot of French cooking at home and using butter,”€™ she said. “€œBefore I knew it, my pants didn’t fit.”€™

This city is finally preparing to heal a hole in its heart: the site of the former Filene’s department store that for more than three years has been a stalled real-estate development in the center of downtown.

Shrewsbury teen Valerie N. Hall pushed her mother down a flight of stairs in 2000, smashed her head in with a hammer and left Kathleen Thompsen Hall to die while she went for a ride with her boyfriend. For her mother’s murder, Hall, a depressed and suicidal 16-year-old at the time, served nine years in […]