Northeastern University School of Law Professor Hope Lewis, a human rights scholar and advocate for more than 20 years, has been awarded the American Bar Association’s (ABA) prestigious Mayre Rasmussen Award for the advancement of women in the legal profession.

In 2008, Petit Robert was in the cross hairs of Patricia A. Malone, the director of the city’s Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing.

Following years of retreat in the face of shrinking readership, mounting financial losses, and a rising chorus of digital visionaries telling them they’re doing it all wrong, 2012 will be a year of retrenchment for newspaper publishers.

The latest FBI figures show there’s a lot less violent crime across the country this year, a trend experts attribute to a larger investment in crime prevention by government and law enforcement.

It didn’t even seem like a good idea at the time.

One evening Nicole Canfora Lupo sliced open her finger on a chipped area under a jar lid. After sopping up the blood, she blogged humorously about the misadventure, saying she’d contact the manufacturer.

Chefs take note. New research published in the journal Nature reveals that East Asian cooks have a fundamentally different approach to combining flavours from their North American counterparts.

Crime continues to fall in all major categories, a streak that has now hit 4½ years, according to data released Monday, but killings of police officers are on the rise this year.

Sherborn, the state’€™s wealthiest community, is a bucolic enclave of sweeping estates and horse farms nestled amid Boston’s most prosperous suburbs.

They were described as the perfect family: Richard and Clair, married for 13 years and with two sons, Aaron aged one and Ben, nine. Only a few weeks ago they’€™d posed for a family portrait and smiling into the camera they appear the epitome of a happy suburban family. Friends said that they seemed to […]

The Occupy Boston movement plans to join a rally on Causeway Street Monday afternoon against federal housing policies. More than a week after the dismantling of the Dewey Square encampment, opinions vary on the effectiveness of the movement.

Creating campuses in multiple US states carries both risks and opportunities for private colleges, according to a report by Moody’s Investors Service.