The more money you have, the more the IRS wants you. Millionaires were nearly twice as likely to receive a tax audit last year as they were the previous year, according to data released by the IRS this week.

Few job seekers who fail to get an interview know the reason, but Michelle Chesney-Offutt said a recruiter told her why she lost the chance to pitch for an information technology position.

The debate around the New Orleans Saints’ pay-for-performance system initially centered around the prevalence of such programs and their propriety within the NFL. But the NFL’s punishments of the team revealed something else: a discord among current and former players not only over the bounty program and the league’s response but in the manner in […]

When the U.S. was accused of torturing suspected terrorists after the Sept. 11 attacks, several Boston lawyers expressed their outrage by representing Guantanamo Bay detainees. But one longtime local civil rights attorney took a very different approach.

Unless you’ve been living under a freezing cold AC-equipped rock for the past week, you’ve undoubtedly noticed the unusually warm spring temperatures gracing Boston. And while we’re all loving the sunshine, the fact that it’s going to be 80 degrees today may be a little unnerving for those that are worried about an apocaletptic, Mayan-predicted, […]

I made the switch from industry in 2007, having been at Pfizer, and it’s too early to decide if it’s been successful or not. I started out at BU in a research faculty position doing hit follow-up med chem and providing med chem and synthesis support to several investigators at the med school, and was […]

Northeastern University economist Alan Clayton-Matthews says because there is a seven-month lag in reporting job census figures, the 2011 numbers are almost certain to undergo more revisions.

“€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.