Boston Globe writer James Alan Fox has yet another refutation of the claim by economists John Donohue and Steven Levitt in their infamous book Freakonomics that legalizing abortion led to a drop in crime rates.

Everybody who’s anybody in B.C. was getting his or her wager in before the puck dropped Wednesday night in the opener of the Stanley Cup final -and they were all confident of the outcome.

Though it has been part of the retirement investing landscape for more than a decade now, many people still don’t really understand the Roth IRA, or what it can do for them.

The college campus where the Boston Bruins’ legacy began has formed a rivalry with a Vancouver school for the Stanley Cup Finals.

Cross-city, good-natured natured bets are old hat in the NHL playoffs, with mayors and city officials often trading barbs and regional goods as they wager over the home team’s good fortunes.

Gloucester’s Sarah Green is talking on the phone from her Los Angeles office about the film that all of L.A. seems to be talking about, Terrence Malick’s new cosmic epic, “The Tree of Life.”

Boston-area home values dropped in March as another downturn in sales pushed prices across the country to new lows since the US housing market collapsed in 2006.

As baby boomers begin to approach traditional retirement age, the workforce is aging rapidly. But not all industries are aging at the same rate. Some companies employ significantly more older workers than others.

One of the singular features of the American political system is that there are two kinds of votes in Congress. The first involves passing real legislation. The second aims simply to embarrass the other side.

An ambitious new online community project aims to bring the concept of a book club to Twitter. It’s called 1book140 and it starts Wednesday.

For now, the NFL isn’t backing down. But Northeastern University law professor Roger Abrams, whose extensive writing on sports and labor law includes the book “Sports Justice,” suggested that — at some point prior to the scheduled start of the 2011 season — “someone in the NFL should be made vice president of saving face.”

A freshly dug trench of concrete pipes snakes along the barren, dusty stretch of highway that runs from Jordan’s southwestern port city of Aqaba to its capital in Amman. Though it currently serves as little more than an expensive eyesore in an otherwise tranquil desert landscape, it will eventually act as a conduit for the […]