The final nine months of Tuan Dao’€™s life included, in order: a home foreclosure, a bankruptcy filing, a domestic violence-related arrest and a separation from his wife. Following this tailspin, the Vancouver father chose to commit suicide and kill his children.

Last year, on April 27, Lieutenant Richard G. Covino was paid for working an 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. shift with the Massachusetts Port Authority Fire Department. All in all, an ordinary work day.

Massachusetts’€™ technology sector is fueling strong growth, helping the state’s economy expand more than twice as fast as the nation’€™s in the first three months of this year, the University of Massachusetts reported yesterday.

Can the “birthers” ever be convinced that Barack Obama was born in America and is eligible to serve as president?

Who knows what eventually pushed Deborah Morgan Thawes of Roxbury to sign up for computer classes last month?

Rep. Barbara Norton has reintroduced the “Equal Pay for Women Act,”€ which would give the state power to correct and eliminate discriminatory wage practices based on sex for comparable work.

The Boston Globe is reporting that five of the six teens charged in connection with the bullying of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince have agreed to admit to a misdemeanor.

At area colleges, finals are about to begin. Soon the students will be home and looking for summer work. The odds are against them, this summer more than any in a long time.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis kicked off his appearance Tuesday night at the University of New England with an apology.

HOLYOKE -€“ The Planning Board Tuesday voted 5-0 to approve the site plan for the $168 million high performance computing center to be built overlooking the first-level canal on Bigelow Street.

Five of the six defendants charged in connection with the bullying last year of a teenage South Hadley girl who later committed suicide have agreed to admit to a misdemeanor, and in exchange prosecutors will drop more serious charges against them, a person familiar with the charges said Tuesday.

Theoretical physicists have proposed an explanation for how bacteria might transmit electromagnetic signals: Chromosomes could act like antennae, with electrons traveling gene circuits to produce species-specific wavelengths.