Mayor Thomas M. Menino and a coalition of advocates are set to mark the 10th anniversary of an English language program that has helped thousands of the city’s immigrants.

The massive earthquake that shook Japan yesterday, creating a destructive tsunami, is the latest in a series of especially fierce temblors since 2004 – after four decades without such large quakes.

The double disaster of a giant earthquake and tsunami today in Japan has caused a mercifully low death toll so far. That’s thanks in part to the country’s tradition of strong building codes and trying out new disaster-proofing systems. In years to come, those systems could make new buildings in Japan (and the United States) […]

Pigs infected with classical swine fever virus (CSFV) have been made the subjects of analytical chemistry in China to learn how their serum levels change during the lethal stage of the illness.

Myles Lutheran graduated from Northeastern University (NEU) with a bachelors of science in business administration (BSBA) in 2010. Like many finance majors, he believed in the power of the capital market and wanted to pursue finance as a long term career.

Homicides in New York City plummeted 22% during the first two months of 2011. But while the record-breaking snow that blanketed the city in January seems an obvious explanation, the New York Police Department doesn’t have avalanche of evidence to support that theory.

For the next three weeks, the steady beat of hammers, grunts of hard work and chirps of laughter will become familiar sounds to residents of Belle Avenue in Fort Smith.

A cyber security competition for college students in the northeast United States held March 3-6 was won by Rochester Institute of Technology. RIT will compete against other regional winners in a national final that will be held in San Antonio, TX, in April.

With high school graduation mere months away, area school officials are pushing students at risk of dropping out to stay in school and say they hope to improve graduation rates to meet state levels.

When Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Deb Roy wanted to study the ways caregivers influence how babies learn to talk, he decided to bring his work home.

“The Sheriff is back.”

The Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lynn will host a screening of the documentary “Children Left Behind” on Sunday, March 27 at 4 p.m. The screening is sponsored by Promise the Children and will be followed by a discussion of education reform in the U.S. The church is located at 101 Forest Ave in Swampscott.