With 11 Spanish-speaking players, the Red Sox hope to hit a home run by expanding their use of bilingual social media, launching a new Spanish-language Web page, a Spanish Twitter account and a Facebook page called “€œLos Red Sox.”

Graphic images of dead bodies, decaying teeth and a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his neck will cover half of the front of all cigarette packages by September 2012, United States health officials announced on Tuesday.

The College Board unveiled an initiative at a forum at Harvard University yesterday to improve the academic achievement of young men of color, saying that bolstering their educational success should be a national priority.

Four of college football’s six powerhouse conferences paid their top executives $1 million or more, an Associated Press analysis of tax records shows, far eclipsing the compensation of most university presidents.

A new technique that uses nanoparticles and engineered proteins to broadcast the location of cancer in the body can deliver up to a 40-fold greater concentration of chemotherapy drugs to tumors than untargeted cancer treatments. The new technique, published online yesterday (June 19) in Nature Materials, could inform the development of more efficient therapies that […]

Mabel Chase taught history at Milford Central School for 20 years. Now her granddaughter, Mackenzie Chase, is promoting education for another generation.

Hardly news that the cost of college is skyrocketing here’s how much. According to inflation data dot com the price of just about everything you buy the overall inflation rate between 1985 and 2010 was 107%. But the increase in the price of tuition and other associated costs over that same 25 year period was […]

Most of us are aware of Ray Lewis’ warning last month that if the lockout looms, and there is no football, crime rate will increase.

Is college an invaluable waste of time? You bet. But it’s about to get even more valuable.

Boston’€™s young generation of sports fans -€” already relishing seven championship wins in their short lives – have been spared the heartache and misery the Hub teams gave their parents growing up.

Massachusetts continued its uneven economic recovery last month as employers cut payrolls last month and thousands of residents stopped looking for work — a sign that jobs are still hard to get.

On the night of Jan. 28, as Cairo’s police forces retreated from the waves of angry protesters advancing on Tahrir Square through thick clouds of white tear gas, just one block away, thieves broke into the world-famous, and once-highly secure, Egyptian Museum.