A quartet of researchers from colleges around the Bay State will split $160,000 in grants from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center. The grants fall under the MassCEC Catalyst Program for commercialization clean energy technologies being developed at Massachusetts colleges.

The Forbes 2011 Retirement Guide is here, and I’m pleased to have contributed a story to the mix that is near and dear to my heart-following your passion through your work – the subject of my book What’s Next?

If I asked you if you work “mother’s hours,” what would come to mind?

Terisa Acevedo was crying tears of joy. Nearly a month after her dog Lola disappeared in a fire that destroyed her home, she found the pet alive Monday among the ashes of her burned-out and boarded-up house in Hyde Park.

Zack Sampson walked onto the basketball court with one thought streaming through his mind: “Don’t look like an idiot.”

The brutal winter snowstorms did more than frustrate commuters and destroy roofs. They also played a large role in keeping Boston crime down, according to police and specialists.

Sports law controversies involving such issues as the rights of the disabled, amateurism and college sports, transgendered athletes, and the responsibility of leagues for the safety and lifelong health of players reflect not only the evolving nature of sports but of society itself.

Measuring the mechanical strength of cancer cell mucus layers provides clues about better ways to treat cancer, and also suggests why some cancer cells are more resistant to drugs than others, according to Kai-tak Wan, associate professor of engineering at Northeastern University, Boston, Mass.

Being a case manager at a Social Security disability law firm didn’t cut it for 25-year-old Jacquelyn Richards.

Twice a year, Police Sgt. Kevin Force traverses Abington, stopping at every preschool, public and private school to hand out information on the Level 3 sex offenders living and working in town.

Two local governments in southeast Alabama are expected to issue an apology for a 1944 rape of a black woman by several white men, none of whom were ever prosecuted.

Massachusetts in February posted its biggest monthly jobs gains in more than a year and the unemployment rate declined to its lowest level since May 2009, the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development reported yesterday.