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.

The Comella family has united to fight a beloved son and brother’s potentially deadly disease on several fronts.

Two years after state lawmakers imposed fees for fighting traffic tickets, the number of appeals has dropped, raising questions about whether the effort to weed out frivolous cases and raise revenue has hindered access to courts.

He has grown three inches, gained 20 pounds and still hopes to play in the NBA. The ranking service Middleschoolelite.com puts him as the top sixth-grader in the nation. Nearly a dozen AAU teams nationwide reportedly are vying for his services this coming summer.

On June 4, 1954, wealthy African-American land owner Isadore Banks disappeared in his hometown of Marion, Arkansas and was discovered days later chained to a tree, shot and burned beyond recognition. For nearly 57 years, his family has lived with the pain of two mysteries: who killed him and what happened to his land. Now, […]

The recent recession was milder in Massachusetts than first thought, as the unemployment rate peaked at a much lower level and the state shed fewer jobs than reported previously, according to revised data released yesterday by the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

With a month left in the season, it would have been easy for Northeastern to pack it in. The young Huskies had been besieged by injuries, which snowballed into a nine-game losing streak.

The US and Massachusetts economies are continuing their slow and steady march to recovery, a panel of executives and analysts said yesterday.