The nation’€™s three biggest tobacco companies are taking aim at part of a new Worcester antismoking ordinance that would dramatically limit advertising of tobacco products.

It has been two years since Anastacia Sharpe had a steady job. She has worked retail stints or menial overnight hotel jobs but, as a single mother, she found those positions created child-care nightmares. So, she has been searching for a job that will allow her to work while her 7-year-old is in school.

More than 1,000 folks showed up for a two-hour-long parade in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Wednesday in honor of Dallas Mavericks guard J.J. Barea.

Seasonal job prospects are so tight that three out of four teens won’t have a job this summer, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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.