Cowardice comes in many forms, but there’s a special sense of shame reserved for captains who abandon ship. South Korean authorities Capt. Lee Jun-Seok, who was one of the first to flee from the ferry as it sank on Wednesday. “I can’t lift my face before the passengers and family members of those missing,” Lee […]

THIS IS HOW it happens now: Someone commits a crime, and everyone turns to his Facebook page, hoping to glimpse his inner thoughts. And there, on the public page of Kevin Edson — who allegedly put a rice cooker in a backpack, then placed it near the Marathon finish line — was that familiar photo […]

Steven Vollmer studies coral. One of the species on his radar is staghorn coral, which has long branches resembling male deer antlers. Found mostly off the Florida Keys and in the Caribbean, the coral is on the endangered species list because of white band disease, a condition involving a deadly ring of peeling that starts […]

One year ago, Bostonians woke up to the news that the city had locked down because the second Boston marathon bombing suspect was still on the loose, after an overnight gun battle with police that took place hours after surveillance camera images of the suspects had been released. Boston and surrounding communities became ghost towns. […]

Through the highs of the real estate boom and the lows of the Great Recession that followed, employment in Massachusetts never reached the peak it hit in February 2001, an era of wild-eyed optimism that ultimately ended in the collapse of the dot-com bubble in the technology industry. At least not until now. Massachusetts employment […]

Glaring economic inequality has become one of the most talked about issues in post-recession America. But a new study from the University of Minnesota shows the reasons why racial inequality shouldn’t be swept aside–especially when it’s related to an additional 7,000 deaths a year. Published in the journal PLoS One, the study details the massive […]

There aren’t any Greek columns or sprawling green lawns at Northeastern University’s satellite campus in Charlotte, N.C. But the location, on the 11th story of an office building in the middle of the city’s uptown district, is no accident. Charlotte is among the nation’s 10 fastest growing cities with more than one million people, according […]

South Boston doesn’t have a parking problem — at least not in the way that neighborhood officials think it does. Southie politicians are blaming waves of new residential buildings for area gridlock, but neighborhood street wars over coveted parking spaces don’t have anything to do with new buildings on Broadway or D Street. If anything, […]

The killings of three people near Jewish Community Centers in Kansas City on April 13 were senseless, but investigators have gathered the alleged shooter’s intention was clear. The Southern Poverty Law Center said that suspect Frazier Glenn Miller, who went by the alias Frazier Glenn Cross when he was arrested, was a former grand dragon […]

A federal judge struck down the state’s first-of-its-kind emergency ban on Zohydro on Tuesday, saying Massachusetts had no authority to overrule a federal decision to approve the powerful, controversial painkiller. US District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel said in a five-page ruling that the Food and Drug Administration approved Zohydro after a screening process, in […]

A year ago Tuesday, two bombs detonated at the Boston Marathon finish line, killing three and injuring more than 260. Whether you were standing along the route or remotely cheering on someone striving to complete the 26.2-mile journey, you have a story from that day — a memory you might still be trying to comprehend […]