For event organizers, predicting the highly complex dynamics within large crowds can be an unenviable task. But new computer-modelling research, which treats people as decision-makers rather than passive particles, could help authorities to identify where crowds could become dangerous.

Gov. Jerry Brown presented a 12-point education plan during his campaign. He wisely crafted a proposal that encompassed multiple elements of public education, among them the cost of higher education and changes in the state testing program. Although each component of that platform could spur positive change, Brown’s interest in raising high-school graduation rates is […]

A recent annual US News and World Report magazine ranking of the nation’s graduate schools ranked the Army Medical Department Center and School anesthesia nursing master’s degree program as the best in the nation.

Is governmental experience a prerequisite for presidential candidates, or do media visibility and celebrity status confer the necessary credentials to occupy the highest office in the land?

Donald Trump is many things: a real estate mogul, a celebrity with a hit reality TV show and, possibly, a Republican presidential candidate.

The number of taxpayers trying to bamboozle the IRS and collect bigger refunds has shot up this filing season.

Tiffany Groene is waiting tables. Erin Crites is making lattes and iced coffees. And Anna Holcombe is buying and selling gold. These three Chicago women share more than just scraping by with low-paying jobs: They all have master’s degrees and are unable to find work in their specialty areas.

It’s not all that difficult to completely blow a job interview.

Former venture capital maven Mitt Romney soundly trumps The Donald as a businessman in the opinion of many experts — who laud the former Bay State governor for his analytical chops while slamming the New York real estate tycoon as a high-rolling gambler.

In the summertime, the beaches along Ocean Parkway on Long Island are an American photo album of family picnics, July Fourth fireworks and minivans wedged bumper to bumper. But in the winter, this idyllic place is a windswept wilderness laced with thickets of brush that, it seems, provide the perfect dumping ground for murder.

To some it was a fitting end to a pointless witch hunt. On Wednesday, after weeks of graphic testimony about steroid use, a jury in San Francisco cleared the former baseball slugger Barry Bonds of all charges but one, obstruction of justice. And even that might not hold up.

The Boston Redevelopment Authority has approved three new projects valued at $136 million and totaling more than 600,000 square feet of potential development.