Basketball star Kobe Bryant has been fined $100,000 for yelling a homophobic slur at a referee. Some observers say it points to a persistent and deep homophobia in pro sports. Others say too much is being made of a single incident.

For those parents and school administrators who believe it is never too early for students to begin preparing for the PSAT and SAT, the College Board has begun offering a junior version of its marquee college-entrance exams — this one specifically for eighth graders.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have made self-propelled microtube rockets that can find and capture cancer cells from blood samples.

Mary Tullo was convinced her husband’s life was cut short by the greed of cigarette-makers. On Wednesday, a Palm Beach County jury agreed, ordering three tobacco giants to pay the 87-year-old Lake Worth widow $2.47 million for causing the 1998 death of her husband from lung cancer.

Despite the Iranian government’s attempts, the decision to get rid ofsubsidies will significantly impact inflation in the near future, Professor at Northeastern University Kamran Dadkhah said.

Bank of America Corp. the state’€™s biggest bank, has eliminated roughly 2,000 jobs in Massachusetts over the past four years, company officials acknowledged yesterday.

Any attempt to unfreeze Libyan assets and hand them to the opposition, even for humanitarian purposes, faces legal obstacles that could take years to clear, U.S. and European officials and experts say.

Residents of Long Island, New York, neighborhoods where bodies have been found in a suspected string of serial killings said Tuesday the findings are “eerie” and “frightening” and have left some families shaken.

How else to explain a boy who, before the start of his junior year at West Hempstead High School in 1981, asked his mother to take him to the nearby Roosevelt Field Mall to purchase a daily wardrobe of dress shirts, slacks and ties?

Southern slave-holding states had already seceded from the Union when mortar fire broke the predawn silence over tiny Fort Sumter, in Charleston, S.C., 150 years ago Tuesday. Confederates were bombarding the last U.S. Army forces left in the Charleston area. The Civil War had begun.

Many Roxbury residents may have passed by the “Africa is the Beginning”€ mural on the side of the YMCA building on Warren Street with barely more than a curious stare.

The ideal college course load is one that exposes students to the full spectrum of ideas, past and present. Makes sense then that a school’s spring concert would echo that approach. Springfest at Northeastern ran the gamut of aw-shucks backpacker rap of Mac Miller, the corrosively melodic melodramas of emo linchpins Taking Back Sunday, ‘€™90s […]