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Given the hard times, high food prices, and a growing awareness of the peril of global warming, more people are strapping on gloves, taking up spades, and digging in on the home front.

Residents in a number of area communities will see fewer police officers and teachers and closed library branches and fire stations as local officials confront the reality of an approximately 30 percent cut in noneducation local aid from the state.

An interesting side discussion from "The Power of Personality" defends the practical importance even small correlations: Walter Mischel argued that personality traits had limited utility in predicting behavior because their correlational upper limit appeared to be about .30. Subsequently, this .30 value became derided as the ''personality ...

Work will begin on a new high school in Norwood following groundbreaking Wednesday.

McAllen's per capita expenditures grew to nearly twice the national average - driven primarily by local norms that tend towards heavier use of discretionary services - such as diagnostic testing and surgical versus less invasive interventions - for which there are no clear clinical guidelines... From what we can measure, it's not better health.

How Plausible Is This? From this article in the February 2008 JSE on the effectiveness of public spending on suicide: We put forth the hypothesis that the level of effort exerted by the state government in providing health services and improving the health level of its population is correlated with observed suicide rates.

Eighty-two years years after Charles Lindbergh took off from Long Island and flew into history, a group of aviators will reenact his flight over the Bay State on his way to Paris.

It used to simply be called "ecology;" now everyone seems to be into "green" products and living, "clean" or "alternative" energy, and "environmentalism." Let's take a look this month at a few fairly recent patents and published patent applications naming New England inventors where the topic involves, uh, limiting our impact on mother nature.

A 73-year-old Whitman woman died in a two-alarm fire that was stoked by medical oxygen tanks inside her house, but her four grandchildren and a babysitter were able to escape, fire officials said.

Police were asked to go to a Billerica Avenue home for a well-being check yesterday afternoon, but as a roughly 40-year-old woman answered her door, police found themselves looking at the business end of a long-barreled gun.

When people talk about Plymouth's history, the Pilgrims and Wampanoags immediately come to mind.

The HoS Editorial attacks critics of the proposed Maori prison unit: It is dispiriting to hear the word "apartheid" bandied about in such circumstances.

Position: Infield. Born/resides: Nov. 9, 1982, in Boston/lives in Hanson, Mass. Attributes: 6-3, 215/bats and throws right.

"Surprisingly, it's better down here," says Villaire when asked to compare the music scenes between the two regions.

Former Charles County public school teacher Richard Arnold is currently part of a NASA space walk on the Discovery's STS 119.

Teleconferencing was the learning tool of choice for MESA students at John Hanson Middle School last week when they were invited to be one of two schools in the country to speak live via teleconference with ...

A violent confrontation between two women and a police officer led to a police chase Wednesday afternoon.

BOSTON -- Michael Pavletic has removed a butcher knife from a dog's stomach and tumors from tiny mice.

Feb 20, 2009 8:25 pm US/Eastern HANSON A Pembroke man wanted on three unrelated warrants was arrested Friday on charges that he robbed a bank in Hanson earlier in the day.

Five years after a 21-year-old University of Massachusetts student disappeared, police still don't know what happened to her.