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A judge has cleared the way for the family of a savagely beaten 7-year-old boy to remove the child from life-support, after a doctor testified that the child is brain-dead and can't live on his own.

A 35-year-old woman with Boston-area roots has won $350,000 on the "Don't Forget the Lyrics" game show.

Richard A. Geary, 63, died Tuesday, June 16, 2009, at his home. He was born Nov.

Red, white and blue. Americans have identified themselves with those colors for 232 years.

Albert T. Brennan, who purchased the Evans Supply Company in Winchester, MA, in 1975, later renamed the firm ESCO Tools , and built it into one of the world's leading welding end prep tool manufacturer for the power generation industry, passed away at the age of 87 after a brief illness.

A new exhibition at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln is a lesson in history, but not the kind you learn in school.

Albert T. Brennan, who purchased the Evans Supply Co. in Winchester, Mass., in 1975, later renamed the firm ESCO Tools, and built it into a leading welding end prep tool manufacturer for the power generation industry, has passed away at the age of 87 after a brief illness.

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.

Medford Mayor Michael McGlynn's total compensation grew to $138,426 in 2008, 5 percent more than in 2007.

They came by the hundreds down from the hills, converging in a field by the Connecticut River shortly after sunrise, bleary-eyed from drives that had begun at 4 a.m. and earlier.

Jeff Parenti's childhood was straight out of Mayberry. Growing up near Concord town center, he spent summers trading baseball cards at the five-and-ten, eating ice-cream cones at the soda shop, playing baseball in a nearby park.

A 19-year-old Assumption College student who had completed her freshman year last week was killed yesterday afternoon in Wakefield when a pickup truck being driven by a high school student hit her.

Crude oil rose above $58 a barrel for the first time this year on speculation that the worst of the banking crisis and recession is over, bolstering fuel demand.

A Massachusetts doctor has lost his medical license after admitting he tried to fake an alibi to avoid a civil judgment in the death of his girlfriend, another doctor.

The Energy Department tomorrow will probably say that crude -oil inventories increased 2.5 million barrels last week, according to a Bloomberg News survey.

Wakefield - What do cats, unique gifts and martinis have in common? "Shake, Sip and Shop Night" at Silver Clay Gifts , Wakefield, may be the answer.

Martin N. Griffith, M.D., 76 of Wareham, a retired anesthesiologist, died April 15, 2009, at Tobey Hospital in Wareham.

After six months free from the whir of a four-stroke engine, we'll soon hear that herald of spring, the lawnmower.

NDERHILL, Vt. - The unassuming ship captain who escaped the clutches of Somali pirates said upon his triumphant arrival home yesterday that he was just an ordinary seaman doing his job, not a hero, and he praised the Navy for its daring rescue mission.