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John Forbes could face 25 years in jail. It was a sparkling Saturday in August, and John M. Forbes pushed his Two Guys Slush cart into Piers Park, hawking watermelon ice to the children gathered for Eastie Pride Day.

State Senator Jack Hart received a courtesy call hours before the announcement. State Senator Jack Hart, still smarting over University of Massachusetts Boston's surprise announcement last week that it intends to acquire the neighboring Bayside Exposition Center property, has summoned chancellor Keith Motley and UMass president Jack Wilson to a ...

IF SHE WINS the special election in January, will Martha Coakley be Massachusetts's first female senator or its first woman senator? Either description works for most people, judging by print usage and the millions of Web hits, and the American Heritage Dictionary is prochoice on the issue: "Both woman and female are acceptable: the first woman ...

The fiscal year 2009 was a year of not only transition and challenge but also achievement for the Asian Community Development Corporation.

Vincent J. Cannato teaches history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and is the author of "The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York" and "American Passage: The History of Ellis Island." Tom Suozzi's surprise defeat as Nassau County executive seems to have put an end - at least for the time being - to a ...

For nearly two years, city planners and community leaders brainstormed, huddled with developers, and drew up blueprints for a new Columbia Point.

The University of Massachusetts-Boston is moving to purchase the Bayside Exposition Center on Columbia Point.

University of Massachusetts, Boston, professor Tom Ferguson tells us why the new financial regulation bill does not do enough to curb derivative trading -- the exact kind of trading that got us into the trouble we're currently in.

Over one hundred people showed up to counter protest a demonstration held by notorious bigot Fred Phelps outside of campus last Tuesday afternoon.

US Senate candidate Martha Coakley is suggesting that she will not agree to debates unless long-shot candidate Joseph L. Kennedy is involved, a strategy that appears to be an effort to make the Senate race a three-party run.

The UMass Board of Trustees voted 14-4 this morning to establish the state's first public law school at UMass Dartmouth.

UMass-Boston Chancellor J. Keith Motley hosted a community dinner for about 20 civic and political Dorchester leaders last week, and he used the occasion to brief his neighbors on the status of the university community.

Perhaps it's a dramatic interpretation, but we are talking about life and death here.

Jennifer Radden is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and Consultant in Medical Ethics at McLean Hospital.A John Z. Sadler is the Daniel W. Foster, M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Sciences at UT Southwestern.A Together they wrote, The Virtuous Psychiatrist: Character Ethics ...

From toxic toys to lead paint in your home, lead exposure in children has become a major health concern.

Who is Lawrence Boyle and what's he got against Bristol County? And even more to the point, what's he got against the state of Massachusetts running an affordable public law school? Boyle, in case you've never heard of him, is a Milton lawyer and a graduate of both Suffolk University and UMass Boston.

Dominican and Haitian Students partner at UMB to bridge gaps between their homelands, the U.S., and each other Stephanie Fail Issue date: 12/1/09 Section: Culture and Diversity At the UMass Boston campus we have large populations of students with Haitian and Dominican descent.

Really. More to the point, nowhere on that page does it suggest that the ten searches per city are a "top ten" list of any kind-- just that they're unique to those cities.

Two televised debates this week are the last chance the four Democratic candidates have to convince a large pool of undecided voters to support them in next week's primary.

Alan Khazei is using new media to target younger voters in the Senate race. With two televised debates this week and furious get-out-the-vote efforts, four Democrats enter the crucial drive to the Dec.