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BERLIN - Less than a mile from a point where the Berlin Wall once wound through this city's downtown, Senator Barack Obama yesterday extended his trademark message of unity to a global audience, in...

EPSOM, N.H. - A violent thunderstorm with tornado-like winds tore through New Hampshire yesterday, killing one person in a collapsed house and causing heavy damage in its 21-mile path through 11 sm...

BUFFALO - Rain from a violent storm leaked through a glass atrium at the Hyatt Regency Hotel yesterday as a couple of dozen supremely unheralded politicians - lieutenant governors from across Ameri...

A coalition of business and insurance groups is vigorously lobbying lawmakers against Governor Deval Patrick's plan to collect millions of dollars from them to help close a $130 million gap this ye...

A Boston police officer working an undercover drug investigation shot a teenager in the chest during a struggle after a vehicle stop last night in East Boston, a witness and police officials said.

Every night at bedtime, Julie Leahy and her young daughter Jessica pray. Jessica, 6, uses a ventilator, an expensive and temperamental machine that has kept her alive since birth. But just barely. ...

TAUNTON - The housing crunch has caused anguish and anxiety for millions of Americans. For Carlene Balderrama, a 53-year-old wife and mother, the pressure was apparently too much.

PEMBROKE - Residents of Barker Square condominiums say their community is a good one. They use words like "quiet," "nice," and "supportive" to describe it.

CUTTYHUNK ISLAND - Seagulls, strangely absent from this quaint summer getaway, feasted Monday along the rocky shoreline, and Carrie DeArmond and her daughter, Jordan, knew something was amiss.

The Yankees are in town for a weekend series, and this would be a nice time to retire the stupidest chant in the world: Yankees suck.

Powerful thunderstorms with strong winds and golf-ball-size hail ripped through southeastern New England yesterday, flooding roadways from Rhode Island to the Massachusetts coast during rush hour a...

GLOUCESTER - Gloucester should take a comprehensive approach to health education, including a discussion of prescription contraceptives, to address a surge in teen pregnancy, public health speciali...

The state's highest court ruled yesterday that doctors can be held liable for negligence that reduces a patient's chance of survival, even if the patient's prospect for recovery was already less th...

The New Hampshire Corrections Department has implemented a policy to let inmates enter into civil unions, which became legal this year.

Country duo Sugarland, American Idol winner Jordan Sparks and pop singer Fergie will perform at The Big E fair in West Springfield.

State and Hartford officials have signed a 99-year lease placing Connecticut's Old State House under new management.

New Hampshire's Insurance Department is warning homeowners whose property was damaged by Thursday's storms to beware of fly-by-night repair companies.

Sen. John Sununu says Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake has committed to providing radiation therapy in New Hampshire to the state's veterans needing cancer treatment.

A 48-year-old Harrisville, New Hampshire, man has pleaded guilty to illegally drilling a well. Attorney General Kelly Ayotte says Jeffrey Bemis was sentenced Thursday to four months in jail with th...

Gov. John Lynch has been touring heavily damaged areas of New Hampshire and speaking with residents cleaning up after a tornado and severe thunderstorms.

New Hampshire consumers whose property was damaged by severe storms that swept through the state can get help with claims from the state Insurance Department.

A former Tulane University football player convicted of attempted manslaughter for his role in a brawl outside a Bourbon Street nightclub was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison.

Shots were fired near a Christian radio station in central Pennsylvania after police responded to reports that an armed man was headed to the station's offices.

Detroit Mayor Kwame (KWAH'-mee) Kilpatrick must pay $7,500 and undergo random drug testing after a judge changed terms of his bond.

Three white teens were charged Friday in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal town.

A judge Friday ordered former Atlantic City mayor Robert Levy to serve three years probation and pay a $5,000 fine for lying about his Vietnam War service to pad his benefits check.

The Coast Guard reopened the Mississippi River to limited ship traffic Friday, but port officials say it will take days to clear up to 200 ships idled by a massive oil spill near New Orleans.

The man giving John Kerry his first Democratic primary fight since his election to the Senate more than 20 years ago proposed a series of debates Friday.

Senate Democrats failed Friday to advance a measure to rein in oil market speculators, one of a series of efforts to tell voters they are serious about addressing $4-a-gallon gasoline, and rejected...

President Bush signed an executive order on Friday to expand sanctions against what he calls the "illegitimate" regime of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and his supporters.

The Senate cleared the last hurdle Friday to passing a housing rescue aimed at sparing hundreds of thousands of homeowners from foreclosure and bolstering troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Fr...

The State Department insisted Friday it can handle the growing demand for passports, despite congressional investigators' findings that the agency has not overhauled the system to avoid repeating l...

One of the worst outbreaks of foodborne illness in the U.S. is teaching the food industry the truth of the adage, "Be careful what you wish for because you might get it."

Reinsurer Munich Re AG lowered its 2008 earnings forecast on Friday amid market turmoil and asset writedowns, while competitor Hannover Re AG said it would miss its forecast unless markets steady -...

Motor racing boss Max Mosley has sued the publisher of Germany's largest newspaper, contending that his sex play with several prostitutes did not have a Nazi theme.

French nuclear power company Electricite de France SA would get a strategic and profitable foothold in Britain's planned push into renewable energy if it were to make a deal for Britain's largest e...

More than 50 dissident Catholic groups from around the world have written an open letter asking Pope Benedict XVI to lift the church's ban on birth control.

An aggressive tabloid newspaper has had its Web site censored and could face further punishment by China's media authorities for running a photograph from the still-taboo 1989 Tiananmen Square demo...

As much as 25 percent of cyclone relief aid in Myanmar is being lost because of the military government's foreign exchange system, a United Nations official said Friday.

Malaysia's leader urged the United States on Friday to respect his country's sovereignty by not meddling in its investigation into a sodomy accusation against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.