Despite Newt Gingrich’s status as frontrunner in the Republican presidential race, he will have a difficult time catching up with Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, according to a new Suffolk University/7NEWS poll.
A couple in their 60s was found fatally shot this morning in their Andover home, and their black Lexus was set on fire in Boston’s North End last night.
A teacher’s aide who is accused of inappropriate conduct with an autistic student at Harbor Pilot Middle School is also suspected in a similar incident last year.
Bruins 5, Senators 2
Tim Thomas made 47 saves, Daniel Paille scored twice and the Boston Bruins extended their winning streak to three games with a 5-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators.
Exclusive Thursday Preview | Tech Lab
The Globe’s Hiawatha Bray almost has a direct pipeline to Santa’s workshop with new products pouring in all year long. Here is a list of gadgets that earn a spot under the tree.
Exclusive Thursday Preview | Movie review
Directors Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray show how artistry can withstand wear and tear better than brick and mortar.
To grammar’s house
When you work on a news copy desk, you come across a certain number of grammatical problems. And then occasionally, there’s just something downright bizarre.
“Why? Shouldn’t the gift be more about quality, emotional attachment, something from the heart?”
Amy Bucher, 32, on buying gifts at resale stores
24 Occupy Boston protesters were arraigned yesterday in what has become a familiar place to the movement, Courtroom 17 in Boston Municipal Court.
The star of the Swiss chocolatier’s holiday collection has a premium milk chocolate figure, a fancy gold foil wrapper, a red ribbon necklace, and yes, its own iPhone app.
The divide began in 1994 when Romney labeled Gingrich’s Contract with America “a mistake.’’
Those killed included eight soldiers, who were gunned down by army defectors in a retaliatory ambush after government troops destroyed a civilian car, activists said.
The Hornets have agreed in principle to deal Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Clippers. The 26-year-old is a four-time All-Star who averaged 18.7 points last season.
An informal Greater Boston survey suggests that coffee drinkers are unwilling to starve the habit that gets them going.
In Walt McGough’s new comedy, two aliens drop in on our beleaguered heroine and offer her the chance to save life as we know it.
A Boston Globe tradition continues as we toast local athletes from Barnstable to Georgetown for their achievements this fall.
“It is promising that the black graduation rate at UMass has risen from 41 percent three years ago. Let’s see what happens in the MAC.”
Derrick Z. Jackson
The ability to coordinate among the different senses seems to be something the brain learns; we’re not born being able to do it.
Courtney Humphries
