Feds: Fires took down building next to twin towers
August 21, 2008Federal investigators said Thursday they have solved a mystery of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks: the collapse of World Trade Center building 7, a source of long-running conspiracy theories.
NY panel investigates lawmaker over e-mails
August 21, 2008A state lawmaker said he has apologized to his family for a "painful but private matter" in his marriage following the publication this week of steamy e-mails he reportedly exchanged with a woman who worked for the Legislature.
FEC frees McCain from spending limit for primaries
August 21, 2008The Federal Election Commission voted unanimously Thursday to belatedly approve Republican presidential candidate John McCain's withdrawal from public financing for the primaries -- a move that spared him potential embarrassment on one of his signature issues.
Winchester man charged in Keene student stabbing
August 21, 2008A Winchester, N.H., man has been arrested on charges he stabbed a Keene State College student last month.
New Mass. law aids children with mental illness
August 21, 2008Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a bill designed to more quickly deliver services to children with mental illness in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts, Merrill settle auction-rate dispute
August 21, 2008Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin says Merrill Lynch & Co. had agreed to settle a case involving its sale of auction-rate securities and the brokerage would soon begin buying back the illiquid securities.
NH has lowest, Vt second lowest birth rate in the country
August 21, 2008The stork apparently has trouble landing in northern New England. New Hampshire has the lowest, Vermont the second lowest and Maine the eighth lowest birth rates in the country.
3 Maine dams to be opened to fish
August 21, 2008Conservationists said Thursday they are moving forward with plans to remove two dams and install a fishway at a third to reopen hundreds of miles of Maine river habitat to Atlantic salmon and other sea-run fish.
HIV awareness drive kicks into high gear
August 21, 2008STOW - Ethan Zohn tried to putt the golf ball into the hole. "Can I kick it in?" said the Lexington native, who is better known for his soccer prowess. He played professional soccer on Cape Cod, in Hawaii, and in Zimbabwe before winning $1 million on CBS's "Survivor: Africa" in 2002. But those skills didn't help much last Friday ...
1 accuser recants, 2d alters story in rape case
August 21, 2008One of the girls who accused an 18-year-old Marshfield Fair carnival worker of raping her and another girl over the weekend has recanted, and the other girl has changed her account substantially, prosecutors said yesterday.
Parole in ‘Lion’s Den’ Case Stirs Anger
August 21, 2008The white owner of a construction was released on parole after serving three years of a life sentence for ordering a black worker be beaten and thrown to a pack of lions.
Torture Claim Credible, Court Finds
August 21, 2008A British Court said a terror suspect being held at Guantanamo Bay had a credible argument that the U.S. had illegally spirited him away to Morocco and that he was tortured there.
UK government says home sales data might be wrong
August 21, 2008The British government withdrew most of its home sales statistics for the last three years on Thursday because of doubts about the accuracy of the figures.
Lawyer Alan Dershowitz interviews Radovan Karadzic
August 21, 2008U.S. criminal defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz said Thursday he plans to call former Bosnian Serb political leader and war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic as a witness in a related case at the U.N. Yugoslav Tribunal.
Tesco sells property as it eyes expansion
August 21, 2008Tesco PLC said Thursday that it has sold $1.1 billion worth of property in leaseback deals, filling the coffers of Britain's biggest grocer for potential further overseas expansion.
Delegates told to speed up talks on climate change
August 21, 2008Africa already is suffering from "climate shocks," the president of Ghana told a 160-nation climate conference Thursday, joining a chorus of calls to speed up the pace of talks on a new agreement to rein in carbon emissions.
State media: 5.9-magnitude quake kills 1 in China
August 21, 2008A 5.9-magnitude earthquake jolted southern China near the border with Myanmar Thursday, killing a woman -- one day after another quake damaged homes in the same area, state media reported.
Spain grieves for young victims of air disaster
August 21, 2008Spaniards were shocked and grieving for the large number of children feared lost on Flight JK5022 when it crashed on takeoff in Madrid and burst into flames. At least twenty-two youngsters -- including two babies -- were among the 172 people on board.
Serb FM links Georgia war to Kosovo independence
August 21, 2008Serbia's foreign minister said the link is clear -- U.S. and Western support for Kosovo's secession from Serbia has helped fuel tensions in Georgia's separatist province of South Ossetia.
'Incalculable loss' -- US Rep. Tubbs Jones mourned
August 21, 2008Tributes from political allies and even one-time enemies came pouring in for Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, a trailblazer whose energy and outspokenness made her one of Congress' most dynamic leaders.