Last year Charleen and Chris Tivnan were looking to add a second story to their 1,200-square-foot ranch home in Holden, Mass., to make space for her parents. Then they came across a larger four-bedroom colonial nearby that had a first-floor in-law suite.
CNN's Brian Todd reports on an alleged foiled attack that called for using model planes stuffed with explosives.
A 26-year-old Massachusetts man with a physics degree was arrested and charged Wednesday with plotting an attack on the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol with a remote-controlled model aircraft, authorities said.
WORCESTER, Mass. -- As you approach the Hart Center high atop Holy Cross' hilly campus, the images are unmistakable. The support structures on either end of the basketball arena side of the complex are taller in the back than the front, so their tops slope forward in the distinct shape of horseshoes. While the Crusaders have enjoyed their share of good fortune in their almost four decades in the building, their recent lack of luck makes you wonder if a renovation is needed. Perhaps the school can reshape the pillars into four-leaf clovers, because right now, the old mojo simply isn't working.
I, of course, travel with a smartphone, an iPod and a laptop, but the rest of my list is an unconventional one and lacking in anything that needs to be charged.
Attorney Paul Callan and psychologist Jeff Gardere talk Rep. Weiner's behavior and the grey area of sexting laws.
Serve up these concoctions to close out summer in style and even stay bikini ready!
Massachusetts Lt. Governor Timothy Murray checked into a Worcester, Massachusetts, hospital Monday for observation after complaining about "feeling under the weather," his office said.
Full-on American-style politics came to Britain Thursday, as the leaders of the three big parties held the country's first-ever televised election debate.
A Massachusetts college has modified a controversial security policy after criticism it infringed on the religious rights of students, a school official said Friday.
I'm probably as sick of writing about job loss as you are reading about it. But I have some good news to report.
Dominic Randolph's college career is over. The Holy Cross quarterback threw his final pass in a 38-28 Division first-round Football Championship Subdivision loss to Villanova on Saturday.
A judge set bond at $2 million Thursday for a 35-year-old woman who faces charges in the case of a woman whose baby was ripped from her womb.
A woman's body was found stuffed in a closet. Police say her fetus was cut out. WHDH reports.
Police are searching for someone who killed a woman in her Massachusetts apartment and cut an 8-month-old fetus from her body.
When Delta and Continental dropped service out of the Toledo airport last year, residents were left with only a few daily departures -- or a 65-mile drive to Detroit's airport. Then something happened to ease the pain: Direct Air moved in, offering flights between Toledo and two warm-weather spots, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and Punta Gorda, Florida, for as little as $49 each way.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Although the San Jose Sharks took a good look at the player rental market, they elected to stick with the skaters who got them to the top of the NHL standings.
The Great Depression has made a comeback in the debate over the stimulus, but some are saying "enough" with the talk.
A severe ice storm prompted President Bush to declare Saturday that a state of emergency exists in northern Massachusetts, a move that authorizes the use of federal aid to help the recovery effort.
Even if you're not such a big hockey fan (or even if you are) you've got to be pretty tickled that Claude Lemieux, 64 years old and out of the NHL for 38 seasons is trying this comeback with San Jose.
Harvard and other Élite colleges are increasing aid to poor students. But can less wealthy schools compete?
Scientists say they've found an efficient way to make red blood cells from human embryonic stem cells, a possible step toward making transfusion supplies in the laboratory
Upcoming DNA test results on bone fragments found in Russia last year could prove that none of Czar Nicholas II's family escaped execution in the Bolshevik Revolution
He started college thinking he would end up working in politics. But after he was falsely accused of shoplifting and then kicked out of a convenience store while still a student, Shaich launched a rival shop - and his business career. Twenty years later, Shaich made a name for himself as the owner of Au Bon Pain, an East Coast bakery chain he grew from three stores into a $200 million a year company.
UK hit hard by floodwaters
After six weeks of strategy and sweat, a coalition of high school teams from Connecticut, Massachusetts and Nevada took the top prize at the FIRST Robotics competition, otherwise known as the "Superbowl of Smarts."
A Massachusetts judge ordered Neil Entwistle, the British man accused of killing his wife and baby daughter, held without bail on Thursday.
Wearing handcuffs and leg shackles, a British man accused of killing his wife and baby daughter was led off a plane and whisked to a Massachusetts jail as darkness fell on Wednesday.
As the nation remembers the Rev. Martin Luther King on the federal holiday in his honor, CNN.com asked readers how King's legacy had influenced their own lives. Here is a selection of those responses, received by e-mail:
Organizers say this weekend's FIRST LEGO League World Festival might help save the planet, but for the thousands of kids putting their robots up against those of their peers, this is just plain fun.
The game of cricket might be centuries old, but modern tactics are increasingly being used to improve players' performances.
Maria Mania has gripped the world of tennis this summer, just as Wimbledon champ Maria Sharapova has played more like the raw 17-year old she still is.
Gov. Mitt Romney announced Thursday that he has given the state's attorney general evidence of what he described as illegal same-sex marriages in two cities so he can take "whatever action he deems appropriate."
Chris Crowley, arms folded over his crisp yellow tie, is staring at a very loud, very wet machine. The contraption--a $600,000 Crown Simplimatic soda canner he bought for $225,000--is working flawl...
In 2000 a strange new word entered the vocabulary of a generation of investors: loss. For those whose entire investment experience came during the epochal bull market, it has been a scary detour fr...
As we all know, America is a nation of champions, especially when it comes to our national passions. You simply don't, for example, see the Yankees falling to the Nippon Ham Fighters or Dream Team ...
If there's wasabi on the menu, beware. As any highway driver knows, the true diner offers true comfort food--and aesthetic pleasure. But the land is now awash in "diners" with no real claim to hist...
The turnaround at Chrysler in the early 1980s produced Iacocca, probably the best-selling business book of all time. Don't expect anything that zesty from the turnaround in progress at General Moto...
There are some odd goings-on at the old Davidson farm near Worcester, Massachusetts. It's teeming with goats jetted up from New Zealand in a chartered DC-8. Some are implanted with human DNA.
A new breed of technology companies is changing the way people think about the $134 billion environmental industry. Instead of just cleaning up old waste sites, these newcomers are aggressively mar...
SOME DAYS I WONDER HOW things might have been. Take today. I'm standing in the checkout line at Schnuck's grocery, waiting to buy baby food, milk, bananas and white wine, when I spy this copy of MO...
TWO large forces will transform job prospects in the coming decade. The marriage of fast-changing, ever cheaper technologies in computers and communications will alter every enterprise from account...
To make use of a phrase that has been growing rapidly in popularity these past few weeks: When it comes to the managerial morale crisis, CEOs just don't seem to get it. That's the clear implication...
Freehold, N.J.: two-bedroom townhouse. Eager seller has moved to new home -- will take a loss . . . These days the real estate listings are littered with sad stories like that: Jim and Joanne Mulho...
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