LOCAL NEWS

Ethics issues put cloud over Beacon Hill

Accusations that House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi did favors for friends with state business has touched off a government investigation as well as a battle between two representatives interested in succeeding him, state Reps. Robert DeLeo and John Rogers. More »

Harvard science prof's passion is for the birds

CAMBRIDGE - Scott Edwards thinks he was maybe 10 years old when a neighbor took him bird watching for the first time. More »

Federal grant to send Mass. students on Rwandan trip

Over the next two years, students at two Massachusetts schools will learn just how much the choices they make affect both their own lives and the world around them. More »