When you're on a team that has opened the season on a five-game winless streak for the first time in more than 30 years, the operative word is likely frustration. When your team was ranked ninth nationally in the preseason and has now dropped out of the top 20, there's no question it adds to that frustration
A female told the Boston University Police Department last week she was held down and sexually assaulted Oct. 20 after leaving a bar in Kenmore Square with two men who offered her drugs.
As the ever-growing Internet giant Google adds books from the nation's largest libraries to its Beta-Books electronic literary database, several major institutions, including the Boston Library Consortium, have rejected its advances in favor of more modest means of showcasing their literature online for all to see.
Besides offering free tacos Tuesday, Taco Bell presented a paradox. Though Americans enjoyed millions of free tacos from the chain courtesy of a speedy Red Sox rookie and seemingly at the expense of the company behind it, Taco Bell may have actually profited from its apparent generosity, marketing experts say
When College of Arts and Sciences freshman Michelle Panzica first heard the news of wildfires spreading through California, all she could think about was the safety of her uncle, a Malibu firefighter who was one of the first to respond to the blaze as it burst through the city's limits at speeds reaching 100 miles per hour.
Though the shrieks of butchered victims, maniacal cackles of murderous psychopaths and the groans of tortured specters were replaced by the giggles of trick-or-treaters, a horde of Boston history buffs primed to be spooked descended into darkness at Beacon Hill to explore the area's history of carnage and mayhem.
John O'Hurley's career has officially gone to the dogs. The actor, television host and author, best known for his role as J. Peterman on Seinfeld, promoted his new book, Before Your Dog Can Eat Your Homework, First You Have to Do It: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog to a Young Boy at Barnes & Noble at Boston University last night.
Two Boston University girls almost peed their pants last night as they walked through the Sargent Activities Center gym, now transformed into a haunted house.
After 300 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stormed into a New Bedford leather factory and arrested 350 undocumented workers in March, immigrant rights groups are urging law-enforcement officials to take better care of children of illegal immigrants during periods -- and the aftermath -- of intense and sometimes violent seizures.