It’s not easy being a cat, especially when you’re Sal Esposito, a Boston feline who has been ordered to serve jury duty. (more)
The organs of 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green, who was the youngest of six people killed in last week’s Tucson shooting rampage, have been donated to another young girl in Boston, according to Green’s father John. (more)
In a super-sized world, it was perhaps inevitable: Boston’s Emergency Medical Services this month will begin deploying an ambulance equipped with a hydraulic lift to ease transport of the heaviest patients. (more)
More than nine out of 10 Americans celebrate Christmas – even atheists, agnostics or believers in other faiths, according to surveys by LifeWay Research and USA TODAY/Gallup. They might be roasting chestnuts over an open fire, decking the halls with boughs of holly or trying to get the Chipmunks Christmas song out of their heads, but they are celebrating. The problem is, what are they celebrating? (more)
It’s inevitable. A new party is forming. (more)
How’s this for a provocative start of an article: the Tech Guys advocate attracting 100 million new immigrants to the United States in the next 20 years. Why? For three simple reasons: to expand the economy, to remain the world’s strongest country and to be consistent with American values. (more)
Boston Police and fire units have recovered a body from Boston Harbor this morning. (more)
In the midst of chaos, a choppy game the Celtics didn’t deserve to win, the controversy caused by close friend and teammate Kevin Garnett, and his own offensive malaise through three quarters, Paul Pierce stepped to the forefront in overtime last night, reaching a milestone that many never believed possible. (more)
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is frustrated. He recently spoke to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and complained that we are in “a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don’t weigh in. It’s all short-order, lowest-common-denominator, cheap-seat politics.” He’d really like to elect a new people. (more)
PHILADELPHIA — Its first win a certainty Wednesday, it appeared the Heat didn’t want to stop playing in Philadelphia. It felt that good. (more)
Steve Goldstein knows where all the famous bodies are buried. (more)
He walked up the staircase to the postgame interview table seemingly more relieved because the game was over than because his team had won it. (more)
BOSTON (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday that high unemployment and low inflation point to a need for a further easing of U.S. monetary policy, but he offered no details on the central bank’s next step. (more)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Giants manager Bruce Bochy is planning to tweak his rotation for the NL championship series, moving up left-hander Jonathan Sanchez to go Game 2 against the Philadelphia Phillies following ace Tim Lincecum. (more)
LONDON—Based on his success on the other side of the pond, hedge-fund manager John Henry seems a strong owner for Liverpool Football Club, the debt-laden Premier League team. (more)
A Massachusetts school district has apologized to parents after a group of schoolchildren participated in midday Muslim prayers during a field trip to a Boston-area mosque. (more)
New England Patriots QB Tom Brady was involved in a minor car accident on Thursday morning, WEEI-AM in Boston reported.The station, with which Brady has a scheduled appearance each week, said Brady did not go to the hospital but was “shaken.”More to come (more)
Boston’s luxurious Eliot Hotel offers its guests perks such as free use of a sports club and a complimentary shoeshine. But one recent guest thought she saw a little something extra that was not on the list of amenities: a bedbug in her bed. (more)
Blood will be spilled and brains rattled. Body parts will be wrenched and battered, some damaged. (more)
All Johnny Damon needed to hear from Tigers manager Jim Leyland and/or general manager Dave Dombrowski was reassurance that the team still wanted him and would continue to play him. (more)























