Boston Globe -- Today's paper A to Z
An alphabetical list of today's Boston Globe stories
10 Mar 2010 at 12:00am
10 Mar 2010 at 12:00am
by Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 11:42pm
Police in Ireland yesterday arrested seven people over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog.
by Alan Wirzbicki, Globe Correspondent
10 Mar 2010 at 12:22am
In the 2001 special election that sent US Representative Stephen F. Lynch to Washington, the South Boston politician was accused of being hostile to gay rights. A decade later, the low-key lawmaker is winning praise from gay-marriage advocates in the nation’s capital.
by Bella English, Globe Staff
10 Mar 2010 at 1:13am
In an effort to get the reluctant faithful back to confession, the Archdiocese of Boston is launching an unprecedented campaign - called “The Light Is On For You’’ - using radio spots and a website to promote special confessional hours in nearly 300 parishes during Lent.
9 Mar 2010 at 10:54pm
Stocks rose on the anniversary of the ’09 bear-market low on optimism the economy will continue to recover. The S&P 500, the index that professional investors favor, is up 69% in the past year, but still down 27% from its record high. The Dow is 25% below its peak, while the Nasdaq is at an 18-month high but still down ...
by Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 10:52pm
WASHINGTON - As tax day approaches, the Internal Revenue Service is giving agents more flexibility to work with taxpayers who have seen their incomes drop during the recession.
9 Mar 2010 at 10:55pm
American International Group , the insurer rescued by the US government, rose to its highest price since Nov. 27 after four days of gains on speculation it may sell more assets. AIG this month said it will divest itself of two units to raise $51 billion. There’s “chatter on more asset sales coming,’’ said Robert Bolton, at Mendon Capital Advisors. ...
by Gary Washburn, Globe Staff
10 Mar 2010 at 1:57am
MILWAUKEE - Ray Allen had a difficult time explaining why he attempted only three shots last night against the Bucks. He attributed it to a lack of ball movement, and many times in the 86-84 loss, the ball stopped moving when it got to Paul Pierce .
by Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 9:14pm
NEW YORK - Annie Leibovitz, the photographer who mismanaged her fortune so badly that she faced losing legal rights to some of pop culture’s most enduring images, has reached a long-term agreement with a private investment firm to help manage her debt and market her vast portfolio, both sides said yesterday.
by Megan Woolhouse, Globe Staff
9 Mar 2010 at 11:24pm
It is a homeowner’s nightmare. Raymond DiCiaccio hired a contractor who did not finish building a second floor on DiCiaccio’s Attleboro home. The project was abandoned with more than $30,000 in work left undone because of the contractor’s financial difficulties.
9 Mar 2010 at 8:21pm
LAST WEEK I was stopped for a random bag check as I was entering the Back Bay Orange Line T station. I politely asked if I was entitled to refuse, and was told that I could refuse, but that I would have to leave the station. The officers did not ask me any questions about my identity, where I was ...
by Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 10:41pm
NEW YORK - Bank of America customers will soon be unable to spend more than they have in the accounts linked to their debit cards. It’s a move that may become common ahead of new regulations limiting overdraft fees.
by Ethan Bronner, New York Times
10 Mar 2010 at 12:26am
Hours after Vice President Joe Biden vowed unyielding American support for Israel’s security yesterday, Israel’s Interior Ministry announced 1,600 new housing units for Jews in East Jerusalem, prompting Biden to condemn the move as “precisely the kind of step that undermines the trust we need right now.’’
by Rama Lakshmi, Washingon Post
9 Mar 2010 at 11:06pm
NEW DELHI - Indian Lawmakers yesterday passed a historic bill that would set aside one-third of all legislative seats for women, a move aimed at overturning six decades of male-dominated decision-making in this country.
by Bloomberg News
9 Mar 2010 at 11:01pm
Abbott Laboratories , maker of the arthritis drug Humira, agreed to buy Facet Biotech Corp. for $27 a share in cash, for a net $450 million, adding experimental medicines in cancer and immunology.
by Associated Press
10 Mar 2010 at 2:30am
The Charlotte Bobcats keep finding new ways to beat the Miami Heat , and that just might end up deciding which team goes to the playoffs.
by Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 11:37pm
Three months after it was stolen, the corpse of Cyprus’s former president was found reburied in another grave and three men were arrested yesterday in what officials called a case of bodysnatching for ransom.
by Associated Press
10 Mar 2010 at 12:03am
CLEARLAKE, Calif. - Authorities are looking into whether a California marijuana grower is linked to the deaths of a Maine couple whose bodies were found down an embankment.
by Evan MacDonald, Globe Correspondent
10 Mar 2010 at 2:08am
The six seniors on the Oliver Ames girls’ basketball team first played together in the fourth grade.
by Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 10:43pm
Boston Beer Co.’s fourth-quarter profit more than doubled as it shipped out more beer and its profit margin grew and write-downs fell, the company said yesterday after the market closed.
by Jonathan Saltzman and Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff
10 Mar 2010 at 1:14am
The death of a psychiatric patient who scuffled with correction officers at Bridgewater State Hospital in May has been ruled a homicide, according to a death certificate that found 23-year-old Joshua Messier had suffered “blunt impact of head and compression of chest’’ while being restrained by guards.
by Jenifer B. McKim, Globe Staff
9 Mar 2010 at 11:28pm
Katie Sandford is a Brockton housing activist and young mother who worries about how foreclosures have damaged her city.
by John M. Guilfoil, Globe Staff
9 Mar 2010 at 11:59pm
Police seized dozens of boxes of counterfeit clothes, shoes, sunglasses, perfumes, and other accessories after a raid on the Super Mario Store on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain late last week.
by Matt Viser, Globe Staff
9 Mar 2010 at 11:15pm
Senator Scott Brown railed yesterday against President Obama and congressional Democrats for continuing their quest to pass a comprehensive health care bill, saying the majority party in Washington has failed to heed the lessons of his own surprise victory in January.
by Fluto Shinzawa, Globe Staff
10 Mar 2010 at 1:50am
TORONTO - With the manner in which Tim Thomas turned aside chance after Toronto chance late in regulation and overtime - no soup for you, Phil Kessel, Luke Schenn, and Mikhail Grabovski - the Bruins netminder seemed poised for further heroics in the shootout.
by Amara Grautski, Globe Correspondent
10 Mar 2010 at 2:00am
Andover usually delivers its 1-2 punch of Nicole Boudreau and Natalie Gomez, but it was freshman guard Devon Caveney who surprised Mansfield with a game-high 19 points as the Golden Warriors defeated the Hornets, 60-52, en route to claiming the Division 1 EMass title last night at TD Garden.
by Gary Washburn, Globe Staff
10 Mar 2010 at 1:51am
MILWAUKEE - Those mental lapses, silly mistakes, and defensive letdowns are why the Celtics sit in third place in the Eastern Conference and why they collapsed late in the fourth quarter last night at the Bradley Center, dropping another close decision.
by Todd Wallack, Globe Staff
9 Mar 2010 at 11:28pm
The director of a Somerville community bank resigned after complaining about the company’s succession plans, lack of communication with directors, and its failure to repay the US government $10 million in aid it received last year.
by Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 10:44pm
WASHINGTON - The chief economist of the Securities and Exchange Commission, who is a specialist in the financial instruments that figured largely in the 2008 crisis, is leaving his position for the private sector.
by Casey Ross, Globe Staff
9 Mar 2010 at 11:21pm
Boston officials asserted yesterday that the stalled Filene’s redevelopment meets the legal definition of a blighted property, which would allow the city to take control of the Downtown Crossing site and find a new development team that can move the project forward.
by Dan Shaughnessy, Globe Columnist
10 Mar 2010 at 1:53am
The girls are walking tall in Cohasset. They are basketball state champions for the second time in three seasons.
by Jake Seiner, Globe Correspondent
10 Mar 2010 at 2:11am
A year ago, the Cohasset girls’ basketball squad had its season sunk by a buzzer-beating, put-back winner by Millis in the Division 4 South final. Seniors Tori Lehr and Meredith Kelly described the loss as heartbreaking, and Cohasset coach John LeVangie noticed a vivid focus from his team when it began preparations for this season.
by Jenifer B. McKim, Globe Staff
9 Mar 2010 at 10:45pm
A North Andover man was sentenced to serve four years in the Essex County House of Correction for failing to build more than 20 sunrooms for homeowners as promised by his company, the now shuttered American Sunroom Co. Inc.
by Martin Finucane, Globe Staff
9 Mar 2010 at 11:59pm
The Boston Bar Association, in a report issued yesterday, is calling into question the security of the state’s courthouses because of budget cuts.
9 Mar 2010 at 10:53pm
Covidien has purchased the vascular business of Orthofix International NV , a maker of medical devices. Orthofix said it expects net cash proceeds of up to $19 million, which will be used to reduce long-term debt. The sale includes Orthofix’s AV-Impulse mechanical compression technology. Orthofix, based in the Netherlands Antilles, will also provide transitional services to Covidien for up to ...
by Susanna Ray and Andrea Rothman, Bloomberg News
9 Mar 2010 at 11:29pm
Northrop Grumman Corp.’s decision to forgo bidding on the US Air Force’s $35 billion refueling tanker program, leaving Boeing Co. without a competitor, might not mark the end of a nearly decadelong quest to replace the military’s existing fleet, a Boeing executive said.
9 Mar 2010 at 8:26pm
"If you must support the US Postal Service in this proposed madness, opt for Tuesday, not Saturday. Tuesday brings only advertising and other offal." -- Jack Osgood
by Emma Stickgold, Globe Correspondent
9 Mar 2010 at 10:15pm
He hawked newspapers as a young boy, plucked dried grapes to add to assorted fruit sold at his family’s farm stand, and became a top high school debater. Dr. J. Sterling Livingston did whatever he could to support himself and his siblings, who had to fend for themselves after their mother died.
by Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 11:38pm
Egypt will shoulder the costs of restoring the country’s Jewish houses of worship, the culture minister said yesterday, two days after a historic synagogue in Cairo’s ancient Jewish quarter was rededicated in a private ceremony.
by Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff
9 Mar 2010 at 11:22pm
Four years after Curt Schilling launched his video game company, 38 Studios LLC of Maynard, the former Red Sox pitching great has yet to bring a product to market. But he’s just landed a deal to have his first game published by one of the biggest companies in the games industry.
by Zachary A. Goldfarb and Steven Mufson, Washington Post
9 Mar 2010 at 11:30pm
Europe moved ahead of the United States yesterday in advocating new measures to ban certain types of financial speculation, after concerns surfaced that traders used complex financial instruments to push Greece deeper into a fiscal crisis and threaten the European economy.
by Libardo Cardona, Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 10:17pm
BOGOTA - Evaristo Porras, a former high-flying Medellin cartel drug trafficker associated with Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, has died at age 62, reportedly in economic ruin.
by Amalie Benjamin, Globe Staff
10 Mar 2010 at 1:54am
JUPITER, Fla. - There were no surprises for Jeremy Hermida when he heard the news. He figured he would be traded, knowing the system of the Marlins, and realizing he hadn’t lived up to everything the organization hoped he would be. He was drafted early, the 11th overall pick in 2002. He made an impact immediately, belting a pinch-hit grand ...
by Beth Healy, Globe Staff
9 Mar 2010 at 11:23pm
As if things weren’t tough enough for Bernie Madoff’s victims: Scam artists have created a faux website mimicking that of the agency handling claims for the swindler’s investors.
by Brian McGrory, Globe Columnist
10 Mar 2010 at 1:20am
When he began feeling cramps in his left hand, Doug Oakley attributed it to age and figured he needed to eat more bananas. It wasn’t until he had trouble holding his hockey stick at the regular Tuesday night games that he went to see his doctor.
by John M. Guilfoil, Globe Staff
10 Mar 2010 at 1:45am
The reported fire on Carol Avenue in Brighton last night turned out to be a false alarm, but fire crews had to jump to work anyway when their own ladder truck caught fire.
9 Mar 2010 at 10:56pm
Not-so-sunny skies ahead, says JPMorgan Chase & Co. The firm cut its rating on First Solar, the largest maker of thin-film solar cells, to “underweight’’ from “neutral.’’ The shares fell the most since Feb. 23. JP Morgan’s call was part of a wider look at solar companies, which its analysts say will probably face a supply glut this year, Reuters ...
by Associated Press
10 Mar 2010 at 2:31am
Simon Gagne’s power-play goal broke a third-period tie, and the Flyers rallied for their franchise-record 15th straight victory over the New York Islanders , 3-2, last night in Philadelphia.
by Greg Bluestein, Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 11:44pm
A grand jury indicted four members of an assisted suicide group yesterday, accusing them of helping a 58-year-old man with cancer kill himself.
by Norma Love, Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 10:16pm
CONCORD, N.H. - Gale Thomson, widow of New Hampshire’s former governor Meldrim Thomson, died Monday at her home in Orford, said her son Tom. She was 90.
by Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 11:39pm
A gas company building an underwater pipeline in the Baltic Sea has found a dozen centuries-old shipwrecks - some of them unusually well preserved.
by Jeremy Herb, Globe Correspondent
9 Mar 2010 at 11:56pm
Scott Brown’s campaign staff members liked to say the Republican senator’s underdog campaign was “powered by Google ,’’ appropriating the company’s advertising tagline. But some consumer advocates worry that Google’s growing business in campaign advertising will give it an unfair advantage in Washington, where it also is pursuing a broad lobbying agenda.
by Desmond Butler, Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 11:02pm
WASHINGTON - President Obama reacted positively to European ideas about cracking down on currency speculation, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said following a White House meeting yesterday.
9 Mar 2010 at 8:31pm
"Academic freedom is the lifeblood of the Weatherhead Center. We who work at the center will continue to defend this freedom, even when, as individuals, we may disagree with the content of a particular message." -- Beth Simmons
by Jim O’Sullivan, State House News Service
10 Mar 2010 at 12:02am
House leaders prepared members in a closed session yesterday for a politically unpleasant effort to reduce state aid to cities and towns in the budget proposal expected to emerge in mid-April. House Democrats said the local aid cut in the House Ways and Means Committee budget could hit 5 percent.
by Meghan E. Irons, Globe Staff
10 Mar 2010 at 1:21am
Boston’s Chinatown memorial to the Tiananmen Square massacre sits at the shaded edge of a children’s sandpit in Mary Soo Hoo Park, a fenced gathering place just outside the neighborhood’s famous gateway.
9 Mar 2010 at 8:33pm
I WAS dismayed to see Yousef Munayyer recycling the tired myth that all Palestinian misfortunes are “the fault of the occupying and devastating force of the state of Israel.’’
9 Mar 2010 at 8:28pm
I AM Jewish and a Harvard alumna, and I write to applaud Yousef Munayyer’s March 3 op-ed “Gaza’s youth not ‘superfluous.’ ’’ In Hebron on the West Bank, settlers scrawl “Death to the Arabs’’ and “Arabs to the gas chambers.’’ At conferences of Israeli intellectuals, such exhortations are no doubt considered impolitic, while the suggestion of Harvard visitor Martin Kramer ...
9 Mar 2010 at 8:04pm
Steven Roth, the head of the realty trust that owns the Filene's site in Boston, has a lot of explaining to do. He reportedly told a Columbia University audience last week that he had purposely let the site of the defunct Alexander's department store in New York decline into blight so he could get more public money for his project. It seems like he's doing the same thing in Boston, and Mayor Menino is right to threaten to take his property by eminent domain unless he comes up with a reasonable development plan.
by Christopher S. Rugaber, Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 10:49pm
WASHINGTON - Job openings rose sharply earlier this year, evidence that employers are slowly ramping up hiring as the economy improves.
by Brock Parker, Globe Correspondent
10 Mar 2010 at 1:25am
A Superior Court judge has overturned an arbitrator’s decision that an Arlington middle school teacher who was fired in 2007 should be reinstated.
by Nicole Ostrow, Bloomberg News
9 Mar 2010 at 11:45pm
People who donate a kidney in the United States don’t die any faster than nondonors long term, according to a large study that looked at donors over 15 years.
by Sean P. Murphy, Globe Staff
10 Mar 2010 at 1:23am
A group of Massachusetts mayors, fed up with what they say is legislative inaction on skyrocketing municipal health care costs, has launched a ballot initiative for 2012 aimed at giving cities and towns more flexibility in reducing expensive benefits for employees, retirees, and elected officials.
by Peter Schworm and Steven Rosenberg, Globe Staff
10 Mar 2010 at 1:18am
LAWRENCE - School Superintendent Wilfredo Laboy was indicted yesterday on eight counts of fraud and embezzlement alleging that he had school employees complete a variety of personal errands, including providing electrical work at his home in Methuen, hauling away his trash and dumping it on school property, and picking up his grandchildren from school.
9 Mar 2010 at 8:18pm
It's a staple of the American judicial system that everyone deserves a defense. So Liz Cheney's campaign to determine the names of lawyers who represent alleged terrorism suspects, and then to question whether those lawyers are sympathetic to terrorists, is a sad form of demagoguery.
by Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 10:50pm
NEW YORK - LifeLock Inc., an identity theft protection company that backed its guarantees by putting its chief executive’s Social Security number on the side of its trucks, will pay $12 million to settle claims it misrepresented its services, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
by Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 10:46pm
WATERTOWN - A123 Systems Inc., which makes lithium-ion batteries for cars, narrowed its loss in the fourth quarter as its sales rose.
by Glenn Adams, Associated Press
10 Mar 2010 at 1:31am
AUGUSTA, Maine - A legislative committee rejected a proposal yesterday that would require health warnings on cellphones in Maine, meaning the proposal is all but doomed for this year.
9 Mar 2010 at 10:54pm
Force Protection Inc.’s shares jumped the most since April. The maker of blast-resistant vehicles for the US military reported profit of 27 cents a share, topping the 21-cent estimate by Merriman Curhan Ford & Co. According to The Wall Street Journal’s Before the Bell column, profit climbed on improved margins and higher sales, especially in Force Protection’s modernization and spares ...
by Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist
9 Mar 2010 at 9:56pm
George W. Bush is responsible for turning Iraq from a hellish tyranny into a functioning democracy.
by Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 11:33pm
The replacement for the State Police superintendent who retired amid the scandal enveloping Governor David Paterson announced his own retirement yesterday, after just a week in the top job.
by Patricia Wen, Globe Staff
10 Mar 2010 at 12:00am
BROCKTON - Michael and Carolyn Riley are still apparently deeply in love, relatives say, describing them as a couple who married 16 years ago after graduating from Weymouth High School and kept close as they struggled with mental disorders and money woes.
by Hyung-Jin Kim, Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 11:58pm
North Korea has recently created an army division in charge of newly developed intermediate-range missiles capable of striking US forces in Japan and Guam, a South Korean news agency said yesterday.
10 Mar 2010 at 2:14am
Baseball Tests on Twins closer Joe Nathan’s throwing elbow revealed a significant tear in the ulnar collateral ligament, an injury that could require season-ending Tommy John surgery. The Twins plan on giving Nathan two weeks to let soreness and swelling subside before making a final decision on surgery. “If I’m able to go out there and throw, then I’ll definitely ...
by Fluto Shinzawa, Globe Staff
10 Mar 2010 at 1:58am
TORONTO - Yesterday, two days after receiving the worst head shot of his career, Marc Savard continued to rest at his Boston home, showing little improvement from the Grade 2 concussion delivered by Pittsburgh’s Matt Cooke .
by Nick Cafardo
10 Mar 2010 at 1:54am
VIERA, Fla. - The Anointed One’s spring training debut was hardly clean, but it didn’t stop the jaws from dropping, as they do every time Stephen Strasburg pitches.
by Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 11:58pm
Northern Ireland lawmakers voted overwhelmingly yesterday to create a new Justice Department, the next key step in making their Catholic-Protestant government work.
by Razzaq al-Saied
9 Mar 2010 at 8:40pm
The post-election process in Iraq will be difficult, and potentially even impossible.
10 Mar 2010 at 12:19am
President Obama made a renewed push for a long-stalled climate and energy bill yesterday, urging lawmakers at a White House meeting to pass a comprehensive measure this year.
by Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 11:23pm
An Ohio State University janitor who was about to lose his job walked into a maintenance building for his early-morning shift yesterday and shot two supervisors, killing one of them, before fatally shooting himself. No students were hurt.
by Scot Lehigh, Globe Columnist
9 Mar 2010 at 8:41pm
Governor Deval Patrick has chosen to put the public interest ahead of union pressures, and labor leaders are in a lather.
by Albert R. Breer, Globe Staff
10 Mar 2010 at 1:49am
The Patriots locked up one key to their future yesterday, but also cut one more tie to their illustrious past.
by Amara Grautski, Globe Correspondent
10 Mar 2010 at 2:09am
It was a family affair for Pentucket on the parquet floor of TD Garden. Sisters Ashley and Nicole Viselli celebrated side-by-side. Tess and Alyssa Nogueira were nearby. And coach John McNamara was able to relish the convincing 62-37 victory last night over Archbishop Williams with his daughter Erin, who posted a game-high 28 points and had five assists as the ...
by Melissa Eddy and Alessandra Rizzo, Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 11:59pm
The pope’s brother said in a newspaper interview published yesterday that he slapped pupils as punishment after he took over a renowned German boys choir in the 1960s. He also said he was aware of allegations of physical abuse at an elementary school linked to the choir but did nothing about it.
by Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 9:13pm
A former television producer admitted yesterday that he tried to shake down David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night icon’s affairs with staffers. Robert “Joe’’ Halderman , 52, pleaded guilty to attempted grand larceny, acknowledging he tried to chisel $2 million from Letterman. He threatened to destroy Letterman’s reputation by airing his workplace dalliances - using information authorities ...
9 Mar 2010 at 8:18pm
Indonesia's recent rebuff to a Brockton company seeking to ship old TVs overseas calls attention to the United States' failure to sign the Basel Treaty that bans dumping of electronic goods in developing nations. The United States needs to figure out a way to deal with its own electronic waste rather than pollute other countries.
by New York Times
9 Mar 2010 at 11:40pm
Dutch airport officials announced new security measures yesterday after a Dutch investigative journalist reported smuggling a refilled liquor bottle through security checks at the airport.
by Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff
9 Mar 2010 at 11:25pm
How much would you pay to cut the line? The RemDawg is betting at least $500.
by John Powers
10 Mar 2010 at 1:55am
What irks prime minister Vladimir Putin even more than his country’s woeful 15-medal tally at the Winter Games is that the Russians spent five times as much money (more than $110 million) as they did for Turin to win a third fewer medals. That’s the Motherland’s worst return since it sold Alaska to the Americans. So Putin has called for ...