A former chemist has been arrested accused of falsifying evidence at a Massachusetts state crime lab where she handled more than 60,000 drug samples. She has been charged with obstructing justice and lying about her training. The former chemist, Annie Dookhan, 34, was arrested by state police at her family’s home in Franklin, Attorney General Martha Coakley’s […]
A teacher attempting to assist his sister in their quiet Connecticut suburb when she believed she was being robbed shot a masked stranger during a late-night confrontation. But Jeffrey Giuliano, 44, didn’t realize that he had gunned down and killed his teenage son until the boy was identified by authorities. Police responding to a possible burglary […]
A runaway British schoolgirl and her 30-year-old math teacher were picked up by police in the southern French city of Bordeaux on Friday, after a week-long manhunt which gripped U.K. media, police sources said. Teacher Jeremy Forrest was placed in French police custody on suspicion of child abduction after he was stopped on a city […]
An ancient papyrus fragment which a Harvard scholar says contains the first recorded mention that Jesus may have had a wife is a fake, the Vatican said on Friday. “Substantial reasons would lead one to conclude that the papyrus is indeed a clumsy forgery,” the Vatican’s newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, said in an editorial by its […]
The Forbes list is an annual ode to the American dream. The roster of richest Americans is filled with stories of entrepreneurs who started with little (or at least not a lot) and built a business and personal fortune through hard work, good ideas and perfect timing. Recent additions include Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and […]
Hege Jeanette Oksnes, who works selling hot dogs at a gas station, might be the luckiest person on the world. So far, every time this 29-year-old mom of three has a baby, a family member hits the Norwegian lotto jackpot. In 2006, Oksnes’s father Leif, 58, won 4.2 million kroner ($718,000) betting on the national […]
After someone snapped a photo of her and posted it online, Balpreet Kaur was ridiculed for following the tenants of her Sikh faith. But instead of hiding or lashing out, she politely posted a reply–and turned a bullying situation into a inspiring example of tolerance, support, and inspiration. The photo was taken apparently without Kaur’s […]
Normally, schools offer scholarships to entice students to enroll. This year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s business school handed them money to go away. The Sloan School of Management’s full-time M.B.A. program, usually about 400 students, was oversubscribed by an unusually high number of students this year. Rather than expand the class size, the school […]
A newly discovered alien planet may be one of the top contenders to support life beyond Earth, researchers say. The newfound world, a “super Earth” called Gliese 163c, lies at the edge of its star’s habitable zone – that just-right range of distances where liquid water could exist. “There are a wide range of structures and […]
A British team of pediatric specialists is being deployed to Afghanistan to attend to a female gunner who unexpectedly gave birth in an Afghan outpost that was the scene of a bitter battle just days ago. The soldier reportedly didn’t realize she was pregnant until she developed stomach pains two days ago. The baby was born five […]
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