Armed guards safeguard plots that can yield over 30 tons of pot a year for Mexican traffickers.

Officials say fixing Route 88 now will save money, but a critic says the town can’t afford more debt.

Economists explore the theory that people most often behave in a rational and selfish manner.

CHICAGO – It’s a situation too agonizing to contemplate — a child dying and in pain. Now a small but provocative study suggests that doctors may be giving fatal morphine doses to a few children dying of cancer, to end their suffering at their parents’ request. A handful of parents told researchers that they had […]

The positions of three deans and their assistants would be cut as six schools or colleges become three.

When Louise Paulin remembers her mother’s dedication as a nurse at Mercy Hospital, she thinks of one particular winter storm, which dumped almost 2 feet of snow. The family was living on Central Street in Westbrook, and her mother, Eloise Paulin, hiked down to Main Street to catch a ride with police officers to the […]

The president will outline his final ‘way forward’ on the health care overhaul in a speech on Wednesday.