Jurors are deciding whether a Massachusetts man committed manslaughter when he handed his depressed friend a loaded gun moments before she committed suicide.
Christopher Burda is charged after the November 2005 death of 51-year-old Nancy Choquette in his …
Students were battling it out today to be named as the mostpromising business brain.
Six candidates from the North-east were competing to be votedGrampian's Most Enterprising Student.
The students, who were all taking part in the Shell Step …
The Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) has awarded Kelley Chunn and Associates the $70,000 public information campaign contract for REACH 2010, a program aimed at reducing racial disparities in breast and cervical cancer.
Kelley Chunn is the principal of Kelley Chunn and Associates, a Boston-based multicultural, cause-related public relations and marketing consultancy. Chunn will work in collaboration with Carrie Dickens Guscott of Davis Education & Research, Karen Powell of Powell Design and Jacqui de la Cruz of Cruz Communications.
"The Commission hopes that through public education, it can bring about positive change in both patients and health care providers …
Soldiers in northern Vietnam continued to search Tuesday for people still missing from floods and landslides as the death toll rose to 116, disaster officials said.
Rescue workers rushed to find 42 people listed as missing and to recover bodies after the floods triggered by a tropical storm that battered nine northern provinces over the weekend.
In the worst-hit province of Lao Cai, 11 bodies were recovered Monday, …
Chris Paul stole the ball and drove for a layup with 27 seconds left to help New Orleans end a late threat by the Jazz and seal a 91-87 win Monday night, the Hornets' first in Utah in almost four years.
Paul scored 10 of his 12 points in the second half and Devin Brown finished with a career-high 30 points as the Hornets overcame 19 …
Don't talk with Philip Orlando about high-flying Internet stocks.
This New York University-educated investing executive is allabout chips - blue chips.
Chief investment officer at Value Line Asset Management in NewYork, he eschews the unproven business models of many Internetcompanies for the stability and consistent profitability of giantslike IBM, Philip Morris and Wal-Mart Stores.The self-described conservative investor oversees portfolioswith assets of $6 billion and is the portfolio manager for theCenturion Fund, a large-cap growth fund that has assets of $850million.Orlando shared his views on the economy's performance in thefirst quarter and the market's …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas fired coach Turner Gill on Sunday after two losing seasons and with three years remaining on a contract that still owes him about $6 million.
The school announced the move in a news release Sunday, the day after the Jayhawks lost 24-10 to rival Missouri and finished the season 2-10.
Gill was 5-19 at Kansas. He was hired by Athletic Director Sheahon Zenger's predecessor, Lew Perkins, and given a five-year, $10 million contract.
The university says Zenger informed Gill of his decision late Sunday afternoon. He also said he would honor the terms of Gill's deal.
"After a thorough evaluation of our football program," Zenger said in a …
