Archive for ‘November, 2008’

Dropout rates soar in Boston

Boston, a city known for its high number of higher education institutions, is seeing a surge in the number of college dropouts, leading educators to reassess the methods they have used to encourage college attendance.

Panel reveals Gulf War ills

One in four veterans who suffer from a condition known as Gulf War Illness likely got their symptoms partly from antidote pills that the armed services issued them to protect against possible chemical attack, according to the findings of a committee of researchers chaired by a Boston University School of Public Health scientist.

City Council weighs using text messaging to pay meters

Boston drivers may be able to save their quarters now that city councilors plan to institute a new program that would allow drivers to pay parking meters through text messages.

Babysitter clubbed

Officers responded to a report of an assault and battery at 4:03 p.m. Nov. 10. When officers arrived, a ‘very nervous and shaken’ woman told them she was home babysitting when a man came into her apartment, snatched money from her hand and punched her in the mouth.

Expert: state prisons do injustice

It can sometimes be hard to find sympathy for the record-high 25,000 criminals in Massachusetts, but state Correctional Legal Services Executive Director Leslie Walker said there is a dire need for reform in the prison system Monday.