By Gintautas DumciusTop officials on Beacon Hill and in City Hall head a list of witnesses who could be asked to testify in City Councillor Chuck Turner’s trial, which started this week.In court docum ...

Brian Wright O’ConnorCAMBRIDGE — The July report on the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. came under blistering attack at a Cambridge City Council hearing last week where local residen ...

Kenneth J. CooperJames Jennings is quite familiar with census data about Boston’s black community, but even he was astonished at what his latest round of numbers-crunching revealed.“The degree and ext ...

Yawu MillerCity Councilor Chuck Turner’s decision to testify — against the advice of his own legal team — in his federal corruption trial adds yet another twist in to a case that was already extraordi ...

Hub leader rips return of Guardian AngelsBy Laura Crimaldi | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local CoverageA Grove Hall community leader yesterday blasted an effort to revi ...

Chuck Turner witness considers pleading FifthBy Laurel Sweet | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local CoveragePhoto by Matt StoneThe federal government’s star witness in its ...

Governor gets $420m spending billBy State House News Service | October 13, 2010The Legislature sent Governor Deval Patrick a $420 million spending bill yesterday designed to prevent layoffs and servic ...

Study challenges mayoral control of schoolsBy Bloomberg News | October 13, 2010NEW YORK — Mayoral control, advocated by politicians pushing to overhaul underperforming school systems, fails to improve ...