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A new study is adding to evidence that a popular class of pesticides can harm wild bees, like bumblebees.

Almost 48 hours after violence engulfed Charlottesville, Va., President Trump called out white nationalist groups by name. He had been criticized for not doing so in his initial remarks on Saturday.

Seventy-five years ago, a military transport plane crashed in a remote section of Peru, Massachusetts, killing 16 of the servicemen on board. The victims…

It's been a little over two months since the Worcester police introduced officers on horseback. There are four horses and seven officers in the new…

Seventy years after Pakistan's creation as a homeland for South Asia's Muslims, its minorities continue to suffer persecution — and the definition of who is considered a Muslim has narrowed.

Molly McCully Brown, who has cerebral palsy, says that if she'd been born in a different era, she might have been sent to the "Virginia State Colony," an early landmark of the U.S. eugenics movement.

In 1968, jazz pianist Bill Evans led a trio with Jack DeJohnette and Eddie Gomez. They spent five weeks in Europe; a newly unearthed concert recording catches them live in a Dutch radio studio.

The state legislature is considering a bill which would require all middle and high schools to open at 8:30 a.m. or later by 2020.

Many of the Syrians in Turkey are educated professionals who are underemployed, working off the books for low pay. A government program is trying to change that, but things are moving slowly.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions described the car attack as "domestic terrorism." That allows the government to open a broad investigation, but there's no such criminal charge as domestic terrorism.