R. Sargent Shriver, 1915-2011
Robert Sargent Shriver, 95, a lawyer who served as the social conscience of two administrations, launching the Peace Corps for his brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, and leading the War...
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In Hyannis, senator is fondly remembered as a ‘Capie’
Along the impossibly quaint Main Street of this Cape Cod village, shop windows carried signs Wednesday reading "Thanks Ted, We Miss You," and salesclerks concluded purchases by clutching the hands...
Wedding bells ring legally for gay couples in Mass.
WORCESTER, Mass. - Massachusetts became yesterday the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, ending a centuries-old tradition in the United States that limited matrimony to one man and one woman....
Obscure Mass. law prohibits some same-sex marriages
BOSTON - Their plan was to fly here May 17 and take out a marriage license. After the required three-day waiting period, Matt Foreman and Francisco de Leon intended to...
Romney moves to block gay marriages
BOSTON - Determined to keep Massachusetts from becoming the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, Gov. Mitt Romney filed emergency legislation yesterday to permit him to hire a special counsel....
Mass. moves toward ban on same-sex marriages
BOSTON - After seven weeks of heated public debate and frantic backroom maneuvering, the Massachusetts Legislature approved yesterday a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and establishing civil unions for same-sex...
Seattle mayor recognizes employee same-sex unions
SEATTLE - Six same-sex couples filed suit against King County yesterday after being denied marriage licenses, and Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels immediately pledged his support for such unions, ordering city...
Mass. official estimates 1,000 molested by priests and staffs
BOSTON - The number of sexual abuse victims in the Boston archdiocese over the past six decades "likely exceeds 1,000" molested by more than 250 clergy and other church workers,...
Documents show wide range of priest abuses
BOSTON - For more than 40 years, Roman Catholic Church officials here overlooked abuse ranging from the molestation of girls studying to become nuns, to drug use by priests with...