Thursday, November 19, 2009
National Grid has launched a new school fundraising program that works in conjunction with its refrigerator/freezer turn-in and recycling program. Under the program, National Grid's electricity customers can turn in old, secondhand refrigerators or freezers and receive a $50 incentive for allowing the appliance to be hauled away.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
BEIJING - President Barack Obama on Wednesday wraps up a three-day visit to China that has left him keenly aware of the limits of his administration's leverage over this economic powerhouse on issues from currency exchange rates to human rights.
Monday, November 16, 2009
HAWLEY - On a brisk November morning, farmer Lisa Turner harvests seeds from the last of her sunflower crops.
"They have to be pretty dry; with all this rain, we have two fields left," said Turner. "We do have a lot of seeds here in the truck. This is something new." If the seeds are too moist, it gums up the machine, she said.
Monday, November 16, 2009
SHANGHAI - President Barack Obama is walking a tightrope on his first trip to China, seeking to enlist help in tackling urgent global problems while weighing when and how - or if - he should raise traditional human rights concerns.
Monday, November 16, 2009
WASHINGTON - In courtrooms barred to the public, dozens of terror suspects are pleading for their freedom from the Guantanamo Bay prison, sometimes even testifying on their own behalf by video from the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
U.S. Senate candidate Congressman Michael Capuano has picked up the endorsement of fellow Congressman John W. Olver, of Amherst, and a handful of state legislators.
Friday, November 13, 2009
NEW YORK - Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.
