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 Boston.com -- Latest news Updated : Police question scientist in Miami airport scare A government official said Friday that a scientist has been detained in Miami after screeners found a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb.        White House defends Obama's 'mainstream' religion White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says President Barack Obama is a "committed, mainstream Christian" -- contrary to the claims of Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck. Bosnian police track down suspected puppy killer Police in Bosnia say they believe they have located a young woman shown in a video throwing puppies into a river. Hurricane Earl churns toward New England waters A weakening Hurricane Earl swiped past North Carolina on Friday on its way to New England, where officials urged residents to stay vigilant even as the area threatened by storm's full force was shrinking. Earl weakens to Category 1, heads for Northeast Hurricane Earl sideswiped North Carolina's Outer Banks early Friday, flooding the vacation islands but causing no injuries and only modest damage, then took aim at New England as a weaker but still dangerous storm. Obama to hold news conference next week President Barack Obama will hold a news conference at the White House on Sept. 10. Pizza deliveryman is lured, robbed, killed Two men and a woman allegedly lured a pizza deliveryman into a dark, vacant Hyde Park house early yesterday, then robbed and fatally stabbed him before fleeing in his car — a brutal crime that had people in delivery businesses terrified and enraged police investigators vowing to track down the culprits. Earl bears down Hurricane Earl swelled yesterday into a massive storm almost the size of New England, swirling north up the Eastern Seaboard on a track expected to take it perilously close to Nantucket around midnight tonight. Maine organic milk company to stay open A Maine farmer-owned organic milk company is going to keep processing milk after all. David Bright, of Maine's Own Organic Milk, or MOOMilk, says a number of individuals and foundations have provided enough money to enable the company to sell its product to two Maine food banks. Storm seends some fleeing Isle of Shoals Some people who live on islands off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire have decided to play it safe and return to the mainland before the seas are churned up by Hurricane Earl. Increase Traffic |
