BOSTON – The agency that runs Boston's public transit services is eyeing fare hikes that could punch a hundred-dollar hole in the pockets of regular subway riders over the course of a year, a move one transit advocate likened to "punishing the victim" following recent service failures.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Fiscal and Management Control Board elected on Monday to advance for public comment two fare-hike scenarios that would raise fares an average of about 5 percent or 10 percent starting in July.
BURNS, Ore. (AP) — Father-and-son ranchers convicted of setting fire to federal grazing land reported to prison Monday as the armed anti-government activists who have taken up their cause maintained the occupation of a remote Oregon wildlife preserve.
Federal authorities made no immediate attempt to retake the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in the remote high desert of eastern Oregon, which about two dozen activists seized over the weekend as part of a decades-long fight over public lands in the West.
