BOSTON – The Hub of New England trails both the Manchester-Nashua area of New Hampshire and even Springfield in western Massachusetts in terms of a "well-being" index created by Gallup, a polling and research organization, and Healthways, a firm that helps governments, insurers and hospitals improve the wellbeing of their constituents.
But greater Boston outranks both Hartford, Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island, on the list of 190 communities studied last year, the organizations said, while the greater Worcester area fell into the bottom 10. Among small towns, Barnstable on Cape Cod came out on top nationwide.
BOSTON (AP) — Archeologists are digging at a boyhood home of Malcolm X in an effort to uncover more about the slain black rights activist's early life as well as the property's long history, which possibly includes Native American settlement.
The two-week archaeological dig began Tuesday outside a two-and-a-half story home in Boston's historically black Roxbury neighborhood that was built in 1874.
