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Tuesday, December 04, 2001
Zantop deal lets Parker off in 1 death
(By Mitchell Zuckoff and Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff)
CONCORD, N.H. - Vermont teenager James J. Parker will plead guilty to a reduced charge in the murder of Susanne Zantop in a plea deal that spares him from culpability in the slaying of her husband, Half, prosecutors and defense lawyers said yesterday.
House secretive on budget process
Little-known law keeping data private
(By Sean P. Murphy, Globe Staff)
The state House of Representatives is invoking an obscure provision of the public records law to keep private hundreds of pages of official documents related to the state's $22.8 billion budget, including the key written arguments by department heads used to justify spending increases.
Quiet corner of a big fight
(By Brian McGrory, Globe Staff)
He was walking along the streets of Lower Manhattan that brilliant September morning, walking to a 9 o'clock meeting, when the first plane plowed into the North Tower and the world - his world - changed forever.
Book learning
Youth joins rare ranks of those who know Koran by heart
(By Michael Paulson, Globe Staff)
Six-year-olds Ahmad, Jabriel, Sumaiyyah, and Yasin sit barefoot and cross-legged in a circle on the green carpet in a cramped living room in Roxbury, squirming and wriggling their faces as they try to remember phrases from the Koran.
Push to aid Afghans raises hefty issues at area schools
(By Sandy Coleman, Globe Staff)
It was a simple request made in a televised speech many students said they never even watched: Send $1 to help the Afghan children, President Bush asked every child in America.
Justices hit lawmakers on Clean Elections
(By Rick Klein, Globe Staff)
In a stinging indictment of the Legislature, several members of the Supreme Judicial Court yesterday accused the House and Senate of flouting the state constitution by not funding the Clean Elections Law.
Roy A. Lind
was 'Party Line' call-in host for station WJDA
(By Tom Long, Globe Staff)
Roy A. Lind was a good listener. He had to be. As host of the ''Party Line'' daily call-in show WJDA-AM in Quincy he fielded thousands of phone calls from listeners who wanted to talk about property taxes and traffic patterns and whatever else moved them.
NATICK
Fire chief decision prompts appeal
Passed-over candidate touts qualifications
(By Scott W. Helman, Globe Staff Correspondent)
Frustrated after being passed over for a promotion to be Natick's next fire chief, deputy chief Gene Sabourin has appealed the Board of Selectmen's decision to the state Civil Service Commission, alleging that the selectmen unfairly ignored his high exam scores and wealth of firefighting experience by appointing a less-qualified candidate to the post.
REGION
Activists see a bleak future in AIDS cuts
State move will roll back clock, advocates predict
(By Thanassis Cambanis, Globe Staff Correspondent)
The Metrowest AIDS Program appears poised to weather a flurry of state budget cuts without too drastic a rollback in services, but area AIDS activists warn that a $12.2 million statewide cut for similar agencies could spur a resurgence in the epidemic.
State hospital patients to protest conditions
(By Alice Dembner, Globe Staff)
New England in brief
(By The Globe)
BRATTLEBORO
State assesses terror attack readiness
(By Mac Daniel, Globe Staff)
BOXBOROUGH - If terrorists launched a chemical or biological attack in one of the state's major urban areas, it could take between two and 24 minutes for the nearest state hazardous materials team to begin decontaminating the crowd.
State to help fund Chinatown housing
(By Tara H. Arden-Smith, Globe Correspondent)
A state housing agency effectively ended more than a decade of feuding over one of the last major open spaces in Chinatown by announcing yesterday that it will put $65 million toward community development of a piece of land that several times came close to siting a parking garage.
Teacher files suit over bus crash
(By Michele Kurtz, Globe Staff)
A teacher who survived a bus crash during a Newton school band trip to Canada has filed a lawsuit against the two drivers and their employers, accusing them of gross negligence and recklessness. Shana Warren, 25, an Oak Hill Middle School teacher, filed the suit last week in Middlesex Superior Court. A similar suit has been filed by the families of four middle school students killed in the April 27 crash.
Suspect arrested in first homicide
(By Francie Latour, Globe Staff)
Eleven months after the city's first homicide of the year, a Dorchester man yesterday faced murder and weapons charges in the January slaying in a Jamaica Plain housing development.
News in brief
(By The Globe)
FRAMINGHAM
Student talked of 'another Columbine'
(By Anand Vaishnav, Globe Staff)
NEW BEDFORD - The alleged architect of a foiled mass murder plot at the high school alternately downplayed and boasted of the plans in a taped interview with police played yesterday in court.
Pioneer vows to keep cloning
(By Raja Mishra, Globe Staff)
Human cloning pioneer Michael West yesterday said his Worcester-based company, flush with cash from investors, would aggressively continue its work on cloned embryos undeterred by strident talk in Washington of banning human cloning.
Panel to suggest repealing tax
Making progress toward the ballot
(By Nicole B. Usher, Globe Correspondent)
While legislators debate how to respond to the voter-approved state income tax rollback, an even more dramatic ballot initiative to repeal the state income tax is making headway toward appearing on the November 2002 ballot.
GLOBE SANTA
Last Christmas 'forgot' them
(By Chris Tangney Globe Santa Staff)
Tasha is 8 years old, and she knows how to get right to the point.
For panel, funds are history
(By Stephanie Ebbert and Rick Klein, Globe Staff)
It's a tiny branch of government, with just 25 full-time employees working to protect such historic places like Old South Church.
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