DANFORTH, Maine--Work begins on another Maine wind farm this week. The first phase of the project, which comprised 38 turbines on Stetson Mountain, was completed in January. Stetson II will include 17 more windmills.

Thirty-nine years after the band called it quits, five of the 10 best-selling albums in the country are Beatles albums. Last week's much-ballyhooed Beatles reissues, fueled by much hype and the arrival of the Fab Four's entry in the Rock Band video game..

One way to beat the heat -- Ursula, a northern fur seal at the New England Aquarium who hails from a much cooler neighborhood in the northern Pacific, cooled off on a block of ice today during Boston's record setting temperatures.

Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has sent a bouquet of flowers and a note to the woman whose 911 call led to his arrest earlier this month. Wendy Murphy, attorney and spokeswoman for Lucia Whalen, said today that Gates had sent her client a bouquet

According to a recent survey of men in 12 countries, nearly 60% of American males consider themselves sexy. The other 40% must have mirrors. Even a majority of French men said they didn't consider themselves sexy, and the French think they invented sex.

Gov. Patrick accused Zoo New England officials of creating a false and inflammatory scare with the warning that state cuts may force them to close two Boston area zoos and euthanize animals.A Patrick aide emphatically ruled out the killing of ANY animals.

The American Bar Association announced on Tuesday that its standing committee on the federal judiciary has unanimously found Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be "well qualified" for elevation to the Supreme Court, its highest ranking.

Dozens of wind turbines could sprout within sight of the Mass. shoreline under a state blueprint with the promise of generating electricity and controversy.The draft plan would allow a series of small wind farms of up to 10 turbines each in coastal waters

NEW YORK--Historic swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison Monday for a fraud so extensive that the judge said he needed to send a symbolic message to potential imitators and to victims who demanded harsh punishment.

Our fashion writer implores you not to dress your dog, and he has a pet psychic on his side.