Jane Moran was a young police officer in Southborough, just arriving for her 8 a.m. shift, when she heard the screams. (Page B1, 682 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Nov 24, 2009

Martha Coakley strolled into a union hall in Dorchester Wednesday waving, a little stiffly, to the membership of the Service Employees International Union Local 1199. (Page B1, 665 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Nov 20, 2009

Angelo McClain’s homecoming was not supposed to be this rocky. When the longtime social services director - who worked at a caseworker in Roxbury before making his name as a children services executive in New Jersey - was named commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, it was viewed as a happy occasion. But he is spending most of ... (Page B1, 680 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Nov 17, 2009

Dichotomy of a poverty foe Robert Coard’s funeral at Emmanuel Church yesterday drew a telling mix of the powerful and not-so-powerful - fitting for an antipoverty activist far more comfortable than most in the corridors of power. (Page B1, 644 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Nov 10, 2009

Rudolph Pierce thought it was time to retire. But as a veteran member of the Massachusetts bar - and a former judge - he must have known that shedding the burden of alimony would never be so easy. (Page B1, 670 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Nov 13, 2009

Lost Marine’s lasting gift Joan Jose Duran was a guy who was loved for his optimistic spirit. He once served as the punter for the undermanned Boston Latin School football team, and “he wasn’t actually a good punter,’’ said his teammate, Dan Weissman. “But he had this can-do attitude. I never heard him say he couldn’t do anything. He always believed he could get ... (Page B1, 639 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Nov 6, 2009

Tito Jackson has to be leading the only City Council campaign that has its own dance. (Page B1, 658 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Oct 27, 2009

After abuse, a life renewed It didn’t take Nadine Walker Mooney long to figure out she was in a bad relationship. (Page B1, 687 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Oct 13, 2009

To many observers, Bonnie Keefe-Layden might seem like a walking contradiction. Not only does she run one of the major social service providers in Central Massachusetts - Rehabilitative Resources Inc. known as RRI - she retired this month as a full colonel in the US Army Reserve, wrapping up a military career spanning 33 years. (Page B1, 679 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Oct 20, 2009

Twenty years ago today - tonight, actually - as Charles Stuart drove his pregnant wife, Carol, home from a birthing class at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he stopped the car in Mission Hill, pulled out a gun, and shot her to death. He also wounded himself, a key element in the hoax that would consume the city for the next ... (Page B1, 690 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Oct 23, 2009

For Flaherty, a tall order To appreciate one of the biggest challenges confronting Michael Flaherty as he seeks to unseat Mayor Thomas M. Menino, it doesn’t hurt to start at Grove Hall and take a walk down Blue Hill Avenue. (Page B1, 652 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Sep 25, 2009

It may have been the entry of a Canton selectman that made me wonder if the race to replace Senator Edward M. Kennedy is really going to be all that it could be. (Page B1, 670 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Sep 11, 2009

Dichotomy of a poverty foe Robert Coard’s funeral at Emmanuel Church yesterday drew a telling mix of the powerful and not-so-powerful - fitting for an antipoverty activist far more comfortable than most in the corridors of power. (Page B1, 644 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Nov 10, 2009

Laura Linehan’s death was the end of a life, but the start of a quiet crusade. (Page B1, 666 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Sep 29, 2009

Our lawmakers are having a wonderful time on vacation. They must be, because otherwise surely they would be at work attending to the most pressing issue that will come before them this year, our sadly open US Senate seat. (Page B1, 676 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Sep 1, 2009

Tom Menino has never been a fancy talker, nor has he ever cared who knows it. (Page B1, 671 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Aug 25, 2009

When candidates mount their first political campaign, their days tend to follow a familiar routine. (Page B1, 706 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Aug 14, 2009

If nothing else, Dan Grabauskas has good luck in adversaries. He wound up doing battle with a gang that couldn’t shoot straight. (Page B1, 675 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Aug 7, 2009

A young medical star It’s one thing to find your vocation early, but Melissa Rocha was truly precocious. She was in junior high school when she settled on her career choice: surgery. “To this day, I cannot figure out how this passion began, but I know it’s been there since the seventh grade, and it’s just been growing,’’ she said yesterday. (Page B1, 685 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Aug 4, 2009

Gerry Leone thought peace would prevail in the Skip Gates affair Tuesday morning, when all sides agreed to dropped charges and a joint press release expressing mutual regret. He was wrong. (Page B1, 686 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Jul 24, 2009

If the job market is terrible for adults - which it is - one can only imagine what's in store for young people this summer in search of jobs. (Page B1, 662 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Mar 27, 2009

A pledge forgotten Deval Patrick has neatly adapted to the culture of the State House, the one he said he planned to overhaul. (Page B1, 652 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Mar 17, 2009

Checks and imbalances Given that Wilfredo Laboy is still employed, one could reasonably wonder what it takes to get fired in Lawrence. (Page B1, 649 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Apr 10, 2009

Firefighters Local 718, the firefighters union, has had an uncanny knack over the years for disrupting Mayor Thomas M. Menino's State of the City speech. (Page B1, 687 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Jan 13, 2009

I've spent several days trying to make sense of the sheer lunacy that seems to form the heart of Dianne Wilkerson's defense. (Page B1, 650 words)By: Adrian Walker|Date: Jan 30, 2009