New England Public Radio News

From 1987 until 2000, former Yugoslavian President Slobadan Milosevic rose to power promoting Serbian nationalism. His campaign included wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. The final chapter of Milosevic's life took place in the...

Housing advocates in Western New England are hailing President Obama's 275 billion dollar plan to address the foreclosure crisis. WFCR's Tina Antolini reports.

Kimberly Broderick is an African-American woman with two mixed-race children. Mary Lou Sullivan is a white, single mother of two mixed-race children. Both say they have experienced racism and they are among twenty-one contributors...

The President's Day holiday is traditionally a big day for car sales... But, as WFCR's Tina Antolini reports, local dealers say this year, they'll be happy with even a little bump in business.

Erin Newman-Long and her husband Matthew were expecting their first baby in March 2007. They had an easy pregnancy with Birdie, the baby's nickname inutero. Erin and Matthew had planned on a home birth. But after 24 hours in labor...

Librarians around the region are reporting an increase in library use. But as the economy sours, library funding is in question.

When Sonam Lama was a young man in Tibet he learned to build stone walls. And as he told his friend Ken Schoen at the StoryCorps Booth in Springfield, MA, this is what he does now -- with a great deal of pride.