If you want to get teenagers to stop doing something, the best plan of action is to tell them it's destructive and then prohibit them from doing it. That's only backfired... just about every time it's ever been tried. The recent test case involves Mayor Thomas Menino, who is attempting to make violent video games even more popular and desirable amongst kids by prohibiting their sale to minors. Violent crime is something that Boston......

--The story of the Cape Cod doctor who killed her husband is starting to read like something out of a thriller or television episode. Ann Gryboski has alleged that her husband, Patrick Lancaster, abused her, and she shot him in the midst of a fresh argument. Gryboski appeared in court bearing the marks of having been beat up, and her lawyer will claim that she acted in self-defense under the "battered woman's defense." The case......

--Just as another person was shot and killed on Blue Hill Avenue yesterday, Governor Deval Patrick weighed in on the city's violence. Some of his comments were memorable, such as "But every once in a while, when [an] adult says, 'You know what? You're not supposed to come to work with your pants down there,' ... even when that kid rolls their eyes, they hear you. It gets through." While it's easy to indulge our......