DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF/FILE 2001 Elizabeth Warren has not proven she has a Native American ancestor, instead saying she based her belief on family lore. US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has said she was unaware that Harvard Law School had been promoting her purported Native American heritage until she read about it in a newspaper several weeks ago. But for at least six straight years during Warren’s tenure, Harvard University reported in federally mandated diversity statistics that it had a Native American woman in its senior ranks at the law school. According to both Harvard officials and federal guidelines, those statistics are almost always based on the way employees describe themselves. In addition, both Harvard’s guidelines and federal regulations for the statistics lay out a ... Continue reading →

By Colin A. Young, Globe Correspondent A quiet evening in a Boxford backyard took an “udderly” dramatic turn Sunday when a bunch of bovines decided to drop by and have a couple of brews. “It started off with a call for loose cows in the area of Foster Street,” Boxford Police Lieutenant James Riter said. “On my way down Main Street, I did see evidence that cows were in the area.” That evidence, Riter said, was -- well, let’s just say you wouldn’t want to step in it. When the bovine bunch stopped in the front yard of a home on Main Street, Riter directed traffic around the herd. Then the cows decided to run off into the backyard, he said. “I could hear screaming ... Continue reading →

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By Glen Johnson, Globe Staff Consider this as you brace for a multimillion-dollar US Senate race this fall that hijacks the commercials amid your favorite TV shows, fills the newspaper, and is propelled by verbal barrages between Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren. With six months to go, only 5 percent of voters are undecided and able to be convinced by it all. That was one eye-catching finding overnight from the latest Suffolk University/WHDH-TV poll about the race. Brown and Warren were in a statistical tie, with the incumbent senator at 48 percent and the Harvard Law School professor at 47 percent. That is not necessarily good news for Brown, since he clearly led Warren 49 percent to 40 percent in a similar Suffolk/7News ... Continue reading →