Fifteen months after they were pulled from the battlefield to stand trial in the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man, the fate of two Marines will be handed to military juries.

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Big Dig officials must get more aggressive about recouping money spent to repair damage caused by a major water leak three years ago and should ask the attorney general’s office to take legal action against contractors, state Auditor Joseph DeNucci said Monday.

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July 30 (Bloomberg) — Automakers are embracing legislation in the U.S. House that would raise fuel-economy standards, abandoning years of resistance because of concerns they might otherwise be forced to accept even tougher measures.

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CHATHAM — From Minister’s Point in North Chatham, where million-dollar houses ring Pleasant Bay, the breach in Nauset Beach makes for gorgeous scenery: Where a bar of pale sand once stretched uninterrupted across the horizon, blocking the force of the ocean, blue-green water now swirls through a widening gap.

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Aspen Technology Inc. has settled allegations by federal regulators who found the software maker fraudulently inflated revenue over three years to meet Wall Street’s financial expectations, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday.

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A man released from state prison June 23 was arraigned yesterday in a Boston courthouse, charged with raping a 67-year-old woman in the South End apartment building where both were living, according to court records and authorities.

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DEDHAM — A Stoughton police sergeant was convicted yesterday in Norfolk Superior Court of using his police badge to aid his side job as a lawyer.

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