Bulger Arrested

Prosecutors will ask a federal judge to sentence the longtime girlfriend of Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger (BUHL'-jur) to three more years in prison for refusing to testify about whether anyone else helped Bulger after he fled the city.

It has all the hallmarks of a Greek tragedy: two brothers whose lives diverge radically -- one into an underworld of crime, the other into the upper echelons of state politics -- yet whose fates remain inextricably linked.Generations of Boston residents have watched that story play out in the real-life drama of former Democratic Senate President Wi...

Prosecutors will ask a federal judge to sentence the longtime girlfriend of Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger (BUHL'-jur) to three more years in prison for refusing to testify about whether anyone else helped Bulger after he fled the city.

It has all the hallmarks of a Greek tragedy: two brothers whose lives diverge radically -- one into an underworld of crime, the other into the upper echelons of state politics -- yet whose fates remain inextricably linked.Generations of Boston residents have watched that story play out in the real-life drama of former Democratic Senate President Wi...