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January 13, 2021 at 12:36 pm

Biden’s Commerce nominee says she has ‘blueprint’ for US

President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Commerce Department said Wednesday if confirmed she will take much of what she has learned improving her home...

This reward poster released Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, by the City of Waltham on its social media accounts shows images of a possible suspect of at least 10 unprovoked brutal attacks on male pedestrians on city streets who have been targeted since Nov. 10, in Waltham, Mass. (City of Waltham Police Department via AP) BX101 BX101

December 2, 2020 at 10:43 am

‘My God, we’re scared’: Serial attacks put a suburb on edge

The apparently random string of at least 10 attacks on men in the Boston suburb of Waltham has angered city leaders, frustrated police and frightened...

November 20, 2020 at 10:16 am

Advocates want light show moved from former mental facility

WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — A battle is underway in a Boston suburb over whether it is appropriate to hold a joyous holiday celebration at the...

November 8, 2020 at 7:50 am

Earthquake felt across southern New England

BOSTON (AP) — The strongest earthquake to hit southern New England in decades rattled homes and nerves Sunday morning, but didn't cause any significant damage,...

October 14, 2020 at 11:09 am

Judge rules against students seeking better civics education

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a group of Rhode Island school children demanding a better civics education in the nation's public...

October 7, 2020 at 7:42 am

Boston delays school reopening plan after virus cases surge

BOSTON (AP) — The next phase of the Boston Public Schools reopening plan was delayed Wednesday because the city's coronavirus positivity rate has climbed higher...

September 25, 2020 at 12:44 pm

Brown women’s sports settlement gets preliminary approval

A federal judge on Friday gave preliminary approval to a settlement between Brown University and student-athletes who had challenged the Ivy League school's decision to...

FILE – In this Sept. 12, 2019, file photo, the 2019 Ig Nobel award is displayed at the 29th annual Ig Nobel awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The spoof prizes for weird and sometimes head-scratching scientific achievement will be presented online in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File) BX501 BX501

September 17, 2020 at 3:00 pm

Poop knives, arachnophobic entomologists win 2020 Ig Nobels

Maybe this year's Ig Nobels, the spoof prizes for dubious but humorous scientific achievement, should have been renamed the Ick Nobels. An anthropologist who tested...

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September 17, 2020 at 9:35 am

Brown, attorneys reach settlement in women’s sports fight

Brown University and attorneys for student-athletes who challenged the Ivy League school's decision to reduce several women’s varsity sports teams to club status announced a...

September 2, 2020 at 8:13 am

More charges brought in college admissions bribery scandal

BOSTON (AP) — Another wealthy parent was charged Wednesday with trying to bribe his child's way into an elite university as a fake athletic recruit,...

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