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May 10, 2021 at 9:38 am

AGs urge Facebook to drop ‘Instagram for kids’ proposal

A bipartisan group of 44 attorneys general has written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg urging him to drop company plans for a version of Instagram... Updated 7:16 pm

April 12, 2021 at 9:27 am

Postcard from Titanic’s radio operator being sold at auction

BOSTON (AP) — A postcard written by the Titanic's senior radio operator just weeks before the ocean liner sank in the North Atlantic in 1912...

April 8, 2021 at 4:32 am

New film follows 2 zombie moviemakers with Down syndrome

Two best friends with Down syndrome who caused a sensation four years ago when they created their own gory zombie movie are back, this time...

Entertainment

April 4, 2021 at 5:03 am

Vast archives at JFK Library help bring ‘Hemingway’ to life VIEW

BOSTON (AP) — A new documentary on Ernest Hemingway — powered by vast but little-known archives kept at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and...

Entertainment

April 2, 2021 at 9:34 am

1948 Olympic swimmer, masters multiple record holder, dies

Clara Lamore Walker, who swam for the U.S. at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, won three national championships, and later in life set hundreds...

Sports

March 18, 2021 at 11:34 am

Arrest made in series of nighttime attacks in Boston suburb

WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — A man has been charged in a series of nighttime attacks on men in a Boston suburb last November that left...

March 17, 2021 at 11:39 am

Dick Hoyt, who pushed son in multiple Boston Marathons, dies VIEW

BOSTON (AP) — Dick Hoyt, who inspired thousands of runners, fathers and disabled athletes by pushing his son, Rick, in a wheelchair in dozens of...

FILE – In this Sept. 24, 2013, file photo, Courtney Keating, education coordinator of The Literacy Center in Evansville, Ind., reads “If I Ran the Zoo,” By Dr. Seuss, to passersby during an event to promote literacy along the Evansville Riverfront. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the business that preserves and protects the author and illustrator’s legacy, announced on his birthday, Tuesday, March 2, 2021, that it would cease publication of several children’s titles including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo,” because of insensitive and racist imagery. (Erin McCracken/Evansville Courier & Press via AP, File) INEVA204 INEVA204

March 2, 2021 at 3:33 am

6 Dr. Seuss books, including some very well-known ones, won’t be published because of racist images

The decision to cease publication and sales of the books was made last year after months of discussion, the company said. It was anounced on...

Business

February 26, 2021 at 12:23 pm

Feds say Massachusetts man scammed 3 women out of $500,000

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man told women he met at online dating sites fantastic stories about being involved in explosions on foreign oil rigs...

February 26, 2021 at 9:50 am

Owners of company involved in crash that killed 7 charged

The owners of the truck involved in a crash in New Hampshire in June 2019 that killed seven motorcyclists are facing charges of falsifying company...