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September 27, 2021 at 2:09 pm

Boston Marathon paying tribute to 2-time Indigenous champion

Organizers of the Boston Marathon are seeking to make amends for running the 125th edition on Indigenous Peoples Day by throwing the spotlight on a...

Sports

September 8, 2021 at 10:54 pm

Subdued 9/11 remembrances reflect Boston’s invisible scars VIEW

Both of the hijacked jetliners that slammed into the World Trade Center towers flew out of Boston

Business

August 18, 2021 at 10:06 pm

8th-graders lead effort to pardon wrongly convicted ‘witch’

A woman convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem Witch Trials may finally be exonerated in Massachusetts

July 8, 2021 at 10:05 pm

Dig at Pilgrim and Native American memorial sparks intrigue

Archaeologists combing a hill near Plymouth Rock where a park will be built in tribute to the Pilgrims and their Native American predecessors have made...

June 9, 2021 at 10:06 pm

Archaeologists dig hilltop over Plymouth Rock one last time VIEW

BOSTON (AP) — Archaeologists are giving a grassy hilltop overlooking iconic Plymouth Rock one last look before a historical park is built to commemorate the...

May 20, 2021 at 10:05 pm

Old records shed new light on smallpox outbreaks in 1700s

BOSTON (AP) — A highly contagious disease originating far from America's shores triggers deadly outbreaks that spread rapidly, infecting the masses. Shots are available, but...

FILE – In this July 7, 2006, file photograph, fishermen cast on the rocky shore at the Beavertail Lighthouse, the third-oldest lighthouse in America, at the tip of Beavertail State Park, on Narragansett Bay, in Jamestown, R.I. The federal government’s General Services Administration announced the U.S. Coast Guard has decided it no longer needs four of the nation’s most storied and picturesque lighthouses, including the Beavertail Lighthouse. The government says it’ll make the historic lighthouses and their outbuildings available at no cost to federal, state and local agencies; nonprofit organizations; educational and community development agencies; or groups devoted to parks, recreation, culture, or historic preservation. (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File) BX401 BX401

May 14, 2021 at 4:07 am

Free offices with a view: 4 lighthouses, courtesy of feds

4 of the nation's most picturesque lighthouses have been declared surplus and will be made available at no cost to certain types of qualifying organizations....

Business

May 13, 2021 at 6:16 pm

Police: 9 wounded in Providence, Rhode Island, shooting VIEW

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Nine people were wounded Thursday evening in Rhode Island's capital in what police there believe to be the largest shooting in...

This photo shows a love letter that John F. Kennedy wrote to a Swedish paramour a few years after he married Jacqueline Bouvier, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The auction house says Kennedy wrote letters to aristocrat Gunilla von Post in 1955 and 1956, and announced, Wednesday, May 5, 2021, that they will be going up for auction. (Nikki Brickett/ RR Auction via AP) BX301 BX301

May 5, 2021 at 8:46 am

‘Anxious to see you:’ JFK letters to Swedish lover auctioned

Love letters that then-U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy wrote to a Swedish paramour a few years after he married are going up for auction. The...

Entertainment

March 31, 2021 at 10:11 pm

Ancient coins may solve mystery of murderous 1600s pirate VIEW

WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — A handful of coins unearthed from a pick-your-own-fruit orchard in rural Rhode Island and other random corners of New England may...

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