Watch: Bear startles man napping by pool in Greenfield

“At least he had another chair and table between them if needed.” Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service

Boston college students share what campus life is like amid COVID-19

For first-year and upper-level students alike, when Boston colleges re-opened this September almost everything was different. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service

Monday’s Child: Destinee is athletic and social

Destinee, 12, wants to be a movie star when she grows up.Destinee is an intelligent girl of Caucasian descent. She likes to play games and is skilled socially. She is open and trusting with adults and is able to communicate her needs. She likes to play outside, do gymnastics, have her nails and hair done,…

Patriots fans in Worcester embrace new QB Cam Newton … Tom who?

WORCESTER – Despite the GOAT grazing at a different gridiron, Patriots Nation is still made up of true blue Pats fan, as evident from the patronage at some of Worcester’s popular watering holes.Lindsey Brynjolfsson couldn’t wait to watch an afternoon of football at the Worcester’s Beer Garden on Franklin Street.”I’m so glad there’s a football…

Bernie Sanders: Biden win in November is no ‘slam dunk’

WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders is warning that if onetime rival Joe Biden doesn’t do more to promote his policies and reach out to Latino voters, the Democratic presidential nominee is at risk of falling short to President Donald Trump this November.Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who left the primary race in the spring and has…

Mashpee man hiking in New Hampshire dies despite helicopter effort

The 60-year-old Mashpee man was in a small group hiking to the summit of Mount Jefferson in the White Mountains when he suffered an unknown medical condition at about 2 p.m. Saturday, according to a statement from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service

4 Mass. communities labeled as high risk for West Nile virus

The health department said Cambridge, Newton, Somerville and Watertown have been elevated to high risk for the mosquito-borne disease. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service

Philippines deports US Marine convicted in transgender killing

On Monday, President Duterte granted an “absolute and unconditional pardon” to Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton in a move that caught many by surprise. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service

Patriots: Amid askew times, finally ready for some football

The American sporting calendar, like life itself, has been out of whack for months.The ongoing NBA and NHL playoffs should have ended in June. Major League Baseball celebrated its Opening Day in July. The Boston Marathon is being run virtually this month.But a semblance of normalcy — the old, not the new — will return Sunday as…

As Paulette rolls toward Bermuda, Sally threatens Gulf Coast

MIAMI — Residents of Bermuda were urged to prepare to protect life and property ahead of Hurricane Paulette, which was forecast to become a dangerous hurricane Sunday as Tropical Storm Sally intensified in the Gulf of Mexico.Paulette gained hurricane status late Saturday and was expected to bring storm surge, coastal flooding and high winds to…

Manhunt on for shooter after 2 California deputies ambushed, shot in patrol car

COMPTON, Calif. — The shooting of two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in an ambush prompted a manhunt for the shooter, reaction from the president and protests outside the hospital where the wounded deputies were being treated Saturday night in California.The 31-year-old female deputy and 24-year-old male deputy both underwent surgery Saturday evening, Sheriff Alex…

Final project in memory of N.H.’s Old Man of the Mountain completed

The massive, naturally formed granite profile attracted tourists to Franconia Notch for about 200 years before it crumbled in 2003. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service

1 woman killed, 1 injured in double stabbing in Attleboro

Police had responded to the scene after receiving multiple 911 calls reporting “a commotion,” authorities said. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service

Dry summer brings Northeast relief from mosquitoes and ticks

It was an exceptionally dry, hot summer, with much of northern Maine and New Hampshire experiencing significant drought. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service

Hopedale 20-year-old secures debt-free college degree

HOPEDALE — To college graduates nationwide struggling under mountains of debt from hard-earned degrees, Hopedale resident Benjamin Coulombe’s story sounds like fiction.The journalism major graduated from MassBay Community College this year with an associate’s degree, a successful transfer into a bachelor’s degree program at UMass Amherst — and zero debt.”It’s something that could be saddled…

Children’s room at Worcester Public Library named in honor of Drs. Arthur and Martha Pappas

WORCESTER — The Worcester Public Library will be naming its newly renovated children’s room the “Arthur M. and Martha R. Pappas Children’s Center.”“Drs. Arthur and Martha Pappas have been leaders in the Worcester community for more than half a century,” said Timothy Loew, president of the Worcester Public Library Foundation and member of the foundation’s Capital…

COVID-19 cases in Worcester rise again

WORCESTER — For the third straight week the number of new COVID-19 cases in the city increased, the city reported Friday.The city confirmed an additional 140 cases over the past week, for a total of 6,041 since March. The triple-digit increase comes after an increase of 98 cases the previous week, and 87 cases the last…

Photos: Here are the Boston nurses honored by Reebok’s new Wonder Woman shoe line

“We saw this amazing surge of frontline workers coming and doing exactly what Wonder Woman represents: helping people.” Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service

Never forget: Here’s how you can virtually commemorate 9/11

Multiple organizations and communities are live streaming their tributes to victims of the terrorist attacks. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service

Police chief accused of rigging his own hiring resigns

Mayor Joe Ganim said that Chief Armando “A.J.” Perez resigned and that he named Assistant Chief Rebeca Garcia as acting chief. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service

Worcester school panel seeks exploration of municipal broadband

WORCESTER — After the district had to scramble this summer to provide internet to families to support its remote learning model, a school panel on Thursday voted to ask city leaders to look into bringing municipal broadband to Worcester.The Standing Committee on School and Student Performance, which met specifically to take up the internet issue, specifically…

Worcester gangster faces 15 charges in connection to Harding Street apartment search

WORCESTER – The Harding Street apartment police called a bomb squad to search Wednesday belonged to an Almighty Vice Lords gang member who’d affixed a fake grenade and pipe bomb to a door and stashed explosives and assault rifles inside, authorities alleged Thursday.David Dolan, 38, was ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing in…

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