With his arrest this week, Sean “Diddy” Combs joins a short list of celebrities prosecuted for sex crimes in the wake of the #MeToo movement
September 19, 2024
A study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles and one that looks at the swimming abilities of dead fish were among the winners of this year’s Ig Nobels, the prize for comical scientific achievement
September 12, 2024
There was a slight decline in the numbers of Black students in Harvard University's freshman class, which follows a Supreme Court ruling which struck down affirmative action in higher education
September 11, 2024
The city where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were conceived has largely been overlooked during the crime-fighting quartet's meteoric rise
September 07, 2024
Karen Read says in an interview that her long-running murder case has left her “purgatory” and ”stressed every day."
September 06, 2024
Massachusetts U.S. Sens. Edward Markey and Elizabeth Warren are among several political leaders who are attacking the leader of a troubled health care system for refusing to comply with a subpoena to appear before a Senate committee
September 05, 2024
A white Massachusetts man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for threatening to kill a group of Asian Americans and repeatedly hitting one of them with his car
September 05, 2024A transgender teenager from Massachusetts is recovering after he was allegedly beaten by other high schoolers at a party
September 04, 2024
A Massachusetts boy whose ice cream stand was shut down has become a minor celebrity after several businesses took up his campaign to raise money for charity
August 28, 2024
A Massachusetts judge has ruled that Karen Read can be re-tried for murder and leaving the scene where her Boston police officer boyfriend died
August 23, 2024
Harvard University has decided against removing from campus buildings the name of a family whose company makes the powerful painkiller OxyContin, despite protest from parents whose children fatally overdosed
August 09, 2024
Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the Karen Read case have returned to court focused on jury deliberations that led to a mistrial on charges that she killed her police officer boyfriend
August 09, 2024
A federal lawsuit accusing Massachusetts Institute of Technology of tolerating antisemitism after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel has been dismissed while a similar one against Harvard University can continue
August 08, 2024
Police say two more state troopers who were part of the Karen Read murder trial over the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend are now facing an internal affairs investigation
July 24, 2024Karen Read has made a brief court appearance to set dates going forward for the high-profile murder case against her
July 22, 2024
Archeologists with the National Park Service say they have found musket balls that date back nearly 250 years and were fired during one of the first battles in the Revolutionary War
July 17, 2024
This week's flooding in Vermont is adding fresh urgency to concerns about the hundreds of dams in the state
July 12, 2024Prosecutors in the Karen Read murder case are arguing against dropping any charges after her mistrial
July 12, 2024A lawsuit has been filed in the case of a Massachusetts teen who died after participating in a spicy tortilla chip challenge on social media
July 11, 2024
Defense lawyers for Karen Read say jurors unanimously concluded she was not guilty of murder or leaving the scene of a deadly accident, and were deadlocked on the remaining manslaughter charge before a mistrial was declared
July 08, 2024
The rapper G Herbo has been sentenced to three years' probation after pleading guilty to his role in a scheme that used stolen credit card information to pay for an opulent lifestyle
January 11, 2024
Prosecutors say they intend to retry Karen Read on charges that she killed her Boston police officer boyfriend by striking him with her SUV
July 01, 2024
Climate scientists say storms like Hurricane Lee could become more common in the future as the Gulf of Maine and other bodies of water rapidly warm
September 16, 2023
Harvard University has released a detailed account of its investigation into plagiarism allegations against former president Claudine Gay, who resigned this month over those concerns and her antisemitism testimony at a congressional hearing
January 22, 2024
Prosecutors in Massachusetts say they plan to retry Karen Read for the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend
June 27, 2024
Harris campaign reports spending nearly three times as much as Trump in August
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens freed from captivity in Indonesia's Papua
Sri Lanka has more women voters than men but no female presidential candidates
AI is helping shape the 2024 presidential race. But not in the way experts feared
Japan's Icom: highly unlikely wireless devices that exploded in Lebanon are our products
The Midwest could offer fall’s most electric foliage but leaf peepers elsewhere won’t miss out
Phillies clinch 3rd straight playoff berth and close in on NL East title
Wojnarowski one of the first significant sports 'insiders' to step away from the spotlight