Massachusetts 22 mins ago

Fan donates kidney to former Boston Red Sox pitcher

Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Jeff Plympton and a fan will forever be connected thanks to a life-saving organ donation, according to NBC affiliate WJAR. Plympton said last year it wasn’t exactly...

  • sports betting 13 hours ago

    Mass. launches youth sports betting safety coalition

    With college sports tournaments taking place at both ends of Massachusetts this week, Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell on Thursday announced the launch of a public-private partnership to focus on the risks of sports betting and gambling among young people. The Youth Sports Betting Safety Coalition is meant to raise awareness of the laws, risks,...
  • stoneham 2 hours ago

    Parents want answers after armed man arrested at Stoneham elementary school

    Concerned parents met at an elementary school in Stoneham, Massachusetts, Thursday night after police caught an armed man who was previously registered as a sex offender on school grounds. Parents say they weren’t notified about the incident until days after when their superintendent sent out an email. James McCarty was caught with two knives while...
  • mbta 14 hours ago

    MBTA approves low-income fare program, slashing prices for thousands of riders

    A big moment at the MBTA on Thursday as a plan for reduced fares for low-income riders was given unanimous approval from the control board. The action makes it so anyone earning 200% or less of the federal poverty level could see their price for riding the T slashed in half by summer. “It just means so much to me…

  • Harvard University 14 hours ago

    Harvard removes human skin from binding of old book

    Harvard Library said it pulled the human skin binding from its copy of “Des destinées de l’âme,” written by Arsène Houssaye in the 1880s.

  • Boston 16 hours ago

    Sutton magician sentenced on child pornography and illicit sexual conduct charges

    A Massachusetts magician has been sentenced to more than six years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of transporting child pornography and illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place. Scott Jameson, a 47-year-old Sutton man who has worked more than two decades as a magician, appeared in U.S. District Court in Boston Thursday. The office of a...
  • car crash 15 hours ago

    Woman seriously hurt at Legacy Place supermarket parking lot, police say

    A woman was seriously hurt in an accident involving a car at the Whole Foods parking lot at the Legacy Place shopping center in Dedham, Massachusetts, on Thursday, police said. The incident outside the supermarket was reported about 10:30 a.m., according to Dedham police. They didn’t share information on how the woman, a 71-year-old from Dorc...
  • 18 hours ago

    MIT scientists want to create a ‘Lyme Block' with proteins found in your sweat

    Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge are dreaming up a potential new way to help prevent a potentially debilitating tickborne illness, and the key to it all is right in our sweat. Researchers have discovered through years of study that a protein found in our sweat has antimicrobial properties, and can inhibit the gro...
  • boston restaurant talk 19 hours ago

    Growing chain of ramen restaurants based in NYC opening 2 locations in Greater Boston

    [This story first appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk.] A growing chain of ramen restaurants based in New York City is apparently opening not one, but two locations in the Greater Boston area, including one on its way to a space in the northern suburbs. According to a poster within the Friends of Boston’s Hidden Restaurants Facebook group page...
  • child sex abuse 18 hours ago

    Ex-Winthrop police lt. pleads not guilty to new child rape charges

    A former police lieutenant from Winthrop, Massachusetts, arrested in December on suspicion of raping a child at his home pleaded not guilty to new charges Thursday. Prosecutors shared some new information on the case against former Winthrop Police Lt. James Feeley in Suffolk Superior Court, and the timeline for the trial was set. Feeley was initial...
  • mbta 19 hours ago

    Price of new Red, Orange line trains balloons to over $1 billion

    A contract “reset” with the manufacturer of new Red and Orange Line trains would set the end of 2027 as the latest completion target for the maligned project, add up to $148 million in allowable costs, and forgive tens of millions of dollars more in penalties. After a year-long review of the T’s contract with CRRC, a team of advis...
  • 20 hours ago

    Boston police seek suspect in Roxbury bus stop stabbing

    Boston police are searching for a man suspected in a stabbing at a bus stop in the city’s Roxbury neighborhood on Wednesday. Investigators say they’re looking to identify the man pictured above after a stabbing at a bus stop near the Washington Park Mall at Warren Street and MLK Boulevard, just before 1 p.m. The man is described as......
  • 20 hours ago

    North End restaurants close to protest outdoor dining restrictions

    More than 20 restaurants in Boston’s North End will close for two hours Thursday afternoon as owners and employees brainstorm ways to fight a ban on outdoor dining specific to that section of the city. The 21 restaurant owners involved are part of a lawsuit against the city of Boston over the restrictions, which are unique to the North End&#8...
  • forecast 9 hours ago

    Rain continues Thursday ahead of a warmer, drier Easter weekend

    We’re back underneath downpours for the day, as a stalling weather system hangs around. So far, most of the rain has been lighter through the early morning hours, but we’ll expect downpours to become greater by the early afternoon. The rainfall rates aren’t too steep, so while there will be puddles on the road, widespread flooding...
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