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Deep in the heart of Maine exists a decades-old Twinkie, all part of an experiment started by a now-retired teacher. Back in 1976, Roger Bennatti, a science teacher at George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill, Maine, opened up a Twinkie as part of a lesson about food additives and preservatives. The goal was to find out how long a Twinkie...

George H.W. Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, and had strong ties to New England, including attending Phillips Academy in Andover. It was at the Massachusetts preparatory school that his life of leadership began 70 years ago. Bush was president in 1989 when he spoke at the Bicentennial celebration of his high school alma mater. He told those assembled that...

Head of school, John Palfrey, says Bush is well remembered as a dynamic, gentle and successful student.

An empty shell casing was found in a Granite Academy classroom in Braintree, Massachusetts on Thursday.

A Massachusetts student was arrested Sunday for making a threat to Lowell High School.

It’s unclear what kind of threat was made but we do know it was on Facebook Sunday.

Burke Mountain Academy students are closely watching the alumna’s races in Pyeongchang.

Thursday night, a mogul skier from Maine made it one step closer to an Olympic medal.

A mogul skier from Maine has made it one step closer to an Olympic medal.

Students are returning to a Massachusetts high school on Monday, after heating issues shut down the building last week.

Students are returning to a Massachusetts high school on Monday after heating issues shut down the building last week.

A Connecticut prep school has retained a lawyer to conduct an independent review following in the wake of a Massachusetts student’s suicide earlier this month.

A prosecutor in Massachusetts is investigating the suicide of a 15-year-old boy whose parents wrote in his obituary that he killed himself “after struggling with bullying from peers.”

Five teen girls at Vermont’s Thetford Academy told police 16-year-old classmate Connor Tatro sexually assaulted them at various points over the last year and a half — in out-of-the-way places on the campus of this historic independent school that provides the area’s public education.

A prestigious Massachusetts boarding school says an investigation has found that two more former faculty members engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with students.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh established the Vision Zero task force in 2015 with the goal of zero pedestrian deaths by 2030 and while city planners call their work thus far a success, critics claim the task force isn’t properly staffed or funded and the death toll keeps rising.