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Field hospital discharges last patients; prisoners tested
BOSTON (AP) — Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said Thursday that the city is continuing to make progress against the coronavirus. On Thursday, Walsh said the last patients were discharged from Boston Hope, the field hospital set up inside the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center to help hospitals cope with an...
As nation confronts old demons, a 1770 slaying is recalled
BOSTON (AP) — Like George Floyd, he was black, in his mid-40s, and died at the hands of a white man. And like Floyd, he may have helped touch off a revolution. Many in the Black Lives Matter movement are invoking Crispus Attucks — an African American gunned down by a British soldier in the Boston...
Police: 82-year-old man holding Trump sign assaulted
FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — An 82-year-old veteran holding a Donald Trump sign was pushed to the ground and kicked in the ribs and legs by a man who first ripped the sign from his hands and tore it in half, police in Massachusetts said. Aidan Courtright, 27, of Fall River, is charged with committing a civil...
Boston man charged with shooting at police held without bail
BOSTON (AP) — A Boston man facing 21 counts of attempted murder for allegedly opening fire on police during the violence in the city early Monday morning has been ruled a danger to society by a judge and held for four months without bail, prosecutors said. John Boampong, 37, of the city's Dorchester...
Authorities release names of victims in Amherst crash
AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Authorities have released the names of two men who died in a head-on crash in Amherst earlier this week. The driver, Euclides Almeida, 42, and his passenger, Ailton Correia, 28, both of Amherst, died when the car they were in collided head-on with a minivan at about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday,...
Protesters on Boston Common meet to reject police brutality
BOSTON (AP) — Protesters gathered on Boston Common on Wednesday to again denounce police brutality against people of color, as authorities mopped up after violent demonstrations overnight in a restive suburb. Black Lives Matter called for more peaceful protesting aimed at ending white-on-black brutality...
Camps, child care centers could start reopening on Monday
BOSTON (AP) — The next phase in getting Massachusetts back in business, including reopening child care centers, could start as soon as Monday if downward trends in the coronavirus pandemic continue, Gov. Charlie Baker said. The official announcement on Phase 2 of the reopening plan will come Saturday,...
Oil spill settlement money to aid in loon restoration
HADLEY, Mass. (AP) — Federal and state environmental agencies are spending more than $8 million from a legal settlement stemming from a 2003 oil spill to help restore the common loon to some areas of Massachusetts, and to support existing populations of the birds across New England and New York, federal...
2 men die, 1 injured, in head-on crash in Amherst
AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Two men have died in a head-on crash involving a car and a minivan in Amherst, authorities say. The vehicles collided at about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, according to a statement Wednesday from the Northwestern district attorney's office. According to the preliminary investigation, the...
New England Episcopal bishops condemn Trump's church visit
BOSTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's visit to St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington this week has been condemned by nine Episcopal bishops from New England as “disgraceful and morally repugnant.” Trump visited the cathedral Monday after law enforcement cleared the area of protesters...
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