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News Articles: Boston

FBI agents and members of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command handcuffed and interrogated the wrong person during a training exercise at a Boston hotel on Tuesday.

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  • National

Feds barged into the wrong hotel room during a drill, then detained the guest inside

U.S. Army Special Operations Command and the FBI-Boston Division interrogated the wrong person during a training exercise on Tuesday: an airline pilot who was asleep at the time, per local media.

April 06, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
A United Airlines jetliner taxis to a runway for take off from Denver International Airport, Dec. 27, 2022.

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  • National

A man allegedly stabbed a flight attendant, tampered with the plane on a Boston trip

The suspect was arrested at the Boston Logan International Airport after allegedly tampering with a side door and the emergency slide, and later allegedly lunged at a flight attendant.

March 07, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
The Embrace, the new memorial sculpture in Boston made in tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, was unveiled on Friday.

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  • Arts & Life

New MLK statue in Boston is greeted with a mix of open arms, consternation and laughs

A new public art monument dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King was unveiled Friday. It immediately drew consternation and jeers as well as plaudits.

January 17, 2023
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
A Boston Police Crime Scene Response vehicle is parked on the street outside an apartment building where infant and other human remains were discovered by authorities.

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  • National

Police find the remains of 4 infants inside a Boston apartment

Police say they discovered "what appeared to be a human fetus or infant" and additional remains at an apartment in South Boston. An autopsy has revealed four infants: two female and two male.

November 29, 2022
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  • Emily Olson
Police and emergency personnel respond the scene of an explosion in Boston on Tuesday. A package exploded on the campus of Northeastern University and the college said a staff member suffered minor injuries.

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  • National

The explosion at Northeastern University may have been staged, officials say

Federal officials are examining whether the employee who reported an explosion at Northeastern University may have lied to investigators and staged the incident, law enforcement officials said.

September 14, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
President Joe Biden speaks on the cancer moonshot initiative at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston on Sept. 12.

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  • Politics

Biden touts his 'cancer moonshot' on the anniversary of JFK's 'man on the moon' speech

Biden announced many of what he calls "cancer moonshot" goals in February. On Monday he laid out some updates in a speech that marked 60 years since Kennedy gave his iconic moonshot speech.

September 12, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram
An artist's rendering of "The Embrace," a memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that will be unveiled in Boston in 2023.

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  • National

Boston breaks ground on a Martin Luther King memorial of its own

More than seven decades after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. lived, studied and preached in Boston, the city will soon have a memorial honoring him and Coretta Scott King, who met each other there.

April 28, 2022
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  • Tovia Smith
A man shovels snow in near whiteout conditions during a nor'easter in Marshfield, Mass., on Saturday.

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A winter storm piles snow and causes dangerous conditions along the East Coast

A bomb cyclone is storming the East Coast, leaving close to 100,000 without power as of Sunday night Blizzard conditions in New England are dropping 2 feet of snow in some areas.

January 30, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram
A photo of Tony Tsantinis hangs in a collage set up for a celebration of his life on the final day that Athens Pizza in Brimfield, Mass., was open for business. Tsantinis, who owned the pizzeria for many years, died of COVID-19 last month when efforts to find space at a hospital that could offer him a higher level of care could not be found.

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  • Health Care

17 hospitals had no room for this COVID patient. He later died waiting for dialysis

A beloved pizzeria owner in Brimfield, Mass., had COVID-19 and needed dialysis, but it wasn't available at the hospital where he died. The health system is "breaking down," a hospital CEO says.

January 19, 2022
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  • Martha Bebinger
Democrat Eric Adams, Brooklyn borough president, won in a landslide victory on Tuesday to become New York City's second Black mayor.

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  • Elections

Eric Adams is elected as New York City's second Black mayor

Democrat Eric Adams' job now is to lead NYC out of the effects of the pandemic, historic job losses, skyrocketing housing prices, and a broke transportation system.

November 03, 2021
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  • Vanessa Romo
A Boston EMS ambulance crew wheels in a patient to MGH from their ambulance in Boston on April 8, 2020. Hospitals brace for a surge in patients.

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  • National

Why Young, Healthy Researchers Are Being Vaccinated Before Seniors In Massachusetts

The state is a medical hub with giant hospitals and a huge healthcare workforce. Young adults who work in that field are getting the COVID-19 vaccine while at-risk seniors wait on the sidelines.

January 29, 2021
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  • Gabrielle Emanuel
Cornwall's Tavern's owners Pam and John Beale are in survival mode. They're thinking a short-term pause in business, as COVID-19 infections surge, could allow them to reopen strong next year.

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  • National

'Not A Lot To Celebrate' For Boston Restaurant Trying To Survive The Pandemic

Instead of banning indoor dining due to COVID-19, Massachusetts is squeezing restaurants with ever-tightening restrictions. At Cornwall's Tavern, it becomes a question of whether to take a break.

December 17, 2020
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  • Tovia Smith
Lauren Moran, a pastry chef who owns a bakery and café, taste-tests Cornwall's new coffee drinks with her husband, Cornwall's general manager Billy Moran (left), and Speedwell Coffee Co. owner Derek Anderson.

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  • National

Boston Tavern Pivots To 'Plan B' To Try To Survive The Pandemic

Cornwall's has been a Kenmore Square mainstay for more than four decades. Now it's preparing to reopen — and to reinvent itself for survival during the pandemic.

July 10, 2020
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  • Tovia Smith
Authors, Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes pictured with service dog, Rescue.

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  • Books

Boston Marathon Bombing Survivors Pen Children's Book About Service Dog

Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes were newlyweds and spectators at the annual Boston Marathon April 15, 2013. They were at the finish line, cheering on...

February 06, 2019
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  • Virginia Prescott and
  • La'Raven Taylor

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