A powerful nor’easter, marked by surging seas and battering winds, toppled power lines and flooded parts of Boston and other coastal communities in Massachusetts on Friday, the second time this year low-lying sections of the state’s coast have been inundated. The scenes were dramatic: The ocean crashed over the decks of luxury waterfront condos in […]
The Arctic Comes to Massachusetts: Ocean Bay Freezes Over for Just Third Time in 80 Years…
Because of This Lab Employee, At Least 8,000 Drug Convictions in Massachusetts Are Likely to Be Tossed…
Massachusetts authorities will toss out more than 8,000 convictions that are tainted because a chemist at the state lab was high on drugs she was supposed to be testing almost every day she went to work, authorities said on Friday. The announcements by various district attorneys’ offices came after the American Civil Liberties Union and […]
Checkout This Massive Christmas Tree On Roof of a Mazda…
Ah, the holidays. A time of peace, togetherness, understanding—and above all, making really bad decisions like strapping a Rockefeller Center-sized Christmas tree to the roof of the family car and heading out on the road. Police in Sudbury, Massachusetts stopped this Mazda5 after somehow spotting it underneath the needles and branches of what looks like […]
Warren Takes Early Salvo from GOP Hopeful: ‘A Real Indian Can Defeat a Fake Indian’…Ouch!!!…
Entrepreneur Shiva Ayyadurai has thrown down a rhetorical gauntlet to critics of his plan to unseat Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2018: “Only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian.” Fox Business Network invited Cambridge’s start-up king on air Wednesday to discuss his realization of the American dream as an immigrant in 1970. Mr. […]
‘Stunning’ Drug Lab Scandal Could Overturn 23,000 Convictions…
In the annals of wrongful convictions, there is nothing that comes close in size to the epic drug-lab scandal that is entering its dramatic final act in Massachusetts. About 23,000 people convicted of low-level drug crimes are expected to have their cases wiped away next month en masse, the result of a five-year court fight […]
Agents Seize Approximately $20 Million Hidden in a Bed and Arrest Brazilian National in Scheme to Launder TelexFree Funds…
Approximately $20 million in cash hidden inside a box spring in a Westborough, Mass. apartment, was seized late yesterday, and a Brazilian man was arrested in connection with conspiring to launder proceeds of the massive TelexFree pyramid scheme.
UPDATE: Following ‘torrent of calls, emails and protests’ Hampshire College Raises American Flag…
Three weeks after Hampshire College removed the American flag from campus, the Stars and Stripes was raised again on Friday morning at the liberal arts school in Amherst. The flag’s return comes after a torrent of calls, e-mails, and protests from people angered by its removal eight days after it was set on fire in […]
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