W.E.B. Du Bois, American sociologist, author, activist and co-founder of the NAACP, died on this day in history on Aug. 27, 1963, in Accra, Ghana at age 95. “He was an activist who was the most important Black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century,” noted Britannica.com. The...
Massachusetts Republicans have submitted a formal request with the state’s government for information on the alleged “$1 billion in secret migrant crisis spending” as the Bay State grapples with the migrant crisis. In a release from the state’s Republican Party, MassGOP, the group demanded that Gov. Maura Healey’s administration provides a detailed cost breakdown of...
The family of a Massachusetts man found dead beneath a house in Hilton Head, South Carolina, after he disappeared from a family vacation is speaking out. Stanley Kotowski, 60, was apparently suffering from insomnia and anxiety when he left his family’s Hilton Head vacation rental and wandered off on the morning of Aug. 16. He...
Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman who was accused of killing her police officer boyfriend with a vehicle in January 2022, faces a wrongful death lawsuit filed against her on Monday by the family of the victim. Paul O’Keefe, the brother of late Boston Police officer John O’Keefe, filed the lawsuit on behalf of the O’Keefe...
A fleet of 25 fishing boats off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, rallied together on Sunday to protest Vineyard Wind, an offshore wind turbine project under scrutiny after a turbine blade broke off, sending shards of sharp fiberglass into the ocean. “Vineyard Wind is a menace to our fisheries,” Jerry Leeman, CEO of the New...
Parents of over 100 students in a suburban Boston school district are left to find ways to get their children to class after lack of funding and shortages led to a lack of bus service outside of grades K-6. Local mom Ashley Francois is one of those parents. After her license was indefinitely suspended for...
Parents and students of a school district outside of Boston were informed last week that they would be without school bus service, citing a lack of funding and a shortage of buses. The 150 students at Stoughton Public Schools will have to find a new way to get to school ahead of the academic year’s...
A Massachusetts man is missing after he vanished from a family vacation in Hilton Head, South Carolina. The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) on Thursday said authorities are still looking for Stanley Kotowski, 60, of Methuen, Massachusetts, who was last seen leaving S. Sea Pines Drive around 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 16. “Over the last...
A 12-year-old boy from Weston, Massachusetts, reeled in a massive white marlin off the coast of Nantucket on Aug. 16. Stone Fornes caught the 118.2-pound fish, potentially breaking a junior world record, while fishing with angler Elliot Sudal. The current record for a white marlin is 102 pounds, which was caught off Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts,...
When it comes to ideas about healthy eating, there are all sorts of rules, trends and advice about what’s good for you and what isn’t. Some of the guidance may be legitimate — yet some of it should be taken with a grain of salt. Multiple experts and researchers from Mass General Brigham in Boston...
