Mary Jo Kopechne, 28 years old and a respected political operative, was found dead in the overturned car of Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., in a tidal pond near Chappaquiddick Island on this day in history, July 19, 1969. Known as the “Chappaquiddick incident,” the drowning death of Kopechne and the chain of events before and...
Barstool Sports President and CEO Dave Portnoy is speaking out after an offshore windmill blade snapped and sent nonbiodegradable fiberglass shards into the water, washing up on Nantucket shores and forcing the town to close its beaches. On Tuesday, the Nantucket harbormaster announced that six of the Massachusetts town’s beaches would be temporarily closed after...
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy had to be rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard in Nantucket on Monday after he said he was almost “lost to the ocean.” Speaking to the nearly 4 million followers he has on the social media platform TikTok, Portnoy explained that he was taking his mom out on his boat...
A lucrative life insurance policy intended for a couple’s teenage daughter was switched days before her dad executed his family in a murder-suicide, the Boston Globe reported. In the event of Teena Kamal’s death, her husband, Rakesh “Rick” Kamal, would inherit $1.25 million, and their 18-year-old, Arianna, was the contingent. On Dec. 24, the policy...
Archaeologists working at Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord, Massachusetts, unearthed a piece of American history tied to the “shot heard round the world.” Five musket balls were discovered and believed to be fired at British forces by colonial militia members during the North Bridge fight, Jarrad Fuoss, Minute Man park ranger and historic...
A new mother showed her newborn how to be a hero. Frances Lonergan soaked up the Cape Cod sun on Dowses Beach in Osterville, Massachusetts, during a family vacation when a man’s desperate cries for help snapped the serene scene. “The victim, unfamiliar with the abrupt drop-off and strong current in the channel, had begun...
Dozens of migrants sleeping on the floors of Boston’s Logan International Airport will be forced to leave by the end of the day as a new state rule banning the practice goes into effect. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey announced last month that migrants had until July 9 to leave the airport and that they would...
Lawyers for the suspected Boston cop killer Karen Read said Monday that jurors in her trial over the death of John O’Keefe had an “agreement” to find her not guilty before the judge declared a mistrial. They raised the issue in a motion to dismiss second-degree murder charges and leaving the scene of an accident,...
