August 4, 2020 Great white sharks spotted by Massachusetts police swimming off Cape Cod beach A beach on Cape Cod in Massachusetts was closed to swimmers over the weekend after two great white sharks were spotted near the shore.
August 4, 2020 Dangerous mosquito-borne EEE infects Massachusetts minor; case marks first of the season: officials One of the most dangerous mosquito-borne viruses in the nation has infected a Massachusetts resident for the first time this year.
August 4, 2020 SWAT team that caught Boston Marathon bomber disbanded The highly trained SWAT team hailed for capturing the Boston Marathon bomber in 2013 is set to be disbanded, and the city's former police commissioner expressed concern Tuesday about how it will affect counterterrorism.
August 3, 2020 'Grandfathering' to no longer be used due to 'racist origins', says Massachusetts appeal court A Massachusetts appeals court says the term “grandfathering” will no longer be used in its decisions, citing its origin in post-Civil War laws that prevented Blacks from exercising their right to vote.
August 1, 2020 Boston Marathon bombing survivors react after convict's death sentence overturned: ‘He needs to die’ Some of the survivors of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that left three people dead and hundreds more injured wasted little time Friday reacting to news that a federal appeals court had overturned convicted killer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence.
July 31, 2020 Andrew McCarthy: Court rejection of Boston bomber’s death sentence seems based on hostility to death penalty It appears that the ruling has at least as much to do with judicial hostility to capital punishment as to concerns about the due process implications of intense media coverage.
July 31, 2020 Federal appeals court vacates Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence A federal appeals court has vacated the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, based on the opinion that the judge in the case did not vet the jury property, with regard to possible bias stemming from pretrial publicity.
July 28, 2020 Coronavirus outbreak at Massachusetts hospital, CEO ‘deeply disappointed’ A coronavirus outbreak cropped up at a Massachusetts hospital after an employee traveled to a virus hot spot, officials said.
July 24, 2020 Red Sox flip flop on governor's first pitch ahead opening day game against Orioles Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker will be throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day for the Boston Red Sox. Wait, no, he's not. Actually, yes, he is.
July 24, 2020 Biden leads Trump in polls, but Mike Huckabee says 'key turning point' is coming The 2020 presidential debates will be a "key turning point" in the race for commander-in-chief, former Arkansas Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee stated Friday.