Boston becomes first city to launch fund for families of drug overdose victims
The fund culminates more than a year of planning and community meetings over how to spend money from opioid legal settlements ...
How drug overdose deaths have plagued one generation of Black men for decades
Young Black men in cities across America died of drug overdoses at high rates in the 1980s and 1990s. During the recent fentanyl crisis, older Black men in many cities have been dying at unusually ...
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Assessing the state of readiness for Boston to blunt the ravages of the monster storm
When Hurricane Sandy struck New York City on Oct. 29, 2012, meteorologists determined that Boston had dodged a bullet because when the storm reached here, it had missed high tide by five and a half ...
‘Significant decrease’ in overdose deaths in Boston during part of 2024, health officials say
New data shows a “significant decrease” in opioid-related overdose deaths from May to August 2024 when compared to the same ...
Conan O'Brien Is Taking It 'a Day at a Time' After Parents’ Deaths, L.A. Fires as He Prepares to Host Oscars (Exclusive)
Conan O'Brien shares with PEOPLE how he's preparing for the 2025 Oscars following a tough period in which he lost both of his ...
250 volunteers canvas Boston neighborhoods, parks for homelessness census
The results, which will be available soon, will likely show a rise in homelessness, similar to last year's 10 percent ...
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Authorities ramp up efforts to protect sea turtles as deaths on India's shores continue to mount
It’s the biggest number of sea turtle deaths since 2014, when over 900 olive ridley turtles were found dead on India’s southern shores. Fishers in the city say that rough winds and turbulent ...
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Eighty years after Auschwitz liberation, a Canadian Holocaust survivor returns and recalls the stroke of luck that saved her life
Her father had been a shopkeeper in their hometown of Radom, Poland, and the family enjoyed a prominent position in town. When the invading ... number,” she told The Globe and Mail, the faded ...
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Earthquake felt in Boston today was centered off Maine
We're getting calls from all over town about an explosion ... producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle.
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Leicester City helicopter crash deaths accidental, inquest jury concludes
A statue of former Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha (Joe Giddens/PA) The jury of 11 people, who heard evidence over two weeks, concluded on Tuesday that the deaths were accidental.
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His work has also regularly appeared in The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun ... What Boston cares about right now: Boston.com is the city's leading source for breaking updates on news, sports ...
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Jury retires in inquest into deaths of five people in Leicester helicopter crash
A jury has retired to begin its deliberations in the inquests into the deaths of the former Leicester City owner and four others who were killed in a helicopter crash outside the King Power ...