Tag: Massachusetts
For Native Americans, Harvard and other colleges fall short
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When Samantha Maltais steps onto Harvard’s campus this fall, she’ll become the first member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe to attend...
2 months in prison for dad who paid $40K in ACT cheat scheme
BOSTON — The founder of a private equity firm who paid $40,000 to have someone secretly correct his daughter's ACT exam answers was sentenced...
AP Sportlight
May 28
1901 — Parader, ridden by Fred Landry, overcomes a...
Sandoval has 3 hits in return to Boston, Braves win 3-1
BOSTON — Pablo Sandoval had three hits in his first game at Fenway Park since his disastrous tenure with the Red Sox, and Charlie...
Boston’s MLK memorial cleared by city Landmarks Commission
BOSTON — A memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King planned for the Boston Common has received unanimous approval from...
Accepting award, Romney faults extremes of political divide
BOSTON — U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney faulted those on both extremes of the nation’s political divide Wednesday as he accepted the John F. Kennedy...
AP Sportlight
May 26
1925 — In Detroit’s 8-1 win over the Chicago...
Embattled Boston top cop loses court bid to block firing
BOSTON — A judge ruled Tuesday against Boston's embattled police commissioner in his bid to block the city from firing him over decades-old domestic...
On a mission to heal after exposing her dad to deadly virus
SHARON, Mass. — For a year, Michelle Pepe awoke every day, recited the Kaddish, the mourner’s prayer, and kissed a photo of her father....
A little city, battered by the virus, tells its stories
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. — The beleaguered people of Central Falls moved quickly through the high school gym’s injection stations and then to rest on...