Category: Boston Local

EASTON — Experience paid off for Sarah Hilliard on Friday night. The senior collected nine points and 11 rebounds, as fifth-seeded Oliver Ames knocked off No. 13 Whitman-Hanson in front of a sellout home crowd to advance to the Div. 2 girls basketball semifinals with a thrilling 33-32 victory. “I’ve been here a long time,”…

WELLESLEY – After a slow start, Catholic Memorial used a dominant second quarter to stretch its lead thanks to solid defense and the ability of 6-foot-3 freshman Josiah Adamson. The two-seeded Knights put it all together to put away No. 10 Lawrence, 71-56, in the Division 1 quarterfinals at Babson College on Friday. It is…

FOXBORO — The Foxboro girls basketball team is tough enough to stop when the Warriors are having a so-so night. But when Foxboro is sharing the ball as well as it did Friday night against Pentucket, good luck, because the Warriors are darn near unbeatable. In a dominant effort, top-seeded Foxboro earned a 78-48 win…

Women across Latin America are bathing their city streets in purple on Friday in commemoration of International Women’s Day at a time when advocates for gender rights in the region are witnessing both historic steps forward and massive setbacks. Following decades of activism and campaigning by feminist groups, access to things like abortion has rapidly expanded in…

A man faces decades in prison after being found guilty in the shooting death of another man last year outside a bar in Manchester, New Hampshire. The killing of 24-year-old Timothy Pouliot on Jan. 29, 2023, outside The Goat Bar and Grill was caught on camera. In December, a Hillsborough County Superior Court jury convicted…

The state’s black bear population is healthy and thriving according to wildlife experts. “We’re kind of still experiencing the long-term expansion of our bear population from our remnant population in the Berkshires that has slowly grown and expanded to much of the state now,” said Dave Wattles of MassWildlife. Gov. Maura Healey was in western…

A new initiative in a Lowell, Massachusetts, middle school hopes to not only address the needs of their most vulnerable community but to also teach them important life skills. Butler Middle School is now offering a student-run laundromat service inside their campus. It’s a project created by the students for students. Complete with a washer…

Police shot and killed a man Friday evening in Rochester, New Hampshire, authorities said. The office of New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella announced that the police shooting occurred in a wooded area off Gooseberry Circle. Details were limited, but authorities said a man was fatally wounded. No officers were injured, according to Formella’s office….

The Senate on Friday approved a $460 billion package of spending bills in time to meet a midnight deadline for avoiding a shutdown of many key federal agencies, a vote that gets lawmakers about halfway home in wrapping up their appropriations work for the 2024 budget year. The measure contains six annual spending bills and has…

Massachusetts’ highest court is taking up a tricky legal case that could impact any pet owner. The Supreme Judicial Court is considering whether or not failing to put down a dying pet should be a crime. The case centers around a woman from Weymouth and her 14-year-old dog, Tipper. Mary Ann Russo said she took…

For a casket company, loss is part of the business. But losing an hour of sleep, like many will this weekend, creates an undying anger. Titan Casket, based in Methuen, Massachusetts, is doing something about it. In a now-viral ad, the company is pushing people to join the fight to end daylight saving time. “At…

Update: Yes, it is a bit early for baby ducks. The duck was an adult female hooded merganser. David Yamada took a screen capture of a Green Line delay message at 9:36 a.m. today: Make way for ducklings! I am happy to deal with that service delay. The duck. Source link

My wife has worked in higher ed for many years, largely with Title IX and campus safety/harassment issues, and passes this along: Criminal charges are not in the power of the university, even the university police. Under TIX and MA State law, the school cannot intervene in any sort of criminal case. Whoever the reporter/complainants…

Two MIT students and a pro-Israel group from California yesterday sued MIT on charges it has allowed protests over the Israeli war in Gaza to blossom into full-blown anti-Semitic threats against Jewish students and professors. In their suit, filed in US District Court in Boston, StandWithUs and the two students allege that by not doing…

The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld a Brookline ordinance that permanently bars the sale of cigarettes to anybody born in the 21st century. The owners of several gas stations and convenience stores in Brookline had sued over the ordinance, passed by Town Meeting in 2020, saying it conflicted with the state’s own tobacco law, which…

The MBTA and MassDOT said today they want to extend the Silver Line 3, which now terminates in Chelsea, to neighboring Everett and then to the Sullivan Square T stop – where riders will be able to ride a new breed of “high frequency buses” to Kendall Square. MBTA planners say the extension would particularly…

Alejandra Salcido, a server at Vinoteca Di Monica in the bustling North End, is constantly on the move. Salcido has served at the popular Italian eatery for three years to help her afford higher education. She looks forward to the warmer months, but often reminisces about her first summer at the restaurant. “It is a…

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By FRANK BAJAK (AP Technology Writer) BOSTON (AP) — Microsoft said Friday it’s still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email accounts of senior company executives in November and who it said have been trying to breach customer networks with stolen access data. The hackers from Russia’s SVR foreign…