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Man dies after canoe with child passengers capsizes in Halifax
HALIFAX, MASS. (WHDH) - Authorities are investigating after a man died in an apparent drowning in Halifax on Sunday after the boat he was in capsized, officials said. Crews responding to a report of a capsized canoe with several people in the water around 11 a.m. determined one adult and two children had exited the water safely and a second adult was missing below the water’s surface, according to Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz.
Car with no driver, two children inside rolls onto occupied soccer field in Cohasset
Only minor injuries were reported and nobody was taken to the hospital, police said. Two children sustained minor injuries Saturday when a car they were in rolled out of a parking space and, driverless, careened through a soccer field where kindergarten-aged children were playing sports. The incident occurred at about...
Hanson's payroll: Who made the most money in 2023
HANSON – Nine of the town's 10 highest-paid employees last year were police officers or firefighters. In the calendar year 2023, Fire Chief Robert O'Brien and Police Chief Michael Miksch topped the list of highest earners, at $184,505 and $178,148 respectively, according to a list of salaries obtained by The Patriot Ledger. In total, the town paid about $9.2 million in salaries in 2023. ...
Barstool’s Dave Portnoy Says These Two New England Cities Are Amongst the Best Pizza Cities in America
At this point, Dave Portnoy for president. I mean, Miss Peaches has humanized this man so much that it's making me want to believe literally anything he says, including that these two New England cities (according to him), are amongst the top five in the world. In a TikTok Barstool...
Cloudy Mother's Day afternoon before it clears overnight
Happy Mother’s Day! An upper-level system will bring a lot of clouds to the region today with showers mostly confined to western areas through this evening. Expecting much of the region to be on the dry side with a brightening sky at times, but with instability in the atmosphere, a few pop-up showers and sprinkles can’t be ruled out.
‘This is for you’: Band born behind bars makes first headline performance in Dorchester
Jabir Pope and his R&B oldies band the OG’s headlined their first event Friday at the William E. Read Auditorium in Dorchester – roughly 7 years after he was released from prison, wrongfully accused of a 1984 murder.
Body found in car at Allston tow lot
Police are investigating the death of a person found inside a car Friday. A person was found dead in a car that had been towed from the T.J. Maxx parking lot on Harvard Street in Brookline, according to WCVB. This discovery was made around 8:20 a.m. at D&G Towing in...
Local photographer taking photos of thousands of anonymous faces
BOSTON (WHDH) - A local photographer has launched an ambitious project. He’s taking the picture of thousands of people, many in Boston, in the hopes of impacting more than the people he photographs. In a sea of faces, Gregory Scott Katsoulis sees thousands of individual stories. “When I first...
Guster plays to a packed crowd at Somerville Porchfest
Guster, a Boston alternative rock group, played a free show at Somerville’s annual outdoor music festival, Porchfest. Somerville Porchfest celebrated a hometown hero with intensely packed crowds this weekend. Guster, a Boston alternative rock group known for songs such as “Satellite” and “Amsterdam,” played a free show at Somerville’s...
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