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Stephen Colbert Is Ushered Out Of Harvard Talk As Hundreds Of Student Protesters Scream And Pull Fire Alarm
Stephen Colbert and cellist Yo-Yo Ma had their Harvard University event abruptly canceled Thursday after a fire alarm was pulled about 40 minutes into the program. Outside, hundreds of graduate student union protesters were shouting and chanting, protesting the university’s labor practices and criticizing the two for crossing their picket line. The fire department and Harvard determined there was no reason for the alarm, and the union denied having anything to do with it. The protesters say they're fighting for better pay, safe working conditions and protections for roughly 4,000 graduate workers. Colbert and Ma have not publicly commented.
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Man’s Body Pulled From Mill River in Rowley, Second Found in Newbury Hours Later
A man’s body was pulled from the Mill River near Red Gate Road in Rowley just after noon on Sunday, setting off an investigation that was still active as of Sunday night. Hours later, a second man’s body turned up roughly 2 p.m. in neighboring Newbury, near the Tendercrop Farm cow pasture, though investigators say the two deaths appear to be unrelated.
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81-year-old woman trapped under car for hours in pouring rain before husband finds her
HINGHAM, Mass. (WHDH) - Firefighters rescued an 81-year-old Massachusetts woman who spent four hours trapped under her car in the pouring rain. Norman Wilbur says he knew something was wrong seconds after a cab dropped him off Friday night at his Hingham home. It turned out his wife, 81-year-old Peggy Wilbur, had gotten trapped underneath her car.
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Boston’s famous reject has died
The death has been made known of Danny Katzen, a hornist who is said to have auditioned 48 times for the second horn position in the Boston Symphony Orchestra before finally being given the job. Danny entered the orchestra in 1979 and played for 29 years, retiring in 2008. He performed in Leonard Bernstein’s final lifetime concert at Tanglewood and can also be heard on most of the Boston Pops’ celebrated recordings, as well as on the John Williams soundtrack of Schindler’s List.
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She saw her son's killer, sentenced to life with no parole, at the grocery store
When Janette Jackson of Dorchester saw her son’s convicted killer at her neighborhood grocery store, it stunned her. Then it snapped her into action. “When I saw him at Stop & Shop, I'm like, 'Oh my God, that's him,'” Jackson said. “And he just dashed right out when I saw him.”
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Salem Halloween Festivities Drive Record Ridership on MBTA Newburyport/Rockport Line
October was a frightfully good month for the MBTA's Newburyport/Rockport commuter rail line. The line posted a ridership record, surpassing 580,000 trips as Salem's Haunted Happenings and Halloween crowds drove a surge in travel. Salem Station accounted for approximately 50,000 passengers on Halloween, according to Keolis, the commuter rail's operator,...