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In 2014, bestselling author Brad Meltzer and illustrator Christopher Eliopoulos published the first book in their “Ordinary People Change the World” series, “I Am Amelia Earhart.”

With the Massachusetts gubernatorial election just one month away, Republican nominee Mike Minogue said that if he’s elected, he will work to increase affordability and limit immigration crackdowns to violent criminals.On GBH’s Boston Public Radio Friday,…

The controversial third-country deportation policy from the Trump administration has impacted Massachusetts detainees, including several of the original plaintiffs in the federal case against it.

Nearly 4,000 nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital plan to start their open-ended strike on Wednesday, Oct. 14 unless a contract deal is reached with Mass General Brigham leadership, their union announced.The Massachusetts Nurses Association said it subm…

🌥️Partly sunny and very warm, with highs in the 80s.

House Ways and Means Chairman Aaron Michlewitz remained noncommittal Thursday when asked whether he supports Gov.

When a person has dementia, their senses can be compromised, which can be dangerous in an emergency situation.

Six Massachusetts music teachers are among 25 semi-finalists for the Music Educator Award by the Recording Academy and Grammy Museum.

🌤️Warm, with fewer clouds and highs in the 70s.

As Game 1 of the AL Wild Card series got underway, there was plenty for Red Sox fans to be happy about.After a start to the season full of weeping, mourning and gnashing of teeth, the Sox fired Alex Cora in April.

Quoting his father’s views about medical injustice, Martin Luther King III on Wednesday cautioned that the state’s decisions to stop covering GLP-1 drugs for weight loss across two major insurance programs could fuel deeper healthcare disparities.

Twenty-three years after the 2003 U.S.

After two private colleges announced they were shuttering at the tail end of the last academic year, higher education officials are planning to require earlier notice for institutions that are at risk of closing.Noe Ortega, commissioner of the Department…

Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell released a report Wednesday finding that nearly 1,000 children in recent decades were abused by more than 270 clerics within the dioceses of Fall River, Springfield and Worcester.

🌤️Partly sunny and warmer, with highs around 70.

New details regarding a car crash that involved a Worcester city councilor are leading to more questions about why police officers who responded to the incident didn’t offer the councilor sobriety tests.City Councilor Kathleen Toomey sideswiped a parked c…

Six months after a girls’ high school basketball team in Worcester faced a wave of online racist attacks, the city’s schools are pushing back vocally and vowing to protect their student-athletes from future incidents of bullying or harassment in sports.

Public defenders in Massachusetts have argued for years about the right to unionize through the state Legislature.

The union representing thousands of U.S.

On Monday, Joshua Gomes went about business as usual.

Bicyclist Matthew Morin lived in Somerville and Jamaica Plain before moving to Lynn, and says it’s “much more dangerous” to cycle in his current city than either of his previous homes.

Boston College and Northeastern University have been given failing grades for free speech, according to the latest annual survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, which ranks student perceptions of free speech on more than…

☁️Cloudy but no longer rainy, with highs in the 60s.

Lindsay Clancy is set to return to court Tuesday for a hearing that could help decide whether she will face a second trial in the killings of her three children.It will be Clancy’s first return to the courthouse since her first trial ended Sept. 4 with a…

Two Lawrence city councilors say they expect a recall election for Mayor Brian DePeña after a state grand jury last week returned a 15-count indictment against him on charges related to the use and distribution of surveillance footage at City Hall.But nei…

The nor’easter this weekend knocked out power for thousands and flooded some coastal areas — but the rain also brought some relief to Massachusetts’ rivers, ponds and groundwater supply.

Over the course of nine seasons together, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown became the faces of the Boston Celtics organization.But after the C’s traded Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers over the summer, Tatum will be without his long-time co-pilot on the same…

For some folks it was a beautiful sunrise across the area but the clouds are definitely going to win out today as slow pressure continues to develop and eventually heads into the mid-Atlantic coastline over the weekend.On this particular track, we will be…

🚩Nor’easter alert through the weekend.

Three undocumented brothers who shared an apartment in New Bedford went to a Market Basket on Monday, doing their usual grocery pick-up for themselves, and a separate one for their brother, sister-in-law and baby niece.Maria, their sister-in-law, was at w…

Ed Sheeran’s tour will honor customers’ refund requests for this weekend’s concerts at Gillette Stadium, Attorney General Andrea Campbell said.

About 4,000 nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston are voting Thursday on whether to authorize a strike.

As Massachusetts students return to classrooms and college campuses, the state is seeing a slight uptick in cases of COVID-19.

🌤️Mostly sunny and autumnal, with highs in the 60s.

Last spring, Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave his first take-home midterm in his course, ECON 1170: “Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory.”Sitting in his office in Providence, Rhode Island, this summer, he recalled how he im…

We are in the midst of some beautiful weather this week, with sunshine and seasonable temperatures in the mid-60s.

Democrats in Maine are accusing Republican Sen.

More than 60 attendees came out to an all-day conference on climate change in Salem on Wednesday, where speakers took a hopeful tone but warned of the speed at which changes are coming.Salem State University professor Stephen Young told attendees that cli…

Consumers can expect one thing when it comes to heating oil prices this winter: Volatility.

East Taunton resident John Mariani has cerebral palsy and uses a power wheelchair.

East Taunton resident John Mariani has cerebral palsy and uses a power wheelchair.

Worcester city councilors on Tuesday rejected a controversial municipal plan to fine homeless people for sleeping outside on public property, with some councilors saying the city needs to “have a little more compassion.”City Manager Eric Batista brought t…

🌬️Mostly sunny and breezy, with highs in the 60s.

Kathleen Hanna is a pioneer of the feminist punk movement, best known as a foundational member of the bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.

Humans aren’t the only ones who find their joints creakier as they get older.The New England Aquarium says an elderly penguin resident named Pip is waddling more comfortably now thanks to the help of acupuncture.Penguin trainer Mia Luzietti says they noti…

Antonia Lucas says that and her partner, Miguel Ixcuna, were driving home from a nonprofit around noon on Monday when two vehicles stopped them, blocking their vehicle in front and behind.

Days after her opponent called for suspension of the gas tax, Gov.

Grace Wexler opened up the dumpster outside her Malden apartment building and took a look inside.

More than six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, Massachusetts students continue to lag behind pre-pandemic levels in both English language arts and math, according to the latest MCAS results released Tuesday.State education officials also point out that…

A lawyer for Lindsay Clancy is asking a judge to investigate the conduct of the lone juror who wanted to convict the Massachusetts mother of murder in the deaths of her three young children.In a motion filed Friday but made public Monday, Clancy’s lawyer…