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October 7, 2024

Titanic exhibit in Boston to feature 250 artifacts recovered from wreck

Anexhibit is opening in Boston, Massachusetts, and will showcase nearly 250 artifacts that were retrieved from the Titanic. Visitors can also see recreated rooms from the ship.

September 27, 2024

Meet the American who reported the first sensational UFO encounters, Puritan leader John Winthrop

Meet the American who shared sensational accounts of UFO encounters. John Winthrop was the leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony — his journal of colonial life is essential to American history.

September 13, 2024

Meet the American who first planted apples in the colonies: William Blaxton, eccentric settler

William Blaxton, an eccentric loner and Anglican minister, settled Boston before the Puritans and Rhode Island before Roger Williams — and planted the first apple orchards in America.

September 11, 2024

Massachusetts investigator’s vulgar Karen Read texts sideline him in another high-profile murder case

Massachusetts Trooper Michael Proctor investigated accused killer Brian Walshe, but after his vulgar texts about Karen Read, prosecutors won't call him to the stand.

September 9, 2024

Sorority girl's parents file lawsuit after she fell out of apartment window, spent months in coma

Northeastern University junior Sarah Cox, a member of the Phi Omega chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority, fell out of a second-story window during a party in March 2023.

September 6, 2024

Former mafia hitman sentenced to 25 years for killing of Boston crime boss James 'Whitey' Bulger

Fotios "Freddy" Geas, an incarcerated hit man with mafia connections, has been sentenced after pleading guilty to killing Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger.

September 5, 2024

On this day in history, September 5, 1774, First Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia

The First Continental Congress convened on on Sept.5, 1774, including delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies and Founding Fathers such as John Adams, Patrick Henry and George Washington.

September 4, 2024

Haitian migrant accused of molesting child is in US via controversial Biden-Harris program

A Haitian migrant who entered the U.S. last June is was arrested in Massachusetts last week after being accused of molesting a 10-year-old boy who lives next door to him.

August 29, 2024

Firefighting congressman hopes IAFF shuns Harris after Biden nod: ‘Arsonist telling you how to put out fires’

The International Association of Firefighters was the first labor union to endorse Joe Biden in the 2020 cycle, and Congress' only career firefighter hopes that changes.

August 29, 2024

Ex-Massachusetts officer allegedly murdered pregnant woman he groomed as teen, staged it to look like suicide

The FBI arrested former Stoughton, Massachusetts, Police Officer Matthew Farwell on allegations he exploited and later murdered Sandra Birchmore.