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FILE — James Lewis is escorted through Boston’s Logan Airport, Friday Oct. 13, 1995, after being released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma. Lewis, the suspect in the 1982 Tylenol murders, was found dead Sunday, July 9, 2023 at his home in Cambridge, Mass., law-enforcement sources said. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

James Lewis, the suspect in the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed 7 in the Chicago area, has died

July 10, 2023 at 5:35 p.m.

Police say the suspect in the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people in the Chicago area and triggered a nationwide scare has died. Police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said Monday...

FILE — Passengers make their way through Logan International Airport, Tuesday, July 22, 2008, in Boston. Two United Airlines flights scheduled to depart from Boston’s Logan International Airport Monday, March 6, 2023, made contact with each other near the gate area, federal aviation and airport officials said. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole, File)

No one hurt when 2 United flights, including one bound to Denver, touch at Boston airport

March 6, 2023 at 12:20 p.m.

Two flights scheduled to depart from Boston Logan International Airport on Monday morning made contact with each other near the gate area, federal aviation and airport officials said.

FILE - Merriam-Webster.com is displayed on a computer screen on Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, in New York. Merriam-Webster has added 455 new words to its venerable dictionary, including a number of abbreviations and slang terms that have become ubiquitous on social media.(AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

ICYMI, pumpkin spice among new Merriam-Webster entries

September 15, 2022 at 8:44 p.m.

Finding out that shrinkflation, adorkable, subvariant and even pumpkin spice are now officially in the dictionary might make you exclaim “Yeet!”

Boulder Trader Joe鈥檚 initiates unionization efforts

July 27, 2022 at 4:20 p.m.

Employees at a Trader Joe鈥檚 in Massachusetts are casting votes over the next two days in an attempt to form the supermarket chain鈥檚 first union. A union election petition has...

6 Dr. Seuss books won鈥檛 be published for racist images

March 2, 2021 at 6:27 a.m.

Six Dr. Seuss books — including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” — will stop being published because of racist...

In this Nov. 16, 2012, file photo, Egyptian body builder Moustafa Ismail lifts free weights during his daily workout in Milford, Mass. On Monday, April 22, 2019, Merriam-Webster added the definition of swole to it's online dictionary, with the meaning "extremely muscular: having a physique enhanced by bodybuilding exercises."

Merriam-Webster dictionary’s new words include swole, buzzy and EGOT

April 23, 2019 at 7:41 a.m.

Get swole, prepare a bug-out bag, grab a go-cup and maybe you'll have a better chance of surviving the omnicide.

Yawkey Way outside Fenway Park changed over racist past

April 26, 2018 at 1:17 p.m.

Boston officials Thursday approved changing the name of Yawkey Way, the street outside Fenway Park, because of allegations former Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey was a racist who resisted signing...

Berkshire Museum Executive Director, Van Shields announces a multimillion dollar plan to reinvent the museum

Massachusetts art museum’s decision to sell artworks triggers ethics dispute

July 30, 2017 at 11:54 p.m.

A Massachusetts museum's decision to part with 40 artworks, including two by illustrator Norman Rockwell, has touched off a debate over whether it's ever ethical to sell pieces of the...

Ex-priest in Boston sex abuse scandal released from prison

July 28, 2017 at 7:43 p.m.

A defrocked priest at the center of Boston's Roman Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal was released from prison on Friday and settled into an apartment across the street from a...

Rare butterfly thrives on, and because of, U.S. military bases

July 3, 2017 at 12:06 a.m.

In the shadow of giant war machines, a tiny rare butterfly is flourishing. Oddly, experts say, the U.S. military gets the credit.

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