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James Lewis, the suspect in the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed 7 in the Chicago area, has died
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...
No one hurt when 2 United flights, including one bound to Denver, touch at Boston airport
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.
ICYMI, pumpkin spice among new Merriam-Webster entries
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
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
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...
Merriam-Webster dictionary’s new words include swole, buzzy and EGOT
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
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...
Massachusetts art museum’s decision to sell artworks triggers ethics dispute
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
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
In the shadow of giant war machines, a tiny rare butterfly is flourishing. Oddly, experts say, the U.S. military gets the credit.