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9 Wounded in Shooting in Providence, Rhode Island
Nine people were wounded Thursday evening in Rhode Island’s capital in what police there believe to be the largest shooting in city history. Of the nine, three had serious injuries and were “maybe critical,” Providence Police Chief Col. Hugh T. Clements told reporters at the scene. He said multiple guns were used and it involved an “ongoing feud” between...
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Long Road to Normalcy: Virtual Village Connects Boston Marathoners
Organizers of the Boston Marathon — postponed indefinitely because of the coronavirus pandemic — have launched a virtual Athletes’ Village to reproduce at least some of the camaraderie of the real thing. The Boston Athletic Association says it’s an attempt to keep runners connected as the group works out a date for the 125th running of the planet’s most storied…
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New England's Weird 2020: ‘Calamari Comeback,' Real-Life Buddy the Elf
It’s difficult to imagine a year when we needed a little comic relief more desperately than in 2020. No yuks? Yuck. Fortunately, New Englanders came through with some welcome pandemic distractions.
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As Nation Confronts Old Demons, Some Recall Crispus Attucks' Killing
Like George Floyd, he was black, in his mid-40s, and died at the hands of a white man. And like Floyd, he may have helped touch off a revolution. Many in the Black Lives Matter movement are invoking Crispus Attucks — an African American gunned down by a British soldier in the Boston Massacre of 1770 — as a symbol…
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100 Years Ago in Boston: The Day Molasses Was Deadly Fast
Boston is marking the 100th anniversary of its most peculiar disaster — the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. Exactly a century ago Tuesday, a massive wave of 2.3 million gallons of molasses unleashed by a ruptured storage tank came crashing through the city’s North End, obliterating everything in its path.
