Massachusetts

As President Donald Trump promises a quick comeback from the coronavirus pandemic and the country tentatively starts to reopen, many are hoping for what some are calling a V-shaped recovery. That’s where the economic uptick happens as quickly as the downturn. But Financial and economic analyst Jim Lowell doesn’t think that outcome is very likely. He subscribes to another prediction:...

Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, have agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges in connection with the college admissions scandal, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Both will serve time in prison under the terms of their plea agreements. Loughlin, who played Aunt Becky on the sitcom “Full House,” and Giannulli, were scheduled to go on...

World War II veteran Joe Sterczela is back home after lasting through an eight-week battle with the novel coronavirus. The 93-year-old is no stranger to battling an enemy — the Navy veteran was stationed in Okinawa, Japan, during World War II. But Never before had the Webster, Massachusetts, native fought in the hospital against an enemy he couldn’t see. “He…

Venessa Hinchcliffe never thought she’d say goodbye to her grandmother over FaceTime. “When I saw her on the iPad…that look will haunt me forever,” Hinchcliffe said. The mother of two from Plymouth, Massachusetts, said her 80-year-old grandmother, Francella McFarlane of Brockton, was quarantined and alone before she died of the new coronavirus in a nursing home more than two...

It was in early March that Michelle Shabo began feeling the symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

A popular Cape Cod ice cream shop that reopened just in time for Mother’s Day weekend was forced to scale back to appointment-only, the owner says, after some customers refused to practice social distancing and harassed a teenage girl working at the company. Polar Cave Ice Cream in Mashpee, Massachusetts, is a Cape Cod classic, but it had been...

Another 138 people with COVID-19 have died and 1,410 have tested positive in Massachusetts, health officials said Saturday. The death toll now stands at 4,840, while Massachusetts has had 76,743 people test positive, according to the Department of Public Health’s daily report on the new coronavirus. The 138 new deaths reported Saturday is lower than Friday’s 150. That day, the…

Two men lied about their businesses in loan applications under the new Paycheck Protection Program, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday, saying they are the first to be charged with fraud in connection with the multibillion-dollar loan initiative in the United States. The two men were been charged in Rhode Island with filing fraudulent bank loan applications seeking $438,000 from the Small…

Massachusetts on Sunday reported 158 additional deaths from the coronavirus outbreak, as the total number of cases in the state rose by 1,824. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported that 4,004 people have now died and 68,087 have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The hospitalization rate — the percentage of coronavirus-positive patients in…

Massachusetts’ coronavirus-related death toll rose by another 130, health officials said Saturday, while another 1,952 people have tested positive for the virus. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported that 3,846 people have now died and 66,263 have tested positive for the virus. The hospitalization rate — the percentage of coronavirus-positive patients in the hospital — ticked down to 5%…

It’s been over two months since the first case of coronavirus was announced in New England, and on Thursday, the tally rose above 100,000. State health departments across the region reported a total of 102,541 people have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. There have been 6,253 deaths associated with the virus in New England as…

Nearly 70 residents sickened with the coronavirus have died at a Massachusetts home for aging veterans, as state and federal officials try to figure out what went wrong in the deadliest known outbreak at a long-term care facility in the U.S.

Massachusetts health officials on Sunday reported 169 new deaths from the novel coronavirus, bringing the state’s death toll from the outbreak to 2,899. According to the Department of Public Health, the number of coronavirus cases in the state rose by 1,590, bringing the total number of people infected with COVID-19 to 54,938. Despite the increases, 17% of the test results…

Massachusetts on Sunday reported 146 more deaths from the new coronavirus, bringing the state’s death toll from the outbreak to 1,706. The total number of positive cases has reached 38,077, with 1,705 new cases announced by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Massachusetts is in the midst of what officials describe as a surge of coronavirus cases in the state,…

Health care workers are not the only ones who have been taking risks to help people amid the coronavirus pandemic. Grocery store employees were deemed essential workers and have been given the same testing clearances as first responders. Why? They’re exposed to people every day, and some of them have lost their lives because of it. The latest was...

Every day, COVID-19 patients are being discharged from hospitals across Massachusetts, and some have found special ways to celebrate. Stephanie Kim, 33, of Malden, spent four days at MelroseWakefield Hospital this week battling coronavirus. While she was getting through the worst of the infection, she kept hearing the same song play on the intercom. It was “Happy” by Pharrell. “At…

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Friday he’s looking for 14 days of steady declines in positive coronavirus tests before the state can open up again. He also insisted that governors throughout the Northeast will need to coordinate on reopening and that the state’s ambitious contact-tracing system will need to be working well, so that any flare-ups can be quickly...

A nurse who had recently started working at a Littleton, Massachusetts, has died, the facility announced Saturday. The woman tested positive for the new coronavirus.

More than 20,000 people in Massachusetts have now tested positive for the new coronavirus and 599 people have died in the state, health officials reported Friday. Friday’s figures from the Department of Public Health show 96 more deaths in Massachusetts and 2,033 new cases. A total of 20,974 people in the commonwealth have now tested positive for COVID-19, the disease…

He was one of the state’s earliest known coronavirus cases. Now, the family of a Hingham man who has been in the intensive care unit for nearly a month says he’s improving. And his wife is pleading with others to stay home and take safety precautions as the pandemic grows in Massachusetts. “It was horrible,” Kim Bello told the...