Jun 20 Judge halts immigration arrests at Massachusetts courts By Associated Press The lawsuit alleges the practice is scaring victims and defendants away from court and making it harder for prosecutors to hold people accountable. Continue reading
May 02 Jury says drug firm founder guilty of bribing doctors to push opioid By Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press A pharmaceutical company founder accused of bribing doctors across the U.S. to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted Thursday in a case that exposed such marketing tactics as using a stripper-turned-sales-rep to give a physician a lap dance. Continue reading
Apr 15 Kenya’s Cherono wins men’s Boston Marathon in sprint to tape By Jimmy Golen, Associated Press Lawrence Cherono outkicked Lelisa Desisa and passed him just steps away from the tape, winning the 123rd Boston Marathon in 2 hours, 7 minutes 57 seconds on Monday to claim his first major victory. Continue reading
Feb 06 Watch 3:00 How uneaten college cafeteria meals can help fight food insecurity By Cristina Quinn In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, go inside a cafeteria at Harvard University where student volunteers package 1,200 pounds of leftover food into microwaveable meals for those in need. Special correspondent Cristina Quinn of WGBH reports. Continue watching
Jan 23 Watch 7:15 Why so many of Boston’s high school valedictorians struggle to succeed High school valedictorians are the best in their class academically. But a new report finds that the top graduates of Boston’s public high schools are encountering great obstacles to attaining educational and economic milestones. John Yang talks to the Boston… Continue watching
Jan 20 Major winter storm wreaks havoc on travel By Associated Press A major winter storm that has brought some of the coldest temperatures of the season covered a large swath of the U.S. in snow as it wreaked havoc on air travel and caused slick road conditions throughout New England Sunday. Continue reading
Oct 31 Mafia hit man is suspect in death of Whitey Bulger, official says By Alanna Durkin Richer, Denise Lavoie, Associated Press The official told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Fotios "Freddy" Geas and at least one other inmate are believed to have been involved in 89-year-old Bulger's killing Tuesday at a West Virginia prison. Continue reading
Oct 30 Watch 4:29 Notorious crime boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger dies in W. Va. prison Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger has died, one day after being transferred to a West Virginia federal prison. A notorious lifelong criminal who ran gambling and drug rackets for decades, he fled Boston in 1994 but was eventually caught. Continue watching
Oct 30 James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, 89, found dead in prison By Denise Lavoie, Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press The murderous Boston gangster who benefited from a corrupt relationship with the FBI before spending 16 years as one of America's most wanted men was slain in federal prison. Continue reading
Sep 14 Watch 3:41 News Wrap: Puerto Rico’s fragile power system suffers outages as storm passes In our news wrap Friday, power was out across Puerto Rico as a tropical storm passed south of the island where Hurricane Maria hit just a year ago this month. Also, a powerful typhoon has slammed into the northeastern Philippines,… Continue watching