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Elite runner’s close call inspires road safety campaign

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Elite marathoner Kaitlin Goodman’s mantra is “run joyfully,” but when a distracted driver forced her to leap to safety, it didn’t spark joy – it tore her hamstring and nea...

DATE: Nov 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Sports

Olympian Michael Phelps honored for mental health advocacy

BOSTON – Michael Phelps is picking up more hardware — this time for what he’s been doing outside the pool. The Boston-based Ruderman Family Foundation, a leading voice in calling ...

DATE: Jan 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

400 years after Pilgrim landing, Native Americans are finally being heard

PLYMOUTH, Mass. – The seaside town where the Pilgrims came ashore in 1620 is gearing up for a 400th birthday bash, and everyone’s invited – especially Native Americans whose ancestors wound ...

DATE: Nov 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Was a great white shark to blame for Cape Cod attack?

TRURO, Mass. – On a windswept dune overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, hastily erected signs warned Cape Cod beachgoers to stay out of the water on Thursday, a day after a New York man became th...

DATE: Aug 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Globe-trotter’s test: 7 marathons, 7 days, 7 continents

BOSTON – She’s already run around the planet in world-record time. So what does Becca Pizzi do for an encore? Rinse and repeat. The Massachusetts marathoner, who won th...

DATE: Jan 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Wandering Walden Pond: Thoreau’s retreat offers history lesson, recreation in all seasons

CONCORD, Mass. – Henry David Thoreau went to the woods because, as he famously put it, “I wished to live deliberately.” Two centuries after the Walden author’s birth, people are d...

DATE: Oct 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Turn over a new leaf: Chase that autumn foliage on foot

BOSTON – Here’s a novel way to enjoy autumn in New England: While the trees are dropping their leaves, you can be shedding some pounds. Activate the “Health” app on your iPhone (i...

DATE: Sep 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

‘Spectacular’ autumn foliage is forecast for New England

BOSTON – New England’s fall foliage forecast is looking so fine it’s enough to make a maple leaf blush. For the first time in several years, little has conspired against a truly g...

DATE: Aug 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Afraid of sharks? Flu, asteroids pose far greater risk

BOSTON – You might want a bigger boat, but you probably don’t need better odds. The confirmed return of great white sharks to Cape Cod has rattled some boaters and beachgoers. Yet...

DATE: Jul 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Boston Solothon? Marathon race director runs it alone

BOSTON – Dave McGillivray runs his Boston Marathons the same way he directs them: behind the scenes. For three decades, after the race is over and workers are sweeping up the conf...

DATE: Apr 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Sports

Scholars team up to dispel 400-year-old ‘fake news’

Group looks to set the record straight

DATE: Dec 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Deadly 1919 molasses flood made worse by cold weather

BOSTON – The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 – one of Boston’s most peculiar disasters – killed 21 people, injured 150 others and flattened buildings when a giant storage tank ruptured. ...

DATE: Nov 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World