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Ex-Northeastern track coach charged with nude photo scheme

BOSTON – A former track and field coach at Boston’s Northeastern University was arrested Wednesday and charged with using bogus social media accounts to try to trick female student-athletes ...

DATE: Apr 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: College Sports

Courts get creative to restart jury trials amid pandemic

It was New Mexico’s first jury trial since the pandemic crippled the U.S. criminal justice system, and defense attorney Roberta Yurcic was nervous. The court had erected a plexigl...

DATE: Jul 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

NFL players use attention over protests to push for change

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The controversy over protests during the national anthem at NFL games last season helped propel issues of racial inequality and social injustice to the forefront and gave ...

DATE: Mar 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Doctor: Aaron Hernandez’s brain was severely damaged by disease

BOSTON – Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez suffered substantial damage to parts of the brain that affect memory, judgment and behavior from the most severe case of a degener...

DATE: Nov 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Former TV anchor says Spacey sexually assaulted her son

BOSTON – A former TV news anchor said Wednesday that Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted her teenage son last year at a Nantucket restaurant, adding to mounting allegations of misconduct against...

DATE: Nov 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Man convicted in plot to behead blogger over cartoon contest

BOSTON – A man who authorities say fell under the influence of the Islamic State group was convicted Wednesday of plotting to behead a conservative American blogger for organizing a Prophet ...

DATE: Oct 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Rolling Stone to pay $1.65M to settle suit over rape story

RICHMOND, Va. – Rolling Stone agreed to pay $1.65 million to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by a University of Virginia fraternity over a debunked story about a rape on campus, the frater...

DATE: Jun 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Winter storm slams parts of U.S.

A winter storm of snow, freezing rain and bone-chilling temperatures socked the nation’s mid-section and East Coast on Saturday, causing hundreds of accidents on icy roads and putting a crim...

DATE: Dec 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Home thought to be Monroe’s is guest house

For decades, a modest farmhouse in central Virginia was thought to be what remained of President James Monroe’s home in Charlottesville, Virginia. It turns out, historians were wrong. ...

DATE: Apr 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World