Local News Authorities have not released the identity of the person who died. A worker died Tuesday morning from electrocution injuries sustained at AT&T in Cambridge, according to authorities. Cambridge police responded to the scene at the AT&T facility at 250 Bent St. for a report of an electrocution, police spokesman Robert Goulston noted in … [Read more…]
Schools Students are asking Attorney General Andrea Campbell to order Tufts to divest from fossil fuels. Tufts students say their university is breaking state law by investing in the fossil fuel industry. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff Students at Tufts University in Medford filed a complaint with Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s office last week accusing their … [Read more…]
Local News “Our auditors concluded that CAR’s financial management of its grants and gifts was appropriate,” said Gary Nicksa, BU’s chief financial officer and treasurer. In this Oct. 21, 2020, file photo, Ibram X. Kendi, director of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research, stands for a portrait in Boston. AP Photo/Steven Senne, File By THALIA … [Read more…]
Technology Artificial intelligence makes it frighteningly easy to transform ordinary pictures into realistic nudes, triggering a surge of fake images of women and teens. By Pranshu Verma, Washington Post updated on November 7, 2023 | 11:38 AM When Gabi Belle learned there was a naked photo of her circulating on the internet, her body turned … [Read more…]
Local Obituaries Carl-Hens Beliard, of Worcester, died Nov. 1, 2023. Carl-Hens Beliard. – via Mercadante Funeral Home Carl-Hens Beliard of Worcester was taken from us on Wednesday, November 1, 2023. He was only 18 years old. Carl-Hens was born on November 11, 2004 in Port au Prince, Haiti. He graduated from North High School, Class … [Read more…]
Local News After years of debate, this could be the end for the beloved structure — but its advocates haven’t given up hope. The Pink House, an iconic century-old single-family home on Plum Island near Newburyport, could be demolished. Courtesy of Sandy Tilton A word that some in the North Shore community of Newburyport and … [Read more…]
Crime Authorities located another victim in the area, who said they were assaulted by the same person that stabbed the first victim. Boston police arrested a 14-year-old boy in connection to an incident in Monday afternoon in Allston, in which a boy was stabbed and another person was threatened with a knife, they said. Police … [Read more…]
National News The episode occurred in a suburb outside Los Angeles amid pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations. By Jill Cowan and Sergio Olmos, New York Times Service updated on November 7, 2023 | 9:14 AM LOS ANGELES — A 69-year-old Jewish man died Monday from injuries he suffered during a weekend altercation in Southern California over … [Read more…]
World News Entire city blocks have been reduced to rubble, and around 70% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have fled their homes, with many heeding Israeli orders to head to the southern part of the besieged territory, which is also being bombed. Palestinian firefighters extinguish fire caused by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis refugee … [Read more…]
Crime The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Monday that defendant Alyssa Partsch previously pleaded guilty to attacking a different woman with a knife in 2017. Alyssa Partsch, 30, is arraigned on a second-degree murder charge in Suffolk Superior Court on Monday. Suffolk County Superior Court Alyssa Partsch, the woman accused of fatally stabbing a … [Read more…]