The CIA believes COVID most likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to ...
Hockey notebook: Leonards setting records at Essex Tech
As the Essex Tech boys hockey team built up a lead over Newburyport in the season-opener, star senior Brady Leonard skated ...
Lyla Chapman’s late heroics lift Methuen/Tewksbury once again
A few weeks removed from scoring the overtime winner against Billerica/Chelmsford, late-game Lyla Chapman was at it again ...
Scituate nips Marshfield, 1-0, hands coach Brian Hurcombe his 100th win
One got it done. Scituate (12-2) outlasted Marshfield 1-0 in a key Patriot League Division boys hockey matchup which now puts the Sailors in the driver’s seat for the league title as ...
Basketball notebook: Arlington boys take to the road
Despite having no home gym to speak of this winter, Arlington has become the ultimate road warrior. Bolstered by returning ...
Target is ending its DEI initiative as Costco shareholders reject similar measures
Discount store chain Target said it would join rival Walmart and a number of other prominent American brands in scaling back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives while Costco shareholders ...
MSTCA Small Schools track: Dennis-Yarmouth’s Breanna Braham puts on a show
Dennis-Yarmouth track star Breanna Braham made history again at the Reggie Lewis Center by being a double winner Saturday and shattering a meet record at the annual MSTCA Small Schools ...
Hamas frees 4 female Israeli soldiers in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners as ceasefire holds
Four female Israeli soldiers who were taken in the attack that sparked the war in Gaza returned to Israel on Saturday after ...
Boston City Hall, one of world’s ugliest buildings, named historic landmark
Boston City Hall, notorious for being among the world’s ugliest buildings, has been designated a local historic landmark.
Ticker: Freighter remains stuck in the ice on a frozen Lake Erie
The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards are continuing efforts to break up ice and free a freighter that has been trapped in a ...
Judge dismisses lawsuit against State Auditor’s Office from former employee accused of sexual harassment
A Suffolk County judge dismissed a lawsuit from a former state employee who claimed officials at the Massachusetts Auditor’s ...
Massachusetts anti-abortion activists pardoned by Trump had blocked clinic’s entrance
President Trump has pardoned a pair of Massachusetts anti-abortion activists who were convicted and sentenced to federal ...