By Helena WegnerThe Charlotte ObserverTIGARD, Ore. — Police were searching for a burglary suspect inside an Oregon apartment until they opened a wooden trunk, officers say.Then they arrested a 54-year-old man Jan. 30 in Tigard, the Portland Police Bureau Central Bike Squad posted on Instagram.The...
By Adam BeamAssociated PressSACRAMENTO, Calif. — California residents don’t have to pay for and pass a background check every time they buy bullets, a federal judge has ruled.The Tuesday ruling by U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez took effect immediately. California Attorney General Rob Bonta asked...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s American Museum of Natural History is closing two halls featuring Native American objects starting Saturday, acknowledging the exhibits are “severely outdated” and contain culturally sensitive items.The mammoth complex across from Central Park on Manhattan’s Upper West Side is the...
Is there another rivalry brewing between goalies of the Bruins and Canucks?In addition to stopping pucks, Boston goalie Jeremy Swayman is famous for the demonstrative postgame hug he and fellow goalie Linus Ullmark share after each Bruins win. ...
By Missy WilkinsonThe Times-Picayune | The New Orleans AdvocateNEW ORLEANS — Packing power in their gleaming muscle, unfazed by flambeaux or flying beads, the Percheron draft horses of the New Orleans Police Department convey authority wherever they go.But controlling a crowd of roughly a million...
School districts in Springfield, Chicopee and Holyoke say they are on track to spend funds they received from the federal government during the pandemic.If the districts do not plan to spend and then commit their Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funding by the...
SPRINGFIELD — “Anybody home? Homeless street count,” Dave Havens called out gently, while crossing a parking lot behind a strip mall.It was dark, but Havens, a program director of homeless services at the nonprofit Mental Health Association, wore a headlamp to light his way....
Smith College student dining workers became one of the first such employee groups in the country to unionize on Feb. 1 after 99% of student workers voted in favor, according to union organizer Sam Heyne.Heyne is an union organizer with Local 153 of the Office...
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Several notable figures of African American history have had ties to Massachusetts. From the early days of the abolitionist movement to the Civil Rights era and beyond, many African American scholars, activists and writers have had ties to the Bay State.Phillis Wheatley, the first African...