Goodspeed Musicals is known globally as the theater that nurtures and launches more new musicals than any other nonprofit around. Hits like “Man of La Mancha,” “Shenandoah,” “Annie” and Irving Berlin’s “Holiday Inn” got their start at Goodspeed. Their Festival of New Musicals, Jan. 12-14,...
Dear Annie: My significant other and I have been together for nearly 14 years. His mother is a huge issue in our relationship, and this past Thanksgiving was the worst. He has been divorced from his first wife and mother of his 21-year-old daughter since...
By Stephen Owsinski While divisive rhetoric from politicos and others continues across the country, public safety professionals, smack dab in the middle of all the needless nonsense, continue to show up and give it their all…on behalf of everyone, regardless. Recently, we witnessed not only elected...
By Grace TooheyLos Angeles TimesLOS ANGELES — Fentanyl has continued to tighten its deadly grip on Los Angeles, with the synthetic opioid causing the majority of fatal overdoses countywide in 2022.For the first time in recent years, fentanyl surpassed methamphetamine as the most common drug...
Associated PressLITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The ringleader of a group who admitted to firebombing several police cars in Arkansas during the 2020 protests over the killing of George Floyd has been sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison, while three of his...
This is a biweekly column about all things skiing and snowboarding in New England.There’s no question skiing is expensive — unless you are in the third, fourth or fifth grade.Vermont, New Hampshire and New York all offer passports for children in elementary school that let...
When Hampden County Sheriff Nicholas J. Cocchi pledged his office and staff’s partnership in the Toy for Joy campaign, he knew it would be far from a silent partnership.The department has been a key and active community partner as the drive to give underprivileged children...
By Angie DiMicheleSouth Florida Sun-SentinelBROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — A man was arrested Monday after he allegedly pretended to be a Broward Sheriff’s deputy at a car dealership in Pompano Beach in order to steal from a squad car at the business, a probable cause affidavit...
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Two contestants with ties to Massachusetts made their way to the 24th season of “The Voice,” but their time on the show was cut short from continuing on.Claudia B. and Taylor Deneen are both alums of Berklee College of Music. The two former Boston residents...