Young at heart and young on stage is how The Smithereens still feel after performing together for more than four decades.“We play like we’re teenagers and we really feel that same spark that we did when we started playing,” drummer and founding member Dennis Diken...
BALTIMORE — The Red Sox have posted a baffling .500 record (218-218) with a negative 20-run differential at Fenway Park since the start of the 2019 season. Road teams have outscored them 2,268-2,248.“We have to be better,” manager Alex Cora said before Boston’s 8-4 win...
Northeastern University is pioneering the use of a new artificial intelligence tool created for higher education institutions, according to a Wednesday announcement.The tool, called Claude for Education, was created by AI safety and research company Anthropic. It isn’t designed to provide students with answers. Rather,...
SPRINGFIELD — After a weeklong trial and just three hours of deliberations, a Hampden Superior Court jury awarded Police Capt. Reginald Miller more than $520,000 in damages. Miller, who is Black, sued over racial discrimination and retaliation after arguing he was passed over for a...
Cole Koepke hadn’t been in a fight in two years until Thursday night when he dropped the gloves with Kaiden Guhle in the second period of the Bruins’ 4-1 loss to the Montreal Canadiens. Boston’s forward took exception to a big hit on Fabian Lysell...
CHICOPEE — The Chicopee Public Schools are continuing to grow. With the help of a grant awarded by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the district will be hiring a full-time educator for the upcoming school year who will teach young students through gardening....
Jury selection for Karen Read’s second trial will resume Friday, with more than half of the 16-member panel already in place.After three full days of selection, 10 jurors had been picked — five men and five women. Lawyers for Read, prosecutors and the presiding judge...
The Bruins went into first intermission of Thursday’s game against the Montreal Canadiens scoreless. Boston got timely saves from Jeremy Swayman and the team was taking shots and keeping pace with its opponent. But then things began to fell apart in the second period.The Canadiens...
Somewhere around the bottom of the fifth inning on Wednesday, Red Sox baseball became fun again.Maybe it was the sixth. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly. Those innings all ran together as Crochet brushed aside batter after batter from the same Baltimore lineup that scored eight...
Mike Vrabel and Eliot Wolf have done a lot of work this offseason.In free agency, the team signed 14 veterans – six on offense and eight on defense. Out of that group, they’ve likely added seven new starters. Of course, on a 4-win team, the...
