|
Video shows concrete fall on Mass. Pike in Prudential Tunnel, backing up highway |
|
|
Concrete fell on the Massachusetts Turnpike, narrowly missing several vehicles in Boston’s Prudential Tunnel on Friday afternoon but causing damage and traffic delays. The incident occurred in the westbound lanes on the Massachusetts Turnpike, state police said, damaging multiple vehicles. Video shows the concrete fall just in front of a pickup truck and a car, which run over the debris. No injuries were reported, state police and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation said. |
|
|
| Massive fire rips through buildings, sends flames high above Lynn |
|
|
A fire ripped through a few buildings in Lynn, Massachusetts, on Friday night, sending flames and smoke into the sky. No one was hurt, while six people were displaced, according to Lynn Fire Chief Dan Sullivan, who said a few buildings caught fire. Aerial footage showed at least one building apparently gutted by fire. The fire originated in a building on Estes Street, then moved to a church on Chestnut Street, according to the Lynn Fire Department. The fire at both buildings was intense. |
|
|
| Man wounded after police shooting during traffic stop in NH, prosecutors say |
|
|
A man was injured in a shooting during a police traffic stop in Derry, New Hampshire, Friday night, state prosecutors said. The man was being treated late Friday for wounds he received during the incident, while no officers were hurt, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, which didn’t specify who injured the man. The incident took place on the Route 28 bypass. State prosecutors, investigating what happened, didn’t share more information, including what time the shooting took place. |
|
|
| Trump spars with Maine Gov. Janet Mills over transgender athletes |
|
|
President Donald Trump sparred with Maine‘s Democratic governor during a meeting of governors at the White House on Friday, with Gov. Janet Mills telling the Republican president, “We’ll see you in court,” over his push to deny federal funding to the state over transgender athletes. Trump told the governor he looked forward to it and predicted the end of her political career for opposing his order. Later Friday, the U.S. Department of Education said it was initiating an investigation into the Maine Department of Education over the inclusion of transgender athletes. The confrontation during the meeting came after Mills and Trump had traded barbs over the last 24 hours regarding his push to bar transgender athletes from playing in girls’ and women’s sports. The confrontation in the State Dining Room was an unusual breach of the typically courteous interactions that lawmakers, even of opposing parties, have historically shared at the White House. |
|
|
| CT man accused of cannibalism and murder is granted conditional release |
|
|
A man accused of cannibalism and murder has been granted conditional release, according to the Connecticut Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB). The board granted Tyree Smith’s release after a careful review of his clinical progress, officials said. He’s currently at Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown. Smith is accused of hacking a man to death with an axe in Bridgeport and eating part of the victim’s brain and an eyeball. |
|
|
| Reaction in Boston to Trump admin. rolling back TPS for Haitians: ‘Very inhuman' |
|
|
More than half a million Haitians in the United States, including thousands in Massachusetts, are set to soon lose temporary protections that have been shielding them from having to return to Haiti for the last 15 years. They include drivers, nurses, caregivers and a whole range of people who could be at risk of deportation at the end of the summer. The Trump administration believes the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program is a magnet for illegal immigration. “I consider this decision very inhumane. Unjust as well as cruel and racist,” Haitian-born Boston Pastor Dieufort Fleurissaint said. |
|
|
|
