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Local obituary: Ann Marie Escobar, 58, Boston restaurant executive
Local Obituaries Ann Marie (Lagrotteria) Escobar, of Scituate, died on Aug. 20, 2023. Ann Marie (Lagrotteria) Escobar. – via McNamara-Sparrell Funeral Home Ann Marie (Lagrotteria) Escobar, 58, of Scituate, MA, went into the loving arms of Jesus at home on Sunday, August 20, 2023, following her 5pm Hail Mary prayer. Ann Marie was born in […]
This Eastie apartment includes free pizza. The current tenants didn’t know. Now they get one pie a week.
The Boston Globe Renting above Dirty Water Dough in East Boston comes with a tasty perk. The tenants of the apartment above Dirty Water Dough in East Boston receive one free pizza a week as a perk of living in the unit. DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF By Dana Gerber, The Boston Globe updated on August […]
Body confirmed to be recent high school graduate who was fishing for lobster in Maine
Local News Tylar Michaud, 18, of Steuben, went missing on July 21 after he went out to tend his lobster traps near Petit Manan Island. By Associated Press August 25, 2023 | 11:19 AM STEUBEN, Maine (AP) — The identification of a body pulled from the ocean this week confirmed the worst fears of many […]
Yale students got a terrifying message. From the campus police.
Schools In the days since the union distributed the “survival guide” leaflets, Yale administrators and police officials have been scrambling to calm first-year students and their parents. Yale University, in New Haven, Conn., on July 27, 2023. Christopher Capozziello/The New York Times By Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times Service August 25, 2023 | 10:56 AM […]
A woman wasn’t allowed to bring her Frenchie on a plane. So she abandoned the dog at the airport and went on to a Mexican resort, police say.
National News After leaving the ticket counter, Allison Gaiser was seen on surveillance cameras pushing the dog in the stroller back toward a moving walkway enclosure, next to glass exit doors in the airport’s short-term parking lot. Allegheny County Police Department By Associated Press updated on August 25, 2023 | 10:24 AM PITTSBURGH (AP) — […]
A first look from NASA’s new air pollution satellite
Environment Although air pollution has improved over the years, “one-third of Americans are still living in unhealthy levels of air pollution,” said Xiong Liu, the deputy mission director and a physicist at the Center for Astrophysics. Haze from wildfire smoke over Washington, on June 28, 2023. Kenny Holston/The New York Times By Delger Erdenesanaa, New […]
Former residents of a New Hampshire youth center demand federal investigation into abuse claims
Local News Close to 1,000 men and woman have sued the state alleging physical, sexual or emotional abuse. The Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester, N.H., stands among trees, Jan. 28, 2020. AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File By HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press August 25, 2023 | 8:11 AM CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Frustrated former residents of […]
Dog recovers after being starved to brink of death by owner
Local News Jobee, a three-year-old pitbull mix, survived the “worst case of starvation,” the Angell Animal Medical Center had ever seen. MSPCA veterinary and shelter staff say a 3-year-old male pit bull-mix named Jobee is without a doubt the “worst case of intentional starvation they have ever seen.” MSPCA-Angell A three-year-old dog has been rehabilitated […]
One image, one face, one American moment: The Donald Trump mugshot
Politics Some of the 18 others charged with him in Georgia smiled in their booking photos like they were posing for a yearbook. Not Trump. His defiance is palpable, as if he’s staring down a nemesis through the lens. This booking photo provided by Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, shows former President Donald Trump on Thursday, […]
Here’s former President Donald Trump’s Georgia mugshot
Politics Trump got his first mugshot Thursday after surrendering at Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail. He and his allies are accused of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia. Denied a close-up in his three prior indictments, former President Donald Trump got his first mugshot upon surrendering at Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail Thursday. In […]