A Boston University professor was crushed to death by an elevator in her apartment building when it suddenly dropped, trapping her between floors.“What my wife said she saw was the lady’s arms like hanging onto her package,” building resident Eric Carmichael told the local FOX-TV affiliate of the Monday evening horror that killed French lecturer Carrie O’Connor,…
Some of the survivors of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing -- that left three people dead and hundreds more injured -- wasted little time Friday reacting to news that a federal appeals court had overturned convicted killer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence.“He needs to die,” survivor Adrianne Haslet wrote on Instagram about Tsarnaev, who was convicted…
BOSTON (CBS) — A nurse who was fighting coronavirus on the frontlines was flown to Boston after he became paralyzed due to a coronavirus-related infection. Desmond Silva, 22, was taken from Florida to the ICU at Massachusetts General Hospital by a special medical jet. His mother, Barbara Bonnet lives in Massachusetts. She said her son…
After testing positive for the coronavirus just a couple months ago, Desmon Silva seemingly made a full recovery. But on July 16, he stopped breathing. Doctors rushed to put Silva on a ventilator and by Saturday night, he was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital from Tampa, Florida on a private intensive care jet with hopes…
Veteran Boston activist Aubri Esters, who led efforts to expand treatment for substance use and rights for people who use drugs, was found dead by police in her apartment on Thursday.Esters had been on methadone to treat an opioid use disorder use for at least a decade. Her cause of death is pending. She was…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…