The Massachusetts attorney general has charged two former leaders of a veterans' home where 76 people died from the coronavirus, alleging that leadership mishandled the situation. A grand jury on Thursday indicted Superintendent Bennett Walsh and former Medical Director Dr. David Clinton on charges of neglect, stemming from their decision in March to combine two…
September 24, 2020 | 1:39am A Massachusetts man died last year from eating an excessive amount of black licorice, doctors said Wednesday. The unusual case was reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, detailing how the man consumed a bag and half of the candy every day for two weeks prior to his death.…
A hospital in Massachusetts remains closed months after flash flooding struck as a video was released Wednesday showing the moment waves of water inundated the facility.Nearly 6 inches of rain fell in just a few hours on Sunday, June 28, as storms moved through Southeast Massachusetts, triggering a flash flood emergency.The area of Norwood, Mass., saw particularly high rain amounts,…
Massachusetts health officials report 178 new COVID-19 cases, 14 additional deaths The Department of Public Health reported an additional 178 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and confirmed 14 new COVID-19-related deaths across the state Tuesday, bringing the state's confirmed coronavirus death toll to 8,331.In addition to the total of 108,740 confirmed cases in Massachusetts, state health…
Massachusetts health officials report 273 new cases of COVID-19, 19 additional deaths The Department of Public Health reported an additional 273 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and confirmed 19 new COVID-19-related deaths across the state Sunday, bringing the state's confirmed coronavirus death toll to 8,310.In addition to the total of 108,380 confirmed cases in Massachusetts, state…
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…