The search for 12-year-old twin boys missing from their home in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood has stretched into a third day.
Jakiel and Jaliel Shakur haven’t been seen since about 5 p.m. Tuesday, according to Boston police, who said …
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New Back Bay development to include multiple dining options
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A new development that will include a public plaza over the Mass. Pike will also be home to at least four places for food and drink.
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Here’s a list of notable runners in the upcoming Boston Marathon
Marathon Monday is approaching in Greater Boston, when thousands of runners from around the world will make the 26.2-mile trek from Hopkinton to Boylston Street in the world’s oldest annual marathon road race.
The 2024 Boston Marathon is set for April 15, with more than 22,000 qualifiers accepted. This will be the 128th running.
Here are some recognizable names that will be among the thousands of runners competing in the 2024 Boston Marathon, as provided by the Boston Athletic Association.
Notable Runners:
- Meb Keflezighi, 2014 Boston Marathon champion (most recent American men’s open division champion)
- Amby Burfoot, 1968 Boston Marathon champion
- Zdeno Chara, former Boston Bruins captain
- Nicolas Kiefer, former tennis world no.4, Olympic silver medalist in men’s doubles
- Daniel Humm, Michelin Star award-winning chef and restaurateur
- Matt Wilpers, fitness coach and well-known trainer
- Dave McGillivray, Boston Marathon Race Course Director
Boston Marathon Champions Racing in the Professional Field:
Open Division:
- Hellen Obiri (Kenya; also an Olympic medalist)
- Evans Chebet (Kenya)
- Edna Kiplagat (Kenya)
- Des Linden (USA)
- Caroline Rotich (USA)
Wheelchair Division:
- Susannah Scaroni (USA)
- Manuela Schar (Switzerland)
- Marcel Hug (Switzerland
- Daniel Romanchuk (USA)
- Joshua Cassidy (Canada)
- Masazumi Soejima (Japan)
Not Running but in Attendance as Ambassadors:
- Neil Cusack, 1974 Boston Marathon Champion and the only champion from Ireland in race history, will be honored throughout race weekend in recognition of the 50th anniversary of his victory.
- Other ambassadors on hand include Bill Rodgers, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Patti Dillon, Marilyn Bevans, and Greg Meyer.
NBC10 Boston and NECN meteorologist Tevin Wooten will also be running to raise money for Boston Medical Center. He is one of 82 athletes who will be wearing a Team BMC singlet on Marathon Monday.
The BAA announced earlier this month that famed former Patriots player Rob Gronkowski has been named the grand marshal for the 2024 marathon.
Registration for the marathon was held back in September. The BAA previously announced the Official Charity Program Members, which will be made up of 160 organizations raising money for important causes leading up to the race. Athletes fundraising for the marathon in 2023 raised a record $40.3 million.
It was announced last March that Bank of America would be the new corporate sponsor of the Boston Marathon beginning in 2024, taking over from John Hancock.
19-year-old arrested in Florida in connection to Lynn triple shooting
A 19-year-old man was arrested in Florida in connection to a triple shooting in Lynn, Massachusetts, late last year, police said Friday.
The incident happened at a shopping plaza on State Street on Dec. 26, 2023.
William Baez was arrested in Lauderhill and is being held at the Broward County Jail pending rendition, Lynn police said.
He was charged with three counts of armed assault with intent to murder.
Earlier this year, Delvin Sanchez, 18, was arrested at his Peabody home in connection to this shooting. He was charged with armed assault to murder, accessory before the fact and accessory after the fact.
The victims, whose names weren’t released, were hospitalized with serious injuries, police said.
The investigation remains active and ongoing.
Pedestrian suffers life-threatening injuries in hit-and-run crash in Boston
A male pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries in a hit-and-run crash in Boston on Friday morning.
State police said at 9:22 a.m. on X that troopers were at the scene of a hit-and-run crash involving a pedestrian on the Copley Square ramp from the Massachusetts Turnpike eastbound in Boston. They said the male pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries.
The Copley ramp toward Huntington Avenue is closed.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation had first reported the crash at 9:14 a.m.. They initially said the Exit 133 ramp to Copley remained open but provided an update around 9:40 a.m. saying the Copley ramp is now closed.
The investigation into the crash is ongoing, according to state police.
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