Dash camera footage shows the moment an ambulance transporting a patient during Tuesday’s storm narrowly avoided another vehicle as it rolled over and crashed across the highway.
Cataldo Ambulance Service said Paramedic Tim Crosbie was drivin…
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Dash camera footage shows the moment an ambulance transporting a patient during Tuesday’s storm narrowly avoided another vehicle as it rolled over and crashed across the highway.
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MSPCA-Angell is looking for new homes for more than a dozen goats seized from a farm in New York.
The 17 goats, now resting up at Nevins Farm in Methuen, Massachusetts, were among over 100 animals taken from the property in Owego, New York due to p…
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A video showing a Sephora worker telling off a person in apparent blackface at the store in Boston’s Prudential Center has prompted the makeup store to issue a statement reiterating the “type of behavior tolerated” there.
The video, originally posted to TikTok, shows a person who appears to be a white teenager wearing a large circle brown makeup on her face. Another person, who appears to be an employee, tells an older woman with the person in apparent blackface, “This is the stuff that can influence jobs, college acceptances, let alone how incredibly offensive this is.”
The people filming can be heard calling what they were watching “so shameful.”
While the original TikTok has been deleted, other versions of the video have gone viral.
Sephora released a statement on the incident to NBC10 Boston Tuesday: “Sephora’s top priority is to create a welcoming and inclusive shopping experience for all. We are extremely disappointed by the behavior of these shoppers at our Prudential Center location, and as such, they were asked to leave our premises. Under no circumstance is this type of behavior tolerated at Sephora.”
The company’s statement didn’t offer more details about what happened.
The person who posted the TikTok said the incident left her “so disgusted and disturbed,” Boston.com reported. She was in Boston for a track meet and saw a “group of teenage girls and their mothers come in and go to the make up section to use the samples for black face whilst giggling and making animal sounds.”
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The video didn’t show anyone in the group making animal sounds; the identity of the people who were thrown out of the store wasn’t immediately clear.
Blackface is a racist tradition that dates back to American minstrel shows, post-Civil War performances where white actors wore makeup on their skin as they put on songs and skits mocking Black people. Blackface appears in the landmark movie, “The Jazz Singer,” the first feature-length film with sound and music, and it continued to be featured in popular culture for decades.
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While a new panel of government officials, transportation activists and commuters prepare for another round of investigation into how the state should fund roads and transit, Gov. Maura Healey will keep an open mind — including around the possib…
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[This story first appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk.]
A third location of a group of Nashville hot chicken places appears to be on its way to the Greater Boston area, and this one will be in the heart of the city.
According to a poster (Geoff W…
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The nor’easter hitting southern New England with heavy, wet snow on Tuesday knocked power out to thousands of people.
There were more than 9,000 customers without power in Massachusetts at 1:22 p.m., according to state emergency management officials. Many of the outages were in Cape Cod and other parts of southeastern Massachusetts.
Rhode Island Energy reported about 1,600 customers without power statewide, and in Connecticut, Eversource reported about 2,000 outages.
While on Sunday and Monday, the storm was forecast to cut across much of southern New England, threatening a foot of snow for Boston, the track shifted south. As of midday Tuesday, the brunt of the storm was being felt in Connecticut, Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts.
Utility companies had warned that kind of snow expected to fall Tuesday was likely to knock out power.
Along Mass. Route 28 in Falmouth, on Cape Cod, a utility pole broke, closing part of the highway.
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