A stinky situation in Grafton, Massachusetts, is prompting legal action from the state’s Attorney General’s Office.
The AGO announced Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against Feedback Earth, Inc., a sustainable waste management…
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Watch the 59th Head of the Charles Regatta this weekend in Cambridge
All eyes are on the Charles River this weekend as the 2024 Head of the Charles Regatta brings thousands of athletes from around the globe to Cambridge and Boston for dozens of race events.
The forecast is sunny, which will be good news for the…
Huge turnout expected for Head of the Charles that kicks off Friday
It’s sure to be a busy weekend in both Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the 59th Head of the Charles Regatta kicking off Friday morning.
Over the three-day event, hundreds of thousands of spectators will come out to watch the races. A…
‘Craziest thing I’ve ever heard’: Combating misinformation about major hurricanes
As many throughout the Southeast work to get back on their feet after two major hurricanes, others across the country are working to combat a storm of misinformation.
For Margaret Donabed, Thursday brought another day of assessing the damage. Donabed’s home in St. Pete Beach, Florida, was heavily damaged last week by Hurricane Milton.
“It does feel surreal, and sometimes, I still get really mad when I think about what happened and what it’s going to take to put it all back the way it was,” said the resident of Hull, Massachusetts.
Hurricane Milton, and Hurricane Helene before that, have had devastating impacts, from loss of life to destroying homes and businesses. Almost immediately after, false claims started to spread that the federal government created the hurricanes to target certain voters ahead of the Presidential Election.
Donabed can’t believe someone would question the storms that have left so much devastation and destruction.
“That is the craziest thing I’ve ever heard,” she said. “They are real, they are real. Just in my 1/10th of a mile diameter of our home, we lost two neighbors.”
Former Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone, president of the Alliance for Climate Transition, said misinformation “poses the biggest threat to climate transition.”
This week, ACT released a misinformation tracer. In the works for the past year, the tracker is a real-time fact checker about climate issues. Type in a claim, and the tracker takes you to nonpartisan articles detailing facts about the case.
“Our goal is just to put the correct, corroborated information from reliable sources out to the public to read,” Curtatone said. “We may not convince everybody to flip from being a non-believer to a believer, but at least neutralize and get them to ask questions, because if we don’t, the lie becomes the truth.”
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After suspension for late-night crash that injured family, Brockton police officer promoted
A police officer in Brockton, Massachusetts, who caused a late-night crash that injured a family, is getting a promotion to lieutenant.
Last month, the NBC10 Boston Investigators reported how Stanley David received a short unpaid suspension fo…
Child injured, leading to charges for Worcester man
A Worcester, Massachusetts, man is facing assault and battery charges in connection with the injury of a child, prosecutors said.
Francisco Ortiz, a 34-year-old from Worcester, was arraigned in court Wednesday and held without bail, according to the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office. Ortiz faces charges of assault and battery on a child with substantial injury, permitting substantial injury to a child, another county of assault and battery, two counts of permitting injury to a child and reckless endangerment of a child.
Prosecutors didn’t share more details about what led to the child’s injuries, how seriously the child was hurt or what relationship he has to the child. Worcester police referred questions to prosecutors.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Ortiz had an attorney who could speak to the charges. He’s due back in court for a dangerousness hearing Wednesday.
