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  Chris Forsberg 1 hour ago

  Crystal ball sees plenty of awards, title repeat for 2024-25 Celtics

  After nailing his bold Celtics predictions from a year ago, Chris Forsberg is running it back to list seven things that will definitely happen to the 2024-25 squad.
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  New England Patriots 4 mins ago

  Maye stresses importance of starting fast vs. Jaguars in London

  Bad starts have doomed the Patriots through six weeks. Can they reverse this trend vs. the Jaguars in London?
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  Banks 2 hours ago

  Citizens to shutter branches across Mass., RI, NH

  Providence-based Citizens Financial Group is cutting 15 branches across six states, according to a regulatory filing.
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  John Tomase 2 hours ago

  I asked an AI chatbot for some baseball trivia, and it did not go well

  What happens when you ask an AI chatbot to come up with 10 baseball trivia questions and answers? John Tomase found out, with some wild results.
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  New England Patriots 2 hours ago

  Drake Maye, Jerod Mayo play coy about Patriots QB's knee injury

  Drake Maye and head coach Jerod Mayo both declined to share details about the rookie quarterback’s knee injury ahead of Patriots-Jaguars.
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  New Hampshire 2 hours ago

  Police looking for man wanted in string of assaults at Nashua park

  Police in Nashua, New Hampshire, are urging people to use caution at a park in the city after there were multiple assault incidents reported there this week. Nashua police say officers responded to Mine Falls Park around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday for a report of a man physically assaulting women on the trails within the park. There have been five inciden...
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  Boston 2 hours ago

  Man killed in Boston shooting; no arrests

  A man has died after he was shot Thursday night in Boston’s Mission Hill neighborhood. Boston police say officers responded around 9:35 p.m. to Craftson Way and Huntington Ave. for a reported shooting and arrived to find an adult male who had been shot multiple times. The victim was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, poli...
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  head of the charles 2 hours ago

  59th Head of the Charles Regatta this weekend in Boston

  Watch all the action of the 2024 Head of the Charles Regatta from Friday-Sunday Oct. 18-20 streaming live here.
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  Massachusetts 2 hours ago

  Huge turnout expected as Head of the Charles 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. You can watch a livestream of all the weekend’s events here. Over the three-day event, hundreds of thousands of spectators will come out to watch the races. And with this weekend’s beautiful, unseas...
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  Weather 7 hours ago

  Some wind Friday but beautiful semi-summer weather this weekend

  This spat of semi-summer weather will likely be the last of the season. It’s nearly impossible (at least for now) to put together a string of 70+ days this late in the season. The main reason is the lower sun angle and the shortened day length, but also the long nights make it harder for us to recover from cool...
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  Decision 2024 16 hours ago

  Mass. Question 4: Should some psychedelic drugs be legal?

  Should some hallucinogenic drugs be legalized for use in Massachusetts? That is what Question 4 asks Bay State voters to decide. If approved, the measure would allow five psychedelics — psilocybin, psilocyn, mescaline, dimethyltryptamine (also known as DMT, the psychoactive ingredient in the drug ayahuasca) and ibogaine — to be grown, shared, used ...
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  Jamaica Plain 7 hours ago

  Person shot in Boston

  10/18/24 UPDATE: Boston police said Friday morning the victim had died from his injuries. Police are investigating a shooting Thursday night in Boston’s Mission Hill neighborhood. A person was shot near the intersection of Huntington Avenue and South Huntington Avenue, near the Riverway stop on the MBTA’s Green Line sometime before 10 p...