8+ hour, 10+ min ago   (280+ words) A seventh human case of West Nile virus this year has been confirmed in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced on Friday that a man in his 60s was exposed to West Nile virus in Worcester County. As a…...

15+ hour, 6+ min ago   (299+ words) Three Massachusetts schools have been ranked among Forbes’ picks for the 25 colleges and universities nationwide with the highest payoffs. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, and Williams College all made the list, ranking at 12, 13, and 17, respectively. To determine each…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (358+ words) More than 1,300 Encore Casino workers have been on strike since Friday. On Aug. 20, 97 percent of Encore workers represented by Teamsters Local 25 and UNITE HERE Local 26 voted to strike if a fair contract wasn’t reached, a union representing some of the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (375+ words) Drivers should plan ahead before hitting the roads this holiday weekend, according to AAA, which named Boston among the top three Labor Day destinations in the U.S. Drivers traveling from Boston to Providence on I-93 S will find one of the most…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (397+ words) A Worcester Superior Court judge sentenced a 52-year-old Worcester woman Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in a correctional center for a 2020 hit-and-run in which she fatally struck 58-year-old Timothy Gain. Kathryn Quinn, who was driving a dark Cadillac on July 30, 2020, crossed the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (360+ words) A fight between two family members turned violent early Monday when an East Falmouth man allegedly woke his relative by striking him with a baseball bat and threatening to kill him, police said. John C. Perkins, 45, was arraigned Monday in Falmouth…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1042+ words) By Diti Kohli, The Boston Globe In the relative quiet of July, once the World Cup ended and the tall ships sailed away, the MBTA embarked on a slate of improvement projects that closed part of the Red Line, then…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (553+ words) A graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed “no signs of exposure to mercury” after being hospitalized for self-reported contact with a highly toxic form of the chemical while working in a lab, the university said. The student,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (116+ words) Boston.com MBTA Transit Police is seeking the public’s help in identifying a suspect involved in an alleged assault on a bus. Around 7 p.m. on Aug. 12, the female suspect allegedly slapped and kicked the victim, who is over 60 years old,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (756+ words) JetBlue is debuting a new lounge at Logan Airport this week that the airline is calling “a love letter to Boston.” BlueHouse Lounge, a 12,000-square-foot space inside Terminal C, is the airline’s second lounge and opens Aug. 27. The first BlueHouse…...