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A Massachusetts Montessori school apologized and fired a teacher for instructing young children to make and wear Blackface masks as a Black History Month project. The incident, which happened in a classroom with toddlers, took place last Tuesday at IC Kids in Newton. When one mother, Nadirah Pierce, picked up her children and learned what had happened, she complained and…

A black SUV wound up stuck on the grass near the sixth hole at a country club in Newton, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, according to the Newton Police Department.

A Newton-based pharmaceutical company is treating patients with severe cases of the coronavirus with a drug approved to treat multiple myeloma as part of a new study to keep people off ventilators. More than 230 patients enrolled in the second phase of the study, many of them in Boston, and researchers at Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc say they’re making progress....

Massachusetts native and actor/director John Krasinski has started a new chapter of his career, as a news anchor on “Some Good News.” Krasinski on Sunday launched “Some Good News,” a new YouTube series he created focusing entirely on good news. In preparation, the star took to Twitter on Wednesday asking people for stories that made them feel good to...

Two people were shot within a half-hour Saturday night in the area served by the Los Angeles Police Department’s Newton Station.

San Francisco will become the largest city in the United States and one of only a handful nationwide to allow noncitizens, including people in the country illegally, to vote in a local election in November.

Mayor Eric Garcetti will be joined by other city officials Friday at a reception in Exposition Park for the first black woman promoted to the rank of deputy chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.

The man caught on dashcam video jumping on the hood of a school bus in the middle of the Massachusetts Turnpike earlier this week has been issued a summons on numerous charges.

The iconic yellow call boxes lining the side of the freeways in San Diego are going the way of the dodo and you can blame progress for that.

Grammy award-winning singer Sheryl Crow has written a song for the Sandy Hook Promise group, which formed shortly after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012.

Three Americans won a Nobel Prize on Monday for discovering key genetic “gears” of the body’s 24-hour biological clock, the mechanism best known for causing jet lag when it falls out of sync. Problems with our body clock also been linked to such disorders as sleep problems, depression, heart disease, diabetes and obesity. Researchers are now trying to find ways...

Boston is among the cities hoping to follow the model of Copenhagen, Denmark, which opened the first of its floating harbor baths in the early 2000s. Paris opened public swimming areas in a once-polluted canal this week, and similar efforts are in the planning stages in New York, London, Berlin, Melbourne and elsewhere. In Boston, the Charles River Conservancy still...

Jewish community centers around the country were again targeted with bomb threats Wednesday morning, a week after a spate of similar threats were made against many centers. Centers in at least 17 states were targeted Wednesday with bomb threats. Centers in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Delaware, Connecticut, Alabama, California, Maine, Tennessee, South Carolina, Missouri,...

Federal authorities say a Florida woman has been charged with making death threats against the parent of a child who died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles does not appear to have had an adequate disaster recovery system in place before a computer meltdown wiped out most operations for several days, two information technology experts say.

A high school near Fresno, California, will allow some of its staff members to carry concealed weapons, a decision the school’s superintendent said will create “a safe environment for students and staff members.”

Two people are dead after a car crashed into Sweet Tomatoes Pizza in West Newton, Massachusetts, Tuesday night.