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Mass-Native Runner Qualifies For Olympic Trials After Easily Winning His First-Ever Marathon
A Connecticut native stunned the field in his first-ever marathon, smashing a long-standing course record and securing a spot in the 2028 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials.
Ryan Smith, from Westport, crossed the finish line first at the Vermont City Marathon in Burlington on May 24, posting a time of 2 hours, 15 minutes, and 52 seconds. His performance broke the 24-year-old course record by 1 minute and 10 seconds.
He led the field of 1,834 runners for the entire 26.2 miles and earned $2,400 for the win.
"I mean, holy cow! What? I don't know. I'm, ah, I have no words. That excee…
Fake Oxy Ring Run By Lynn Men Linked To More Than A Dozen Deaths, Feds Say
A counterfeit pill ring flooding the streets with fake Oxy, Xanax, and Adderall across the country landed four Massachusetts men in federal prison after causing more than a dozen overdose deaths, prosecutors in Virginia said.
What was inside the pills was more dangerous than what was advertised.
Investigators said Daniel John Blaney, 28, Kenneth Emmanuel Lora, 27, David Robert Kable Jr., 27, and Javier Alexander Bermudez, 31, all from Lynn, Massachusetts, manufactured counterfeit pills using industrial pill presses before shipping them across the United States.
Federal authorities say the …
Central Mass Man Accused Of Buying, Selling 7,000 Child Porn Files: Feds
Federal agents say a Massachusetts man had thousands of child sexual abuse files on his device and admitted to buying and selling the material online.
Yojuande Blaize, 23, of Southbridge, was arrested and charged on Thursday, May 21, with possession of child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.
Investigators said they found child sexual abuse material during a review of a folder on Blaize’s device that allegedly contained more than 7,000 videos and images.
According to charging documents, Blaize also admitted he would “regularly seek…
From ‘I Hated His Guts’ To Saving His Life: NY Woman Gives Massachusetts Teacher Her Kidney
A Long Island woman donated a kidney to an unlikely beneficiary — her old middle school English teacher in Massachusetts, who she hated.
Montana Miller, 55, of Port Washington, learned about the plight of Mitch Grosky, 74, through social media and decided to do something, the Boston Globe reported Tuesday, May 19.
“When I was ten years old I hated his guts; now I'm giving him mine!?” Miller wrote on Facebook in April.
The two first crossed paths at The Bromfield School in Harvard, MA in the 1980s, where Miller found Grosky’s fifth-grade English class boring and later told the Globe, “I abs…
Hundreds Rally To Help Mass Special Needs Teacher Who Lost Nearly Everything In Condo Fire
A Connecticut special education teacher and her boyfriend escaped a fast-moving fire with their two dogs earlier this week, but lost their cat, their home, and nearly everything else they owned. But now, the community is coming together to help rebuild their lives.
Maddie Patch, a moderate special needs and math teacher at Plymouth North High School, lived in a second-floor condo with her boyfriend, Grant, at a multi-unit building on Court Street in Plymouth. A fire erupted in a first-floor bedroom around 5 a.m. on Tuesday, May 12, and burned through the building, displacing nine people, fir…
