Massachusetts

MIT and Harvard Medical School reported the first total synthesis of (+)-verticillin A, isolated in 1970. A 16-step route from beta-hydroxytryptophan produced the natural product and designed variants. Derivatives cut…

JetBlue pilot Jeremy Gudorf was pulled off a Boston-to-Paris pairing after CBP flagged a Huntersville child-exploitation warrant. He died in Revere on March 7, 2025, as a fugitive team moved…

Thomas F. Clasby Jr. pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months plus $136,061.71 in restitution after diverting Quincy elder-services funds to steakhouse bills, studio time, a self-portrait, and a…

Five Assumption University students were accused of luring a 22-year-old soldier to campus for a TikTok stunt. Kidnapping and conspiracy counts were dismissed. Lesser leftover counts later ended in diversion…

On November 19, 2024, a Northbridge, Massachusetts, animal-control officer answering a coyote complaint shot Kirk Rumford's 11-month husky, Odin. Chief Tim Labrie said it was a mistaken identity and that…

On August 16, 2024, Liza Phillips and Ted Rock shoved a ram-ventilating great white off Low Beach on Nantucket. Marine teams still tell the public not to put hands on…

A multiagency Long Island investigation rescued about 89 dogs and arrested ten men in one of New York's largest dogfighting busts, spanning Suffolk, Nassau, New York City, and other states.