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Federal officials are examining whether the employee who reported an explosion at Northeastern University may have lied to investigators and staged the incident, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

Investigators became skeptical because his injuries did not match wounds typically consistent with an explosion, said one official.

Merriam-Webster has added 370 new words and phrases. Among them: Adorkable; yeet, an expression of approval; ICYMI; subvariant; and pumpkin spice.

Finding out that shrinkflation, adorkable, subvariant and even pumpkin spice are now officially in the dictionary might make you exclaim \

BOSTON (AP) — There is a silver lining to the drought affecting the northeastern U.S. that has frustrated farmers, dried up rivers and reservoirs, and brought water use restrictions and brush fires to the region.

A new statue honors Elizabeth Freeman, who argued against slavery in a Massachusetts legal case

The story of the enslaved woman who went to court to win her freedom more than 80 years before the Emancipation Proclamation has been pushed to the fringes of history.

A pet cat that has been lost at Bostons Logan International Airport since a U.S. Army familys return from Germany weeks ago has finally been caught.

Victorian racing community chins are wagging over a recent incident at the Caulfield Racecourse.

Rowdy the cat ran away from her owners in Boston’s Logan International Airport. It took two weeks for people there to catch Rowdy and return her to her family.