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Apr 30, 2021 BOSTON ( WBZ NewsRadio) — Starting in the fall of this year, Massachusetts Public School students will be screened for dyslexia. It's part of a new state law that hopes to catch the reading disorder early before it becomes a learning crisis.   Massachusetts State Senator Bruce Tarr sponsored the legislation, citing that dyslexia affects one in six students.  "The guidance from the law particularly focuses on students in kindergarten through third grade," Tarr said. "Because early intervention we know is not only effective in being able to address these challenges for student...

Thu, 04/29/2021 - 9:59pm Andrea Campbell and the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association have been engaging in some Twitter unpleasantries over the past 24 hours. The union started things off last night: $1.2 million in BPD grants being held up by ⁦@andreaforboston⁩ and the Rev. Eugene Rivers, a longtime anti-violence advocate in Boston’s Four Corners neighborhood, is justifiably astonished given the recent explosion of violence in our city. https://t.co/uOj14UOqLJ — Boston Police Patrolmen's Association (BPPA) (@BostonPatrolmen) April 29, 2021 Campbell, chair of the City Council's publ...

Apr 25, 2021 ROWLEY, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — A movie in contention for six Oscars was filmed mostly in Massachusetts. The movie, "Sound of Metal," was directed by Conway, Mass. native Darius Marder. It's about a heavy-metal drummer whose life is upended when he begins to go deaf. The 2019 film was a decade in the making. One of the movie's scene was filled in the Agawam Diner in Rowley. Owner Ethel DePasquale said parts of the historic diner, like the pay phone, needed to be rearranged. "It starts ringing while they're filming, so then they were trying to take it off the hook, but you ca...

Apr 22, 2021 BOSTON (State House News Service) — Air quality in Springfield and the Boston metropolitan area has improved over the past year in certain categories as other cities in the Northeast demonstrated worsening air conditions, according to the newest "State of the Air" report from the American Lung Association. Springfield fell a few notches from 9th to 14th nationwide among cities with the lowest levels of year-round particle pollution, but both the Springfield and Boston areas recorded fewer unhealthy days for ozone pollution compared to last year. Counties across the state have a...

Apr 21, 2021 BOSTON ( WBZ NewsRadio) — Demonstrators gathered across Boston on Wednesday to demand for more justice, following the verdict of former police officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd by a Minnesota jury on Tuesday afternoon. Hundreds marched towards the Boston Police Headquarters in the pouring rain, calling for change. Founder and CEO of Violent in Boston Inc. and organizer of the Roxbury rally Monica Cannon-Grant said, "It is because we were out here, that a verdict happened." Activist Nino Brown said over 35 million people protested over the...