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Twenty-one new COVID-19 cases were an­nounced last night by the Permanent Secretary for Health and Medical Services Doctor James Fong, with all new cases being from the greater Suva area....

Tractor-Trailer Crash Kills Western Mass Man…Driver to Be Charged A major accident on the Mass Turnpike in Becket on Friday claimed the life of a 69-year-old Western Mass man according to a report released by the Mass State Police.  According to the report Troopers from the Lee Barracks responded Friday afternoon at 3:22 to a crash on the east bound side of the Mass Pike involving a tractor-trailer and two passenger vehicles. According to the report, the results of the preliminary investigation by State Police and the Berkshire District Attorney’s Office will lead to criminal charges aga...

A new federal law requires West Point to rename structures and roads honoring Confederate generals, including a cadet dormitory that for 50 years has borne the name of the rebel commander Robert E. Lee.

The handful of U.S. Military Academy properties that must be renamed include Lee Barracks - one of 10 campus dormitories - and a road and stone entrance gate that are also named for Lee, who attended West Point and was its superintendent for three years before he led troops against the United States during the Civil War. The campus also has a road named after P.G.T. Beauregard, who served five days as West Point superintendent in 1861 before the South seceded and the Louisiana native lost his post. Three months later, he led the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in South Carolina that starte...