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This interactive map features urban rebellions and incidents of social unrest in Latino communities from 1964 to the present.

By Sarah and Carrie Sherman

Planners promise 10-to-1 payback with $6.4B to $9.4B Hartford-Springfield-Boston rail proposal Updated May 06, 2021; Facebook Share SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield/Hartford area has missed out on 130,000 new jobs since 1990, jobs that could have come here if the region had the commuter rail service enjoyed by other East Coast cities. “That’s the major differentiating factor, the availability of rail,” said Jessica Jones, senior analyst for the engineering firm AECOM. Improving rail service from New York City to Boston through Hartford, Springfield and Worcester could cost $6.4 billion ...

SAN DIEGO — Caitlin Rother did not set out to become a true-crime writer. But if you look back at the San Diego author's life, the clues were there all

Print Caitlin Rother did not set out to become a true-crime writer. But if you look back at the San Diego author’s life, the clues were there all along. When she was a general-assignment reporter for the Berkshire Eagle and the Springfield Union-News in western Massachusetts in the late 1980s, Rother spent her spare time reading about sensational murder cases and devious criminals in New York magazine. From 1993 until 2006, Rother was a reporter at The San Diego Union-Tribune, where she ended up writing some memorable stories involving bizarre deaths. Like the case of Steven Jean Hoover, a...