A look ahead at the Boston sports calendar in 2017
With the holidays behind us, there is a whole new sports calendar to look forward to. In addidition to your traditional events like the Super Bowl, Red Sox Opening Day, and the Boston Marathon, there are also other dates you may want to circle this year. Frozen Fenway, NCAA lacrosse championships at Gillette Stadium, and the Senior US Open at Salem Country Club in Peabody are all on tap for 2017. Tuesday, Jan. 3 to Jan. 16 — Frozen Fenway Advertisement Fenway Park will host two weeks of ic..>> view originalBest & Worst from Patriots-Dolphins game
WORST SURFACE: The field at Hard Rock Stadium was clearly in awful condition after hosting the Orange Bowl Friday night. It was bad enough to possibly be an injury risk, and it calls into question the decision to schedule a home game on natural grass just days after a bowl game is played on it.BEST START: It didn’t take long for the Patriots to get on the scoreboard, as Tom Brady engineered a 13-play, 75-yard drive that culminated in a 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Martellus Bennett.BEST HU..>> view originalDirecTV customers in Greater Boston lose access to several channels
DirecTV subscribers in New England who wanted to watch WCVB (Channel 5), WFXT (25) and WMUR (9) on Sunday had to reach for the rabbit ears.Hearst Television and Cox Media Group, which own the stations, began 2017 without new agreements for the satellite television provider to continue carrying their stations across the country, officials said. Advertisement By late Sunday afternoon, DirecTV said it had reached a deal to get WFXT and other Cox stations back on its customers’ televisions.As w..>> view originalLynn man faces charges in fatal crash
A 33-year-old Lynn man was driving under the influence when he hit and killed a pedestrian in East Boston and tried to flee the scene yesterday morning, police say.Christopher Nalchajian was arrested about 6 a.m. after officers responding to a report of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle on Saratoga Street noticed him trying to “walk away from the scene,” police said yesterday.The male victim, whose name was not released yesterday, was pronounced dead at the scene.Nalchajian will be arraigned in E..>> view originalDespite Trust Act, Boston police handed over immigrants for ...
Boston’s Trust Act — designed to reassure immigrants that city police would not help deport them — has a loophole that was used to turn over nine men to federal immigration officials, city records show.The nine men turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2015 had serious criminal histories, according to police, making their detention less of a public issue. But advocates worry that the same loophole could be used to detain and deport any immigrant for so much as a traffic violatio..>> view originalBoston's first baby, born at 12:01 am, is already an 'overachiever'
Kennedy Lynn Schmitt, the first Boston baby born in 2017, has always been an overachiever. Her doctor was impressed with Kennedy throughout the pregnancy, so being the first baby of the new year is “very in character for her,” mom Julia Schmitt said. Advertisement The girl arrived at 12:01 a.m. at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, weighing 6 pounds, 15 ounces, and measuring 19¼ inches.Julia and her husband, Will Schmitt, didn’t think they would have the first baby of the year, especially..>> view originalGlobe staff's NFL picks
Your city. Your stories. Your Globe. Yours FREE for two weeks. Enjoy free unlimited access to Globe.com for the next two weeks. Limited time only - No credit card required! BostonGlobe.com complimentary digital access has been provided to you, without a subscription, for free starting today and ending in 14 days. After the free trial period, your free BostonGlobe.com digital access will stop immediately unless you sign up for BostonGlobe.com digital subscription. Current print and digital su..>> view originalWoman dies in leap from burning building
One woman lost her life yesterday after jumping from one of the upper floors of a five-story Holyoke apartment building in a desperate attempt to escape a raging fire that left two other people missing and displaced dozens, fire officials said.Trapped residents were hanging out of their windows and calling for help when the first firefighters arrived at the corner of North East and East Dwight streets at about 9 a.m., fire officials said. As the blaze consumed the building, investigators say th..>> view originalVandalized Hollywood sign briefly reads 'HOLLYWeeD'
LOS ANGELES — No, Los Angeles residents, it wasn't your hangovers playing tricks on you. The Hollywood sign really did read "HOLLYWeeD" for a few hours on New Year's Day.Police were investigating Sunday after a prankster used giant tarps to turn two of the iconic sign's white Os into Es sometime overnight.The vandal, dressed in all black, was recorded by security cameras and could face a misdemeanor trespassing charge, said Sgt. Robert Payan.The person scaled a protective fence surrounding the ..>> view original
Monday, April 17, 2017
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