Massachusetts suffers statewide 911 services outage
The 911 system across Massachusetts went down Tuesday afternoon, making it impossible for anyone to reach emergency services through the call number.
The 911 system across Massachusetts went down Tuesday afternoon, making it impossible for anyone to reach emergency services through the call number.
Country singer George Strait set the record for the largest attendance at a ticketed concert in the U.S. by drawing 110,905 fans to Kyle Field at Texas A&M University on Saturday.
Justin Timberlake is not the first celebrity to get arrested in the Hamptons. The beach communities on the eastern end of New York's Long Island are popular with the rich and famous, and others have gotten into trouble there, much of it vehicular. Here are a few examples:
More than four years after the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged in Wuhan, China, the origin of the virus behind the global pandemic remained a topic of heated debate and frustrating uncertainty at a Senate hearing Tuesday, with Republicans and Democrats accusing the Chinese and U.S. governments of covering up critical details of the outbreak.
Kyrie Irving is a year away from having the option to leave the Dallas Mavericks, and at that point would be closing in on his longest stint anywhere since asking out of Cleveland, where he was drafted, in 2017.
The story of Al Horford and the Washington Wizards has been told before. But since this franchise continued to make one mistake after another following this failure, it's important to tell it again and again, until the local NBA team finally does something right -- you know, like the Boston Celtics have done 18 times to build championship rosters.
Boston College has hired five-time Olympian Dara Torres as its swimming and diving coach to help the school rebuild the program after a hazing scandal.
Croatia midfielder Nikola Vlasic has withdrawn from the European Championship because of a muscle injury.
Baseball's top minor leagues are switching to a challenge system full-time for their test of robot umpires.
Alise Willoughby has done just about everything in BMX racing except win an Olympic gold medal.
The Kansas attorney general sued Pfizer this week arguing the company claimed its COVID-19 shot was "safe and effective" but knew it could cause bad side effects.
Angel Reese's flagrant foul against fellow WNBA rookie Caitlin Clark on Sunday drew a hard-hitting comment from former star Sheryl Swoopes, who said Clark uses bully tactics.
A California judge ruled Monday that Tesla can't dodge a class-action lawsuit alleging the electric vehicle company operates an illegal monopoly on parts and repairs for its vehicles.
The federal budget deficit will reach $2 trillion this year, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, laying at least part of the blame on President Biden's generous student-loan forgiveness plans.
Caeleb Dressel made his debut at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials on Tuesday, posting the third-fastest time in the preliminaries of the 100-meter freestyle.
Apple has stopped issuing loans through its buy now, pay later program. Consumers using Apple Pay will instead be able to get loan options from credit and debit cards as well as lenders.
Natalie Spooner's knee injury hasn't overshadowed a sensational year in which the Canadian national team forward was voted the International Ice Hockey Federation's female player of the year on Tuesday.
The Seattle Mariners reinstated first baseman Ty France from the 10-day injured list ahead of Tuesday's series opener against Cleveland.
Second Amendment advocates went to federal court Tuesday to challenge the federal government's ban on carrying firearms in post offices, saying it's an unconstitutional limit on the right to bear arms.
Former President Donald Trump's campaign on Tuesday pointed to a Maryland woman allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant, saying her death is evidence that President Biden's latest border plan will continue the migrant crime surge.
More than 300 House lawmakers have reaped the benefits of a new program that reimburses them for housing, meals and other incidental costs -- with no receipts required.
Retro drinks are being rediscovered from dusty recipe books and are making a refreshing comeback for the hottest months ahead.
The House Ethics Committee on Tuesday said it's still looking into claims that Rep. Matt Gaetz engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use along with opening new probes in its long-running investigation of the lawmaker.
The Democratic Party's embrace of the pro-choice label has spiked in recent years to a near-universal level while the share of Republicans and independent voters who embrace the moniker has essentially stayed the same.
The temptation would be to refer to a change in the scorecard procedure as the "Jordan Rule," only because Jordan Spieth was the most recent example. Players now have an additional 15 minutes to correct their scorecard before it is deemed to have been returned.