Graham Spanier Charged
By Marcos Gonzalez State prosecutors charged Penn State’s former president with perjury and child endangerment, accusing him of allowing Jerry Sandusky, a convicted child molester, to prey upon kids. Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly called it a “conspiracy of silence working to conceal the truth, an absolute disregard to the safety of minor children,” containing [...]
Obama Visits Jersey Shore
By Marcos Gonzalez The President Barack Obama came to New Jersey on Wednesday to see what’s left of it, what is left of boardwalks as famous as there are in this world, what is left of Atlantic City and Spring Lakeland and all the other places from Jersey on up that Hurricane Sandy leveled. “The [...]
Super Storm Aftermath in New York
By Marcos Gonzalez It was a super storm that made history, left several dead and a large amount of destruction, and crippled the mass transit system to its worse conditions in over 100 years. Hurricane Sandy pounded New York City Tuesday, with around 32 people being pronounced dead by authorities during the storm’s lethal two-day [...]
Israel Admits to Murder
By Marcos Gonzalez More than 24 years after Palestinian military leader Khalil Ibrahim Wazir was assassinated in Tunisia, Israel admits to being behind the attack that was carried out by their spy organization also known as Massad. Khalil Wazir was shot dead in the early hours of April 16, 1988 in a raid on the [...]
Martha Coakley Appoints Investigator
By Marcos Gonzalez An independent investigator will be appointed oversee the state drug lab investigation, as state officials seek a $30 million reserve fund to reimburse agencies and cities dealing the scandal. Attorney General Martha Coakley yesterday agreed to demands from groups of criminal defense lawyers and the Massachusetts ACLU to step down from the [...]
MA issues state of emergency before Sandy
Massachusetts authorities have issued a state of emergency in anticipation of high force winds, flooding and heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy. Federal experts warn that storm surge flooding threatens southern coasts from the Carolinas to Connecticut and Rhode Island, and advise residents to be wary of local alerts rather than looking to past storms. (Reporter [...]
Afghanistan Suicide Bombing Kills 25
By Caitlin O’Beirne A suicide bomber outside an Afghanistan mosque on Friday morning killed 45 people and wounded 60. The explosion occurred in front of the Eid Gah mosque in Maymana, the capital of the Faryab Province. Top officials were inside the mosque to participate in prayers for the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday. The New [...]
Reports of Contamination in MA Pharmacy
By Caitlin O’Beirne The United States Food and Drug Administration reported finding mold in the Framingham pharmacy linked to a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak. 83 vials of the steroid at the New England Compounding Center in Framingham had “greenish black foreign matter” said the FDA. They also reported 17 of the vials contained white fibers. [...]
Romney Promises Economic Recovery
By Caitlin O’Beirne Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s promised “big change” for the United States economy if he is elected in 11 days. At a speech to reporters in Iowa Friday, Romney said in order to restore the U.S. economy he would, “put aside the small and the petty, and demand the scale of change [...]
Syrian Cease-fire Fails to Bring Peace
By Caitlin O’Beirne A car bomb exploded near a playground in Damascus on Friday, interrupting the Syrian four-day cease-fire put in place in honor of the most important Muslim holiday. The blast killed five and injured more than 30, says the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks Syria from abroad. The cease-fire was arranged [...]
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Serenata de Amor Brings Cape Verde to Emerson
Serenata de Amor, a musical theater project spearheaded by visual media arts associate professor Claire Andrade-Watkins, was brought to Emerson this past year. The project is a tribute to the morna of Cape Verde and Brava set in the 1940s. Andrade-Watkins worked with a team of faculty and staff members from Emerson to bring Serenata [...]
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