BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 9 -- The city of Boston issued the following news on Oct. 8, 2024: Today, the City of Boston announced the members of the working group that will assess community health needs following the closure of Carney Hospital, receive public feedback, and make recommendations to Governor Healey and Mayor Wu on next steps. The working group is co-chaired by Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, the Commissioner of Public Health for the City of Boston, and Michael Curry, the President and CEO of  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 9 -- The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation issued the following news release on Oct. 8, 2024: * * * $652,000 Project Provides Safer Access to Recreational Activities for the Community * * * The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) today celebrated the successful completion of a significant road rehabilitation project leading to Fishing Area 3 at the Quabbin Reservoir. To mark the completion of this project, DCR held a ribbon-cuttin  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 9 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release on Oct. 8, 2024: * * * Lawsuit Alleges TikTok Deliberately Exploited Young People to Induce Compulsive, Addictive Social Media Use for * * * Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell today filed a lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court against TikTok Inc. and its affiliated entities TikTok LLC, ByteDance Inc. and ByteDance Ltd. (collectively, "TikTok") for intentionally d  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 9 -- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued the following news on Oct. 8, 2024: * * * Mayor Michelle Wu Celebrates the Reopening of the BCYF Johnson Community Center * * * Mayor Michelle Wu today joined Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF), the Human Services Cabinet, the Property Management Department, the Boston Housing Authority, elected officials, and Mission Hill residents to officially reopen the BCYF Johnson Community Center following a $300,000 investment i  more

LOWELL, Massachusetts, Oct. 9 -- The University of Massachusetts Lowell campus issued the following news release: * * * Collection Chronicles Career in the Performing Arts * * * Writer, director and performer Jack Neary - whose plays have been staged around the world and who has appeared in films such as "Black Mass" and "The Town" - donated his professional papers to his alma mater, UMass Lowell. The Center for Lowell History at UMass Lowell, which is part of the university's library, now   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 8 -- Boston University issued the following news on Oct. 7, 2024: * * * From morning to evening, campus observances of first anniversary of October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, triggering Gaza war * * * By Rich Barlow and Molly Callahan On Monday, the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel that killed 1,200 Israelis, triggering a response that devastated the militant group and has left 41,000-plus Gazans dead, Boston University religious and student grou  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 9 -- Trinity College issued the following news: A Trinity College faculty member is dedicating time to writing their first monograph this semester at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. Blase Provitola, assistant professor of language and culture studies and women, gender, and sexuality, was named a research associate at the center, housed at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, for the fall semester. They will meet regularly with a cohort of o  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 9 -- The University of Massachusetts System issued the following news release: * * * Ambros honored for discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation * * * UMass Chan Medical School researcher Victor R. Ambros, PhD, will share the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his co-discovery of microRNA, the very short, single-stranded RNA molecules that are now understood to play a critical role in post-transcriptional gene regulati  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 9 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on Oct. 8, 2024: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined 21 attorneys general on an amicus brief in Triumph Foods v. Campbell at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The filing, which was led by the State of Iowa, makes the argument that Massachusetts is unconstitutionally regulating the transportation of pork where the livestock were not raised according to its highly burdensome regulations.  more