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bostonherald. com > 04/25/2026 > 2-children-found-dead-in-wellesley-home-da-says

2 children found dead in Wellesley home, DA says

2+ hour, 40+ min ago  (94+ words) Wellesley Police discovered two children dead inside an Edgemoor Avenue home. A police department in Vermont called Wellesley Police at around 9: 30 p. m. Friday to ask them to conduct a well-being check at the home. When police performed that check, they found…...

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bostonherald. com > 04/08/2026 > british-baptism-death

British pastor charged with manslaughter after man drowns at baptism

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (215+ words) Boston Herald Cheryl Bartley, 48, faces one count of gross negligence manslaughter for the death of Robert Smith on Oct. 8, 2023 in Birmingham, prosecutors said. The Life Changing Ministries ceremony was being held in a kiddie pool and livestreamed on Facebook. Bartley…...

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bostonherald. com > 12/18/2025 > congress-energy-permitting

House backs bill to speed permitting reviews for new energy and infrastructure projects

4+ mon, 6+ day ago  (678+ words) By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press The bill, dubbed the SPEED Act, would enact the most significant change in decades to the National Environmental Policy Act, a bedrock environmental law that requires federal agencies to consider a project's possible environmental impacts…...

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bostonherald. com > 12/04/2025 > arkansas-county-immigration-crackdown

A quiet corner of Arkansas has become a hot spot for US immigration crackdown, AP finds

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1783+ words) By RYAN J. FOLEY and JULIO CORTEZ, Associated Press Best known as home to Walmart headquarters, the county and the wider region have emerged as a little-known hot spot in the Trump administration's crackdown, according to an Associated Press review of…...

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bostonherald. com > 10/17/2025 > arkansas-murder-suspect-sheriff

An Arkansas father accused of murder says he's running for sheriff while awaiting trial

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (459+ words) By SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press An Arkansas father accused of killing his daughter's alleged abuser is running for sheriff while awaiting his murder trial, saying he has seen the failures of law enforcement in his rural county. Aaron Spencer, an…...

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bostonherald. com > 10/07/2025 > missing-store-cat-returns

Purrfect ending: Missing Virginia store cat found after hitching a ride to another state

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (593+ words) By JULIE WALKER and JOHN RABY Francine the calico cat is back home at a Lowe's store in Virginia after going missing for a few weeks, hitching a ride on a truck that turned up at a sister facility in…...

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bostonherald. com > 10/06/2025 > bear-mauling-arkansas

Authorities shoot and kill black bear believed to have fatally mauled man in Arkansas

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (249+ words) The body of Max Thomas of Springfield, Missouri, was discovered Thursday several yards outside the Sam's Throne campground in northwest Arkansas, Newton County Sheriff Glenn Wheeler said. A deputy had gone to the campground after the man's son reported he…...

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bostonherald. com > 08/31/2025 > did-we-wait-too-long-to-help-cat

Did we wait too long to help cat?

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (414+ words) The surgery went well but the vet suggested a biopsy and it came back as something called squamous cell carcinoma. We just had to put our 16-year-old cat to sleep for a painful and nasty skin tumor between her shoulder…...

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bostonherald. com > 08/14/2025 > arkansas-hikers-killed-hearing

Teacher charged with killing of hikers at Arkansas park pleads not guilty to murder

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (203+ words) Andrew James Mc Gann entered the plea during a brief hearing before a state judge at Washington County's jail Thursday morning. Circuit Judge Joanna Taylor scheduled Mc Gann's next hearing for Nov. 14. He's being held without bond. Mc Gann has…...

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bostonherald. com > 08/04/2025 > arkansas-mass-shooting-sentencing

Arkansas man sentenced to life without parole for 2024 mass shooting at grocery store

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (287+ words) A state judge sentenced Travis Eugene Posey to four life sentences for each count of capital murder. Posey was also sentenced to 220 years in prison for 11 counts of attempted capital murder. Posey pleaded guilty last month to the shooting, which…...