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New England knows winter, but why so dangerously cold?
wbur.org > news...and Newfoundland, churning up powerful winds, said meteorologist Donald Dumont at the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine.... ...New England.... ...In Portland, Maine, the wind chill was expected to dip to 40 below Fahrenheit (which is also minus 40 Celsius).... ...On Friday, winds were topping 100 mph (160 kph) and wind chills could reach minus 100 (minus 73 Celsius) atop New Hampshire's Mount Washington, where...
Hasty Pudding celebrates Jennifer Coolidge as its Woman of the Year
wbur.org > news...Coolidge, who saw a career resurgence following her Emmy-winning turn as Tanya McQuoid-Hunt in the acclaimed HBO series "The White Lotus," headlined... ..."The White Lotus" actress Jennifer Coolidge is being celebrated Saturday as the 2023 Woman of the Year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals... ...Previous winners of the Woman of the Year Award include Meryl Streep, Viola Davis and Debbie Reynolds.... ...Sarah Mann said in a statement....
Massachusetts mom to be arraigned in deaths of 3 children
wbur.org > news...Lindsay Clancy is facing murder and assault charges after her daughter, Cora, 5, and her son Dawson, 3, were strangled Jan. 24 inside the family... ...home in Duxbury, a coastal town about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Boston, investigators said.... ...Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday.... ...Her attorney on Friday received permission from a judge to be examined by a forensic psychologist for evidence of postpartum mood disorder, the Boston...
Two beloved Porter Square businesses are for sale
wbur.org > news...The plan was always to reopen Christopher"s, says Holly Heslop, co-owner of the restaurant group, which also runs the Lizard Lounge, Toad and Cambridge... ...The restaurant group Cambridge Eats and Beats is selling two of its beloved Porter Square businesses, one of which hasn't operated since the start... ...Cambridge Common and Lizard Lounge will remain up and running. "I love this business," she said.... ...It's taken three years to get Cambridge Common close to pre-pandemic numbers....
'Feral" tells story of National Parks travel and finding comfort in solitude
wbur.org > hereandnow...Add WBUR to your morning routine. Emily Pennington set out in early 2020 to travel to all of the 63 national parks in one year.... ...In her new book "Feral: Losing Myself and Finding My Way in America's National Parks," she writes about how being in nature and the wilderness helped... ...We revisit a conversation between Pennington and Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd from 2021. This segment aired on February 3, 2023....
Week in politics: Omar kicked off committee, talks start on police reform
wbur.org > hereandnow...Politico's Eugene Daniels and NBC's Scott Wong join Here & Now hosts Scott Tong and Peter O'Dowd to discuss the political takeaways from Republicans... ...Ilhan Omar off of the Foreign Affairs Committee for anti-semitic comments she's already apologized for, and whether Democrats and Republicans can...
Ex-tribal leader ordered to pay nearly $210K in bribery case
wbur.org > news...Cedric Cromwell, former chair of the Cape Cod-based Mashpee Wampanoags, was sentenced to three years in prison in Boston in November.... ...David DeQuattro, the owner of the Rhode Island architecture and design firm, was sentenced to a year of probation under home confinement.... ...upon the Mashpee Wampanoag Nation -- harm to its reputation through Mr.... ...Attorney Rachel Rollins of Massachusetts said the judgment, entered against Cromwell on Tuesday, "rightly addresses the immense harm these men inflicted...
Wind chills of -30 are coming to Boston. Here's how to prepare
wbur.org > news...Add WBUR to your morning routine. Do the Red Sox have any more room in those trucks? Because I would also like to sneak away to Florida today.... ...In parts of northern New Hampshire and Maine, the wind chills are expected to plummet below -50.... ...(As a former MBTA general manager once said, the system isn't designed for "Siberian temperatures."). - It's also too cold for construction -- so... ...Read more tips here from a dogsled musher on how to stay warm in the extreme cold. - Prepare your car: AAA spokeswoman Mary Maguire says batteries...
Wind chills of -30 are coming to Boston. Here's how to prepare
wbur.org > news...Add WBUR to your morning routine. Do the Red Sox have any more room in those trucks? Because I would also like to sneak away to Florida today.... ...In parts of northern New Hampshire and Maine, the wind chills are expected to plummet below -50.... ...(As a former MBTA general manager once said, the system isn't designed for "Siberian temperatures."). - It's also too cold for construction -- so... ...Read more tips here from a dogsled musher on how to stay warm in the extreme cold. - Prepare your car: AAA spokeswoman Mary Maguire says batteries...
The long history of financial fraud | Here & Now
wbur.org > hereandnow...As the FTX crypto currency swindle case unfolds in the courts, we talk to University of Maryland Baltimore County professor Amy Froide, who has studied... ...Add WBUR to your morning routine....