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1+ hour, 9+ min ago (15+ words) Eric Fisher has an updated weather forecast. Next Weather: WBZ Update Next Weather: WBZ Update...

1+ hour, 17+ min ago (35+ words) MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was shot and killed at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. WBZ-TV's Brandon Truitt reports. Brookline police investigate shooting death of MIT professor Brookline police investigate shooting death of MIT professor...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago (35+ words) More than 72 hours after the deadly shooting at Brown University, the person responsible is still on the run. WBZ-TV's Juli McDonald reports. Brown University shooting investigators release more videos of person of interest...

1+ hour, 44+ min ago (60+ words) More than 2,100 pounds of food were donated in a regional food drive organized by the City of Springfield, the Hampden County Sheriff's Office and the NAACP Springfield Chapter. More than 2,100 pounds of food were donated in a regional food drive organized by the City of Springfield, the Hampden County Sheriff's Office and the NAACP Springfield Chapter....

2+ hour, 31+ min ago (899+ words) December 16, 2025 / 9:59 PM EST / CBS Boston The MBTA has made incredible strides over the past two years, and Phillip Eng, the New Yorker who came out of retirement to fix the "T" is getting rave reviews." It's just before 9 a.m. on a Tuesday morning, the temperature is in the low teens and a bundled-up Eng moves briskly through Boston to the Chinatown MBTA stop. Trains don't always like the cold and this frigid morning has caused issues for a couple lines. In the past, that news might have T riders roll their eyes and say, "What else is new?" but these days the much maligned and often ridiculed transit system has been getting high marks. Ridership is up. Reliability is up. Customer satisfaction is up. Eng, the MBTA's general manager, has been getting much of the credit. The 64-year-old takes the MBTA…...

2+ hour, 58+ min ago (112+ words) The artist's sentient autonomous cars are endowed with intelligence but stripped of agency, drifting through a ruined society in the throes of burnout, anxiety and existential dislocation. It is within this binary that Lek has developed the notion of Sinofuturism. "China's evolving relationship to the future is the idea that anchors my universe," he reflected. "It comes from a lifetime lived in the space between East and West." Many of his videos unfold in environments reminiscent of East or Southeast Asia'dense housing blocks, towering skyscrapers, spaces that feel both hypermodern and already abandoned. These settings become ideal stages for examining the promises, illusions and failures embedded in technological "progress."...

3+ hour, 25+ min ago (446+ words) A homicide investigation has been launched following the fatal shooting of an MIT professor at his home in the US. The respected scholar was shot near his home on Monday, triggering a police investigation just 50 miles from a university mass shooting that led to numerous deaths, according to the Mirror. Nuno FG Loureiro, a 47 year old physicist, fusion scientist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was fatally shot on Monday evening at his residence in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was immediately rushed to hospital but sadly died on Tuesday, as confirmed by the Norfolk District Attorney's Office, reports The Mirror. As per the prosecutor's office, no suspects had been arrested as of Tuesday afternoon, with the investigation still underway. Loureiro, who joined MIT in 2016, was appointed last year to lead MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center. His goal…...

5+ hour, 34+ min ago (44+ words) Reliability and passenger satisfaction are up on the MBTA. WBZ-TV's David Wade took a ride on the Orange Line with T General Manager Phillip Eng to talk about the improvements. The MBTA has made incredible strides. Did Phillip Eng fix the T?...

5+ hour, 53+ min ago (54+ words) Toys for Joys bought more than $100,000 worth of presents for kids of all ages. The toys will be distributed to eight partners including every DCF office in Massachusetts. Non-profit Toys for Joys to distribute more than 8,000 gifts Non-profit Toys for Joys to distribute more than 8,000 gifts...

6+ hour ago (24+ words) Some Blandford, Massachusetts residents have concerns about clean energy projects including a battery energy storage system. Western Massachusetts town pauses huge clean energy project...