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BOSTON — For Boston subway riders, it seems every week brings a new tale of transit woe. Runaway trains. Subway cars belching smoke and fire. Fatal accidents. Malfunctioning station escalators. Rush hour trains running on weekend schedules. Brand-new subway cars pulled from service. Derailed construction vehicles. The repeated chaos of the nation's oldest subway system [...]
Jada Riley thought she had beaten homelessness. The 26-year-old New Orleans resident was finally making a steady income cleaning houses during the pandemic to afford a $700-a-month, one-bedroom apartment, but she lost nearly all her clients after Hurricane Ida hit last year. Then she was fired from a grocery store job in February after taking [...]
It should come as no surprise to anyone who has seen one of Erica Carlson’s performances for kids that she one day would write about the exploits of her two favorite four-legged friends — a hedgehog named Sedgie and the family dog Clover. The opportunity presented itself in the fall of 2020 at the height [...]
Angel Hope looked at the math test and felt lost. He had just graduated near the top of his high school class, winning scholarships from prestigious colleges, but on this test — a University of Wisconsin exam that measures what new students learned in high school — all he could do was guess. It was [...]
LOS ANGELES — An aggressive push toward renewable energy has run headlong into anxiety over keeping the lights on in California, where the largest utility is considering whether to try to extend the lifespan of the state's last operating nuclear power plant. California is the birthplace of the modern environmental movement that for decades has [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Five years after Brian Spaulding's parents found him fatally shot, his slaying remains a mystery that seems increasingly unlikely to be solved as Portland, Ore., police confront a spike in killings and more than 100 officer vacancies. Portland's homicide rate has surged 207 percent since 2019 and detectives working older cases [...]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Near-record amounts of seaweed are smothering Caribbean coasts from Puerto Rico to Barbados, killing fish and other wildlife, choking tourism and releasing stinky, noxious gases. More than 24 million tons of sargassum blanketed the Atlantic in June, shattering the all-time record, set in 2018, by 20 percent, according to the [...]
HONOLULU (AP) — In Hawaii, there's a common question posed in the pidgin language of the islands: "Where you went grad?" Knowing where someone went to high school has long been an important identity marker for Hawaii residents and helps connect people in the state's close-knit communities. It's an affiliation that goes far deeper than [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — On a recent, scorching afternoon in Albuquerque, off-road vehicles cruised up and down a stretch of dry riverbed where normally the Rio Grande River flows. The drivers weren't thrill-seekers, but biologists hoping to save as many endangered fish as they could before the sun turned shrinking pools of water into dust. [...]
WASHINGTON — The number of people living in America without health insurance coverage hit an all-time low of 8 percent this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced. "Every American has the right to the peace of mind that comes with access to affordable, quality health care," President Joe Biden said in [...]