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Suffolk MA
Lifestyle
Mass Ranks No. 1 In Best States To Raise Family: Study Mass Ranks No. 1 In Best States To Raise Family: Study
Mass Ranks No. 1 In Best States To Raise Family: Study With rising rents and high mortgage rates, it’s getting harder to find the best places for families with kids — but Massachusetts was still named the best state to raise a family in 2024. WalletHub’s January report compared all 50 states to find out the best place in the country to raise a family. Cassandra Happe, WalletHub analyst, described how her team ranked each state: “It’s crucial to consider economic factors when deciding where to raise a family, like the job market, average income and housing costs. It’s also important to look beyond dollars and cents, as things like low-quality s…

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by Khier Casino
Monmouth
Obituaries
'We Lost Our Internet Grandma:' Whimsical Holmdel TikTok Star Lynja Yamada Davis Dies At 67 'We Lost Our Internet Grandma:' Whimsical Holmdel TikTok Star Lynja Yamada Davis Dies At 67
'We Lost Our Internet Grandma:' Whimsical Holmdel TikTok Star Lynja Yamada Davis Dies At 67 Lynn "Lynja" Yamada Davis, 67-year-old TikToker and New Jersey resident who thrilled millions with her cooking and humor, has died. Davis, of Holmdel, died of esophageal cancer at Riverview Medical Center on Jan. 1, the New York Times reports. Her death was announced by her children on Instagram on Friday, Jan. 12. "Our mom, Lynn Yamada Davis (aka Lynja, the goat, the best to ever do it, small in stature but massive in might, Marge Simpson, Snow White, the bus driver, the queen that was never not slaying, Fort Lee’s finest, the grilling grandma, the internet’s grandma, mini lynnie, little …

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by Cecilia Levine
Capital District
Schools
Hochul Vows 'Aggressive' Discipline For Colleges Letting 'Jewish Genocide' Calls Go Unchecked Hochul Vows 'Aggressive' Discipline For Colleges Letting 'Jewish Genocide' Calls Go Unchecked
Hochul Vows 'Aggressive' Discipline For Colleges Letting 'Jewish Genocide' Calls Go Unchecked New York colleges that fail to swiftly punish calls for Jewish genocide will face “aggressive” repercussions, including potentially losing their funding, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced. In a letter to New York State college and university presidents on Saturday, Dec. 9, Hochul said she had reached out to SUNY Chancellor John King “to ensure that it is SUNY’s policy that calling for the genocide of any group of people” on campuses violated the university’s code of conduct and would lead to “swift disciplinary action.” “Chancellor King affirmed that was the case, and that SUNY will not tolerate …

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by Michael Mashburn
Norfolk
Real Estate
Price Drop: Brookline Mansion With Underground Tunnel, 11 Bathrooms Falls By $3M Price Drop: Brookline Mansion With Underground Tunnel, 11 Bathrooms Falls By $3M
Price Drop: Brookline Mansion With Underground Tunnel, 11 Bathrooms Falls By $3M A nine-bedroom, 23,000-square-foot mansion in Brookline that has an underground tunnel leading to an Olympic-sized indoor pool has cut its selling price by $3 million. The $25 million Georgian Revival-style mansion on 333 Lee St., listed by Tracy Campion and Ryan Clunan of Campion and Company, is set on more than 3 acres of landscaped grounds. The property has over 3 acres of landscaped grounds. Tracy Campion and Ryan Clunan of Campion and Company “The main residence showcases museum quality detail unequaled by any other residence in Brookline and has been thoroughly updated, now c…

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by Khier Casino
Bucks
News
Philly Ophthalmology Resident Tries Not To Cry In Emotional Return To 'Jeopardy!' Philly Ophthalmology Resident Tries Not To Cry In Emotional Return To 'Jeopardy!'
Philly Ophthalmology Resident Tries Not To Cry In Emotional Return To 'Jeopardy!' Philadelphia ophthalmology return to "Jeopardy!" on Friday, Dec. 1 was a meaningful one. Bryce Hwang tried not to shed any tears as he paid a tribute to his grandfather, who died last week, during Final Jeopardy in the Wildcard Champions Tournament. The question was: The Goshute, a western people, called this body of water Teittse Paa, meaning, "bad water." Hwang, with $10,400 said: What is the Great Salt Lake? Ken Jennings asked Hwang, who answered correctly, if he had recently lost his grandfather. Hwang said he did, last week, noting he was a "Jeopardy!" fan. "That's a lovely tri…

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by Cecilia Levine
Nassau
News
Baldwin Native Will Command Next SpaceX Mission Baldwin Native Will Command Next SpaceX Mission
Baldwin Native Will Command Next SpaceX Mission NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission, which will relieve the current crew on the International Space Station for a six-month stint, will be commanded by one of Long Island’s own, the agency announced. Prepare for liftoff! Lieutenant Colonel Jasmin Moghbeli, age 40 from Baldwin, will be the commander of a four-person team dubbed Crew-7 for SpaceX’s next mission, which is scheduled to launch on Friday, Aug. 25. The mission will mark Moghbeli’s first space flight. According to NASA, Moghbeli will be leading a team of three other international astronauts — ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut And…

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by Sophie Grieser
Middlesex MA
Lifestyle
Somerville Hotel Scores Number 2 Spot On Yelp's 'Top 100 Places To Stay' List Somerville Hotel Scores Number 2 Spot On Yelp's 'Top 100 Places To Stay' List
Somerville Hotel Scores Number 2 Spot On Yelp's 'Top 100 Places To Stay' List Guests can check into three Massachusetts hotels and expect a five-star experience knowing that Yelp ranked them of the highest in America. Yelp's list of top 100 places to stay in America for 2023 was released on Wednesday, May 16 and multiple Massachusetts hotels made the cut. Ranked based on factors that include total volume and ratings of Yelp reviews, the list helps travelers choose where to stay with confidence.  A Somerville stay nearly tops Yelp's list, coming in at the number two spot. The Cambria Somerville, located at 515 Somerville Avenue, brings "a true experience of our neigh…

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by Morgan Gonzales
Suffolk MA
Police & Fire
Level 3 Sex Offender Accused Of Assaulting MIT Student In Boston's Back Bay Level 3 Sex Offender Accused Of Assaulting MIT Student In Boston's Back Bay
Level 3 Sex Offender Accused Of Assaulting MIT Student In Boston's Back Bay Boston Police arrested a registered sex offender in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a Boston college student in Back Bay that happened this month.  Nahom Getaneh was charged with assault to rape and indecent assault and battery and ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing on May 1, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office.  Getaneh, age 33, allegedly assaulted an MIT student in the area of Beacon Street and Public Alley 908 on Saturday, April 22, Boston25 reports. Surveillance images from the assault that happened in the area of Beacon S…

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by Morgan Gonzales
Middlesex MA
Business
Cambridge Hot Spot For Chinese, Sichuan Cuisine Closing After 40 Years Cambridge Hot Spot For Chinese, Sichuan Cuisine Closing After 40 Years
Cambridge Hot Spot For Chinese, Sichuan Cuisine Closing After 40 Years A Chinese restaurant popular among locals and college students in the Boston area is shutting down after four decades. Mary Chung Restaurant will be officially closing on Saturday, Dec. 31, according to several social media posts. Patrons have posted pictures of a sign on the door of the restaurant announcing the owner's retirement after 40 years.  "The stars are aligning to tell us the time has come for retiring," the sign reads. "Thank you MIT. Thank you Cambridge. Thank you everyone for 40 wonderful years."  Wow. Mary has earned the hell out of this retirement. Posted by Drew Starr…

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by David Cifarelli
Cumberland Salem
News
These New Jersey Colleges Ranked Among Best In America These New Jersey Colleges Ranked Among Best In America
These New Jersey Colleges Ranked Among Best In America New Jersey boasts one of the highest college graduation rates in America, and with top-rated small and large, public and private universities, it's no surprise since there seems to be a school to fit every sort of student— 30 of which have ranked among the top 1,500 on the US News & World Report's 2022-2023 Best Colleges.  Princeton was the highest ranking overall in both the state and the country. The first place status has it outranking MIT, Harvard, Stafford, Yale — the latter three of which tied— the University of Chicago, and the University of Pennsylvania— which tied…

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by Jillian Pikora
Suffolk MA
Schools
Survey: MIT Takes First Place In 2023 Nationwide Rankings Survey: MIT Takes First Place In 2023 Nationwide Rankings
Survey: MIT Takes First Place In 2023 Nationwide Rankings It's back to school for college students and with the start of the school year comes so many questions from what to wear on the first day to navigating your course curriculum.  But have you ever wondered where your school ranks in comparison to colleges and universities across the country? For students at one Boston-area university, they can relax knowing their school reigns supreme, according to a survey from Niche.  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) took the number one spot on Niche's 2023 Best Colleges in America. The list gives each school a letter gra…

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by David Cifarelli
Suffolk MA
News
Robert Downey Jr. Bikes Around Boston During Visit To MIT, Cambridge Robert Downey Jr. Bikes Around Boston During Visit To MIT, Cambridge
Robert Downey Jr. Bikes Around Boston During Visit To MIT, Cambridge Iron Man ditched the thrusters and rocket packs on his suit during his visit to Boston this week when he toured Tony Stark's alma mater MIT. Instead, actor Robert Downey Jr. pedaled his way around Cambridge on a bike Wednesday, Aug. 10, to highlight his initiative to save the planet for real and not just in his movies.  Downey shared several photos and videos of his exploits around town through the social media account for his FootPrint Coalition, which invests in technologies that fight climate change and promote sustainability.  He posted a video explaining the value of bike lanes as he …

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by Josh Lanier
Rye
Obituaries
Rye Native Dr. Louis Barton Was A True Scholar Rye Native Dr. Louis Barton Was A True Scholar
Rye Native Dr. Louis Barton Was A True Scholar Longtime Westchester resident Dr. Louis Wyatt Gunn Barton died in late August at Little Farm, his home of 40 years in Ocie, MO.  Dr. Barton, age 72, was a lifelong student with prodigious academic successes. He was top student and class president at George School, and he graduated magna cum laude from Yale. He studied for masters degrees at Harvard and MIT and earned a doctoral degree in Software Engineering from Oxford University in England.  During his Oxford years, he suffered from ill health and did most of his studying at his home in Ocie. Oxford made an extraordinary deci…

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by Daily Voice
Worcester
News
MIT Lists Top 10 'Breakthrough' Technologies Of 2021 MIT Lists Top 10 'Breakthrough' Technologies Of 2021
MIT Lists Top 10 'Breakthrough' Technologies Of 2021 The MIT list of this year’s most important technologies says that 2021 will bring improvements in vaccination, online recommendation algorithms, batteries, and data protection. This is the 20th time the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has released a list of the “Top 10 Breakthrgouh Technologies of the Year.” MIT highlights technology that is already changing lives while others are still a few years off, authors explained. The most important technology for 2021 is the development of Messenger RNA vaccines. mRNA vaccines have been around for about 20 years but got a boost to pr…

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by Kristin Palpini
Brookfield
News
Murder Warrant Secured In Yale Grad Student Killing Murder Warrant Secured In Yale Grad Student Killing
Murder Warrant Secured In Yale Grad Student Killing Police have secured a murder warrant for a man wanted in connection with the shooting death of a Yale University graduate student. New Haven Police said they have a secured a murder warrant for Qinxuan Pan, age 29, in connection to the brutal killing of the student at Yale's School of the Environment, Kevin Jiang, age 26, last month in New Haven.  Police had previously named Pan as a “person of interest.”  Pan, whose last known address is Malden, Massachusetts, has not been located and is believed to have last been seen in Georgia.  The U.S. Marshalls are offering a $10,000 reward for in…

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by Kathy Reakes
New Haven
Police & Fire
Person Of Interest In Yale Grad Student Death Considered 'Armed And Dangerous' Person Of Interest In Yale Grad Student Death Considered 'Armed And Dangerous'
Person Of Interest In Yale Grad Student Death Considered 'Armed And Dangerous' Police have identified a person of interest in the shooting death of a Yale University grad student. Kevin Jiang, age 26, was shot to death on Lawrence Street between Nicoll and Nash streets in New Haven on Saturday, Feb. 6, said New Haven Police. Police Chief Otoniel Reyes said Wednesday the department searching for Qinxuan Pan, age 29, in connection with Jiang’s death. During a press conference, the chief said they believe Pan was in the area at the time of the killing and consider him a person of interest, although he is not officially a suspect at this time. “We are not prepared to id…

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by Kathy Reakes
North Rockland
Schools
Area High School Senior Discovers Planet During NASA Internship Area High School Senior Discovers Planet During NASA Internship
Area High School Senior Discovers Planet During NASA Internship Three days into a summer internship at NASA, 17-year-old Scarsdale High School senior Wolf Cukier discovered a brand-new planet 1,300 light-years away. Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, Cukier found a “circumbinary planet,” or a celestial object that orbits two stars. Cukier’s discovery came in June, but it was only brought to light this week by NASA at the 235th American Astronomical Society meeting in Honolulu. “I was looking through the data for everything the volunteers had flagged as an eclipsing binary, a sy…

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by Zak Failla
Suffolk NY
Schools
Stony Brook Professor Shares $3M Breakthrough Prize Stony Brook Professor Shares $3M Breakthrough Prize
Stony Brook Professor Shares $3M Breakthrough Prize A Stony Brook University professor will share a $3 million breakthrough physics prize. Professor of physics Peter van Nieuwenhuizen is one of three recipients of the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He is recognized along with Sergio Ferrara of CERN and Daniel Z. Freedman of MIT and Stanford University for their “invention of supergravity, in which quantum variables are part of the description of the geometry of spacetime," according to Stony Brook University. Freedman was on the university faculty at the time of the 1976 discovery. The theorists are architects of superg…

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by Donna Christopher
Stamford
Obituaries
Sailboat Racer, Stamford Hospital, Ferguson Library Volunteer Patti Rockhill Dies At 83 Sailboat Racer, Stamford Hospital, Ferguson Library Volunteer Patti Rockhill Dies At 83
Sailboat Racer, Stamford Hospital, Ferguson Library Volunteer Patti Rockhill Dies At 83 Patricia (Patti) Rockhill died on Friday, Jan. 11, 2019 at her beloved harbor-side home in Stamford, surrounded by her books, her dearly loved springer spaniel Georgia and her family. She was 83. The youngest of three children, Patti was born in Rochester, to George and Estell VanEpps and is survived by her brothers George (Grace) and Donald; both residing in Rochester. After graduating high school, Patti moved to New York City and worked at several world-class enterprises as a paralegal, including the L.A. Times and her beloved PepsiCo in Purchase. She attended The College of New Rochelle …

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by Contributed
Chappaqua
Schools
Horace Greeley High School Senior Named National Finalist For Neuroscience Research Award Horace Greeley High School Senior Named National Finalist For Neuroscience Research Award
Horace Greeley High School Senior Named National Finalist For Neuroscience Research Award A local high school student is one of the 12 national finalists for the prestigious Neuroscience Research Award. Isha Puri, Horace Greeley High School senior, conducted research surrounding dyslexia, developing a way to screen children for the disorder using a standard computer webcam. Puri has won several awards for her research, including the Second Grand Prize Award in her category at the 2018 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the 2018 MIT THINK Scholar award, the 2018 National Security Agency Mathematics Honors award and the 2018 Regeneron WESEF Neuroscience fi…

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by Valerie Musson
Fairfield
Schools
Yale Professor Wins Nobel Prize For Economics Yale Professor Wins Nobel Prize For Economics
Yale Professor Wins Nobel Prize For Economics A Yale University professor who is considered the world's leading economist on climate change has been awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on environmental issues. William Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, received the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences for “integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis.” VIDEO: A New Haven press conference held in recognition of the highly-prestigious award at the Yale School of Management can be viewed by clicking here or on the first image above.  “I am honored to be awarded the Nobel Prize i…

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by Jon Craig
Wilton
Business
Wilton’s Cadenza Innovation CEO, Founder Making A Difference Wilton’s Cadenza Innovation CEO, Founder Making A Difference
Wilton’s Cadenza Innovation CEO, Founder Making A Difference Many a historical novel set in the 19th century starts this way: A beloved daughter is perceived precocious and spoiled by society because her avant-garde parents encourage her love of learning and expose her to the top intellectual minds of the time.  Ultimately, our brave heroine has to make a choice of whether to pursue her scientific dreams or settle for more traditional feminine pursuits. The traditional pursuits usually win. Fortunately, this is neither the 19th century nor a novel. Cadenza Innovation’s CEO and Founder Christina Lampe-Onnerud was born in Sweden into a scientifically m…

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by Vira Mamchur Schwartz