Police Ice Bucket Challenge
The Boston Police Department has once again accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness for ALS! This year, Commissioner Evans with the BPD Command Staff, supervisors, officers, and civilian employees, will be dunked in ice water in honor of one of our own sergeant detectives who is courageously battling…
Media Station cautions staff: ‘Don’t go live’ if unsafe
In the wake of the horrific murders of a Virginia TV reporter and her cameraman that played out on live television, on-air reporters at one Boston station are being told to go straight to police headquarters if they feel like a broadcast may turn violent, according to one veteran Share…
NEIGHBORHOOD WALKS AGAINST VIOLENCE
Series of Walks with Boston Police, Community Leaders and Members Being Held Throughout Neighborhoods BOSTON - Monday, August 24, 2015 - The Mayor's Office of Public Safety is encouraging community members to join local leaders, Boston Police and other advocates in a series of neighborhood walks to engage with…
Extreme Storms
Atmospheric scientist tracks climate change’s effects on extreme storms. Several winters back, while shoveling out his driveway after a particularly heavy snowstorm, Paul O’Gorman couldn’t help but wonder: How is climate change affecting the Boston region’s biggest snow events? The question wasn’t an idle one for O’Gorman: For the past…
New White House drug program to help combat ‘national crisis’
Photo from iStock A missing link in the countrywide fight against the rise of heroin abuse is intelligence sharing between law enforcement and public health officials, according to Northeastern University drug policy expert Leo Beletsky. To close that link, the White House on Monday announced a new program that will…
Baker Challenges Walsh to ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
The Boston Police, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker participate in The Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness for ALS research. Boston Mayor Walsh accepted Governor Charlie Baker’s Ice Bucket Challenge and asked supporters to stand with him. Walsh stated, "In Boston, we stand up and meet our challenges head-on.…
MIT: Cancer Research Discoveries
Bogdan Fedeles (right), a research associate in the MIT Department of Biological Engineering and lead author on a new paper on the link between chronic inflammation and cancer, examines a DNA model with professor John Essigmann, who led the current research. Photo: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT Cambridge, MA: Chronic inflammation caused by disease…