The city man charged with the death of 17-year-old Lundyn Treese in October 2024 was sentenced Friday afternoon to five to 10 years in a state correctional facility after pleading guilty to all charges. Jared Paul Detwiler, 21, was facing felony counts of homicide by vehicle while DUI and ...
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — The judge in the Lindsay Clancy trial said he was going to declare a mistrial Friday before suddenly changing course and giving her defense attorney one hour to appeal. Judge William Sullivan's stunning move came after he announced in court that jurors on Friday sent ...
CARROLLTOWN — Cambria Heights Elementary School students assembled solar-powered bugs and racers Thursday morning as part of an activity with representatives of Schneider Electric, the company that installed solar panels on the school’s rooftop earlier this year. In the school’s ...
NEW YORK — Gloria Steinem, the celebrated author and activist who became the most visible symbol of the U.S. women’s movement and remained a fierce and eloquent advocate for equality for six decades, has died. She was 92. With her trademark streaked hair parted down the middle and large ...
CARROLLTOWN — When Cambria Heights Elementary School students returned to school last Thursday, the district’s new rooftop solar array was already running and generating electricity for their classrooms, Superintendent Ken Kerchenske said. During a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday, ...
TOKYO — Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa, co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering and developing conductive polymers, has died. He was 90. The discovery by Shirakawa and two fellow American scientists, Alan Heeger and Alan MacDiarmid, demonstrated that plastic could conduct electricity like metal and be used in applications such as electronics. Shirakawa died on Aug. 24, according to the University of Tsukuba, where he taught and researched after joining in 1979. The university did not specify a cause of death. Born in Tokyo in 1936, Shirakawa earned a ...
