Memorial Drive Shooting Coverage
On May 11, 2026, a gunman randomly fired dozens of rounds while walking down the middle of Memorial Drive in Cambridge, injuring two drivers before being fatally shot by police and a Marine veteran. Hannah was part of the team that covered the developing story for The Globe, reporting on the unfolding investigation and its aftermath.
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‘Why is he the one enduring this pain from a criminal?’ Man shot on Memorial Drive released from hospital, sister says.
May 22, 2026
The driver who was hit by multiple gunshots during the Memorial Drive shooting on May 11 returned home Wednesday, where he will continue his recovery, his sister said.
“It’s just been surgery after surgery. On Monday he was in the operating room for more than seven hours,” Sia Lelano, 47, said in a phone interview. (...)
Memorial Drive shooting victim sees long recovery ahead as he recalls terrifying encounter with gunman
May 23, 2026
Casimir Bangoura was backing his car out of a parking spot near Memorial Drive early on the afternoon of May 11 when a man suddenly appeared just a few feet from him, pointed an assault-style rifle, and pulled the trigger.
The gun jammed. (...)
‘He is an incredible hero’: Woman says former Marine saved her life during Cambridge shooting
May 12, 2026
A woman who was stuck in her car on Memorial Drive in Cambridge when a shooter opened fire Monday said a former Marine may have saved her life.
Rachael Saveriano was driving between work locations when she was forced to stop near the River Street Bridge around 1:20 p.m. (...)
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‘It’s a cornerstone of the community’: Alewife Station daycare to close after MBTA declines to renew lease
June 18, 2026
A longtime daycare center at Alewife Station is closing next month after the MBTA declined to renew its lease, leaving parents only a few weeks to find a new facility for their children.
Jeffrey Werrick, president of Sunrise Learning Academy, said the early education center has been at the Red Line station for 18 years and touted it as the least expensive daycare provider in the Cambridge area. (...)
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‘I’ve been crying like crazy’: Springfield mother seeks answers after son drowns on middle school class trip
June 17, 2026
A Springfield mother said she is devastated after her 14-year-old son drowned last week during a class field trip to a day camp in Granby, Conn.
E’mari Marshall-Woodard, an eighth-grader at Kiley Prep Middle School in Springfield, was in a swimming pool at High Meadow Day Camp with his classmates and other children last Wednesday when he became unresponsive, his mother said in an interview. (...)
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‘You know what you did to my daughter’: Police investigating after mother confronts Brockton mayor at graduation
June 10, 2026
Police are investigating after a woman interrupted Brockton High School’s graduation ceremony on Saturday to accuse the city’s mayor of inappropriate behavior toward her daughter.
In a video posted by the city’s public access channel, the woman can be seen running toward Mayor Moises M. Rodrigues, who is standing on the graduation stage, while shouting at him. (...)
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He was taking pictures of people dancing at a wedding in Maine. Then a guest stabbed him without warning.
June 1, 2026
A wedding photographer from Massachusetts said his recovery from being stabbed during a reception in Maine last weekend, a bizarre attack that left him with a foot-long scar down his chest, will take months.
But his own wedding, slated for September, will go forward as scheduled, he said. (...)
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‘It really felt like climbing in a dream.’ Mass. Everest climber recounts setting record time on world’s highest mountain.
May 31, 2026
After he climbed to the top of Mount Everest in record time, Tyler Andrews called his parents at home in Concord from the peak of the world’s highest mountain.
“I’ve been working toward this for almost six years, and my family has been on this journey the whole way including through some really painful failures,” Andrews, 36, said in a statement to the Globe sent over the weekend. (...)
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Brothers restore historic Boston ‘ghost sign’ on West End building: ‘This is gonna go away if we don’t do anything’
May 10, 2026
Once you start noticing them, you can’t stop.
Ghost signs — faded, hand-painted advertisements from years past — can be spotted on the exteriors of brick buildings. The century-old traces of paint carry a sense of nostalgia in many Boston neighborhoods.
Now two brothers, muralists and sign painters from North Carolina, are breathing new life into a ghost sign on a building in Boston’s West End, one of the last standing after the neighborhood was largely demolished in the 1960s. (...)
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The bright orange suits the astronauts are wearing? They came from Worcester.
April 6, 2026
On Easter Sunday, the Artemis II crew began their first test of the day: evaluating their Orion Crew Survival System suits.
Were the bright orange suits — designed and manufactured by the Worcester-based David Clark Co. — easy to put on in the space capsule? How difficult were they to eat and drink in? (...)
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‘That pot of money has pretty much run out.’ Affluent Marblehead could have to close the town library to balance its books.
March 17, 2026
Communities across the state are facing intense financial pressure this spring, as inflation causes expenses to surge.
In affluent Marblehead, local officials are even considering closing the town library, just two years after a $10 million renovation, to balance the books. (...)
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A backyard igloo in South Boston garnered millions of views online — before it was smashed with sledgehammers
February 13, 2026
A couple of weeks ago, Jack Tarca came across some videos of parents building igloos for their children with aluminum cake pans.
He told his friends, and it was soon decided — they would build a giant igloo for themselves in the backyard of Tarca’s South Boston apartment.
“Even though me and my roommates are around 26 years old, we’ve got a lot of kid in us still,” Tarca said. (...)