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Authorities have identified the two people killed in a single-engine plane crash near Bar Harbor, Maine, on Thursday. Maine State Police said the pilot was 71-year-old Michael Leibowitz, of Charleston, South Carolina, and the passenger was 57-year-old Christina Chung, of Livingston, New Jersey. Their plane crashed on approach to Hancock County-Bar ...

This is as good as it gets for late July, with warm air and sunny days. Free from clouds and rain, the weekend kicks off warm Friday with temperatures near 83 degrees for highs. The humidity has dropped, too, especially through western Massachusetts and the Merrimack Valley. With clear skies, temperatures are in the upper 50s and low 60s Friday&#82...

Biogen Alzheimer’s drug rejected by European Union

[This story first appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk.] It looks like an Indian gastropub is on its way to Boston. According to a Boston Licensing Board hearing page, Don’t Tell Aunty is planning to open in the city’s Fenway neighborhood, moving into a space on Boylston Street a short distance west of the Massachusetts Avenue intersectio...

The 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony will be unlike any other. Athletes will be floating down the Seine River to make their formal entrance to the Games. Hundreds of thousands of people will line the Seine for the first opening ceremony in Olympic history that won’t take place in a stadium! Instead, the athletes will wind through Paris on...

Hundreds of nurses at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood voted to authorize a one-day strike. For 10 months, they have been negotiating with Mass General Brigham leaders for a new contract but ultimately, the two sides are still far apart. “Progress has been made on several topics and we h...

Vermont State Police say they have arrested a man in connection with the murder of an 82-year-old woman who had been reported missing last week. Darren Martell, 23, of St. Albans, was arrested late Thursday on a charge of aggravated murder for the killing of Roberta Martin, of Enosburgh, according to state police. They said Martell had been living ...

Embattled medical system Steward Health Care announced Friday it plans to close two of its eight hospitals in Massachusetts within several weeks. Carney Hospital in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer will close around the end of August, according to an announcement from Steward, calling it a “chal...

The drier air came rushing in Thursday night after the downpours moved out. We’re in the pleasant air through the weekend with plenty of sun and warm temperatures and we’ll do our best to match last weekend’s gorgeousness. One big difference in this weekend’s forecast is the sea breeze that kicks in on Saturday. It’s a...

Biopharma cuts include CEO’s salary, 25% of jobs

Two gymnasts from Massachusetts are competing in their first Olympics in Paris, poised to help the U.S. men’s team do something it hasn’t done since 2008. Stoughton native Fred Richard and Worcester native Stephen Nedoroscik have both been dreaming of becoming Olympians since they were little. When he was a middle school student in Stou...

Nurses at Faulkner Hospital voted Thursday to authorize a strike, joining nurses at Brigham and Women’s who took a similar vote one night earlier. In another blow to hospital administration, nurses at Faulkner, part of the Brigham and Women’s system, were almost unanimous in their vote — 341 yes and just one no. This will impact a...

Boston police seized 20 mopeds Thursday during an operation they said was aimed at enforcing traffic laws for off-road vehicles. Officers patrolled the South End and Back Bay neighborhoods in search of unlicensed operators with unregistered and uninsured mopeds and motorcycles. Authorities say they focused their efforts on the 500 block of Boylston...