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A Pop Warner cheerleading squad from Woburn, Massachusetts, is headed to nationals at Disney World after all. Their trip to the competition was originally in jeopardy due to some cheer confusion.

A Massachusetts Pop Warner cheerleading squad is headed to nationals at Disney World after all. The Woburn squad was told by the league a mistake was made in scoring and couldn’t go but has since reversed its decision.

A skeleton recently found on California’s second-highest mountain could be the remains of a Japanese-American man who disappeared from an internment camp during the waning days of World War II.

Antonio Brown isn’t the only exciting new member of the New England Patriots! The Patriots’ grounds team is getting their own new team member who can dash across an NFL field with the best of them — a rescue dog named Boyd.

Police have publicly identified an elevator worker who died in an accident at the Massachusetts headquarters of travel company TripAdvisor. Needham police say 52-year-old James Jacobs died in the accident Tuesday morning.

The U.S. water polo team says that a fatal nightclub collapse in South Korea that injured some of team members united them as a group and gave them new perspective to make the best out of life. Team members and other competitors from the world swimming championships were celebrating an unprecedented third straight world title for the U.S. women’s water...

The world’s largest bee, last seen by a scientist in 1981, is not extinct after all, NBC News reported. A single female was found and documented earlier this year on an Indonesian island, an Australian university and other groups said Thursday. The bee, Megachile pluto, also known as “Wallace’s giant bee” — named after British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace who...

This winter has had very little snow so far. Can we expect a heavy yield later in the season?

When a Massachusetts grandmother picked up the phone, the voice on the other end sounded like her teenage grandson. The caller, who knew Fran Shea’s grandson’s name, said he was in trouble. He’d been in a car accident and alcohol was involved. He’d also spent the previous night in jail.

We realize that voting is important and that everyone should do it tomorrow. (Yes, it’s an election day on Tuesday, Nov. 6, from 7 a.m.-8 p.m.) But here’s so more incentive to get you to the polls! Make sure to get one of those “I Voted” stickers and take advantage of it around Boston on Election Day: The Cranberry...

French rescuers on Friday were unable to find the possible sign of life they detected a day earlier under hotel rubble, a week after the destructive earthquake and tsunami struck Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing more than 1,550 people and burying hundreds in mud and debris. The five-member International Emergency Firefighters team said late Thursday its sensor “detected the presence of...

Wells Fargo, the third-biggest U.S. bank, plans to lower its employee headcount by 5 percent to 10 percent in the next three years as part of its ongoing turnaround plan, the company announced Thursday. The bank has 265,000 employees, meaning the reduction would result in a loss of between 13,250 and 26,500 jobs.

Three young soccer players who were trapped with other team members for almost three weeks in a cave in northern Thailand were granted Thai citizenship on Wednesday along with their 25-year-old coach. All four had been stateless, and their lack of citizenship deprived them of some basic benefits and rights, including the ability to travel outside of Chiang Rai, the...

The young soccer teammates and their coach who were rescued after being trapped in a cave in northern Thailand took part in a Buddhist ceremony Tuesday as they prepared to be ordained to become Buddhist novices and monks. Eleven of the boys and their coach prayed to ancient relics and offered drinks and desserts placed in gilded bowls to spirits...

He may not have the height, but this new player certainly has the strength and the heart to join Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s men’s basketball team. Boston-headquartered national nonprofit Team IMPACT, whose mission is to improve the quality of life for children facing serious and chronic illnesses through the power of team, along with WPI Men’s Basketball, held a special draft...

Researchers studying a trail of fossilized footprints on a remote New Mexico salt flat have determined the tracks tell the story of a group of Ice Age hunters stalking a giant sloth. Park naturalist David Bustos says the series of tracks and adult and children’s footprints found at White Sands National Monument shows someone followed a now-extinct giant ground sloth,...

A defense investigator in a death penalty case has been jailed indefinitely for refusing to testify for prosecutors, saying that helping their effort to execute a defendant would violate her religious beliefs. Greta Lindecrantz, a Mennonite who opposes capital punishment, refused for a third day Wednesday to answer questions in court about her work as part of a death penalty...

There were eight different scenarios for what would happen if the U.S. men’s curling team defeated Great Britain Tuesday night. There were also eight scenarios for what would happen if they lost, none of which featured them making the semifinals. Sitting on a record of 4-4, the U.S. was in a win-and-you’re-in situation, and they knew it. Luckily for John...

A nurse’s Facebook rant about the “cesspool of funky flu” in emergency room waiting areas is getting a lot of attention.

For the first time, an officer who helped take down the shooter in the July 7, 2016 ambush is talking publicly about what happened.