Jim Morelli

1 month ago | boston25news.com | Jim Morelli

SCITUATE, Mass. — Scituate residents are bracing themselves as a rare, even historic, storm is expected to hit the region Thursday and Friday. The Nor’easter is only the third in history, according to The Washington Post, to hit so late in the spring. (Interestingly, the other two storms also happened only in the last 35 years.) “Good news is, it’s not really the beach season yet, so we don’t have a lot of beach equipment out,” said Town Manager Jim Boudreau.

1 month ago | boston25news.com | Jim Morelli

CHATHAM, Mass. — Quint, Chief Brody, Matt Hooper — those were some of the characters moviegoers got to know 50 years ago this summer when the blockbuster “Jaws” was released. And, oh yes, there was Bruce: the collective name given to the various mechanical maneaters who terrorized Amity Island. Back in 1975, the premise of the movie notwithstanding, great white sharks were rarely seen off the Cape Cod coast.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jim Morelli

Quint, Chief Brody, Matt Hooper — those were some of the characters moviegoers got to know 50 years ago this summer when the blockbuster “Jaws” was released. And, oh yes, there was Bruce: the collective name given to the various mechanical maneaters who terrorized Amity Island. Back in 1975, the premise of the movie notwithstanding, great white sharks were rarely seen off the Cape Cod coast.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jim Morelli

High rents, student loan debt forcing local students to head home post-gradCHESTNUT HILL - Boston College held its 149th commencement Monday -- and one thing many of the graduates have in common: plans to move back home. “My job fortunately affords me the ability to work remotely,” said Jackson Schumacher, who earned a BS in neuroscience and is working for a research lab at Massachusetts General Hospital.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jim Morelli

Pope Leo XIV vowed Sunday to work for unity in a polarized Catholic Church and world, as history’s first American pope offered a message of healing during an inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square before an estimated 200,000 pilgrims, presidents, patriarchs and princes. Leo officially opened his pontificate by taking his first popemobile tour through the piazza, a rite of passage that has become synonymous with the papacy’s global reach and mediatic draw.