Lisa Hughes

6 days ago | kesq.com | Lisa Hughes

By Lisa HughesClick here for updates on this story Massachusetts ( WBZ) - Chicago native Robert Prevost is now the first pope ever from the United States. He chose Leo XIV as his papal name. People who knew him in his early days remember a friendly young man who had a calling. One of his high school classmates was Bob Schick of Walpole. Robert Prevost is everywhere in Schick's 1973 yearbook and now, in images around the world. "When I saw the picture (I thought) is that that Bob Prevost?

6 days ago | cbsnews.com | Lisa Hughes

Chicago-born Robert Prevost was elected Thursday as the first pope ever from the United States. He chose Leo XIV as his papal name. A Massachusetts man who went to high school with him says even as a teenager, the new pope was a superstar. Bob Prevost is everywhere in Bob Schick's 1973 yearbook and now, on screens around the world. "When I saw the picture I thought, is that that Bob Prevost? I saw the picture and yes it was," said Bob Schick of Walpole.

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Lisa Hughes

When Boston Mayor Michelle Wu addressed reporters about the death of a five-year old boy who was hit by a bus and killed in Hyde Park, her voice shook with emotion. Expressing sympathy for the boy's family and his community, she assured residents that the city's Community Healing Resource Network would be available to anyone who needed help to process the trauma.

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Lisa Hughes

Rev. Liz Walker has devoted her professional life to writing, telling, and sharing stories as a former reporter at WBZ-TV in Boston. Now, in her first book, she crafts a true story of pain and healing. Walker has experienced both pain and healing in her personal life and as a minister at Roxbury Presbyterian Church.  In "No One Left Alone," Walker writes about trauma's toll on an individual, its stifling power to rob us of our joy and our health, and on a community.

4 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Lisa Hughes

A nurse inspired to work at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital after they treated her father's brain injuries will be running for the hospital this Monday in the Boston Marathon. When Walter Rehak arrived at Spaulding in the back of an ambulance, he had recovered from the worst of his physical injuries. Rehak had survived a rollover crash in Peabody in January 2020. A medical helicopter lifted him from the highway to the hospital where he spent 10 days in a coma. Rehak broke his neck and his nose.