Louisa Moller

2 days ago | cbsnews.com | Matt Schooley |Louisa Moller

A young girl was seriously hurt Tuesday afternoon when they were hit with a falling tree branch at the Franklin Park Zoo. It happened around 12:45 p.m. in the area of the Farmhouse Café at the zoo. Massachusetts State Police said the child, who was only described as "school-aged," was taken to Boston Children's Hospital by ambulance. A parent who was at the zoo Tuesday told WBZ-TV that she heard the sound of the branch snapping.

3 days ago | cbsnews.com | Louisa Moller

Nicole Johnson plays "Ring Around the Rosie" with her three kids, ages 5, 3, and under 1 on her North Andover lawn. On the outside, she is calm and smiling, unable to tumble under pressure. On the inside, Johnson says her head is brimming with loose ends needing to be tied and grief she has no time to feel. On Valentine's Day 2024, Nicole's husband Chuck was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS, a fatal neurological disease, while Nicole was expecting their youngest.

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Louisa Moller

A child was struck and killed by a school bus in Boston's Hyde Park neighborhood on Monday afternoon. Boston police said it happened at about 2:42 p.m. in the area of 107 Washington Street. Police said the child was coming home from school and lived in the neighborhood. The boy was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. The child's age was not released. The driver of the bus is cooperating with the investigation, Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox said.

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Louisa Moller |Neal Riley

President Trump makes new threat to Harvard University after federal funding freeze President Trump issued a new threat to Harvard University on Tuesday after the federal government froze $2.2 billion in grant funding for the institution, suggesting that the Ivy League school "should lose its tax-exempt status and be taxed as a political entity." The president's latest statement came after the Cambridge, Massachusetts institution announced Monday that it will reject a list of demands from the...

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Louisa Moller

A 28-year-old man from Yarmouth Port is undergoing a mental health evaluation at Bridgewater State Hospital after police say he walked into Woburn District Court wearing a gas mask and sprayed pepper spray. Police say Nicholas Akerberg had a previously scheduled hearing at court for a charge out of Stoneham on Monday. He allegedly deployed pepper spray directed at multiple court officers, a Stoneham police officer and an assistant district attorney.