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Jan 10, 2025 | 
burnabynow.com | Michael Casey |Michael Casey
The District of Columbia on Friday filed a lawsuit against the federal government over pollution in the Anacostia River, arguing it has inflicted “catastrophic harm” on the mostly poor and minority communities living along the urban waterway. The lawsuit argues that federal government, which owns and controls the riverbed, has since the 1800s dumped toxic waste, heavy metals and chemicals including carcinogenic PCBs in the river and refused to clean it up.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
burnabynow.com | Lisa Rathke |Michael Casey
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
burnabynow.com | Lisa Rathke |Michael Casey
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
burnabynow.com | Michael Casey
BOSTON (AP) — As the quarterback for the storied Boston Latin Academy, Jack Shapiro has long relished playing some of his high school games at historic White Stadium. But this season, the closest Shapiro will get to the 75-year-old stadium is a grassy practice field in the shadows of the 10,000-seat facility. The stadium gates are padlocked most days in anticipation of the dilapidated stadium being renovated.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
bendbulletin.com | Michael Casey
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press HENNIKER, N.H. - When Hector Xu was learning to fly a helicopter in college, he recalled having a few "nasty experiences" while trying to navigate at night. The heart-stopping flights led to his research of unmanned aircraft systems while getting his doctorate degree in aerospace engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Then, he formed Rotor Technologies in 2021 to develop unmanned helicopters. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
burnabynow.com | Michael Casey
Since the #MeToo movement took off, a multitude of male celebrities have been accused of sexual misconduct, but only a handful of those in the music and film industries who have actually faced criminal charges. Sean “Diddy” Combs has now joined that short list of prosecuted stars.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
burnabynow.com | Michael Casey
BOSTON (AP) — A study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles and one that looks at the swimming abilities of dead fish were among the winners Thursday of this year’s Ig Nobels, the prize for comical scientific achievement.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
burnabynow.com | Michael Casey
BOSTON (AP) — A study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles and one that looks at the swimming abilities of dead fish were among the winners Thursday of this year’s Ig Nobels, the prize for comical scientific achievement.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
es-us.noticias.yahoo.com | Michael Casey
MICHAEL CASEY4 de septiembre de 2024, 1:54 p.m.·1 min de lecturaGLOUCESTER, Massachusetts, EE.UU. (AP) — Un adolescente transgénero en Massachusetts se está recuperando tras supuestamente ser atacado por otros estudiantes de secundaria en una fiesta. Jayden Tkaczyk, de 16 años, estaba en una fiesta al aire libre el viernes en la noche en Gloucester cuando cerca de una media docena de adolescentes lo atacaron y le profirieron insultos homofóbicos, dijo el abogado de Tkaczyk, Craig Rourke.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
burnabynow.com | Michael Casey
BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University has decided against removing the name of family whose company makes the powerful painkiller OxyContin, despite protests from parents whose children fatally overdosed. The decision last month by the Harvard Corporation to retain Arthur M. Sackler's name on a museum building and second building runs counter to the trend among several institutions around the world that have removed the Sackler name in recent years.
