Samantha Kummerer

2 weeks ago | whdh.com | Samantha Kummerer

They were promised profits but now investors across New England are left with regret. One of those investors is Steve Tripp. Tripp owns the TOP Strength Project, a gym in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. “It started small and then it grew to this,” Tripp said. He built the business from the bottom up. Two years ago he was ready to keep growing. So when one of his gym members, Chris Aubin, presented him with an investment opportunity, he agreed. “It seemed like a great opportunity,” Tripp said.

1 month ago | whdh.com | Samantha Kummerer

It was a shock for Dori when she found out she had just $11 for groceries in February. “It was a tough hit for me,” she said. Someone had stolen her SNAP benefits, the nearly $300 in government assistance she receives each month to buy food. “I’m also on disability so I’m on a very limited income. When that money is gone it’s very hard to replace. I mean what do you do?” Dori said.

1 month ago | whdh.com | Samantha Kummerer

The silence in their home is heartbreaking. The Mignosa family has gone four months without their lab, Cooper—four months without him greeting them at the door when they return home. “He was just the best. He was just part of our family,” Lisa Mignosa said. “It’s very devastating.” It’s been four months since the family has seen Cooper splash in the ocean and trot through the neighborhood. “Everyone in the town would know him. We’d walk him and they’d know him more than they knew me.

1 month ago | whdh.com | Samantha Kummerer

BOSTON (WHDH) - A routine bus ride left MBTA bus driver Patty Hardy fearing for her life. “He came to my door and he said, ‘I’ll stab you. I will kill you,’” Hardy remembered. “I’m like, is this how I’m going to die today?” The memory of one of her passengers threatening her life is still one that Hardy vividly remembers. “I could not get my seat belt off fast enough because I didn’t want to sit there and be a sitting duck, just in case he did want to stab me,” Hardy said.

2 months ago | whdh.com | Samantha Kummerer

PLYMOUTH, MASS. (WHDH) - The excitement of moving back home was quickly replaced by shock for Meghan McIntyre. “It’s like a never-ending nightmare,” McIntyre said. The nightmare started last fall when McIntyre and her boyfriend decided to move back to Plymouth and purchase their own home. Months later, instead of moving into the house they bought, they are forced to rent an apartment while also paying the mortgage on a home they aren’t allowed to live in. Instead, someone else is living in the house.