
Samantha Kummerer
Investigative Reporter at WHDH-TV (Boston, MA)
@7News Investigative Reporter 🎤 Previously @wmbfnews & @ABC11_WTVD🐯 @mujschool grad 🌃 Chicago native
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4 days ago |
whdh.com | Samantha Kummerer
HAVERHILL, MASS. (WHDH) - The peace Paul Bellos and Chelsea McQuaid once felt in their Haverhill home is derailed. The couple said the noise from trains just behind their house has reached intolerable levels. “It literally just surrounds you. There is no escape from it,” McQuaid said. “The best way I can explain it is if you’ve ever been to any concert …. when you hear the low bass, the reverb coming out,” Bellos said.
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2 weeks ago |
whdh.com | Samantha Kummerer
BOSTON (WHDH) - Flames, falling debris and flood waters have sparked concerns for drivers traveling through Boston’s tunnels. Over the past year, commuters have faced severe disruptions—from a chunk of concrete falling in the Prudential Tunnel to a multi-car fire that sent blinding smoke across the highway, to flooding that filled the Ted Williams Tunnel with several feet of water.
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1 month 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.
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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.
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2 months 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.
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