On the morning of August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden murdered her stepmother with an axe in the Borden’s Fall River, Massachusetts family home. Abby Borden’s body was found in the guest room between the bed and bureau. Soon after, Lizzie axed her father, Andrew Borden, to death. While th...
Jurors in the murder trial of Karen Read in Massachusetts continued to hear testimony Friday three weeks after the prosecution called their first witness to the stand. Read is accused of hitting her boyfriend with a car and leaving him to die in the show, but her lawyers say she's being ...
Is Poker Legal in Massachusetts? Gambling in Massachusetts was finally signed into law in 2011. However, the first commercial casino only opened to business seven years later. The Expanded Gaming Act, passed on November 22, 2011, allowed MA to have three resort casinos and one slot parlor. Pl...
Map created by the CDC As a parent of 3 young kids few maps have resonated as much as the map above showing where people are getting less than 7 hours sleep a night, the amount the Center for Disease Control (CDC) considers enough. The map itself was from 2014, but I’ve managed ...
So, just as we've mentioned fall hot spots like Cape Cod in Massachusetts, here's another one in the Old Bay State: Lenox. As you'd expect in this culture-rich part of the country, there are lots of lovely outdoor-type activities to participate in as you take in the annual visual ...
Major examples (poor condition): Cornwall Creek Dam, Little Black River Structure B, Trowbridge Dam, Manistique Papers Dam 45. Massachusetts Total high-hazard dams:329(4.7 per 100,000 residents) Share potentially dangerous: 16.1% Assessed to be an immediate threat: 2.1% ...
The Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission (MCD) built the Daly Rink around 60 years ago, and it is is now owned by DCR and privately managed by the Newton Country Day School. Locals consider this to be one of the best rinks in the area, partly because of its accessibility to the...
He was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, on May 21, 1864, the son of James C. and Margaret Crotty Williams and, as he narrates in describing his family background and childhood experiences, went to sea at an early age. It was in 1897 that he first began to write about life in ...
Since 1990, significant transformations have taken place in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Our cities and towns are more crowded and there are more vehicles on the roads than ever before. As a consequence, the roads inNew Bedford, Providence, Fall River, and Tauntonhave become heavily cong...
9. Lizzie Borden’s Massachusetts home The Borden house at 230 Second St. in Fall River, MA (Creative Commons) To this day, it’s a mystery who bludgeoned Lizzie Borden‘s father and stepmother to death on Aug. 4, 1892, in their Fall River, MA, home. ...