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Utica Observer Dispatch
April 3, 2018
FILE - In this April 3, 2006 file photo, former Liberian President Charles Taylor makes his first appearance at the Special Court in Freetown, Sierra Leone. ... Blues musician B.B. King played to a packed auditorium of residents and press at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Norfolk, Mass., April 3,Ãâà...
wwlp.com
February 10, 2018
PALMER, Mass. (WWLP) – Students from Pathfinder Regional Technical High School competed Saturday afternoon for a chance to represent Massachusetts at the National Automotive Technology Competition later this year. Ben Lamica and Tom Johnson, both of Palmer, represented Pathfinder RegionalÃâà...
wwlp.com
January 24, 2018
HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – It's been an inconsistent winter, so far this season. The first day of winter was December 21 and since then, it seems like we've had a little bit of everything. Since winter began, western Massachusetts has gotten 20 inches of snow. We also broke four record low temperaturesÃâà...
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January 23, 2018
HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – A Massachusetts State Police Dog tracked down a man who allegedly ran away after crashing his car in Holyoke on January 15. According to state police media relations, police dog Brutus allegedly found the driver about 150 yards from the crash site, laying partiallyÃâà...
wwlp.com
January 9, 2018
People in nearly 30 communities across the state could be eligible to get priority review of applications for marijuana licenses. Several of those communities are in western Massachusetts. The law requires that the Commission create policies that encourage people from communities that have previouslyÃâà...
SouthCoastToday.com
December 26, 2017
The members devoted many hours poring through the voluminous Cuffe papers at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and local census and property ... Cuffe became involved with the ultimately failed British attempt to make Sierra Leone in Africa a destination for free blacks who had fled to NovaÃâà...
wwlp.com
December 12, 2017
CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Two local Dunkin' Donuts' handed out free coffee to their first 500 guests as part of their “Brewing Joy” program. Dunkin' Donuts also donated $1,000 to the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, which received an additional $5,000 grant from the company's Joy in ChildhoodÃâà...
wwlp.com
December 5, 2017
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A man is dead after he was taken to the hospital with serious injuries following a house fire in Springfield Tuesday afternoon. Springfield Fire Department spokesman Dennis Leger told 22News they were called to a fire at 88 Melrose Street at 1:25 p.m. A 69-year-old manÃâà...
wwlp.com
November 19, 2017
In becoming more wolflike, the coyotes might become more effective predators, scientists said. And the genetic changes bode well for their ability to keep thriving in highly populated areas, including New York City and Cape Cod, Massachusetts, as well as the deer-rich woods of Maine and upstate NewÃâà...
wwlp.com
September 29, 2017
LEOMINSTER, Mass. (WTNH) – A Leominster, Massachusetts man is behind bars after attacking a school bus with a pipe and a machete. Students were on the bus at the time, watching in fear. Jennifer Price's son says that he is still afraid to get back on the bus, even though their neighbor, Ricardo Morales,Ãâà...
SouthCoastToday.com
September 20, 2017
“He was already well-known in Quaker circles” as a successful businessman and abolitionist who was supporting the proposed colonization of Sierra Leone in East Africa with freed blacks from the United States, Julye noted. He later transported a boatload of colonists to that country, along with theÃâà...
SouthCoastToday.com
September 9, 2017
Paul Cuffe, a Southeastern Massachusetts African-American man who is, or at least should be, a towering figure in this nation's history and even world ... Cuffe was deeply engaged in another venture: after freed African-Americans colonized Sierra Leone in West Africa, Cuffe made two trips seeking toÃâà...
The Philadelphia Tribune
August 24, 2017
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Seven-year-old Ali Mansaray must build a new life for himself after surviving the mudslides and flooding that killed nearly 500 people, including his parents, in Sierra Leone last week. Now he is being looked after by his grandmother, who was spared because she was sleepingÃâà...
The Boston Globe
August 15, 2017
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — The death toll from massive mudslides in Sierra Leone's capital was certain to rise Tuesday as bodies washed up on a beach and workers searched for an untold number of people buried in their homes. The Red Cross estimated that 600 people were still missing.
ABC Online
March 15, 2016
A new web series, Fashpack: Freetown, commissioned by ABC Arts, delves into a fashion scene that is rarely acknowledged: Sierra Leone's capital city, .... Australia exported $US68.7 million ($91.3 million) worth of used clothing to developing countries in 2013 according to the Massachusetts Institute ofÃâà...
NOVA Next
September 16, 2015
Rashida Kamara cannot recall a time when she didn't want to be a doctor, even though in her home country of Sierra Leone only a couple dozen doctors are female ... Over the next five months, cases mounted in Freetown, the seaside capital where Kamara worked around the clock in Ebola treatment units.
New York Times
April 26, 2012
THE HAGUE — Charles G. Taylor, the former president of Liberia and once a powerful warlord, was convicted by an international tribunal on Thursday of arming, supporting and guiding a brutal rebel movement that committed mass atrocities in Sierra Leone during its civil war in the 1990s. He is the firstÃâà...
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