Curling up with a good book can reduce stress, increase creativity and boost empathy. A recent analysis of U.S. government ...

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Brian T. Allen, art critic E Is for Edward, a centennial celebration of the work of Edward Gorey, reminds us that savants still wander the Earth. “I’ve been murdering children in my books for years,” ...

Mike Toole is the managing editor for CBS Boston. He has worked in the WBZ-TV newsroom for more than 20 years. He previously wrote and produced news and sports at WABC-TV in New York. Read's ...

Monday marked the first full day of jury deliberations in the murder retrial of Karen Read, the woman charged in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend. Karen Read’s verdict slips: See the ...

Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman whose widely watched murder trial ended with a hung jury last year, was acquitted of second-degree murder Wednesday after prosecutors retried her in the 2022 death ...

Karen Read was found not guilty on Wednesday of second-degree murder and manslaughter, charges stemming from the mysterious 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe. After 21 ...

A Massachusetts jury has found Karen Read not guilty in the death of her police officer boyfriend, three years and two high-profile trials later. Read, 45, was accused of killing John O'Keefe in ...

• Acquitted of murder: Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman accused of drunkenly striking her off-duty police officer boyfriend and leaving him to die in January 2022, was found guilty of drunk driving ...

The year came fast and never slowed down. To ring in the new year, The Chronicle compiled its 25 most-read stories of 2025 ...