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- FILE — Nobel prize-winning author John Steinbeck, right, admires a prize-winning poster by his son, Thomas Steinbeck, in Hartford, Conn., March 22, 1963. A tender and touching letter that author John Steinbeck penned to his teenage son, offering fatherly advice after the young man confided that he was in love for the first time, is going up for auction. "If you are in love — that's a good thing — that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don't let anyone make it small or light to you," the Nobel literature laureate told his son, Thomas, in 1958. (AP Photo, File)
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Steinbeck's letter to son on love, 'the best thing,' on sale
By WILLIAM J. KOLE - Associated Press
Wed,10/05/22-9:24AM , 279 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — A tender and touching letter that author John Steinbeck penned to his teenage son, offering fatherly advice after the young man confided that he was in love for the first time, is going up for auction.
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- Police and emergency personnel respond the scene of an explosion in Boston, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. A package exploded on the campus of Northeastern University and the college said a staff member suffered minor injuries. (WCVB via AP)
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Package explodes on Boston campus; 1 injured, FBI involved
By WILLIAM J. KOLE - Associated Press
Tue,09/13/22-7:42PM , 302 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — A package exploded on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston late Tuesday, and the college said a staff member suffered minor injuries.

Authorities said another suspicious package was found near a prominent art museum and the FBI was assisting with the investigation.
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- Karla Hailer, a fifth-grade teacher from Scituate, Mass., takes a video on July 19, 2017, where a memorial stands at the site in Salem, Mass., where five women were hanged as witches more than three centuries years earlier. Massachusetts lawmakers on Thursday, May 26, 2022, formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 at the height of the Salem Witch Trials. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)
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329 years later, last Salem 'witch' who wasn't is pardoned
By WILLIAM J. KOLE - Associated Press
Thu,05/26/22-12:17PM , 294 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — It took more than three centuries, but the last Salem “witch” who wasn’t has been officially pardoned.

Massachusetts lawmakers on Thursday formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem Witch Trials.
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- Jacky Hunt-Broersma finishes her 102nd marathon in 102 days, this one at Veterans Oasis Park, Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Chandler, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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104 and no more: Amputee wraps up marathon record quest
By WILLIAM J. KOLE - Associated Press
Sun,05/01/22-12:04PM , 422 Reads
When amputee athlete Jacky Hunt-Broersma says her mantra is, “I can do hard things,” she's not kidding — the amputee athlete has run 104 marathons in as many days, all using a carbon-fiber prosthesis.
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