The only prisoner to make a clean getaway from the Plymouth County House of Correction is also the first world leader convicted of international war crimes since the Nazis. This is the untold story of Charles Taylor’s time in the Bay State, the crimes he committed, and the prison he escaped from before ransacking Liberia […]
AN INFAMOUS WEST AFRICAN WARLORD’S BAY STATE JAILBREAK
PART I The Education of Charles Taylor ←Click here to go back to Introduction Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor was born to poor parents in a rural town in Liberia, about 30 miles upriver from Monrovia, on Jan. 28, 1948. His father, Nielsen Philip Taylor, the great-grandson of immigrants from the American South, was educated through […]
PANDEMIC FISH TALES FROM THE BAY STATE’S SINKING SEAFOOD INDUSTRY
“All these boats have supply, but nowhere to go.” “Our shellfish business died overnight.”
MEET THE CREW TURNING DORMS INTO SHELTERS DURING THE COVID-19 CRISIS
For days, he and his crew had been converting dorm rooms into shelters for those experiencing homelessness while the predicted peak of coronavirus pandemic looms. “I felt like I needed to do my part to help, and this was my chance.”
PHOTO GALLERY: MAGA MERCHANTS OF MANCHESTER CASH IN DURING TRUMP RALLY
“I used to work for NASA, had a sweet job making $29.90 an hour. Then Obama come in and said, ‘We don’t need no space program no more.’”