New Bedford police arrested Oliver, and the charges include including operating under influence of liquor.
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On The Garden Lady C.L. welcomed Horticulturalist Leslie Halleck, author of Home Greenhouse Revival: Growing Year-Round Foliage, Flowers, and Food. She opened the program with a postcard from biennials, and listeners called in with questions about timing for bulb planting, growing citrus indoors, growing plants under a Norway maple, and how to grow upright Nippon daisies.
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A review of the week's local headlines with our region's leading jouralists.
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Massachusetts Department of Public Health has designated alpha-gal syndrome a “reportable condition,” illustrating how serious, and how common, the health problem has become.
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Experts estimate food-related deaths and illness cost the economy about one and a half trillion dollars a year. That's like a second defense budget, and then some.
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Two women told CAI they were sexually abused by a doctor while living at the Community of Jesus in Orleans. Now, the Provincetown Independent is reporting the stories of even more women who say it happened to them, too.
The Point
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A review of the week's local headlines with our region's leading jouralists.
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Massachusetts Department of Public Health has designated alpha-gal syndrome a “reportable condition,” illustrating how serious, and how common, the health problem has become.
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How the Cape-based non-profit Advocates for a Community College Education supports students in their pursuit of higher education.
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The famous crested caracara has been seen in Wellfleet in recent days. What could the future hold for this lost bird?
NPR Stories
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Pakistan's political showdown continues as more opposition figures are implicated under Pakistan's anti-terror law.
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NPR's Eric McDaniel reports on how Congress has reacted to President Trump's executive order exempting Russia from economic sanctions.
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President Trump heads to Kansas to campaign for Republican candidates Monday but farmers disgruntled by White House policies may help flip a U.S. Senate seat that Republicans have held for almost a century.
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James Olthoff, a delegate to the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, talks to NPR's Joel Rose about why it's important to accurately measure time on the moon.
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The UN's World Food Programme says 1.4 million people in Gaza are suffering acute food shortages and that funding gaps are forcing cutbacks in critical aid, despite the U.S. brokered Hamas-Israel ceasefire.