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Somerville City Councilor Willie Burnley Jr., stands near the Prospect Hill Monument, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, in Somerville, Mass. Somerville could follow the lead of an increasing number of municipal, county and state governments and use federal pandemic relief funds to pay residents' burdensome medical debt. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Governments target medical debt with COVID relief funds
By MARK PRATT - Associated Press
Wed,02/15/23-12:02AM , 141 Reads
Millions of Americans mired in medical debt face difficult financial decisions every day — pay the debt or pay for rent, utilities and groceries. Some may even skip necessary health care for fear of sinking deeper into debt.
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Amarisa LeBar, front, a Radio City Rockette, leads students in a Rockettes Precision Dance Technique course Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee in Boston. LeBar, 25, of Iselin, N.J., started teaching at her mother's dance studio at 16, but finds sharing the Rockettes' style with college students definitely more intense. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

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Dance like a Rockette: College students take unique class
By MARK PRATT - Associated Press
Fri,02/10/23-1:14AM , 110 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — Rhapsody Stiggers has been dancing since she was 2, but the 20-year-old college junior has never taken a dance class quite as challenging as the one she's in now.
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Spring Point Ledge Light is surrounded by arctic sea smoke while emissions from the Wyman Power plant, background, are blown horizontal by the fierce wind, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, in South Portland, Maine. The morning temperature was about -10 degrees Fahrenheit. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Northeast temperatures soar a day after bone-numbing cold
By MARK PRATT - Associated Press
Sun,02/05/23-12:40PM , 52 Reads
Temperatures in many areas of the Northeast U.S. climbed to the mid-40s Fahrenheit on Sunday, a day after the region suffered through temperatures that plummeted into the negative teens and felt like minus 45 to minus 50 degrees with the wind chill.
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A man walks on sea wall near Spring Point Ledge Light, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, in South Portland, Maine. The morning temperature was about -10 degrees Fahrenheit. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Mount Washington experiences record-setting wind chill
By MARK PRATT - Associated Press
Sat,02/04/23-9:56AM , 206 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — The Arctic air that descended on the Northeast on Saturday brought dangerously cold sub-zero temperatures and wind chills to the region, including a record-setting wind chill of minus 108 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 78 C) on the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
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