On Feb. 8, 1587, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded, charged with conspiring to kill England's Queen Elizabeth I.

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Peter Salem was a formerly enslaved man who was freed to fight in the American Revolutionary War. He is credited by many with fatally shooting British Major John Pitcairn during the Battle of Bunker ...

Completed in 1887, Harlem’s Salem United Methodist Church was designed by John Rochester Thomas for the Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church.

A period drama film, hailed as a masterpiece by audiences who have urged others to watch the piece, is now streaming on Prime ...

It's 1692 and the puritan town of Salem, Massachusetts is gripped by mass hysteria. Arthur Miller's Tony award-winning classic The Crucible begins with a sick child, and ends up with 200 people ...

A nasty, highly contagious disease that typically spikes after Christmas and New Year’s is getting an early start this year. The form of norovirus called “winter vomiting disease” is spreading across ...

BOSTON — Though the victims of the Salem Witch Trials have been exonerated by the state in the centuries since their wrongful convictions, other colonial residents are still listed as witches in ...

AGAINST SAINT JOHN’S PREP. IAN STEELE HAS HIS STORY. KADEN SMITH WENT TO NORTH SALEM ELEMENTARY AND WOODBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL. NOW HE’S PUTTING UP POINTS AT CENTRAL CATHOLIC IN LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS. I ...

Riley Rourke is a digital producer for CBS Boston. She has worked at WBZ-TV since graduating from Emerson College in 2023. It was a night of ghosts and gusts in Salem, Massachusetts as visitors from ...