BEVERLY — A journalism professor at a college in Boston has been struck and killed by a train.
Emerson College in a statement confirmed that associate professor Moses Shumow died Tuesday.
The MBTA says a man riding a bicycle on a pedestrian cut-through was struck by a commuter train at the Beverly Depot station at about 8:20 a.m.
Shumow was a 2001 graduate of Emerson who had just joined the school’s faculty for this academic year.
Emerson says he is survived by a wife and three children.
Emerson says Shumow “was passionate about the role of media in vulnerable and marginalized communities” and called his death “an unimaginable tragedy.”
LAWRENCE — A man who has spent years cleaning trash from Massachusetts rivers recently found one of the most unusual objects he’s ever pulled from the depths.
Rocky Morrison of the Clean River Project tells The Eagle-Tribune he found a rectangular marble urn in the Merrimack River in Lawrence last week.
The urn was inscribed with the name Truong Ngoc Nguyen.
According to his obituary, Nguyen died in 2016 at age 88. He rose to the rank of major in the Republic of South Vietnam’s armed forces.
From Associated Press