Wu announces new Mass and Cass plan to clear tents, increase police patrols
Mayor Wu said the city will clear tents and increase policing, calling the plan "a new phase."
Emmy Award-winning Beth Germano is a general assignment reporter for WBZ-TV News.
Born and raised in Massachusetts, Germano has been a New England-based reporter for more than 30 years. She joined WBZ-TV as a freelance reporter in 1996 after reporting for several local television stations including WCVB-TV, New England Cable News, Monitor Cable Channel, WLVI-TV, and WGBH-TV.
Germano also anchored and reported for several radio stations in the region including WRKO-AM and WBUR-FM, the National Public Radio affiliate in Boston; WHJJ-AM in Providence, Rhode Island; WGIR-AM in Manchester, New Hampshire; and WLNH-FM/WKZU-AM in Laconia, New Hampshire, where she got her start in news.
During her broadcasting career, Germano has been honored with several awards. She received a New England Emmy Award as part of WBZ-TV's Outstanding Team Effort, covering the September 11 terror attacks on New York City.
She was awarded first place from the Rhode Island Associated Press Broadcasters Association, the Tom Phillips UPI New England Broadcasting Award, and several honors from the New Hampshire Associated Press Broadcasters Association.
Germano received a bachelor of arts degree in English and Journalism from the University of New Hampshire, where she graduated magna cum laude.
She lives in the Greater Boston area with her husband Lucas and daughters Regina and Anne.
Mayor Wu said the city will clear tents and increase policing, calling the plan "a new phase."
Mayor Michelle Wu was joined by city officials and mental health and substance abuse providers as they toured Long Island Wednesday. She also shared her plans about building a new public health campus on the island.
The National Weather Service confirmed that tornadoes touched down in Scituate, Johnston and Smithfield, Rhode Island on Friday morning, where residents are surveying and cleaning up the damage left behind.
From potatoes to corn, some Massachusetts farmers are dealing with the effects of a rainy summer that has impacted their prime growing and harvesting season.
Mayor Michelle Wu has announced Boston has secured a key permit to not only accelerate plans to rebuild the bridge, but stabilize and reconstruct 11 buildings on the Long Island campus for the modern recovery program.
A public health warning is in effect for the Charles River Wednesday due to expected high bacteria counts from sewage overflow.
A woman was found shot to death at a home in southern New Hampshire in an incident police are calling "suspicious."
Nine businesses in Taunton had to suddenly shut down because their building is in danger of collapsing
Ten city pools in Boston are closed due to staffing or maintenance issues.
An AutoZone employee was shot in broad daylight in a Worcester parking lot.
Thieves are targeting Indian and South Asian families in several Massachusetts communities in search of expensive jewelry.
The Boston City Councilor made a statement to the media before heading into court Wednesday, saying she wants to be "fully accountable for my mistake" in a car crash last month.
Chelmsford Police Sergeant Stephen Fredericks was hiking Mt. Moriah when he collapsed, five miles from the nearest road.
The small town of Williamsburg is one of nearly a dozen that has declared a local state of emergency after severe floods hit western Massachusetts earlier this week.
The judge has dismissed the jury for the weekend in the double murder trial of Emanuel Lopes.