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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will be visiting Harvard University to talk about solutions to the nation's opioid crisis.Christie is scheduled to appear Tuesday with former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie for a panel titled "Policies to Address the Opioid Crisis."The former Republican governor made addiction services a priority in his final year in office. He left earlier this year after eight years at the helm.

A timeline of events related to the Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three people and injured 260 others on April 15, 2013:March 2011: The Russian FSB intelligence security service gives the FBI information that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his family, was a follower of radical Islam.June 2011: The FBI closes the investigation after finding nothing to link Tsarnaev to terrorism.Sept. 12, 2011: The bodies of three men are found in Waltham, Massachusetts, with their throats slit and marijuana sprinkled on them.

AMHERST, Mass. — A memorial service for Holocaust scholar and former University of Massachusetts professor David Wyman is scheduled for this weekend.Wyman died March 14 at his home in Amherst at age 89.He was best known for the 1984 book "The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-45," a look at the widespread indifference and hostility to the Jews in Europe, despite conclusive documentation of their systematic extermination by the Nazis. It was particularly critical of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In an annual rite of spring, the first swan boat rides of the year launched yesterday at the Boston Public Garden, with Mayor Martin J. Walsh taking the maiden voyage with students from Boston Public Schools as eager visitors, center left, lined up to take their turn.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A woman has died followed a collision into the rear end of a train in Springfield.MassLive.com reports emergency crews responded to reports of a crash, and found that the SUV had collided with a train shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday.Rescue crews used the "Jaws of Life," to pull out the female driver who was sent to Baystate Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.Springfield Police spokesman Ryan Walsh says the woman, who has not been identified, died shortly after. The crash is being investigated.___

BOSTON — Three Boston police officers suffered non-life threatening injuries when their cruisers collided Saturday morning.Police say the crash happened shortly after 2 a.m. near the Downtown Crossing area as one cruiser was responding to a call, and another was transporting a suspect.Officials say officers were treated at an area hospital for minor injuries and were released before noon. The suspect was not injured in the crash.Police are investigating the cause of the crash.

BELCHERTOWN, Mass. — Spring's arrival means fishing at the Quabbin Reservoir in western Massachusetts is just around the corner.The Massachusetts Department of Conservation says the 2018 fishing season at the reservoir will open Saturday April 21 at 5 a.m. The fishing season lasts until Oct. 20.The Quabbin Reservoir holds 27 species of fish, 17 of which are sought by anglers. Fishermen and women often catch lake trout, landlocked salmon, smallmouth bass and white perch during the spring season.

WEST YARMOUTH, Mass. — Carrying candles and wiping away tears, hundreds of mourners joined Yarmouth police at an emotional vigil Saturday night for an officer who was killed while on duty.The ceremony honored 32-year-old Sean Gannon, who was shot in the head and killed Thursday while carrying out an arrest warrant. People placed flags, flowers, balloons and a box of dog biscuits next to a parked police cruiser.Gannon's police dog, Nero, also was shot and is recovering from surgery.

Little by little over the past five years, the trauma wrought by the twin bomb blasts on Boylston Street started to feel more like the past than the present for Heather Abbott.The explosion outside the 
Forum Restaurant took her left leg from the knee down, but Abbott, 43, said accepting that she couldn’t erase the attack’s impact on her life helped her leave it behind.

A woman, who lost all of her money gambling at the Shorelines Casino Thousand Islands in Gananoque, Ontario, called the police emergency number at 5 in the morning, because she had no way of getting home. But she soon called back to report that a good Samaritan gave her $20, and that she was going back into the casino. They did not hear from her again.