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Here’s how Massachusetts Olympians have fared so far in 2024 Olympics

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August 7, 2024

Here’s how Massachusetts Olympians have fared so far in 2024 Olympics

If the Bay State were its own country, the Republic of Massachusetts would currently be sitting 13th, tied with Spain and New Zealand.

That’s right, with the Olympics now in Week No. 2, Massachusetts has medals from nine events — four golds, a silver and four bronze. That’s more gold and more total medals than Sweden, Hungary, Ireland, Mexico, Belgium, Switzerland, Greece and a whole lot of others.

It’s been a good games so far for Olympians with Massachusetts ties. More medals are likely on the way too with U.S. men’s basketball team which includes three Celtics, still set to compete.

For this list, someone had to live in Massachusetts now or in the past and be competing in the 2024 Olympics for Team USA. That includes going to college here and playing professional sports here.

Here’s who they are and how they’re doing:

Women’s Archery

Jennifer Mucino-Fernandez — The Brockton native finished ninth in the team event and 33rd as an individual.

Women’s cycling

Kristen Faulkner, of the United States, celebrates winning the women’s road cycling event, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)AP

* GOLD: Kristen Faulkner — In one of the most exciting finishes in the games, the former Harvard rower from Homer, Alaska put on a shocking burst of speed late in the road cycling event to win the gold medal.

Men’s Fencing

Eli Dershwitz — The Sherborn native and Harvard alum, finished seventh in team sabre and 17th individually.

Colin Heathcock —The Harvard freshman was eliminated in his first match in individual sabre.

Mitchell Saron — The Harvard alum from New Jersey was 14th in the individual competition and was part of the sabre team that finished seventh.

Women’s Fencing

Massachusetts Olympians — United States’ Lauren Scruggs celebrates after defeating Italy in the women’s team foil final match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP

* GOLD/SILVER: Lauren Scruggs — The Harvard senior will leave France with a gold medal from team foil and a silver as an individual.

Elizabeth Tartakovsky — Another Harvard product, this one from New Jersey was fifth in the team event and 18th by herself.

Women’s Field Hockey

Ally Hammel — Hammel, a Duxbury native, was a key member of the US field hockey team, that did not advance to the knockout stage of that sport’s event.

Men’s gymnastics

* Bronze: Frederick Richard — The charismatic Stoughton native played a huge role in helping the USA men’s gymnastics team secure a team bronze medal. He’ll have an excellent chance of being back in the Olympics in 2028 in Los Angeles.

* Bronze (2): Stephen Nedoroscik — The pommel horse specialist emerged as one of the most popular people and stories in the Olympics as his performance to close out the team competition earned the Americans a bronze medal. He encored that with another bronze in the individual pommel horse competition.

Women’s Rowing

Margaret Hedeman, Regina Salmons and Olivia Coffey — Hedeman, a native of Concord, Methuen’s Salmons and Coffey a Harvard alum were all on the women’s eight that finished fifth.

Daisy Mazzio-Manson — The Wellesley native was on the women’s four crew that didn’t earn a medal.

Kristi Wagner — The 31-year-old native of Weston finished ninth in double sculls.

Men’s Rowing

Massachusetts Olympian Liam Corrigan — United States’ Michael Grady, Nick Mead, Liam Corrigan and Justin Best celebrate gold in the men’s four final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Vaires-sur-Marne, France. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)AP

* Gold: Liam Corrigan — The United States has won its first rowing Olympic gold medal in the men’s four class since 1960 with Corrigan, an Old Lyme, Connecticut native and Harvard alum in the second seat.

* Bronze: Henry Hollingsworth, Christian Tabash, Clark Dean, Pieter Quinton — Four locals were in the men’s eight boat that earned a bronze medal. Hollingsworth, a Dover native , and Tabash, Dean and Quinton all went to Harvard.

Jacob Plihal — The Northeastern alum finished 13th in single sculls.

Men’s Rugby

Madison Hughes — The Lancaster native was on the Team USA squad that finished eighth.

Women’s Rugby

* Bronze: Kristi Kirshe — The Franklin native was part of the Americans’ dramatic come-from-behind win over Australia to win a bronze in her second Olympics.

Women’s Sailing

Erika Reineke — The Boston College alum reached the medal race of women’s dinghy and finished ninth.

Shooting

Ada Korkhin — The 19-year-old from Brookline finished 32nd in 25-meter pistol.

Men’s Soccer

Miles Robinson — With Robinson playing a key role, the U.S. qualified for the quarterfinals of the Olympics for the first time since Sydney 2000.

Women’s Soccer

Sam Coffey — The New York native, who started her college career at BC, has been a starter for the women’s soccer team that is still alive in the knockout round.

Men’s Sport Climbing

Jesse Grupper — The Tufts alum hasn’t competed yet. Men’s sport climbing begins on Wednesday.

Women’s Artistic Swimming

Ruby Remati — The native of Andover was on the American team that finished ninth on Tuesday.

Men’s Track and Field

Graham Blanks — The Harvard track star hasn’t raced yet. Blanks will compete in the 5,000 meters on Saturday.

Women’s Track and Field

Athletics - Olympic Games Paris 2024: Day 11 — Gabby Thomas of the United States reacts to winning the gold medal in the Women’s 200m final of the Paris Olympics. Photo by Christian Liewig – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)Corbis via Getty Images

* Gold: Gabby Thomas — After finishing third in the 200 in Tokyo, Thomas delivered a dominant performance on Tuesday to win the 200. She’s expected to compete again in the 4×100 relay.

Gabby Thomas cruises to gold medal in women’s 200M race

Women’s Triathlon

Kirsten Kasper — The North Andover native finished 49th in the triathlon.

Men’s Basketball (5-on-5)

Jayson Tatum, Jrue Holiday and Derek White — The trio of Celtics have helped Team USA coast into the semifinals after Tuesday’s rout of Brazil.

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Body camera video shows Massachusetts police officer save 78-year-old man from burning truck – East Idaho News

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March 2, 2026

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Body camera video shows Massachusetts police officer save 78-year-old man from burning truck – East Idaho News

EASTON, Mass. (WBZ) — Police body camera video shows an Easton, Massachusetts, officer rescuing a 78-year-old Raynham man from a burning car on Friday morning.

A Mack dump truck was experiencing problems on the side of Turnpike Street just after 2 a.m. when a Ford pickup truck struck the back of it, according to police.

The pickup truck then became stuck under the dump truck, trapping the driver, Francis Leverone, inside. A Toyota Camry then hit the back of the pickup truck and caught fire, police said.

Easton police officer Dean Soucie arrived at the crash and saw that the two vehicles were on fire. Video shows Soucie rushing over before breaking the driver’s side window and then, with the help of the two witnesses, freeing Leverone from the pickup truck. Soucie said he was confused but conscious.

“As I reached inside the vehicle, one of the passersby — he actually jumped into the cab of the truck, and he helped me free the individual,” Soucie said.

They then carried the driver to safety.

Leverone was taken to a nearby hospital before being transferred to a Boston hospital. He received serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

No one else was injured in the crash.

Dee Leverone told WBZ her husband is doing OK. “I’m just thankful for the people that got him out,” she said. “Very thankful.”

After watching the police body-cam video on the news she said, “I was shocked, I was like ‘Oh my God!’ I just couldn’t believe it. His truck is like melted.”

She says she realized that something was wrong last night when her husband never made it home from work.

“I kept trying to call him and call him, and I finally got a hold of him at like 4:30 a.m., and he was at (Good Samaritan Hospital) and he told me he’s gotten in an accident,” Dee said.

She says he’s recovering at the Boston Medical Center and being treated for a dislocated hip.

“He’s a trooper,” Dee said. “He’s a strong man — and you know he’s 78, but you know he’s a toughie. He definitely is a toughie.”

Soucie commended the help of the two witnesses and said that before he arrived at the crash, they had attempted to put out the flames with a fire extinguisher and removed a gasoline tank from the pickup truck before it could ignite.

“They jumped into action like it was nothing,” Soucie said. “Those two individuals were absolutely awesome.”

Easton Police Chief Keith Boone said that he is “extremely proud” of Soucie and the witnesses.

“He saved a life last night,” Chief Boone said. “He is an exemplary police officer and this is just one example. I think he’s a hero.”

Turnpike Street was closed for several hours following the crash. Easton Police are investigating.