29 Facts About Howie Carr

At UNC, Howie Carr was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and wrote at student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel and graduated in 1973.

Howie Carr began his career as a reporter for the Winston-Salem Journal before returning to New England in 1979 as assistant city editor for the Boston Herald American.

Howie Carr has criticized former Globe and Herald guest columnist Mike Barnicle for years.

In 1998, Don Imus claimed Howie Carr's wife was having an affair with boxer Riddick Bowe.

In 2002, the Herald and Howie Carr were the subjects of a lawsuit by Superior Court Judge Ernest Murphy.

Howie Carr has hosted local Boston weekday radio talk-shows since the 1980s on WRKO.

The Howie Carr Show has since become syndicated on more than twenty-five radio stations throughout northern and central New England, and can be heard elsewhere via live streaming on HowieCarrShow.

Howie Carr has filled in for several nationally syndicated talk show hosts, including Mark Levin and Dennis Miller.

Howie Carr has worked as a reporter and commentator for Boston television stations WGBH-TV and WLVI.

Howie Carr has written non-fiction books about Boston gangsters, the Kennedy family, and two novels.

In early 2006, Howie Carr became a book author with the publication of The New York Times-rated best-seller The Brothers Bulger, about brothers Billy and Whitey Bulger.

Howie Carr began to research both the politician and his gangster brother.

Indeed, Howie Carr's arrival on Madison Street in Somerville, Massachusetts, in the late 1970s meant he was perfectly placed to do just that, for Somerville's Marshall Motors garage was an early base of the Winter Hill Gang.

Howie Carr was released in 2005 after having served as a cooperating witness for the FBI.

Whitey and Weeks had knowledge of Howie Carr's residence because Howie Carr was a neighbor of one of Weeks' brothers.

Whitey knew what Howie Carr looked like, from Howie Carr's job on television.

Howie Carr lived in Southie, and patronized the Liquor Mart.

Howie Carr began taking whatever precautions he could to keep Whitey and Weeks off his tail.

Howie Carr mentioned nothing about any C-4 or high-powered rifles, but when he was arrested in 1999 his indirect threats against me were included in a DEA detention warrant.

In 2012, Howie Carr moved into fictional writing with his third book, Hard Knocks, which was followed three years later by Killers, his sixth and most recent release.

Howie Carr had candidate Trump on his radio show more than a dozen times, including election night.

Previously living in Somerville and Acton, Howie Carr has lived in Wellesley, Massachusetts, since 1993 with his second wife, Kathy Stimpson, a Wellesley realtor, and their three daughters.

In March 2007, Howie Carr had a melanoma removed from his forehead.

In 2009, Howie Carr crashed his car into a telephone pole on Wellesley Avenue in Wellesley.

Howie Carr was not injured but was cited for a marked-lanes violation.

In November 2014, Howie Carr was injured in another car crash, this time on the Massachusetts Turnpike.

Howie Carr was taken to hospital after the accident, which occurred around 1:00 pm, but was released that evening.

An hour later, fellow host Grace Curley announced that Howie Carr caught a virus from his grandson and had been checked into the hospital.

Howie Carr took the next day off and slowly eased back into the show over the rest of the week with guest hosts filling in.