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Massachusetts MLB Draft Prospect Brody Bumila Earns Basketball Player of The Year Honors
Massachusetts MLB draft prospect Brody Bumila wins two boys basketball player of the year awards after leading Bishop Feehan to a state title.
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Illegal Immigrant Gets 32 Months for Selling Guns, Fentanyl in Massachusetts
Illegal immigrant in Massachusetts sentenced to 32 months in prison after selling firearms and fentanyl in multiple 2024 transactions, federal officials say.
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Boston Officer Faces Manslaughter Charge After Fatal Roxbury Shooting
A Boston police officer has been charged with manslaughter after prosecutors say he used unjustified deadly force during a March 11 shooting in Roxbury that left a Dorchester man dead.
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New Balance Chairman Drops $1 Million On Josh Kraft Super PAC In Boston Mayor Race
By Gintautas Dumcius Commonwealth Beacon JIM DAVIS, the multi-billionaire chairman of shoemaker New Balance, is once again opening up his wallet and wading into Boston politics. Earlier this month, he sent $1 million to an outside group supporting Josh Kraft’s bid to unseat Mayor Michelle Wu, according to campaign
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Marco Rubio Defends Arrest of Turkish Tufts Graduate Student
Editor's Note: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that he revoked the visa of a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University who was subsequently arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Somerville, Massachusetts on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. Rubio made the statement
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Legal Aid For Illegal Immigrants, Sanctuary State Status For Massachusetts
Editor’s Note: Maroni Minter, political director of the Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition, which is known as MIRA, spoke in favor of bills before the Massachusetts legislature that would enhance the services that Massachusetts offers to illegal immigrants during a meeting of the Somerville City Council on Thursday,
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Expert Witness At Hearing Compares Boston Trust Act of 2010s To Resistance To Fugitive Slave Act During 1850s
Editor’s Note: A guest witness who appeared Tuesday, March 10, 2025 before the Boston City Council’s Public Safety & Criminal Justice Committee compared a local ordinance that limits cooperation by Boston police with federal immigration authorities with efforts in Boston (and in Massachusetts more generally) to resist the
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Donald Trump Calls Out Maine Governor On Letting Males Play Female Sports
Editor’s Note: President Donald Trump told Maine Governor Janet Mills that her state won’t get any federal funding and that she’ll be done in politics if she doesn’t comply with his executive order banning males from female sports. A transcript of the back-and-forth between Trump and