Immigrant students stage sit-in at Lowell senator’s office

Immigrant students stage sit-in at Lowell senator’s office

STATE HOUSE — Wearing mortarboards and carrying SAT prep books, members of a student immigrant group camped out in Sen. Eileen Donoghue's office on Thursday in hopes of urging the Lowell Democrat to back legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates at public colleges in Massachusetts.

Five undocumented immigrant students who said they'd been in Donoghue's office for about over 20 minutes left around 1:30 p.m. after state troopers were called and entered the office.

Merkel, Zerai, Pope Francis all in Nobel Peace Prize buzz
Pope Francis

Merkel, Zerai, Pope Francis all in Nobel Peace Prize buzz

Associated Press

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Europe's record-breaking refugee crisis was a hot topic ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on Friday, but a Saudi blogger, a pope who reveres the Earth and its poorest people and the key players in the Iranian nuclear deal were also generating buzz.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has given no clues but those bringing relief to the hundreds of thousands of desperate people arriving in Europe have attracted interest from gamblers and pundits. Here are some names being mentioned in the annual Peace Prize guessing game:

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