A Democratic candidate for the Massachusetts Senate wants to stop paving roads so people stop driving cars.
New Bedford Democrat Molly Kivi, 34, who is pursuing the party's nomination in the Second Bristol and Plymouth District, expressed support for the idea in a recent interview with the New Bedford Light.
Federal immigration authorities arrested a 43-year-old Chinese illegal immigrant charged with sex crimes against Massachusetts residents.
Deportation officers from Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston, a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, arrested Yao Zhang on July 5 in Medford, authorities said.