Switchblades are now legal to carry in Massachusetts because a state law banning them violates the right to keep and bear arms, the state's highest court said.
Gun-rights decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years that confirm an individual right to keep and bear arms also apply to knives, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found in a decision issued Tuesday.
Federal immigration authorities have arrested a Mexican illegal immigrant who is wanted for aggravated homicide in his home country.
Officers from the Hartford office of Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston's office arrested the 42-year-old illegal immigrant in Seymour, Connecticut, on August 20, authorities said.
