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Traveling Abroad? What If …?

Traveling Abroad? What If …?

Diane Kilgore

News of terror attacks is terrifying, most especially when we're tucking those headlines into our carry-ons determined to carry on with summer travel plans. Before those adventures begin, the U.S. State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs offers a precautionary layer of security to citizens registered in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program. 

Kevin Brosnahan, press officer at the Bureau of Consular Affairs, explains STEP as a pre-travel option designed to keep American international travelers and their families informed, safe, and inter-connected prior to and in-the-event-of a terror attack.  The travel-aid is also deployed as an alert for natural disasters and personal emergencies.  Requiring only an investment of time to outline specifics of each traveler's itinerary, the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program is a free service available to individuals and groups at Travel.State.Gov. 

Mass GOP Attacks AG Healey’s Office About Judge’s ‘Misconduct’ Finding in Drug Lab Review
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Mass GOP Attacks AG Healey’s Office About Judge’s ‘Misconduct’ Finding in Drug Lab Review

Evan Lips

Massachusetts Republican Party Chairman Kirsten Hughes pounced Thursday on a Boston Herald report linking Attorney General Maura Healey's office with a criminal drug lab review that a state judge labeled as acting in "gross misconduct," according to the newspaper.

Superior Court Judge Richard J. Carey, according to the Herald, "skewered" two of Healey's former assistant attorneys general — Anne Kaczmarek and Kris Foster — over a May 2016 review prepared by Healey along with a duo of retired judges and two state troopers that concluded that "no merit in any of the allegations of prosecutorial misconduct or obstruction of justice" existed against the two assistant AGs, despite allegations they failed to provide defense attorneys with medical records related to state chemist Sonja Farak, who was later proven to have been using drugs prior to her January 2013 arrest.

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