Service Employees International Union officials say they plan to fast for a day to pressure state legislators to pass a bill that would enable illegal immigrants to get standard driver's licenses in Massachusetts.
Union officials are linking the inability of people here illegally to get a driver's license legally with the current public health crisis.
Police in the city of Newburyport are investigating an incident in which a white man is accused of yelling a racial slur at a 14-year-old black boy.
The boy was one of three youths (the other two white) who bought Munchkins at a Dunkin' Donuts on State Street in Newburyport on Thursday, July 18 and were sharing them with passersby, according to The Daily News of Newburyport.
