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Woman pleads guilty in high-end Massachusetts and the Washington, D.C. area brothel bust
A woman accused of operating a high-end brothel network with wealthy and prominent clients in Massachusetts and the Washington, D.C., suburbs pleaded guilty in federal court Friday.
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Attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber seek recusal of judge overseeing case
Attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are seeking to remove the judge overseeing the protracted legal battle over Tsarnaev’s death sentence. Tsarnaev’s lawyers said during a hearing in federal court in Boston on Wednesday that U.S. District Court Judge George O’Toole should be recused from the case, pointing to what they said were comments O’Toole made about the...
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Mass. teen died from eating a spicy chip as part of social media challenge, autopsy report concludes
A Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge on social media died from ingesting a substance containing a high amount of the chili pepper extract capsaicin, according to autopsy results. Harris Wolobah, a 14-year-old sophomore at Doherty Memorial High School in Worcester, died on Sept. 1, 2023, after eating the chip manufactured by Paqui, a Texas-based subsidiary…
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US Air Force veteran accused of having explicit images of a child enlists with Russian army
A U.S. Air Force veteran and former city councilor in Holyoke, Massachusetts, told his lawyer he joined Russia’s army after fleeing a charge of possessing sexually explicit images of a child.
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Rhode Island elects its first Black representative to Congress
The former White House aide succeeds former Democratic Rep. David Cicilline, who stepped down this summer to become president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation.
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Dr. Paul Farmer, Global Humanitarian Leader, Dies at 62
Dr. Paul Farmer, a U.S. physician, humanitarian and author renowned for providing health care to millions of impoverished people worldwide and who co-founded the global nonprofit Partners in Health, has died. He was 62. The Boston-based organization confirmed Farmer’s death on Monday, calling it “devastating” and noting he unexpectedly passed away in his sleep from an acute cardiac event...
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Massachusetts Lawmakers Approve Police Accountability Bill
The Massachusetts House and Senate voted Tuesday to approve a compromise bill backers say would increase police accountability — including, for the first time, creating an independent, civilian-led commission to standardize the certification, training and decertification of police officers. The bill would also ban the use of chokeholds, limit the use of deadly force, and create a duty to intervene…
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Lawsuit Seeks to Ease Adoption of Equal Rights Amendment
Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment have filed a federal lawsuit in Massachusetts aimed at clearing a legal path for adoption of the long-delayed constitutional amendment. Backers say they’re wading into the debate over the amendment — which dates to the early 1970s — because Virginia is poised to become the decisive 38th state to approve the measure. But the…
