5+ hour, 52+ min ago   (568+ words) A Boston man faces charges after police responded to a call for a dead dog at his home and found several other neglected animals, according to the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office. Lester James, 39, was arraigned on seven counts of animal…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (733+ words) LOWELL — Jeff Markley has been building data centers since 1991. Some 35 years later, he still is, but is concerned that opposition to the technology is challenging the commonwealth’s ability to remain competitive and relevant into the 21st century. “If Massachusetts wants to…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (611+ words) Massachusetts is among dozens of states that don’t require 9/11 to be taught in schools, leaving students without knowledge about “perhaps the most transformative day in the country’s history.” That’s according to Pat Bavis, the chairman of the Massachusetts 9/11 Fund’s education…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (465+ words) The Trump administration’s policy of holding immigrants without a chance for release on bond is illegal and “harkens back to some of the darkest moments in our country’s history,” including the mass detention of Japanese Americans during World War II,…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (510+ words) The case dates back to 2018 when Judge Shelley Joseph was accused of colluding with the immigrant’s attorney and a court officer to allow him to escape out a back door of the courthouse after a hearing on charges that included…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (642+ words) The city’s largest police union blasted a new drone safety program being piloted by Boston Police as ineffective and invasive surveillance technology that’s already led to a crash where a drone “destroyed” a car on private property. The crash involving…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (262+ words) Malone Lam, an eighth-grade dropout who came to the U.S. from Singapore, faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years after pleading guilty to a federal racketeering conspiracy charge. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly didn’t immediately schedule Lam’s sentencing hearing in Washington. Lam…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (419+ words) Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday. The indictment alleges that, besides stealing trade secrets, Huawei and some of its subsidiaries did business in North Korea despite U.S. sanctions there and installed surveillance equipment that helped Iran spy on protesters during…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (632+ words) The owner of a Massachusetts spa who falsely advertised herself as a nurse and injected hundreds of clients thousands of times with fake Botox and knock-off fillers will be heading to prison. U.S. District Court Judge Julia E. Kobick this week sentenced…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (907+ words) By ALEXANDRA OLSON and CLAIRE SAVAGE, Associated Press Writers It was the fight for abortion rights that launched Gloria Steinem into feminism. The idea that women couldn’t reach equality without the ability to decide whether or when to have children…...