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A person walks by an arrival and departure board at Boston's Logan Airport on Dec. 23, 2024.

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  • National

2 separate cases place the immigration lens on Boston

Two legal immigrants who flew into Boston Logan International Airport have been denied re-entry into the United States after traveling abroad. One was deported in apparent defiance of a judicial order.

March 17, 2025
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  • Tovia Smith
Administrator of the Small Business Administration Kelly Loeffler arrives before President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025.

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  • News

Small Business Administration to relocate 6 offices in so-called 'sanctuary cities'

The Small Business Administration said it will relocate six of its regional offices in so-called "sanctuary cities," part of a broader Trump administration effort to crack down on cities that it deems have immigrant-friendly policies.

March 07, 2025
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  • Associated Press
In this image made from video, officials remove a small plane that landed at Logan International Airport after having only one of its landing wheels deploy, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, in Boston.

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  • Law

2 men were arrested in Boston for allegedly flying a drone near the airport

Two men were arrested in Boston on Saturday for allegedly operating a drone "dangerously close" to Logan International Airport, police said.

December 16, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
The U.S. Supreme Court

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  • Law

Supreme Court rejects challenge to Boston's school admissions policy

The court's action was the second time the justices declined to intervene in an admissions program based on geography since their 2023 ruling invalidating affirmative action in higher education.

December 09, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling delivers a pitch at Fenway Park in 2006.

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  • Sports

Savannah Bananas to play at Fenway Park on Saturday, in team's first game at famed Boston ballpark

The sold-out matchup will be live-streamed, with first pitch set for 7 p.m.

June 07, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
Dr. Rebecca Rogers practices primary care at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Somerville, Mass. During a recent appointment, she went over hydration tips with her patient Luciano Gomes, who works in construction.

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  • Health

When temps rise, so do medical risks. Should doctors and nurses talk more about heat?

The medical dangers of heat are real. But people often ignore public heat alerts, or don't know how vulnerable they are. A new alert system prompts clinicians to talk about heat with patients.

August 04, 2023
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  • Martha Bebinger
FBI agents and members of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command handcuffed and interrogated the wrong person during a training exercise at a Boston hotel on Tuesday.

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  • National

Feds barged into the wrong hotel room during a drill, then detained the guest inside

U.S. Army Special Operations Command and the FBI-Boston Division interrogated the wrong person during a training exercise on Tuesday: an airline pilot who was asleep at the time, per local media.

April 06, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
A United Airlines jetliner taxis to a runway for take off from Denver International Airport, Dec. 27, 2022.

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  • National

A man allegedly stabbed a flight attendant, tampered with the plane on a Boston trip

The suspect was arrested at the Boston Logan International Airport after allegedly tampering with a side door and the emergency slide, and later allegedly lunged at a flight attendant.

March 07, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
The Embrace, the new memorial sculpture in Boston made in tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, was unveiled on Friday.

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  • Arts & Life

New MLK statue in Boston is greeted with a mix of open arms, consternation and laughs

A new public art monument dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King was unveiled Friday. It immediately drew consternation and jeers as well as plaudits.

January 17, 2023
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
A Boston Police Crime Scene Response vehicle is parked on the street outside an apartment building where infant and other human remains were discovered by authorities.

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  • National

Police find the remains of 4 infants inside a Boston apartment

Police say they discovered "what appeared to be a human fetus or infant" and additional remains at an apartment in South Boston. An autopsy has revealed four infants: two female and two male.

November 29, 2022
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  • Emily Olson
Police and emergency personnel respond the scene of an explosion in Boston on Tuesday. A package exploded on the campus of Northeastern University and the college said a staff member suffered minor injuries.

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  • National

The explosion at Northeastern University may have been staged, officials say

Federal officials are examining whether the employee who reported an explosion at Northeastern University may have lied to investigators and staged the incident, law enforcement officials said.

September 14, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
President Joe Biden speaks on the cancer moonshot initiative at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston on Sept. 12.

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  • Politics

Biden touts his 'cancer moonshot' on the anniversary of JFK's 'man on the moon' speech

Biden announced many of what he calls "cancer moonshot" goals in February. On Monday he laid out some updates in a speech that marked 60 years since Kennedy gave his iconic moonshot speech.

September 12, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram
An artist's rendering of "The Embrace," a memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that will be unveiled in Boston in 2023.

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  • National

Boston breaks ground on a Martin Luther King memorial of its own

More than seven decades after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. lived, studied and preached in Boston, the city will soon have a memorial honoring him and Coretta Scott King, who met each other there.

April 28, 2022
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  • Tovia Smith
A man shovels snow in near whiteout conditions during a nor'easter in Marshfield, Mass., on Saturday.

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  • Weather

A winter storm piles snow and causes dangerous conditions along the East Coast

A bomb cyclone is storming the East Coast, leaving close to 100,000 without power as of Sunday night Blizzard conditions in New England are dropping 2 feet of snow in some areas.

January 30, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram
A photo of Tony Tsantinis hangs in a collage set up for a celebration of his life on the final day that Athens Pizza in Brimfield, Mass., was open for business. Tsantinis, who owned the pizzeria for many years, died of COVID-19 last month when efforts to find space at a hospital that could offer him a higher level of care could not be found.

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  • Health Care

17 hospitals had no room for this COVID patient. He later died waiting for dialysis

A beloved pizzeria owner in Brimfield, Mass., had COVID-19 and needed dialysis, but it wasn't available at the hospital where he died. The health system is "breaking down," a hospital CEO says.

January 19, 2022
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  • Martha Bebinger
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