Camilo Fonseca

2 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Camilo Fonseca

A Framingham man who shot a pro-Palestinian protester in Newton last year may avoid trial, after he was was placed on pre-trial probation Wednesday, prosecutors said. If Scott Hayes, 48, abides by the conditions of his probation, the charges against him will be dismissed in September, according to a statement from the Middlesex district attorney’s office. “This resolution is the result of hundreds of hours of in-depth review and analysis by our legal and law enforcement experts,” prosecutors said.

4 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Camilo Fonseca

This is a guest article written for Trendlines, The Boston Globe’s business newsletter that covers the forces shaping the economy in Boston and beyond. If you’d like to receive it via email on Mondays and Thursdays, sign up here. If the latest Market Basket drama feels like a high-stakes episode of HBO’s “Succession,” it’s for good reason. When the supermarket placed longtime CEO Arthur T.

6 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Camilo Fonseca

An 18-year-old student at Milford High School was detained by immigration officials on Saturday morning while driving with teammates to a volleyball practice, according to a school district administrator. The student, a high school junior and member of the boys’ volleyball team, had attended Milford Public Schools since kindergarten and was well known to the school community, administrator Dawn Craig said in a phone call Saturday night.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Camilo Fonseca

A New York man is facing criminal charges after he allegedly threatened to bomb a Brookline hotel, which days earlier had flown a Palestinian flag while a US representative was staying there. Daniel Freundlich, of Brooklyn, was named in a warrant issued out of Brookline District Court last week, according to court records. Freundlich, 45, allegedly made several calls to the Iris Hotel in Coolidge Corner last month, and suggested that something would “blow up” while he was there.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Camilo Fonseca

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently announced plans to shutter its diversity, equity, and inclusion office, becoming the latest institution to roll back such initiatives during the Trump administration. The university said it would “wind down” the Institute Community and Equity Office, MIT President Sally Kornbluth wrote last week in a letter to the MIT community. Several of the office’s initiatives will be spun off to other departments, she said.