Danny McDonald

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Danny McDonald

NANTUCKET — It was an unmistakable aspect of the crowd filing off the first ferry of the day shortly after 7 a.m.: tradesmen in construction boots or paint-smattered pants. Some wore sweatshirts advertising HVAC and plumbing services. Others gripped lunch bags and picked up their toolboxes from checked-baggage containers on a wharf slick with rain. One group chatted in Spanish.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Samantha Gross |Danny McDonald

OAK BLUFFS — As the summer season ramps up on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, federal agents descended on the tony islands, arrested 40 immigrants, and swiftly brought them to the mainland. Photos and videos of the detained immigrants, wearing neon life jackets, circulated online as they were taken off the islands in Coast Guard boats.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Danny McDonald

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey voiced support for her alma mater Tuesday night as Harvard University continues to battle President Trump’s attacks on the Cambridge institution’s autonomy and funding. “This is about more than Harvard,” she told a virtual webinar of thousands of Harvard alumni. In recent weeks, Harvard has filed litigation charging that Trump unlawfully froze billions in federal funding to the school after it refused to give the government control over academic decisions.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Danny McDonald |Omar Mohammed

GLOUCESTER — Here, in America‘s oldest port of its kind, where the squawk of gulls offers a constant soundtrack to life on the docks, the iconic, centuries-old commercial fishing industry used to be much, much better. There were, fishermen recalled, more boats making more money, fewer rules, and more opportunity. In their telling, federal authorities overstepped in a misguided effort to protect fish stocks, with rules that have strangled their beloved way of life.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Laura Crimaldi |Danny McDonald |Tonya Alanez

Investigators estimate a Carlisle teen was driving 110 miles per hour on a dark and unlit highway in the Florida panhandle last month when he crashed into a tractor trailer, killing himself, two passengers, and injuring a fourth. James “Jimmy” P. McIntosh, a senior at Concord-Carlisle High School, was identified as the driver of the Hyundai SUV that crashed on US 98, where the speed limit is 65 miles per hour, according to a crash report obtained by the Globe.