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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Talia Lissauer |Jade Lozada
Waving American flags and chanting “Trump and Musk have got to go,” over a thousand people gathered at the Carty Parade Ground in Boston Common Saturday afternoon to protest a slew of recent actions and policies by the Trump administration.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Camilo Fonseca |Jade Lozada
A German energy company plans to lay off 73 employees from its Boston-based US offshore wind arm, according to state filings. RWE Offshore Wind Services, LLC said in a notice filed with state regulators Friday it will cut its Boston-area workforce by May 6. “Last year we announced that, due to market conditions and increased risk profile, we would delay certain expenditures related to our US offshore wind development projects,” the company said in a statement.
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2 months ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Dan Glaun |Jade Lozada |Nick Stoico |John Hilliard
Felix Baukholt, a German national and the vehicle’s registered owner, was in the passenger seat, according to authorities, and had an expired visa. After Maland stopped the Toyota, multiple Border Patrol agents approached the vehicle, according to an affidavit filed in federal court. Youngblut allegedly opened fire with a handgun, and Baukholt allegedly tried to draw his own weapon. The agents fired back, and when the smoke cleared, both Baukholt and Maland had been fatally wounded.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
bostonglobe.com | Jade Lozada
Many Boston-area residents who ventured outside early Saturday morning enjoyed light snow after frigid temperatures gripped the Northeast this week. Around one to two inches accumulated across New England as of Saturday morning, with two to three inches expected by the end of the day, according to NWS senior meteorologist Frank Nocera. Boston’s North Shore may see the greatest snowfall of up to four inches.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Jade Lozada
Garry Dunnigan held a sheath of photographs of his late father, George, as he sat with his family at the USS Constitution Museum on Saturday, 83 years to the day after George Dunnigan survived the attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The elder Dunnigan, a chief warrant officer in the US Navy, was getting dressed for Sunday Mass on Dec. 7, 1941, when he heard explosions outside his battleship and climbed to the top deck.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Jade Lozada
Wildlife rescuers raced against the clock to save a 500-pound ocean sunfish trapped in shallow water near Pocomo Point in Nantucket Harbor. Rain Harbison and Blair Perkins, who lead Nantucket Animal Rescue, received a call from Perkins’s son on a morning last month alerting them to the dying sunfish. With the help of Perkins’s friend Carl Bois, who was scalloping nearby, the three guided the sunfish onto the liftgate of the rescuers’ truck and strapped it down.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Jade Lozada
A Massachusetts man was convicted of rape and witness intimidation on Wednesday after he fled to Mexico midway through his trial in Berkshire County Superior Court, according to the Berkshire County District Attorney’s Office. Cesar Lagunas, 51, of Pittsfield, left the country on Monday following testimony by the survivor of the rape, Berkshire DA operations chief Julia Sabourin said in an email on Saturday.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Jade Lozada
The University of Massachusetts Amherst advised foreign students, faculty, and staff to return to campus before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20, 2025 and offered housing for undergraduates who return early from winter break. The University’s Office of Global Affairs warned affiliates in a statement that the new presidential administration may act to limit or ban travel by foreign nationals on Trump’s first day of office.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Jade Lozada
At least 13 large, ongoing wildfires and bushfires burned across Massachusetts as the drought expanded across the state, according to a spokesman for the Department of Forest Services. One of the biggest active fires burned 126 acres at Mount Gilead in Lynn Woods Reservation as of Friday evening, DFS spokesman Jake Wark wrote in an email on Saturday. Officials partially closed the park as the fire continued to spread south, Acting District Chief Ed Miles said.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Jade Lozada
Melissa Fares, with history teacher Matthew Rutledge, whom she says groomed and sexually exploited her while she was a student at Miss Hall's School in Pittsfield. The Berkshire County District Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute a former teacher at a private high school for girls in Western Massachusetts who was accused of grooming and sexually assaulting students for decades.
