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4 weeks ago | 
vermontpublic.org | Beth Healy |Jesús Marrero Suárez
Updated May 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM EDTTufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk has been released from a Louisiana immigration processing facility, her attorneys say, following a six-week detention and legal fight that has become a flashpoint in the Trump administration’s targeting of international students. Judge William Sessions ordered her release from the bench on Friday, saying he found serious claims “of both due process and first amendment violations” in her arrest in Somerville in March.
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4 weeks ago | 
vermontpublic.org | Beth Healy |Jesús Marrero Suárez
Updated May 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM EDTA federal judge in Vermont ordered immigration officials Friday to release Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk immediately from a Louisiana detention center where she’s been held for six weeks. He said she’s free to return to her home in Massachusetts. Judge William Sessions made his order from the bench, saying he found serious claims “of both due process and first amendment violations” in her arrest in Somerville in March.
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4 weeks ago | 
wbur.org | Jesús Marrero Suárez |Beth Healy
A federal judge in Vermont ordered immigration officials Friday to release Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk immediately from a Louisiana detention center where she's been held for six weeks. He said she's free to return to her home in Massachusetts. Judge William Sessions made his order from the bench, saying he found serious claims "of both due process and first amendment violations" in her arrest in Somerville in March.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
wbur.org | Jesús Marrero Suárez |Simón Rios
Lucas Dos Santos Amaral says a guard came to his cell at the Plymouth County jail early on the morning of Feb. 3 and told him to pack up his things. The 29-year-old thought he was being released from immigration custody, but instead he was put on a bus. Amaral said he wasn't told where he was headed, or given a chance to contact his lawyer or family before he eventually was ushered onto a plane. “He found out he was going to Texas when he was inside the plane.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
wbur.org | Jesús Marrero Suárez |Simón Rios
Federal immigration police last week detained a Brazilian man living in Marlborough, Mass., and in a surprise move, swiftly transported him to a Texas facility. Attorneys say the transfer indicates he is being tracked for deportation, despite entering the U.S. legally and possessing no criminal record.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
wbur.org | Jesús Marrero Suárez
Crews from about two dozen agencies have battled a wildfire that burned down more than 40 acres of the Blue Hills Reservation in Milton. The fire was contained by Tuesday night, with a few firefighters staying behind to monitor the smoldering remains. The Blue Hills fire was one of hundreds that have flared up across Massachusetts since October. Officials are anticipating some much-needed rain later this week, as a significant drought has taken hold across the state.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
wbur.org | Jesús Marrero Suárez
More than 100 anti-abortion activists — the vast majority of them men — marched along a roughly three-mile stretch in Boston toward the city's common Saturday. The march was met with a roughly equal-sized counter-protest, with many dressed as clowns to mock the men and their message. Participants in the so-called "men's march" began their stride at around 11 a.m. outside the Planned Parenthood on Commonwealth Avenue. As they made their way toward the Parkman Bandstand, they recited the Hail Mary.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
wbur.org | Jesús Marrero Suárez |Patrick Madden
State Auditor Diana DiZoglio has campaigned hard for Question 1, which would clarify whether she has the power to audit the Massachusetts Legislature. But the office is already far behind with its mandated audits, a WBUR review has found. By law, the office must complete audits of about 200 state agencies every three years. WBUR discovered the office hadn’t audited nearly half of them by that deadline, according to a review of its website.
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
bostonglobe.com | Jesús Marrero Suárez
A Brockton man suspected of killing a Connecticut woman on Friday in Brockton has been found with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz. Brockton police found Gelson Fernandes, 29, at the scene of the homicide, 17 Nason St., after receiving a 911 call shortly after midnight Friday reporting a man lying face down in the street, said Beth Stone, a spokesperson for the district attorney’s office, said in a phone interview .
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Nov 18, 2023 | 
bostonglobe.com | Jesús Marrero Suárez
Police in Manchester, N.H., are investigating the death of a man found suffering from gunshot wounds early Saturday morning, authorities said. At 1:12 a.m., officers responded to a traffic incident at 61 Lowell St., returning there at 2:02 a.m. after receiving a report of a shooting, according to a statement from Attorney General John M. Formella and Manchester Police Chief Allen D. Aldenberg. The victim was found in downtown Manchester, near several business, restaurants and a church.
