Rick Sobey

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Rick Sobey

UMass Chan Medical School has laid off or furloughed 200 employees, as the campus grapples with cuts to NIH research and federal funding uncertainty. The medical school, which received $193 million in National Institutes of Health funding last year, is now reportedly facing a $30 million shortfall in NIH funding due to long delays in funding new grants since the Trump administration took over. UMass Chan as a result of the shortfall and uncertainty has laid off or furloughed 200 workers.

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Rick Sobey

Harvard University says there’s “no legal basis” to rescind its tax-exempt status, as President Trump pushes for the IRS to strip the Cambridge campus of its status after the university rejected a list of demands.

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Rick Sobey

A statie who has been sued in federal court for alleged speed ticket “selective enforcement” is pushing back as he tries to get the lawsuit tossed. Woburn man Mikhael El-Bayeh, who previously sued Mass State Police Trooper Michael Sierra in state court, recently brought his effort to U.S. District Court. The driver is arguing that Sierra gave him a speeding ticket while the trooper allegedly looked the other way for public safety employees, who were reportedly driving much faster.

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Rick Sobey

A driver who allegedly feel asleep drunk while in the middle of Interstate 495 was later chased by troopers, who deflated his tires before taking him into custody. Newburyport man Kristopher Cole, 29, is facing charges after Wednesday morning’s chase on 495 south. Massachusetts State Police received reports at around 1:13 a.m. of a dark colored vehicle stopped in the middle lane of 495 south in Lowell.

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Rick Sobey

A previously deported migrant living in the Bay State has been arrested for allegedly conspiring to distribute tens of thousands of fentanyl pills and illegally reentering the U.S., according to the feds. Dominican national Juan Alexis Rodriguez Garcia, 35, has been unlawfully residing in Lawrence, the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office says.