Tonya Alanez
Reporter at The Boston Globe
Breaking news, crime & general assignment @BostonGlobe 4-midnight, M-F. Reporter/Writer on @SunSentinel Pulitzer Prize team Public Service https://t.co/DkS9siCiaO
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3 days ago |
bostonglobe.com | Tonya Alanez |Dugan Arnett
A retired police chief from Hartford has been tapped to lead New Bedford’s police department, an insular agency that has come under intense scrutiny this year. The appointment of Jason Thody is the first time an outsider will lead the department since 1997. Thody, 49, worked for the Hartford Police Department for nearly 30 years and served as chief from 2019 until his retirement in 2024.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Tonya Alanez
The Consulate General of Israel to New England is on alert after flyers with staff members’ names, photos, and personal information were distributed in Boston earlier this week, according to a statement from embassy officials. The incident comes amid a wave of antisemitic attacks locally and nationally and a week into ongoing missile exchanges between Israel and Iran.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Tonya Alanez
CANTON — Hours after Karen Read was acquitted Wednesday for the murder of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, a Boston police officer by striking him with her car in a snowstorm in 2022, the two bars here where the couple partied that fatal night were largely quiet. The case that drew national attention sharply divided this town of about 25,000 people south of Boston since O’Keefe’s dead body was found in the snow on the front lawn of a home on Fairview Road on Jan. 29, 2022.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Tonya Alanez
In a surprise announcement Tuesday afternoon, Weymouth Mayor Robert Hedlund, a former longtime South Shore state senator, notified town staff and the public that he will be resigning in July, two and a half years before his fourth term expires. Hedlund, 63, did not give an explanation for his early departure. He is Weymouth’s third mayor.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Tonya Alanez
In a two-month sweep focused on nine “high crime” metro areas across the state, a US Marshals Service task force arrested 117 violent felons and fugitives, including an MS-13 gang member wanted for murder, the agency said in a statement Monday. “Operation Spring Cleaning” was underway from March 31 to May 30 and resulted in arrests in Brockton, Holyoke Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, New Bedford, Springfield, and Worcester, the statement said.
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