Judge bars ICE from busting into, setting up checkpoints outside some churches
Judge bars ICE from just busting into local Lutheran, Baptist churches without a warrant - or setting up checkpoints just outside to scan people
February 15
A federal judge has barred ICE and other federal agencies without warrants from running riot in dozens of Boston-area churches - or from setting up checkpoints at which to scan parishioners heading to church services or related functions to grab people who are suspiciously brown.
Charles River ice fisherman sparks response by firefighters in two cities who thought he might be drowning
February 14
Boston and Cambridge firefighters and State Police responded to the BU Bridge around 10:45 a.m. on a report of man spotted walking across the river from the Cambridge side while dragging something and then just stopping in the middle, just upstream from the bridge.
Not just Harvard: Defensive secretary considers barring military from studying at numerous Boston-area schools
February 14
A week after Defensive Secretary Pete Kegstand ordered the Pentagon to bar personnel from any Harvard graduate programs - such as the one from which he got a master's of public policy - the Pentagon is now looking at similar bans for Boston College, Boston University, MIT, Northeastern University and Tufts University, CNN reports.
Bicyclist shovels out another bike lane the city wouldn't touch
February 14
Abaez02 got sick of being unable to use the bike lane down Washington Street from Essex Street in Chinatown, so attacked the increasingly gross ice mounds with a shovel.
Hyde Park man charged with early morning break-in at Jamaica Plain business
February 14
Boston Police report officers arrested a Hyde Park man they say had broken into a Washington Street business early this morning.
Man found not competent to stand trial on charges he ran down a Back Bay dog walker and his dog
February 13
A Boston Municipal Court judge ruled today that William Haney, 42, of the Back Bay not competent to stand trial for the way he allegedly drove onto the Commonwealth Avenue Mall and deliberately killed John Axlerod and his dog.
Judge declares regime in contempt; orders it to return the Babson student it admits it shouldn't have deported
February 13
A federal judge who first politely suggested to Marco Rubio that he let that mistakenly deported Babson student back in the country is done playing nice: Today he ordered the regime, in capital letters no less, to bring Any Lucia Lopez Belloza back to the US within two weeks so she can resume her studies in person.
Immigrant whom ICE grabbed and shipped to the Dominican Republic is allowed to return - and is promptly grabbed again at Logan
February 13
Judge requires ICE to free the woman by Monday so that she can attend her Tuesday divorce/custody hearing. If ICE insists, the woman will then have to turn herself back into ICE following that hearing - but ICE then has to get her before an immigration judge for a bond hearing.
What state is getting into with new OpenAI contract: OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely' from its mission - and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders
February 13
Gov. Healey today announced a deal to give OpenAI access to all 40,000 state employees. Alnoor Ebrahim, a professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School, takes a look at OpenAI.
New hotel next to the Orpheum will only accept guests with clean criminal records
February 13
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved plans to convert a "lodging house" that served people in Boston for medical stays into a full-fledged hotel that will rely on technology and background checks to get around the fact it won't actually have employees on site 24 hours a day.
Restaurants in the North End, Back Bay and East Boston get OK to upgrade from beer and wine to harder drinks
February 13
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved upgrades in the alcohol licenses of five restaurants and one health club to let them sell spirits and other hard liquors.
