Mass. sues over Medicaid work rule; serial rapist gets life plus
Warning of 'harm and chaos,' Massachusetts and other states sue to block work requirement for Medicaid recipients
June 29
Massachusetts, 24 other states and the District of Columbia today sued the regime over its proposal to make Medicaid recipients work for their healthcare - possibly even if they are "medically frail" but have not supplied additional paperwork on how that makes them unable to work.
Fake ride-share driver who raped and photographed women he picked up gets a sentence of life plus
June 29
A Suffolk Superior Court judge today sentenced serial rapist Alvin Campbell, 45, to life plus another 120 to 140 years for repeatedly raping and photographing women he would pick up outside Boston bars, according to court records.
Saucy storrower says: Sorry!
June 29
It's one thing when some clueless driver from down south or out west learns that those "CARS ONLY" signs mean business, but quite another when a driver for a local concern manages to have the top of their truck peeled back - or if at the Kenmore ramps, left stuck at a particularly jaunty angle.
Judge orders ICE to reimburse lawyer for wrongly imprisoned immigrant
June 29
A Boston federal judge last week ordered ICE to pay the lawyer for an Angolan woman who should never have been locked up $2,030 for her work on the case - and another $1,800 for the time she had to spend answering assertions by regime lawyers she had no right to the money.
Orange Line service went haywire when leaves near Stony Brook caught fire
June 29
At least it wasn't mulch. The MBTA had to shut down the Orange Line outbound at Stony Brook around 1:45 p.m. after leaves on the track caught fire and firefighters had to come to douse the troublesome detritus.
Parade to celebrate 250 years of freedom, in the city where it started
June 29
Boston will host a parade from Copley Square to Faneuil Hall on July 4th to celebrate casting off the bonds of an autocratic, mad king.
Man faces second OUI charge after woman falls out of his moving car on Day Boulevard in South Boston, DA says
June 29
A man with one OUI conviction under his belt was scheduled for arraignment today on charges that include OUI, second offense, after a woman who fell out of his car as he drove down Day Boulevard near Babe Ruth Drive in South Boston suffered serious injuries last night, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
If you vote by mail, your vote will still count even if an increasingly torpid Postal Service delivers it after Election Day, Supreme Court rules
June 29
The Supreme Court today narrowly blocked a Republican effort to block the counting of mail-in ballots that were postmarked before Election Day, but only delivered after it.
Boston Fish Pier could get a floating dock
June 29
Massport is planning a floating dock at the Boston Fish Pier off Northern Avenue to help study ways to clean coastal waters.
Driver slams into pedestrian and takes off on Warren Street in Roxbury
June 29
Staco City reports a woman with a 5-year-old child with her was hit and critically injured by a driver who sped off at Warren and Holborn streets in Roxbury shortly before 8 p.m. Police are looking for a white Kia Soul.
