After officer shootings, constables to be fingerprinted
The Boston Police Department has begun notifying constables that they must be fingerprinted so authorities can run out-of-state background checks on them — a move that follows the shooting of two Boston officers, allegedly by a constable who ran afoul of the law outside of Massachusetts.Notice of the new fingerprinting requirement was sent Thursday to the city’s 277 constables, Lieutenant Detective Michael McCarthy said Friday. Constables have until Feb. 15 to comply or the city may suspend the..>> view originalFormer Attorney General Janet Reno dies at 78
MIAMI — Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as US attorney general and the epicenter of several political storms during the Clinton administration, including the seizure of Elian Gonzalez, died early Monday. She was 78.Reno died from complications of Parkinson’s disease, her goddaughter Gabrielle D'Alemberte said. D'Alemberte said Reno spent her final days at home in Miami surrounded by family and friends. Advertisement Reno, a former Miami prosecutor who famously told reporters ‘‘I don’t d..>> view originalShe owes immigrant victims $1 million, but she's working in Boston ...
Glamorous and charismatic, Stella Figueredo lured thousands of immigrants to her offices with the promise of green cards and US citizenship, investigators said, and then charged them exorbitant fees for services she did not provide. When New York’s top prosecutor shuttered her organization in 2010, he ordered her to pay victims $1.2 million and to never perform immigration work in that state again.Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, now the governor, warned that the crackdown on Figueredo’s nonprofi..>> view originalBoston Red Sox free agency-trade market: Dave Dombrowski's ...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski and other major league executives convene for the GM Meetings in Scottsdale, Ariz. this week (Monday-Thursday). The GM Meetings are typically much more quiet than the Winter Meetings in December. GMs and agents meet to lay the groundwork for potential trades and free agent signings. These talks set up the real action, which typically starts to ramp up in December. Today is the final day of the quiet period in free age..>> view originalDenver's Jameer Nelson looks back fondly on short Celtics stint
If you blinked, you likely missed Jameer Nelson’s Celtics career. But it still resonates with him as much as 26 days can.He arrived during a time of great roster upheaval, part of the Rajon Rondo trade in December of 2014 that brought Jae Crowder. He was gone the middle of the next month, sent to Denver for Nate Robinson, who was waived two days later.It was all bookkeeping stuff.“It was fun while I was here,” Nelson, still with the Nuggets, said before taking on the C’s last night at the Garden..>> view originalHank Phillippi Ryan spills on 7News, slueth story
7News investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan has seen it all in her 40 years in TV, and she’s not the least bit worried about the future of her station when NBC pulls the plug on WHDH’s network programming come Jan. 1.“I’m excited, oh absolutely,” Hank told the Track. “People here are excited. The place is buzzing, people are working hard. This is not a station that’s nervous. We’re empowered.”As you may have read, NBC is launching a network-owned Boston station, called NBC Boston, and as of..>> view originalOfficials: 70-year-old hit, killed crossing Tewksbury street
TEWKSBURY — Authorities are investigating after they say a pedestrian was struck by a pickup truck and killed in Tewksbury.The Middlesex County District Attorney's Office says the 70-year-old Tewksbury man was hit while crossing a street on Sunday evening. Investigators say he wasn't in a crosswalk at the time.The driver stayed at the scene and called 911.The pedestrian was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead. The man's name hasn't been released.Police officials say the driver, whose..>> view originalThe election that was always about Obama vs. Trump
It’s fitting that the last day of campaigning in the 2016 presidential election would be in New Hampshire with President Obama and GOP nominee Donald Trump.That’s because, in many ways, this campaign was never about Trump versus his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. Advertisement No, this campaign was really about Trump versus Obama.While Trump had flirted with a White House run for decades, his real entry into the national political fray came around the time that Obama won the presiden..>> view originalBoston graffiti urges violence on Trump backers
A "Kill Your Local Trump Supporter" graffiti was spray-painted in white letters 20 feet long on School of the Museum of Fine Arts property on St. Alphonsus Street.It's unclear when the graffiti first appeared on the side of a gray building in Mission Hill that houses studio and exhibition space for the school. The message faced the parking lot of an adjacent building, and was visible from a sidewalk. It was painted over late this morning.Sam Lovett-Perkins, 21, a nursing major at Northeastern Un..>> view originalTrump says no refugees without local approval
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times EST):6:38 p.m. Advertisement Donald Trump says he would give local residents the power to prevent refugees from settling in their communities.Trump told supporters at a rally in Minneapolis that the U.S. would ‘‘not admit any refugees without the support of the local community where they are being placed.’’ He says, ‘‘It’s the least they could do for you. You've suffered enough in Minnesota.’’ Trump cited the September knif..>> view original
Monday, November 14, 2016
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