Budget cuts on the table amid runaway migrant costs, Speaker says
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by Chris Van Buskirk
2h ago
House Speaker Ron Mariano suggested Thursday that broad budget cuts could be on the table when lawmakers sit down next year to draft the fiscal year 2026 budget, painting a grim financial picture for Massachusetts fueled by the historically high cost of running state-run shelters. An influx of migrants from other countries and the crushing costs of living in Massachusetts have pushed people to seek assistance from emergency shelters at record levels. The state is required to run the shelter program because of a decades-old right-to-shelter law. But with an expected $932 million tab this fiscal ..read more
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Ex-Winthrop police officer pleads not guilty to 8 child rape charges
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by Flint McColgan
2h ago
The ex-Winthrop police officer charged with raping a young child in his own home has pleaded not guilty to the eight charges he faces in Suffolk Superior Court. James Feeley, 56, of Winthrop, appeared Thursday morning in the Superior Court in the same outfit he wore three months ago when his case was first arraigned in municipal court in East Boston, but this time he was wearing glasses. Feeley pleaded not guilty to seven counts of aggravated rape and one count of indecent assault and battery on a child. Defense attorney Stephen Neyman said he had no comment on the matter following the proceed ..read more
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Alleged Brighton ‘peeping Tom’ charged, strikes twice on same night, police say
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by Flint McColgan
4h ago
A Brighton man who local police describe as “very familiar” to them has been charged for alleged “peeping Tom” stalking in what police say are his normal neighborhood haunts. The Boston Police say that they arrested Francis Gomez, 36, in Brighton Wednesday night for two incidents of “peeping in windows” at residences on Donnybrook Road and Beechcroft Street, both in Brighton. He is scheduled for arraignment in municipal court in Brighton. A woman living on Donnybrook Road called police last Thursday to report that several nights before, on March 17, she saw a man “walking back and forth, outsi ..read more
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Homeland Security arrests Ohio man they say raped and murdered in Rwandan genocide
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by Flint McColgan
6h ago
The feds have arrested an Ohio man who they say participated in the Rwandan genocide by striking men, women and children on the head with a nail-studded club and then hacking them up with a machete The Rwandan genocide took the lives of about 800,000 Tutsis, the ethnic minority of the country, over 100 days in 1994. Boston-based prosecutors say that Eric Tabaro Nshimiye, 52, was one of the many perpetrators of that horror while a politically involved medical student there. U.S. Homeland Security Investigations special agents arrested Nshimiye from his Uniontown, Ohio, home on March 21. He made ..read more
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FBI to bury ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s file, agency rejects Herald public records request
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by Joe Dwinell
9h ago
The FBI is closing the book on the agency’s “corrupt” handling of James “Whitey” Bulger — forever. The feds are refusing to make any further installments of Bulger’s case file public, saying the records are “investigative” and no longer subject to the Freedom of Information Act. “The records responsive to your request are law enforcement records; there is a pending or prospective law enforcement proceeding relevant to these responsive records, and release of the information could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings. Therefore, your request is being administratively ..read more
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Boston Mayor Wu successfully pushes planning ordinance through City Council over pushback
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by Gayla Cawley
19h ago
A mayoral ordinance creating Boston’s first planning department in seven decades divided the City Council but was ultimately approved, marking a major win for the mayor in her larger plans to restructure city development. The Boston City Council voted, 8-3-2, to approve an amended version of an ordinance put forward by Mayor Michelle Wu in late January, that will move Boston Planning and Development Agency staff and functions, along with some land and money, to the jurisdiction of a new city department. The vote on the measure, which also gives the council budgetary oversight of the new planni ..read more
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Ex-Winthrop cop charged with child rape’s case kicked up to Suffolk Superior Court
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by Flint McColgan
19h ago
The former Winthrop police officer accused of raping a child will now be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court. James Feeley, 56, of Winthrop, faces seven counts of aggravated rape and indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years old. A Suffolk County grand jury indicted him on March 4. He is set to be arraigned on the new charges Thursday at an unknown time. Feeley himself had admitted to police that he had sexually assaulted the child, according to the redacted criminal complaint released following his first arraignment in the case at municipal court in East Boston on Dec. 27. A plea ..read more
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Dorchester’s 4th of July killer gets 17-20 years in prison
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by Flint McColgan
19h ago
A man has given up two decades of his freedom for deciding to fire into a crowd of people on Independence Day 2020 and taking the life of a Dorchester woman. “This defendant made the reprehensible — and ultimately deadly — decision to indulge his rage by firing into a group of people who were gathered to enjoy fireworks in honor of Independence Day,” Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden said in a statement. “That decision cost Felicity Coleman her life and handed her family and friends unending sorrow and grief.” A jury convicted Kristian Maraj, 26, of Dorchester, on Feb. 9 of both manslaugh ..read more
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3rd man charged in December Dorchester shooting murder
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by Flint McColgan
19h ago
A third man has been indicted on first-degree murder over a late December shooting in a crowd of people on Dorchester’s Geneva Avenue. Patrick Harland, 30, of South Boston, is charged with first-degree murder, seven counts of armed assault to murder, witness intimidation, accessory after the fact and carrying a firearm without a license. He pleaded not guilty to the charges in Suffolk Superior Court on Tuesday, where he was held without bail. His case is scheduled to return for a hearing on April 4 at 2 p.m. Two other men, Dasahn Crowder, 21, of Quincy, and Tyrese Robinson,19, of Randolph, wer ..read more
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Steward Health Care’s tentative sale to UnitedHealth raises concerns in Massachusetts
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by Lance Reynolds
19h ago
A healthcare giant set to purchase a nationwide physician network from financially disgruntled hospital operator Steward Health Care is catching flak from Massachusetts lawmakers who are calling for a careful review of the deal. State healthcare officials have received notifications in connection with the proposed sale of Stewardship Health Inc. and the contracting Steward Health Care Network to OptumCare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. Stewardship Health Inc. is the parent of Stewardship Health Medical Group Inc., which employs primary care physicians and other clinicians across nine sta ..read more
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