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Watch: This SUV Ended Up on the Second Floor of a Massachusetts Mall
In video posted to social media, police and firefighters appeared to be walking alongside an SUV as it backed up on the second floor of a mall in Braintree, Massachusetts.
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19 Indicted, Over $1M Confiscated in Plot to Launder Pesos for Dollars in Mass.
Officials from the U.S., Colombia and Jamaica shared how infiltration by undercover officers, cooperating witnesses and confidential sources revealed the complicated plot to exchange dollars for Colombian pesos and clean the money through U.S. banks.
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Authorities Make Arrest in 1971 Killing in Massachusetts
A 76-year-old man has been indicted and arrested in connection with the 50-year-old slaying of a woman in her Bedford, Massachusetts, home, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan. On June 10, 1971, 54-year-old Natalie Scheublin was found dead in the basement of her home by her husband Raymond Scheublin, who at the time was president of the Lexington Trust Bank….
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Man Arrested for Trying to Break Into Tiger Enclosure at Boston Zoo
A Massachusetts man is facing multiple charges after he allegedly attempted to break into the tiger enclosure at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo on Monday morning.
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School Apologizes, Fires Teacher for Blackface Masks in Black History Month Lesson
A Massachusetts Montessori school apologized and fired a teacher for instructing young children to make and wear Blackface masks as a Black History Month project. The incident, which happened in a classroom with toddlers, took place last Tuesday at IC Kids in Newton. When one mother, Nadirah Pierce, picked up her children and learned what had happened, she complained and…
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More Than 40 COVID Cases Tied to Christmas Eve Services at Mass. Church
More than 40 cases of COVID-19 have been tied to several Christmas Eve services at a church in Woburn, Massachusetts. Genesis Church is currently closed. No in-person services were held last weekend and none are scheduled for this weekend as the church deals with the outbreak. “We are deeply saddened to learn that people within GENESIS tested positive for COVID-19…
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The New Authority on Virtual Meeting Backgrounds Is @ratemyskyperoom
As the coronavirus shuts down business, it opens up your home to prying eyes. It’s only human to judge, and when you log on to Zoom or Skype for a virtual meeting, your colleagues are judging what’s behind you. Your backdrop. Claude Taylor is one of those judgy types, and he’s taken his opinions to Twitter. He started @ratemyskyperoom,...
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Woman, Daughter ‘Brutally Attacked' for Speaking Spanish in East Boston: Lawyers
A woman is calling on police to investigate after she and her daughter were allegedly attacked in East Boston this month for speaking Spanish. According to advocacy group Lawyers for Civil Rights, the woman and her 15-year-old daughter were “brutally assaulted” by white assailants because they were speaking Spanish near the Maverick Square MBTA station on the evening of Feb….
