CRIME & SAFETY
16 Suspects Indicted in Major Boston Drug Bust, Over 100K Fentanyl-Laced Pills Seized
BOSTON – Sixteen suspects are back in the hot seat as a federal grand jury in Boston slams them with a superseding indictment for their roles in purportedly running a major drug ring. The charges follow a massive haul in which investigators confiscated over 100,000 pills laced with deadly fentanyl and methamphetamine.
Hundreds arrested across US campuses as pro-Palestinian protesters clash with police
Across colleges in the United States, students are leading protests against the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, resulting in the arrests of hundreds of students and some injured officers.
A man accused in a Harvard bomb threat and extortion plot is sentenced to 3 years probation
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A New Hampshire man accused of participating in a plot in which a caller issued bomb threats last year to Harvard University and demanded a large amount of bitcoin was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation. The threats caused the evacuation of Harvard’s Science...
Man convicted of raping, killing Mass. high school teacher pleads guilty in brutal assault case
A man convicted in the rape and death of a Massachusetts high school teacher more than a decade ago when he was a teenager pleaded guilty Friday to charges in connection with a separate assault case.
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