All posts tagged "Boston"

A federal judge rejected the Trump administration's lawsuit seeking to block a city law that limits cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The Trump administration sued Boston to secure an injunction against one of the city's ordinances restricting ICE cooperation, the type of law that Trump says belongs to "sanctuary" cities. Federal Judge Leo Sorokin tossed the case on Thursday, ruling that the government has no standing to bring the case.

"The United States has not made a plausible showing that its alleged injuries are redressable by the judicial relief it seeks," Sorokin wrote. "A federal district court is not a roving beacon of justice, free to opine on each question any party presents, no matter how consequential." ...

A husband and wife in Boston who allegedly hurled racial slurs and death threats, attacking a group of people dining at a restaurant, including a child, were facing civil rights violations, according to a NBC10 Boston report on Wednesday.

Arielle Raso, 37, and Gregory Raso, 39, who live next door to Tertulia's Cafe on Porter Street in East Boston, called police to make a noise complaint around 6:45 p.m. on Monday, NBC10 reported. Officers responded to the location and told the couple they could contact police if the noise continued after 11 p.m.

Police later received a call of a reported assault and returned to the cafe at 8:30 p.m. A victim told authorities that she and several other Latino customers were eating when the couple complained about the noise and confronted the group....

By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday charged three people with running a high-end brothel network out of apartment complexes in greater Boston and northern Virginia whose customers included elected officials, tech and pharmaceutical executives, lawyers, professors and military officers. Federal prosecutors in Boston did not identify any of the "wealthy and well-connected clientele" that they say paid up to $600 per hour for sexual encounters with predominantly Asian women who were being exploited through sex trafficking. The brothels' alleged operators -- Han Lee, 4......

A woman in her thirties posed as a student at three different Boston high schools during the 2022-23 school year, according to The Daily Beast — and police are investigating.

"A letter from the Boston Public Schools superintendent obtained by the station revealed that the woman attended three different high schools, enrolling under multiple names in an attempt to hoodwink the school district," said the report. "'I am deeply troubled that an adult would breach the trust of our school communities by posing as a student,' Superintendent Mary Skipper said, calling the scheme 'a case of extremely sophisticated fraud.'"

According to the report, the woman's deception was exposed by paperwork "irregularities," that caused schools to notify police....

Actress Lori Loughlin has been released from prison after serving nearly two months behind bars for her role in the college admissions cheating scandal. The “Full House” star walked out of a federal correctional facility in Dublin, California, early Monday morning, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. She will now have to spend two years in supervised release as part of her sentence. Loughlin and her husband, who’s serving his own sentence at a separate California lockup, were sent to prison for paying $500,000 in bribes to get their two daughters accepted into college as fake athletic ......

PHILADELPHIA — Vanessa Oppong thought about delaying her pursuit of a master’s degree in public health at Temple University, given that classes were moved online this fall as a result of the pandemic. Then, as the devastating effects of the coronavirus raged around her, she reconsidered. “I felt in a way called to continue my education,” Oppong, 23, of Woodbridge, Virginia, said. “There’s no better time than right now.” And apparently she’s far from alone in her thinking. Temple saw a 120% increase in first-year students enrolled in its master’s of public health program this year, from 69 to 1......