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With student protests over the Israel-Hamas war disrupting campuses nationwide, several major universities are intent on ensuring that commencement ceremonies — joyous milestones for graduates, their families and friends — go off without a hitch this weekend. It won’t be easy. Colleges are hiring extra security, screening attendees at venues and emphasizing that significant disruptions by anti-Israel protesters won’t be …

In a shocking move, the Suffolk District Attorney in Massachusetts announced on Tuesday that there will be no criminal charges filed in connection to the investigation involving the disturbing discovery of four newborn babies found wrapped in tin foil inside a freezer in the home of a Boston woman who “concealed her pregnancies.” “This investigation, which is one of the …

Karen Read‘s defense team came out swinging in her murder trial with accusations that the lead investigator searched her phone for nude photos and texted his friends that he “wished she would kill herself.” Her lawyer, David Yanetti, didn’t mince words during his opening statements Monday morning. “Karen Read was framed” for her Boston cop boyfriend’s death in January 2022, …

Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson was exposed for accusing Israel of committing “genocide” and “apartheid” in Gaza in a draft of a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Jewish state’s war against Hamas, according to a recent report. “The ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip comes in the context of the 75-year displacement of Palestinians,” the draft resolution …

A Boston man was sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for attempting to hire a contract killer to murder his ex-wife and her boyfriend. Mohammed Chowdhury, 47, was sentenced to 92 months behind bars followed by three years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty in January to two counts of use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of …

Karen Read’s lawyer dropped bombshell accusations during opening statements in Read’s murder trial, including an investigator’s search for nude photos of her and “revealing texts” to friends on his personal phone. Read allegedly killed her boyfriend – Boston police officer John O’Keefe – when she backed over him with her car after an alcohol-fueled fight during a snowy night on …

A forensics expert zeroed in on two pieces of evidence ahead of Karen Read’s murder trial — the autopsy and the way the victim’s clothes were handled — and said he believes the medical examiner’s testimony will be pivotal. Read allegedly hit her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, with her car and left him to die in the snow, …

A former Berklee College of Music student from China was sentenced Wednesday to nine months in prison for stalking and threatening a person who posted a flyer in support of democracy in the Asian country, authorities said. The leaflet that was posted on the campus in Boston on Oct. 22 read, “Stand with Chinese People,” along with other statements such …

Anti-Israel encampments swept across elite universities on Monday, as antisemitic and pro-terror demonstrations at Columbia University reached a fever pitch at the start of Passover. As Columbia held classes remotely following a weekend of hateful rhetoric surrounding it pro-Gaza encampment on the South Lawn, where incidents have included a young woman holding a sign with an arrow pointing to Jewish …

The earthquake that struck the East Coast earlier this month was felt by an estimated 42 million people and luckily caused little damage, but what are the chances of a bigger, more powerful quake striking the area? And if it does, what could it look like — and are we prepared? The April 5 phenomenon was a 4.8 magnitude earthquake …