A coalition of civil rights groups brought a complaint Thursday demanding information on how immigration authorities use the Boston Police Department’s gang database to target black and Latino residents.
Read moreAirbnb brought a federal complaint Tuesday in protest of new limits on short-term residential rentals adopted by the city of Boston.
Read moreThe Greek hit man who doesn’t like rats may have gotten help killing Whitey Bulger in prison from a Massachusetts mobster who killed and dismembered a teen, an anonymous official told reporters Friday.
Read moreJames “Whitey” Bulger, the murderous Boston gangster who benefited from a corrupt relationship with the FBI before spending 16 years as one of America’s most wanted men, was slain in federal prison. He was 89.
Read moreA civic group failed to persuade a federal judge Wednesday that Boston must mark its proposed event by flying a flag featuring a red Latin cross.
Read more“A beautiful and rare sight to see,” Massachusetts officials tweeted Tuesday, captioning a 10-second video of a humpback whale soaring up from the calm waters of Boston Harbor.
Read moreTestifying as part of a three-day hearing on claims that Immigration and Customs Enforcement targets the spouses of U.S. citizens for deportation, the newly tapped director of ICE’s Boston field office faced grueling questions Tuesday from a federal judge.
Read moreA civic group that wants to fly a flag of a red Latin cross over Boston City Hall brought a federal complaint Friday to get its way.
Read moreA federal judge upbraided an attorney for the U.S. government Tuesday in a case where immigrants say their marriages to U.S. citizens led to their being targeted for arrest.
Read moreRecasting a Guatemalan woman’s habeas case as a federal class action, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts accused immigration officials Wednesday of targeting the spouses of U.S. citizens.
Read moreA year and half after she watched in horror as police gunned down her unarmed son outside their apartment, a Boston woman brought federal excessive-force claims Wednesday against the city.
Read moreA biotech firm claims in a federal complaint that Boston-area hospitals and universities are infringing its patented techniques of early disease detection.
Read moreTwo men claim in a federal complaint that they were horrified on the eve of their wedding to find that Vistaprint had mailed them religious pamphlets instead of customized programs they had ordered.
Read moreThe organizers behind the annual Anime Boston convention have laid down the gauntlet for Japanese pop culture appreciation in the Bay State by suing the organizers of a competing event.
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Surrounded by pro-Trump slogans and chants against “commie scum,” a progressive activist trumpeted free-speech rights at a Saturday rally organized by self-styled American nationalists.
Read moreEducation Secretary Betsy DeVos was hit with a federal complaint Thursday by three women who say her unraveling of campus-assault guidelines will gut investigations or lawsuits they have pending.
Read moreU.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions praised law enforcement in Massachusetts for recent arrests while calling for more cooperation in the fight against MS13, a transnational gang he said has been wreaking havoc in major cities.
Read moreAnnouncing the arrest of a retired U.S. Army colonel, federal prosecutors say he helped launder bribes for Haitian officials in connection to a post-earthquake project.
Read moreThe four Teamsters who crashed a “Top Chef” shoot with shouting and slurs won acquittal on federal extortion charges Tuesday.
Read moreA jury weighing federal charges against four Teamsters who antagonized the Boston set of the popular reality show “Top Chef” in 2014 began deliberations Thursday after six days of testimony.
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