Gov. Maura Healey announces all hotel shelters in Massachusetts to close this summer – Boston News, Weather, Sports

Gov. Maura Healey announces all hotel shelters in Massachusetts to close this summer – Boston News, Weather, Sports

BOSTON (WHDH) – Governor Maura Healey announced Monday that all hotel migrant shelters in Massachusetts will close this summer. The closure is set to take place six months earlier than originally expected. Only 32 hotels remain, down from a peak of 100 last summer. The state says reforms — like a six-month stay limit, job … Read more

Supreme Court allows Trump to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans who risk deportation – Boston News, Weather, Sports

Supreme Court allows Trump to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans who risk deportation – Boston News, Weather, Sports

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation. The court’s order, with only one noted dissent, puts on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that would have … Read more

‘Lively, outgoing, beautiful smile’: Roadside memorial grows for Falmouth teen killed in crash – Boston News, Weather, Sports

‘Lively, outgoing, beautiful smile’: Roadside memorial grows for Falmouth teen killed in crash – Boston News, Weather, Sports

FALMOUTH, MASS. (WHDH) – A roadside memorial is growing where a Falmouth High School senior was killed in a crash over the weekend. Friends and family identified the student as 18-year-old Ava Lodico. The student was driving a white Range Rover when it hit a tree on Acapesket Road Saturday night, officials said. “God has … Read more

Reward increased for capture of escaped New Orleans inmates as 7 remain on the lam – Boston News, Weather, Sports

Reward increased for capture of escaped New Orleans inmates as 7 remain on the lam – Boston News, Weather, Sports

NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — Officials increased the reward for the capture of seven inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet as at least a dozen law enforcement agencies pressed their expansive search for the men for a third day on Sunday. FBI Special Agent Jonathan Trapp said … Read more

Singer testifies Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs threatened her with death after she saw him beat his girlfriend – Boston News, Weather, Sports

Singer testifies Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs threatened her with death after she saw him beat his girlfriend – Boston News, Weather, Sports

NEW YORK (AP) — The Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking trial resumed Monday when a singer testified that the hip-hop mogul threatened to kill her if she told anyone that she saw him beat his longtime girlfriend. Dawn Richard told a jury in Manhattan federal court that Combs issued the threat the day after she witnessed the … Read more

Karen Read arrives at Dedham courtroom as murder retrial enters fifth week of testimony – Boston News, Weather, Sports

Karen Read arrives at Dedham courtroom as murder retrial enters fifth week of testimony – Boston News, Weather, Sports

DEDHAM, MASS. (WHDH) – Karen Read and her defense team arrived at court in Dedham Monday, as her murder retrial entered its fifth week of testimony. Read is accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe by hitting him with her SUV and leaving him to die in a snowbank in January 2022. … Read more