WASHINGTON, July 29 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: BOSTON Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston apprehended a 31-year-old Colombian national convicted of distributing drugs in Massachusetts. Deportation officers with ERO Boston arrested the previously removed Colombian noncitizen June 13 in Shirley. "This Colombian noncitizen not only completely ignored U.S. immigration law by reentering our country after  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release: Burlington County Eye Physicians (BCEP), an ophthalmology practice with locations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and Dr. Gregory H. Scimeca, an ophthalmologist and the owner of BCEP, have agreed to pay $469,232 to resolve allegations that they submitted and caused the submission of false claims for payment for medically unnecessary transcranial doppler (TCD) te  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: As a hospital corpsman, Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Wayne Maurice Caron took his duty to care for the men around him so seriously that, during a firefight in his first month in Vietnam, he ignored his own wounds to tend to everyone else. Caron never returned home from that mission, but his valor and selflessness led him to receive a posthumous Medal of Honor. Caron was born Nov. 2, 1946, in Middleboro, Massachus  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 29 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. DEVIN SUGGS, also known as "JB," 20, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to 168 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his involvement in a violent New Haven street gang and several gang-related shootings. Today's announcement was made by   more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. issued the following news release on July 29, 2024: * * * New England Teamsters Plan Averts Insolvency and Reduction of Benefits Through Receipt of Special Financial Assistance * * * The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced today that it has approved the application submitted to the Special Financial Assistance (SFA) Program by the New England Teamsters Pension Plan (New England Teamsters Plan). The plan, based in Bur  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 29 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: BOSTON A Salem man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a North Shore-based drug trafficking organization (DTO) that manufactured and distributed tens of thousands of counterfeit prescription pills containing narcotics. Kion Shepherd, 25, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis SaylornIV to 70 mon  more

PITTSFIELD, Massachusetts, July 29 -- Vice President Kamala Harris issued the following remarks on July 27, 2024, at a political event at the Colonial Theater: * * * THE VICE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. (Applause.) (Laughs.) Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you all. (Laughs.) Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. (Applause.) (Laughs.) Thank you, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. (Applause.) Oh, thank you so very much. P  more