BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 30 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: BOSTON A Fall River man was arrested yesterday and charged with selling drugs and machineguns that he advertised on the Telegram app. Benjamin Hunt, 26, was charged by criminal complaint with three counts of distribution of controlled substances and one count of transferring machineguns. Hunt was arrested yesterday morning and following an i  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Aug. 30 -- The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics issued the following news release: * * * A team from SAO has helped a decades-long mystery surrounding the solar wind that helps us understand how the Sun affects its environment and, ultimately, the Earth. * * * Since the 1960s, astronomers have wondered how the sun's supersonic "solar wind," a stream of energetic particles that flows out into the solar system and extends beyond the orbit of Pluto, continue  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 1:20-cv-11789; D. Mass. filed Sept. 30, 2020) involving Drew Morgan Ciccarelli: * * * SEC Obtains Final Judgment Against Defendant in a Microcap Fraud Scheme * * * The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts entered a final judgment against defendant Drew Ciccarelli on August 21, 2024, in a previously filed action charg  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 30 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: BOSTON Earlier today, charges were unsealed against 10 members and associates of the H Block Gang (Appendix A) for drug conspiracy. Separately, nine members and associates of the Mission Hill Gang (Appendix B) were charged with engaging in financial fraud. The charges are the result of separate, multi-year investigations into gang violence in  more