The Latest Breaking News from Massachusetts

Woman charged, accused of freeing swarm of bees on deputies

A Massachusetts woman is facing multiple assault and battery charges, accused of releasing a swarm of bees on sheriff’s deputies as they tried to serve an eviction notice

The Independent UK · Oct 19, 2022

Activist objects to museum selling toys of Hindu deities

A Hindu rights activist is calling on a Massachusetts museum to stop selling children’s plush toys representing three Hindu deities, which he says are “insensitive.”

The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2022

Research: Livers Can Stay Functional For Over 100 years

According to researchers from the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and TransMedics, Andover, Massachusetts, there is a small, but growing, subset of livers that have been transplanted and have a cumulative age of more than 100 years.Read more on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · Oct 17, 2022

Bexar County sheriff certifies that migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard are crime victims, clearing path for special visas

The move clears a pathway for those people to get a special visa to stay in the country that they otherwise would not have received.

The Texas Tribune · Oct 13, 2022

Treasury Department to investigate Florida’s use of COVID funds for migrant flights

WASHINGTON — A watchdog group with the U.S. Treasury Department plans to examine whether Florida’s state government properly used federal pandemic recovery money in connection to last month’s efforts to relocate migrants, a top official with the agency told the Massachusetts congressional delegation last week.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Oct 12, 2022

Ron DeSantis investigated over migrant transfer from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard

Treasury inquiring into whether Florida governor improperly used interest on Covid relief funds to transport people to Massachusetts

The Guardian - US · Oct 12, 2022

Treasury Department investigating Ron DeSantis political stunt involving migrant flights

The federal government is probing whether the Florida governor improperly used Covid-19 relief money

The Independent UK · Oct 12, 2022

Treasury Department to investigate Florida’s use of COVID funds for migrant flights

WASHINGTON — A watchdog group with the U.S. Treasury Department plans to examine whether the Florida government properly used federal pandemic recovery money in connection to last month’s efforts to relocate migrants, a top official with the agency told the Massachusetts congressional delegation last week.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Oct 12, 2022

Hospitals have been slow to bring on addiction specialists

In December, Marie, who lives in coastal Swampscott, Massachusetts, began having trouble breathing. Three days after Christmas, she woke up gasping for air and dialed 911.

Tribune News Service · Oct 12, 2022

Underfunded states to get boost in high-tech research money

WASHINGTON — Two dozen mostly rural states are set to receive a greater share of federal research money from the recently enacted science and technology funding law as lawmakers, experts and researchers push to support talented scientists outside of major research hubs such as those in California, Massachusetts and New…

Tribune News Service · Oct 12, 2022