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Nearly 60 workers of a Boston-area bakery and restaurant chain have quit their job after the IRS flagged their tax filings as possibly fraudulent. The Tatte chain said that the employees left their jobs after the IRS contacted them about “discrepancies” in the employee paperwork that showed names, social security numbers, and home addresses not matching to the agency’s records. The discrepancies are often seen when migrants use fake social security numbers or steal the identities of Americans in order to get work in the U.S. The Boston Globe followed up by interviewing some of those who quit the restaurant...

Traffic jams continue to plague urban centers across the United States, leading to lost time, increased costs, and frustration for millions of commuters. The 2024 INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard sheds light on the cities most affected, providing valuable insights into the challenges faced by drivers. Here are the 10 cities with the worst traffic, according to INRIX: New York City – The Big Apple leads the nation, with drivers losing countless hours in traffic. Chicago – The Windy City ranks second, with congestion remaining a major issue. Los Angeles – LA’s infamous gridlock earns it the third spot. Boston –...

Boston authorities confirmed they rejected all 15 immigration detainer requests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the city last year, according to a new report. Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox filed a letter to the city council, revealing that the city’s police department did nothing with all of ICE’s detainer requests for the last year... ICE maintains it files detainer requests once probable cause is established that a migrant can be removed from the country. This happens "typically after a court has convicted them of one or more crimes... Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan blasted Wu’s rejection of...

The Trump transition team is promising a broad deportation operation.. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested a Dominican illegal immigrant charged with sex crimes and kidnapping in Boston, after he was released from local custody despite a request by the agency to hand him over. In a statement, ICE said it had arrested Emilio Jose Pena-Casilla, a 46-year-old, who is charged with assault to rape, kidnapping, two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or older, and intimidation of an official, witness, or juror, was arrested Dec. 17 in Boston. Pena-Casilla entered the U.S. illegally near...

Daniel Joseph Maldonado, a former Houston resident who convereted to Islam and admitted training with terrorists, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and given a $1,000 fine. Maldonado, 28, pleaded guilty in April to training with al-Qaida in East Africa. He is the first American charged with joining the terrorist organization in Somalia. The charge carried a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and a fine up to $250,000. He admitted his association with terrorists in exchange for no further prosecution by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Houston. Maldonado came to the attention of federal investigators in late...

<p>BOSTON -- For more than 20 years, FBI headquarters in Washington knew that its agents in Boston were using professional killers and mob leaders as informants and shielding them from prosecution for serious crimes including murder, the Associated Press has learned.</p>

Boston Police arrested two individuals on Saturday following a dangerous drone operation near Logan International Airport. At approximately 10:22 PM, the Boston Police Harbor Patrol Unit apprehended 42-year-old Robert Duffy of Charlestown and 32-year-old Jeremy Folcik of Bridgewater, Massachusetts on Long Island in Boston Harbor, Boston Police announced in a press release. Both men face trespassing charges, with additional fines or criminal penalties likely as the investigation continues. A third suspect, believed to have escaped by a boat, remains at large as authorities intensify efforts to locate him. The incident began earlier that evening at 4:30 PM when a vigilant...

The FBI in Boston announced Monday that two Iranian men are under arrest, following accusations of export violations and providing material support to Iran.Boston FBI announce arrest of two Iranians in connection with fatal drone strike | 3:20WCVB Channel 5 Boston | 293K subscribers | 5,772 views | December 16, 2024

Attendees at a dance party in Boston cheered when pictures of Luigi Mangione, the man accused in the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO, appeared on screen, according to videos posted on social media. Bop to the Top Tours' Jingle Bop was being held at Big Night Live, a venue in Boston, on Friday night. During the show, a DJ played Miley Cyrus' "He Could Be The One" as several pictures of Mangione appeared on a big screen. The crowd can be heard cheering as photos of Mangione taken from his social media accounts appear on screen. The cheers appear to get...

Two men were arrested Saturday night on trespassing charges after a drone came “dangerously close” to Logan International Airport in Boston, police said in a statement. The incident began Saturday afternoon when a Boston police officer detected an “Unmanned Aircraft System,” or UAS, operating “dangerously close” to the airport, according to police. The officer used advanced UAS monitoring technology to identify the drone’s location, flight history and its operators’ position on the largely uninhabited Boston Harbor Island known as Long Island, police said. The Boston Police Harbor Patrol Unit was dispatched to the island and found three people inside the...

BOSTON – Two people were arrested Saturday night in Boston for what police describe as a "hazardous drone operation." Robert Duffy, 42, of Charlestown, and 32-year-old Jeremy Folcik of Bridgewater were arrested on Long Island in Boston Harbor. Both men are charged with trespassing. Additional fines or charges could be added, Boston police said. Boston drone arrests According to Boston police, an officer spotted an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) flying close to Logan Airport. The officer was able to find the drone's location, altitude, flight history and track the operator to Long Island. Because the drones were close to the...

Scattered across the world’s oceans are a handful of rare geological time-bombs. Once unleashed they create an extraordinary phenomenon, a gigantic tidal wave, far bigger than any normal tsunami, able to cross oceans and ravage countries on the other side of the world. Only recently have scientists realised the next episode is likely to begin at the Canary Islands, off North Africa, where a wall of water will one day be created which will race across the entire Atlantic ocean at the speed of a jet airliner to devastate the east coast of the United States. America will have been...

Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson has been arrested on federal public corruption charges alleging that she orchestrated "a complicated kickback scheme" to steal city funds, officials said Friday.

Tania Fernandes Anderson has only two options left if she wants to beat the rap. First, she could go down to the courthouse and change her last name to “Biden” – in which case, a pardon is guaranteed, automatic. Second, she could renounce her recent naturalization as a US citizen and declare herself to be an illegal alien again – in which case, not only is she immune from prosecution from any crime, but she will also be given police protection from the G-men by Gov. Maura Healey and Mayor Michelle Wu. And she could also go back on welfare....

oston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson was arrested today by the feds on public corruption charges that saw her allegedly “embrace a culture of cashing in” by stealing thousands from taxpayers in an “egregious” kickback scheme at City Hall — allegations that have the mayor calling for her resignation. Fernandes Anderson, 45, was indicted on five counts of aiding and abetting wire fraud and one count of aiding and abetting theft concerning a program receiving federal funds, according to court records and a publicly available indictment. She is set to be arraigned at the Boston federal courthouse on Friday at...

For centuries, humans have been fascinated by flight. In ancient China, kites few to investigate the weather. Inventors such as Leonardo da Vinci developed many ideas about flight, too. Gliders and balloons lifted humans into the sky, but none of the inventions gave a person control of where they flew. Before Powered Flight The physics of flight and propulsion play key roles in who became pioneers. George Cayley used aerodynamics while designing fixed-wing aircraft. His designs would later inspire Orville and Wilbur Wright. Since propulsion is one of the primary requirements to lift a human into the sky for flight,...

The Boston City Council voted unanimously to retain its status as a sanctuary city on Wednesday night, to “protect” illegal immigrants from president elect Donald Trump’s immigration policy. All thirteen council members voted to reaffirm the city’s Boston Trust Act, which “delineates the distinct roles and responsibilities of the Boston Police Department from those of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), thereby promoting trust between local law enforcement and immigrant communities.” In other words, the act severely limits to what extent local authorities can work with federal immigration authorities. “It’s not just a policy, but it is a promise...

A Massachusetts judge has been slapped with fresh charges after she was accused helping a twice-deported illegal immigrant evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2018. Judge Shelley Joseph, now assigned to Boston Municipal Court, is under fire again six years after she allegedly allowed Jose Medina-Perez to walk out a back door of the Newton District Courthouse to avoid getting arrested by the ICE agents on duty. In a scathing 112-page report, the state's Commission on Judicial Conduct accused Joseph of 'willful judicial misconduct' and bringing 'disrepute' to the court system. While these aren't criminal charges, the commission did ask...

An already hectic holiday travel day was made more chaotic with two separate plane collisions on the tarmac at Boston Logan International Airport just hours apart on Monday. In the first crash, an American Airlines jet that was taxiing to its gate clipped the wing of a parked Frontier Airlines plane, local ABC affiliate station WCVB reported. “That was terrible. It was very scary. All of a sudden, ‘thump.’ It sounded like something fell from below,” Evelyn Pipione, a Frontier passenger ... Video obtained by Storyful shows the battered wing of the smaller Frontier plane underneath the wing of the...

ric Abbenante @EricAbbenante There is not a reasonable explanation as to why so many precincts in Boston had over 100% turnout rate. Edward Coyle @SirEdwardCoyle So, many precincts in the City of #Boston had #voter turnout that exceeded 100% - even up to 263%. If a precinct has 2,366 registered voters and they received 6,244 votes, does that not raise a red flag? I wonder how many times my d*ceased grandparents voted. #bospoli