Massachusetts

Lewis Pugh has followed an unspoken rule during his career as one of the world’s most daring endurance swimmers: Don’t talk about sharks. But he plans to break that this week on a swim around Martha’s Vineyard, where “Jaws” was filmed 50 years ago. The British-South African was the first person to complete a long-distance swim in every ocean of...

Francisco Severo Torres, 34, of Leominster, Massachusetts, faces up to life in prison for the 2023 incident on a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Logan Airport

Federal immigration agents were seen breaking an SUV’s window, throwing a man inside to the ground and handcuffing him on Sunday, Mother’s Day, after the man and his family left church in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

Here are five things to know about UNC football coach Bill Belichick’s girlfriend Jordon Hudson.

Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl’s face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation

Jacob Henriques, an assistant admissions director at Emmanuel College in Boston, is facing a federal charge of attempted sex trafficking of a minor

Within a 24-hour span, Massachusetts natives Sean Burke, Mike Vasil, Jared Shuster and Shane Smith each pitched off Fenway’s mound as major leaguers for the first time.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem sent Harvard University “a scathing letter demanding detailed records on Harvard’s foreign student visa holders’ illegal and violent activities by April 30, 2025”

Marilu Domingo Ortiz said when ICE vehicles began following she and her husband Monday and then surrounded their car in New Bedford, Massachusetts, she took out her cell phone and started recording.

Nicole Micheroni, an immigration attorney and U.S. citizen born and raised in Massachusetts, has not heard from the Department of Homeland Security since it told her to leave the country

When Nicole Micheroni received an email from DHS telling her to leave the country, she was baffled. She’s an immigration attorney born in Massachusetts.

The number of staff members who’ve reported benign brain tumors after working on one floor of a Massachusetts hospital is now at six, a hospital official told patients in a message.

Architectural Uprising gave its inaugural Aesthetic Atrocity Award to this Cambridge school building. The group is against “uglification of cities.”

Ingolf Tuerk is charged with first-degree murder in the strangling death of his wife, Kathleen McLean, five years ago in Dover, Massachusetts

In total, 11 staff members on the fifth-floor nursing unit of Mass General Brigham’s Newton-Wellesley Hospital were found to have health issues.

Lawyers for a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities argued Thursday that her case should be handled by the federal court in Massachusetts, while U.S. government attorneys said it should be dismissed and go before an immigration judge.

Astronaut Sunita Williams is scheduled to speak publicly on Monday for the very first time since splashing back down to Earth earlier this month.

Police said they identified the suspect but did not say whether the incident was intentional or accidental

Three American women who were discovered dead in a Belize resort hotel room last month died from carbon monoxide poisoning, their families said.

Authorities in Belize are taking a closer look at the possibility that carbon monoxide poisoning may have played a role in the deaths of three Americans last month.