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Tufts student from Turkey details arrest, crowded detention conditions in court filing
A Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey is demanding her release after she was detained by immigration officials near her Massachusetts home, detailing how she was scared when the men grabbed her phone and feared she would be killed. Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, who has since been moved to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Basile, Louisiana, provided an…
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Tufts student detained by ICE moved to Vermont before judge's order, feds say
A Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities had been moved to Vermont by the time a federal judge ordered authorities to keep her in Massachusetts, lawyers for the U.S. government said.
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NH teens challenge Trump's order banning them from girls' sports
Two students challenging New Hampshire’s ban on transgender athletes on girls sports teams will also fight President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” after a judge approved their request Wednesday....
...It’s believed to be the first time that the constitutionality of the executive order signed by Trump last week is being challenged in court, according to Boston-based GLBTQ Legal Advocates &...
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Marriage license links Calif. murder suspect, Vt. Border Patrol agent killing suspect
A man accused of murder in California appears to have sought a marriage license with a woman charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont.
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Man convicted of holding down boy while he was raped at a youth center gets 20- to 40-year sentence
A former leader at a New Hampshire youth detention center who was convicted of holding down a teen while he was raped in 1998 was sentenced Monday to 20 to 40 years in prison. Bradley Asbury, now 70, was found guilty in November on two counts of being an accomplice to aggravated sexual assault. Asbury had pleaded not guilty. “With…
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Woman charged in killing of Border Patrol agent in Vermont was in contact with homicide suspect
Federal prosecutors say a Washington state woman charged in connection with the fatal shooting of U.S. border patrol agent in Vermont had been in frequent contact with someone whom authorities have linked to homicides in Pennsylvania and California.
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Assumption students charged in TikTok-inspired ‘Catch a Predator' plot appear in court
Five Massachusetts college students made their first appearances in court Thursday, accused of plotting to lure a man through a dating app into visiting campus last fall and then seizing him as part of a “Catch a Predator” trend on TikTok. The students, all teens at Assumption University, a private, Roman Catholic school in Worcester, were arraigned on conspiracy and…
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New documentary focuses on Christa McAuliffe's impact as a teacher in NH
Before Christa McAuliffe was an astronaut, she was a vibrant teacher in New England keen on showing her students how everyday people left extraordinary marks on U.S. history. Nearly four decades later, a new documentary focuses on how she still inspires others and less on her fate aboard the space shuttle Challenger. “Christa: From Ordinary to Extraordinary” from New...
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Should a man who killed 2 Ivy League professors as a teen continue serving life without parole?
A judge wants New Hampshire’s highest court to weigh in on the case of a man who pleaded guilty as a teenager to the 2001 stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors and is challenging his sentence of life without parole. Robert Tulloch, 41, was 17 when he killed Half and Susanne Zantop as part of a conspiracy he…
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Court hears cases on NH transgender girls playing high school sports
Two lawsuits about transgender girl athletes — one challenging a state ban at schools and the other on the right to protest transgender athletes’ participation on girls teams — were the subject of hearings in federal court in New Hampshire on Thursday.
