Massachusetts distributed $2 million to local law enforcement, several state agencies and Northeastern University Jan. 31 in an effort to increase gun violence prevention initiatives.
In today’s episode of East to West, we cover a BU student campaign for free laundry, faculty complaints over lack of access to COVID-19 testing, the vandalism of a North Cambridge mural honoring representative...
Through an exhaustive investigation of the Massachusetts DOC, the DOJ found that prisoners on mental health watch were left under-supervised, resulting in them hurting or killing themselves, according to a DOJ press release.
The grant will be used to bolster law enforcement efforts to investigate and prosecute perpetrators of sex exploitation while also funding recovery services and training for state employees to better help survivors.
According to a 2017 Reuters Institute Digital News Report, only 38 percent of Americans trust the news media.
Between polarizing figures on primetime network television and online writers who always...
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh and Sen. Ed Markey announced new gun legislation that encourages other states to adhere to the strict laws already in place in Massachusetts Monday afternoon.
On Jan. 10, President Barack Obama delivered his Farewell Address in his adoptive hometown of Chicago, Illinois. The soon-to-be former president thanked his staff, his family and his vice president...
In the post-9/11 era, one of the Department of Justice’s main goals is to construct a barrier to combat international terrorism, U.S. Assistant Attorney General John Carlin told a room of attendees...
When Dzhokhar Tsarnaev first entered the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse to stand trial for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, there was no question that he belonged there.
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The Boston Bar Association requested the U.S. Department of Justice seek a life sentence without parole rather than the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 21-year-old accused of placing two bombs...
In shows like "Law & Order" and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," it only takes an hour to nab the perpetrator of a crime. And thanks to the creation of a new computational tool by Catherine Grgicak,...
The United States Department of Justice selected Boston as one of three cities to serve as a testing ground for a series of counter-terrorism pilot programs. The programs, announced Sept. 15 by former...
