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NBC News reports: A former Boston Police K-9 officer was arrested on Thursday and charged with attacking a Capitol Police officer with a chair during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Joseph Fisher was arrested Thursday morning. He faces felony charges of obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers. One video, …

NBC New reports: The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a “close call” between a JetBlue flight that was preparing to land and a Learjet that took off without clearance Monday night at Boston Logan International Airport, the agency said in a statement. According to a preliminary review, the pilot of a Learjet 60 took off without clearance while JetBlue Flight …

Boston’s WBZ News Radio reports: Boston, get your winter gear ready. The oncoming weekend blast of arctic air is expected to bring bone-chilling temperatures to Greater Boston and the rest of Massachusetts. A Wind Chill Warning has been issued by the National Weather Service, which says Boston is in store for wind chills as low as -30 or lower on …

AccuWeather reports: An intense blast of Arctic air will barrel into the Northeast later this week to deliver quite a cold shock to the Northeast and neighboring Canada, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. For example, in Boston, after a high near 40 on Thursday, temperatures there will dip to 10 below zero on Saturday morning. “At peak during the outbreak from late …

The New York Times reports: A package exploded inside a campus building at Northeastern University on Tuesday night, injuring an employee and spreading fear among Boston’s many college campuses, the police said. Officers were called just after 7:15 p.m. to Holmes Hall at 39 Leon Street, which houses the writing center on the private university’s campus, for a suspicious package …

The Boston Globe reports: When about 100 white supremacists marched through downtown Boston wielding riot shields on July 2, Mayor Michelle Wu admitted that police were caught by surprise. Now, records suggest Boston police officials weren’t all that curious to learn more, even while the racist march, which included an altercation with a Black man, unfolded. On that day, Boston …

Boston’s ABC affiliate reports: A member of a white supremacist group and two other people were arrested Saturday in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston as they marched and chanted during a meeting of LGBTQ community members. City officials said the group, National Socialist Club or NSC-131, was protesting during a drag queen story hour event at the Loring Greenough …

Boston.com reports: An LGBTQ-friendly senior housing project in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood was found vandalized with hate speech Sunday morning. LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc., a Massachusetts non-profit that works to create affordable housing for LGBTQ+ seniors, said in a Facebook post Sunday that signs at The Pryde — their current housing project in Hyde Park — had anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech …

The Boston Herald reports: A group of about 100 marchers identifying themselves by flyers as belonging to the white nationalist group the Patriot Front, cut through the heart of downtown Saturday sparking a confrontation. A scanner call came in at around 12:30 p.m. announcing that a group had gone up to a rental truck parked in the area of the …

Boston’s ABC News affiliate reports: A Massachusetts man is facing multiple charges as he stands accused of intentionally setting a fire at the Satanic Temple in Salem. Salem police said 42-year-old Daniel Damien Lucey, of Chelsea, was arrested late Friday night after a fire was reported at the temple on Bridge Street. According to police, they received numerous 911 calls …

Via press release from the red-caped Catholic loons: Satanists are trying to fly a Satanic flag over the Boston City Hall to celebrate “Satanic Appreciation Week.” After the Boston City Council refused to allow a Satanic invocation, the Satanic Temple has continued to plague the city to promote Satanic ideology. Often, the Satanic Temple’s flags contain a goat skull, or …

Mass Live reports: The Satanic Temple is hoping to raise one of its flags in front of Boston City Hall after the Supreme Court ruled Boston violated free speech rights when it refused to fly a Christian group’s flag. “Religious Liberty is a bedrock principle in a democracy, and Religious Liberty is dependent upon government viewpoint neutrality,” Lucien Greaves, cofounder …

NBC News reports: Passengers at Boston Logan International Airport faced confusion, panic and delays on Easter Sunday after concerns over a suspicious package sparked an evacuation and a visit from the state police bomb squad. In a statement Sunday, Massachusetts State Police said their bomb squad had been called to Terminal A just after 4 p.m. after security staff spotted …

The Weather Channel reports: Winter Storm Kenan will develop into a powerful nor’easter over the western Atlantic beginning late Friday, bringing heavy snow, strong winds and coastal flooding to parts of the East Coast. Winter storm watches have been issued by the National Weather Service for Friday night and Saturday from parts of southern New England southward through the coastal …

Boston’s CBS News affiliate reports: David Ferguson is speaking out passionately on behalf of his son DJ. He says the 31-year-old is fighting for his life at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and in desperate need of a heart transplant. “My son has gone to the edge of death to stick to his guns and he’s been pushed to the limit,” …

The Washington Post reports: Supreme Court justices Tuesday generally seemed to think it was a mistake for the city of Boston to refuse a ceremonial city hall flag-raising to a Christian group when it had never turned down such a request from any other organization. But it was the First Amendment follow-ups that created concern. What about a request from …

The Boston Herald reports: Embattled Boston Police sergeant and founder of an anti-vaccine mandate group, Shana Cottone, sparred with officers over her refusal to show proof of her vaccination status in a restaurant Saturday as the city’s new vaccination requirements took effect. During a nearly hourlong video, Cottone and several other women sit and eat two large pizzas in violation …

The Boston Globe reports: Michelle Wu, the 36-year-old daughter of Taiwanese immigrants and a Boston Public Schools mother who pitched a once parochial city on an unabashedly progressive agenda, captured the Boston mayoralty by a wide margin on Tuesday, shattering barriers to mark a new era in one of the nation’s most durable bastions of white male political power. Wu …

The Boston Globe reports: Boston Pride, the organization that for decades has organized the city’s annual LGBTQ parade, is dissolving amid a controversy over inclusion, the group’s board of directors said. The announcement, posted to the organization’s website Friday afternoon, came one month after Pride board president Linda DeMarco said she would resign this summer in response to complaints that …

Boston’s Universal Hub reports: For the second time in 18 months, a federal appeals court in Boston has told Hal Shurtleff that he has no right to raise a flag with a large cross on it over City Hall Plaza. As the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled in 2019, and as a federal district court judge …