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Residents rebuke Worcester City Council

DHS says Massachusetts city council member 'incited chaos' as ICE arrested 'violent criminal alien'
The Department of Homeland Security accused a Worcester, Massachusetts city council member of creating a chaotic situation when ICE arrested a violent criminal illegal alien.
‘I’m ashamed’: Residents rebuke Worcester City Council after chaotic ICE arrest
Worcester City Council moved to Zoom citing "public safety concerns," which residents criticized in a rocky remote meeting Tuesday night. The post ‘I’m ashamed’: Residents rebuke Worcester City Council after chaotic ICE arrest appeared first on Boston.
Rally held outside Worcester City Council meeting to protest recent ICE arrests
Worcester Mayor Joseph Petty moved Tuesday’s City Council meeting from in-person to be virtual for safety concerns, as dozens protested outside City Hall.
Protesters at City Hall demand ‘ICE out of Worcester’ as council meeting goes virtual
Outside of Worcester City Hall Tuesday evening, nearly 100 people rallied against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and their recent arrest in Worcester. The protesters gathered on Worcester Common at 5:30 p.
Outside empty City Hall, protesters demand 'no ICE in Worcester'
Protesters also questioned the role of Worcester police in the ICE raid and had very unkind words for the city manager and some members of the City Council. Promoted beforehand on social media as a potentially “large and noisy NON-VIOLENT public standout” before the May 13 City Council meeting,
Boston City Council considers response to member's guilty plea, ranked-choice voting proposal
The agenda for a meeting of Boston's City Council on Wednesday includes a resolution responding to a member's recent guilty plea and a proposal to change the city's election system.
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Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson pleads guilty to federal corruption charges
The 46-year-old council member was charged ... refusing when she was arrested in December 2024. A special election will be held to fill her seat when she resigns. Boston City Councilor Ed ...
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Boston councilwoman pleads guilty to federal corruption charges in a kickback scheme
FILE - Boston City Council member Tania Fernandes Anderson leaves federal court in Boston after pleading not guilty to five counts of wire fraud and one count of theft on Friday, Dec. 6 ...
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Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson plea hearing set for May 5 in federal corruption case
A plea hearing has been scheduled in the federal public corruption case against Boston City ... to one of her City Council staff members, a relative but not immediate family member, on the ...
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‘I am back’: Former Boston City Councilor Frank Baker announces run for at-large seat
Before his time on the council, he worked for the City of Boston Printing Department and was a union member, according to his city bio. Baker announced his candidacy on X Thursday afternoon ...
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Boston City Council votes to spike special election if Fernandes Anderson resigns
Embattled Boston City Councilor ... initially arrested by federal authorities in December and accused of stealing thousands of public dollars in a kickback scheme with a family member she ...
'Fire them both': Boston city councilor calls for termination of employees in domestic violence case
An outspoken member of Boston's City Council is calling for two city employees to be fired after they were arraigned on ...
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Former Cambridge city councilor charged with kidnapping after hotel incident
Former Cambridge City Councilor Nadeem Mazen was arrested last month and now faces ... said in a statement to The Boston Globe that Mazen “categorically denies the charges brought against ...