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Dmitrii Georgiev was on vacation when he said his GPS led him to a U.S. port of entry in Vermont. By the time he realized that, it was too late. He'd spend months in a black hole of ICE custody and felt he was "not in America."

In her first term, Wu was untested — all possibility and potential. Now, her constituents expect her to deliver major improvements, and she does too.

A Trump administration decision to terminate hundreds of health services grants sent several Massachusetts mental health and addiction treatment providers scrambling for further details and plans to cover new funding gaps.

It’s been a little over a hundred years since fishermen were free to catch shellfish in the Boston Harbor. But now, the state has declared that shellfish from parts of the harbor can be safely caught and eaten again. 

“ Stay nonviolent; observe from a distance; and do your best to not fall for the bait to create any kind of violent reaction,” former immigration judge George Pappas said.

A classically-trained, New England Conservatory grad is helping the Boston orchestra A Far Cry kick off the new series, "Amplified." Yeemz plays her cello beautifully in the upright position, but she’s also created a signature, indie-folk sound by turning her instrument on its side.

The Coonamessett Farm Foundation is trying to create a market for species that prey on bivalves — especially scallops, which have dwindled in numbers. The top of their list is the moon snail, which is a common bycatch in existing fisheries.

"There's no easy solution," Berklee pianist Leo Blanco said. "The only thing I'm celebrating is that one important piece of the chess game was removed. They took a king away."

For his latest book, "The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn of the Century America," David Baron looked into one source of that fascination: a Harvard astronomer named Percival Lowell.

In the lead-up to November's elections, factions battled over a ballot question that would have changed overnight street parking rules in the Boston suburb of Newton. By only a few dozen votes, residents opted to keep the decades-old parking ordinance in place.