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News Tipoffs - Massachusetts Editors Newsletter for Tuesday February 25, 2025 ( 5 items )  

Healey-Driscoll Administration Awards $5.5 Million to 60 School Districts to Expand Student Behavioral and Mental Health Services
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 24 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Healey-Driscoll Administration Awards $5.5 Million to 60 School Districts to Expand Student Behavioral and Mental Health Services Boston -- The Healey-Driscoll Administration announced today that it is awarding $5,540,875 in grants to 60 school districts, educational collaboratives and charter schools across Massachusetts to improve student access to behavioral and mental health serv  more

ICE Boston arrests illegal Brazilian alien charged with raping Massachusetts resident
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: * * * ICE Boston arrests illegal Brazilian alien charged with raping Massachusetts resident FALMOUTH, Mass. -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apprehended an illegally present Brazilian national charged with raping a Massachusetts resident when officers arrested Willian Robert Vasconcelos-Dos Santos, 21, in Falmouth Jan. 21. "Willian Robert Vascon  more

ICE Boston arrests illegal Guatemalan alien charged with armed home invasion, kidnapping crimes
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: * * * ICE Boston arrests illegal Guatemalan alien charged with armed home invasion, kidnapping crimes PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apprehended an illegally present Guatemalan national charged in Brockton, Massachusetts, with five counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, three counts of kidnapping, intimidation and armed home  more

Md. A.G. Brown and Coalition Stops Elon Musk and DOGE From Accessing Americans' Private Information and Cutting Federal Funds Through the Treasury
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Feb. 24 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Brown and Coalition Stops Elon Musk and DOGE from Accessing Americans' Private Information and Cutting Federal Funds Through the Treasury BALTIMORE, MD (February 23, 2025) -A federal court has granted a motion filed by a coalition of attorneys general, including Attorney General Brown, for a preliminary injunction to stop Elon Musk and employees of his so-called  more

NASA Names Acting Associate Administrator, More Leadership Changes
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * NASA Names Acting Associate Administrator, More Leadership Changes NASA logo. (Credit: NASA) NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro announced Monday Vanessa Wyche will serve as the acting associate administrator for the agency at NASA Headquarters in Washington, effective immediately. Wyche, who had been the director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, is detailed as Petro's senior advisor leading the agency's center  more