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Boston Medical Center ends policy allowing migrant families to shelter overnight

Community and health workers gather on Boston Common by the Massachusetts State House demanding that state and federal agencies provide greater support to migrants and asylum seekers.  (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Boston Medical Center is ending a policy that has allowed dozens of homeless families, mostly newly arrived migrants, to stay overnight in the hospital on many nights over the past year. The hospital now prevents families from seeking refuge there unless they need medical treatment. Instead, the hospital reroutes them to other facilities after a … Read more

Defendant in Newton’s triple homicide openly discusses his mental illness diagnosis – The Boston Globe

A selfie of Christopher L. Ferguson Jr. posted on May 31, 2021.

But Christopher L. Ferguson Jr., 41, the man accused of carrying out the fatal assault, had been clear on this: He had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder nearly two decades earlier and life had been a storm ever since. Years of his own writings, court records, and conversations with friends and neighbors detail a man … Read more

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