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Four residents indicted in unemployment fraud scheme

Click here for updates on this story     SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts (WGGB, WSHM) — Authorities say that four people from Springfield have been indicted following an investigation into alleged unemployment fraud. The office of Mass. Attorney General Maura Healey said that starting in May 2020, 38-year-old Darnell Harris of Springfield allegedly began passing personal information of fellow

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Russian immigrant ends sanctuary in church after nearly 3 years

Click here for updates on this story     NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts (WGGB, WSHM) — There was major development Thursday for a Russian immigrant who entered sanctuary in western Massachusetts nearly three years ago. Irida Kakhtiranova left the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence this afternoon, hoping to seek legal residency. “Now, I’m going home,” Kakhtiranova said. Kakhtirnova

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Border apprehensions spiked in March, including a record number of unaccompanied migrant minors

US Customs and Border Protection encountered 171,700 migrants in March, including a record number of unaccompanied minors, far exceeding the prior month’s totals and continuing an upward trend dating back to last year, according to preliminary data obtained by CNN. The data underscores the ongoing challenge facing the Biden administration as officials scramble to set

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WCU’s digital Black history collection preserves oral history of local African-Americans

Click here for updates on this story     CULLOWHEE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Recordings of local African-Americans made in the 1980s have been upgraded at Western Carolina University. University leaders want the collection preserved so they can better teach race relations. The recordings at Hunter Library at WCU have now been transferred from analog to digital

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‘Two bullets is enough’

Dawit was watching television at a relative’s one-room apartment in Axum, a historic city in Ethiopia’s war-torn, northern Tigray region, in early March when a news bulletin flashed up on the screen. Graphic, unverified footage had surfaced of a mass killing near Dawit’s hometown of Mahibere Dego, in a mountainous area of central Tigray. In

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