Month: June 2023

BOSTON – Boston 25 has learned that a second person was arrested Thursday afternoon by Nashua police in connection with the sexual exploitation of children and the distribution of child pornography at a day care center in Massachusetts. Stacie M. Laughton, 39, of Derry, New Hampshire, is charged with three counts of distribution of child pornography and child sexual abuse images. Allegations of sexual misconduct came to light in court documents earlier Thursday, alleging that Lindsay Groves, 38, of Hudson, NH, a former employee of Creative Minds Daycare in Tyngsborough, MA, took nude images of kids at daycare and sent…

Chaos continued in southern Ukraine on Friday as security forces, emergency workers and ordinary citizens risked life and limb to evacuate people from a vast area flooded by the destruction of a crucial dam in Russian dominated territory. At least several square kilometers along a southern stretch of the Dnipro River, bordered by industry and farmland, have been inundated by floodwaters laced with debris, fuel and other pollutants. Ukraine Russia accused of blowing up the Nova Kakhovka hydroelectric plant and dam “from the inside” early Tuesday morning, releasing a torrent of water from the massive reservoir it was holding back…

Earlier on Friday, drone footage showed a Russian troop wiped out by a bomb For free real-time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox, sign up for our breaking news emails Sign up to our free emails for breaking news Yevgeny Prigozhin, the powerful and outspoken leader of Wagner’s mercenary group, claims to have entered Russian territory as part of the military leader’s campaign against the Russian state. Videos circulating on Russian Telegram channels early Saturday showed tanks and armed men in the city of Rostov-on-Don amid fears of a coup. The videos showed uniformed men surrounding the headquarters…

Gov. Kathy Hochul says she’s confident a law he signed Friday to protect The state’s abortion providers will go to court in the face of anticipated constitutional challenges, and some doctors are willing to take their word for it. The governor signed the measure on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade to legally protect New York doctors who prescribe abortion drugs to patients who live in states where they may be restricted or prohibited. The governor made it clear Friday that the state will not help other states that decide…

For months, the vaunted millionaire boss of Wagner’s private mercenary force bombarded Russia’s military leaders with insulting insults in a rift that has weakened the country’s forces amid the Ukraine war. Yevgeny Prigozhin accused them of not providing him with ammunition in the key battle for the eastern city of Bakhmut. A video from May showed him in front of the bloodied bodies of his slain troops shouting obscenities at Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of Staff General Valeri Gerasimov, calling them weak and incompetent and blaming them for the carnage. “They came here as volunteers and died to…

Michael Roman, a senior official in former President Donald J. Trump’s 2020 campaign, is in talks with the office of special counsel Jack Smith that could soon have Mr. Roman voluntarily answering questions about a plan to create a list of ‘pro-Trump voters. in key swing states won by Joseph R. Biden Jr., according to a person familiar with the matter. If Mr. Roman ends up giving the interview — known as an offerer — to prosecutors working for Mr. Smith, it would be the first known instance of cooperation by someone with direct knowledge of the so-called fake voter…

A US judge on Friday blocked a new Florida law restricting drag performances, the third time this month that federal courts have struck down laws backed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that affect gender or LGBTQ issues . In all three cases, issues supported by Republican presidential candidate DeSantis lost because the laws appeared to infringe on people’s constitutional rights. In Friday’s decision, U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell of the Middle District of Florida granted an injunction preventing the state from enforcing a law that prohibits minors from attending “obscene live performances,” calling- the too wide one. The judge declined…

Submit your letter to the editor using this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. DeSantis attackson the state do not sway Re: “DeSantis degrades San Francisco in new ad” (Page A1, June 22). It was painful to watch Florida Governor Ron DeSantis take cheap shots in San Francisco and California. Of course, it is expected of all radical right-wing governors who still support Donald Trump and hesitate to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. DeSantis must remember that California: believes in science and vaccines; it does not remove all references to slavery from the history books, because we can rewrite…