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Pizza guy who terrorized workers admits he also stole from federal pandemic relief fund

By [name] - Tue, 02/25/2025 - 10:23pm

Judge tells lawyer for Boston cop fired for refusing Covid-19 shots and tests he doesn't really know her very well

By [name] - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 12:44pm

Allston man is still fuming about Boston's three-month indoor vaccination requirement during the pandemic, so he sues

By [name] - Wed, 02/19/2025 - 11:01am

For third time this month, a court upholds Boston Medical Center's right to fire a nurse who refused Covid-19 shots

By [name] - Wed, 01/29/2025 - 9:05pm

Newton school psychologist who was fired for refusing Covid shots sues, cites her religion, Matthew, aborted babies and experimental, dangerous substances

By [name] - Mon, 01/27/2025 - 3:19pm

Judge rules hospital had the right to fire a NICU nurse who believes Covid-19 shots and even masks are an affront to God

By [name] - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 4:36pm

Feds say stealing and altering checks wasn't enough for Mission Hill gang member; he's now also charged with fraudulently obtaining Covid-19 relief funds

By [name] - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 2:37pm

WCVB had the right to fire a cameraman who refused Covid-19 shots, court rules

By [name] - Sun, 01/19/2025 - 12:08pm

Judge rules hospital's right to protect workers and patients from deadly contagion trumps Catholic nurse's belief that the vaccines are derived from aborted fetuses

By [name] - Sat, 01/18/2025 - 11:10am

Boston cop who used to stand outside the mayor's house yelling about Covid-19 sues over her firing, says it violated her free-speech and religious rights

By [name] - Thu, 01/02/2025 - 10:36am

Judge throws out lawsuit by North End restaurant owners over city's outdoor-patio restrictions, says mayor wasn't out to get Italians

By [name] - Fri, 12/20/2024 - 4:26pm

Two Suffolk County jail guards charged with Covid unemployment and small-business fraud

By [name] - Fri, 12/13/2024 - 10:10am

Two RNs at Boston hospital for burned children sue over their firing for refusing what they call experimental Covid-19 shots

By [name] - Sat, 11/30/2024 - 12:08pm

Boston College asserts it had a religious-freedom right to make employees get Covid-19 shots

By [name] - Wed, 11/27/2024 - 2:48pm

Adherent of religion that believes Satan created the earth allowed to continue suit against Boston College for Covid-related firing

By [name] - Wed, 11/13/2024 - 12:51pm

Concord homeowners lose bid to keep people off a path that has been a public way since before the Revolution

By [name] - Mon, 10/21/2024 - 2:10pm

Supreme Court tells Carlisle residents still upset about face masks in 2021 to give it a rest

By [name] - Sat, 10/19/2024 - 1:34pm

Boston cop who was fired because of Jan. 6 tweets calling Democrats and some Republicans traitors sues over that and city's denial of a religious exemption for Covid-19 shots

By [name] - Sat, 10/19/2024 - 10:30am

Boston schedules walk-in flu and Covid-19 vaccination clinics

By [name] - Fri, 10/18/2024 - 2:26pm

Jewish woman claims she was forced into quitting her job at the T for refusing to get Covid-19 shots

By [name] - Thu, 10/17/2024 - 9:46am

Tufts ER doctor sues hospital because she was fired for refusing Covid-19 shots in 2021

By [name] - Wed, 10/09/2024 - 11:31am

Carlisle residents who were big mad about face masks in 2021 still big mad, hope Supreme Court will listen to them when other courts told them to go away

By [name] - Fri, 09/20/2024 - 3:49pm

Nurse who rejects major tenets of Western medicine can continue her religious-discrimination suit against Boston Medical Center over the Covid-19 shots she refused, judge rules

By [name] - Mon, 09/16/2024 - 3:38pm

Area man charged with getting millions in Covid-relief loans for employees he didn't have

By [name] - Sat, 09/14/2024 - 11:32am

More local college students lose another suit over the move to online classes as the Covid-19 pandemic took hold

By [name] - Wed, 09/04/2024 - 10:57am

Jehovah's Witness files second suit over his firing as a Boston cop for refusing Covid-19 shots, tests

By [name] - Mon, 08/26/2024 - 2:51pm

Nigerian man arrested on Covid-unemployment fraud charges after he decides to visit America

By [name] - Fri, 08/23/2024 - 12:15pm

Appeals court reinstates religious-freedom lawsuit against Milton Hospital by office manager fired for refusing Covid-19 shots

By [name] - Wed, 08/14/2024 - 10:44am

Boston Covid rates and hospitalization increased dramatically last month, but trend is now downward, city says

By [name] - Thu, 08/08/2024 - 4:02pm

Judge rules Boston Medical Center was within its rights to fire RN who refused Covid-19 shots

By [name] - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 3:22pm

Viruses are not like fires, so court dismisses suit by Davio's restaurant chain for losses related to Covid-19

By [name] - Mon, 05/20/2024 - 11:32am

Alleged Heath Street gang member admits he lied on a Covid small-business loan application

By [name] - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 3:15pm

Revere strip club sues government for refusing to forgive emergency pandemic loan

By [name] - Thu, 05/09/2024 - 9:38pm

For second time, one-time BU theology student has lawsuit over school's one-time Covid-19 testing requirement dismissed

By [name] - Sat, 04/13/2024 - 9:51pm

Alleged sadistic, slave-driving pizzeria owner indicted on Covid-fraud charges

By [name] - Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:23pm

Court upholds dismissal of suit by BU students over campus shutdown at the start of the pandemic

By [name] - Thu, 03/14/2024 - 10:33am

All that empty downtown office space could mean tax-collection trouble for Boston

By [name] - Sat, 02/24/2024 - 5:35pm

Mask hater attacks senior at State Street T stop, tries to drag her to the tracks, police, witnesses say

By [name] - Fri, 02/23/2024 - 9:20am

MGH nurse who says she got side effects from Covid-19 shots sues because she was fired for refusing a booster shot

By [name] - Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:19pm

Beth Israel nurse says hospital forced her to get a Covid-19 shot that made her sick, then fired her when she refused the second, so she sues

By [name] - Mon, 01/22/2024 - 3:25pm

Boston Medical Center nurse loses lawsuit over firing for refusing Covid-19 shots; judge says her request for a religious exemption was too vague

By [name] - Thu, 01/18/2024 - 11:09am

If you're going to refuse Covid-19 shots on religious grounds, you have to define just what in your religion prohibits them when you sue your employer for firing you, judge rules

By [name] - Thu, 01/11/2024 - 10:48pm

North End restaurant owners revive charge the mayor hates Italians in new suit over pandemic-related patio fees and bans

By [name] - Fri, 01/05/2024 - 12:33pm

Mass General Brigham brings back employee mask requirement as local Covid numbers rise

By [name] - Wed, 12/27/2023 - 2:04pm

Constitution doesn't give you the absolute right to refuse vaccination in a pandemic and keep working, judge rules in mostly dismissing suit by hospital employee

By [name] - Sat, 12/23/2023 - 12:37pm

Union sues State Police as part of bid to get jobs back for 13 troopers fired for refusing Covid-19 vaccinations

By [name] - Tue, 12/19/2023 - 11:27am

Nursing staffing agency says Steward Health Care owes it nearly $46 million in back payments for Covid-related temp assignments

By [name] - Fri, 12/15/2023 - 9:55am

Marblehead man cleared of pandemic fraud charges

By [name] - Sat, 11/25/2023 - 10:56am

Boston to start offering Covid-19 shots at City Hall, Bolling Building

By [name] - Mon, 10/30/2023 - 11:24am

Man loses bid to stop Covid-19 shots in Massachusetts in his fight to get back into law school

By [name] - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 1:58pm

Man who was rejected for Covid-19 payroll help for his five-employee company gets 29 months in prison for the large loan he got when he claimed he had 154 employees

By [name] - Fri, 09/29/2023 - 10:39am

Clerk at Roslindale health center wants $6 million for getting fired after she refused Covid-19 shots

By [name] - Wed, 09/20/2023 - 9:21pm

High-flying social influencer gets five years for using RMV site for Covid-19 frauding

By [name] - Thu, 09/07/2023 - 1:29pm

Boston continues to offer free Covid-19 test kits

By [name] - Fri, 09/01/2023 - 10:19am

Area man admits he price gouged hospitals on face masks in the early days of the pandemic

By [name] - Fri, 09/01/2023 - 9:06am

Beverly pizzeria owner gets two years for trying to start a new life as a Vermont alpaca farmer using Covid-relief funds

By [name] - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 1:28pm

Requiring Covid-19 shots isn't assault and a group of Boston-area hospitals had the right to fire workers who refused, judge rules

By [name] - Tue, 08/01/2023 - 10:45pm

Brighton food-truck operator gets two years in prison after admitting he got $1.5 million in Covid funds he didn't deserve

By [name] - Sat, 07/29/2023 - 3:05pm

Court won't make Elizabeth Warren retract her claims about conspiracy-laden anti-vax books, in particular the one Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote a forward for

By [name] - Wed, 07/05/2023 - 9:14am

Beth Israel reports Covid-19 outbreak

By [name] - Sun, 06/25/2023 - 5:09pm

Icelandic woman who says she barely understands English yet considers herself an anti-Wu leader sues over being charged for incident outside the mayor's house back in the screaming days of 2022

By [name] - Thu, 06/22/2023 - 10:20pm

North End restaurant owners who once charged mayor hates Italian men quietly file to make their outdoor-patio suit go away

By [name] - Fri, 06/02/2023 - 4:23pm

Mass. General no longer telling patients they can't ask their doctors and nurses to wear masks

By [name] - Sun, 05/21/2023 - 8:33am

The Covid-19 vaccine will keep you out of heaven and makes you 27 times more likely to get and spread the virus, Logan-based flight attendant claims in suit against United Airlines

By [name] - Thu, 05/18/2023 - 9:35am

Covid-19 cut Boston life expectancy by more than two years, but by even higher amounts among Blacks, Hispanics and Asian-Americans, report finds

By [name] - Sat, 05/13/2023 - 12:08pm

Happy end of the pandemic, we guess?

By [name] - Thu, 05/11/2023 - 11:24am

Three more nurses sue Beth Israel for firing them after they refused to get Covid-19 shots

By [name] - Thu, 05/04/2023 - 2:28pm

For first time since the start of the pandemic, one Boston hospital has no Covid-19 patients in beds

By [name] - Tue, 05/02/2023 - 3:42pm

Boston to shut three of its five remaining Covid-19 vaccination sites

By [name] - Mon, 05/01/2023 - 2:02pm

Anti-maskers continue to infest Boston Medical Center grounds

By [name] - Fri, 04/28/2023 - 5:19pm

High court reinstates charges against Holyoke Soldiers' Home leaders for the deaths of patients in the early days of the pandemic

By [name] - Thu, 04/27/2023 - 11:15am

Judge tosses student lawsuit against Boston University over shift to online classes in 2020; cites the doctrine of impossibility

By [name] - Tue, 04/25/2023 - 10:29am

Former Beverly pizzeria owner admits he defrauded federal Covid-relief fund to finance his new life as a Vermont alpaca farmer

By [name] - Mon, 04/17/2023 - 11:18am

Revere hotel says Boston owes it $654,000 for holding rooms for Mass and Cass homeless who never came

By [name] - Mon, 04/03/2023 - 9:41am

Boston had the right to order employees to get Covid-19 shots, court says

By [name] - Thu, 03/30/2023 - 11:35am

Waitress, bartender sue local restaurateur they say kept their tips after restaurants re-opened following Covid shutdown

By [name] - Wed, 03/29/2023 - 2:45pm

Covid-19 outbreak in Cambridge nursing home

By [name] - Tue, 03/28/2023 - 10:34pm

Three fired cops: An anti-vax screamer, a Jan. 6 putschist and a guy who felt Breonna Taylor deserved to get shot to death

By [name] - Mon, 03/20/2023 - 3:43pm

The empty city

By [name] - Sun, 03/19/2023 - 12:41pm

Healey to lift state Covid-19 emergency in May; most state workers will no longer have to get shots

By [name] - Wed, 03/15/2023 - 9:27am

BPD fires pair of anti-vax cops

By [name] - Tue, 03/14/2023 - 9:56am

RN who claims the state threatens to revoke his license if he keeps tweeting that Covid-19 vaccines can kill you sues to make the state leave him alone

By [name] - Fri, 03/10/2023 - 1:22pm

North End restaurant owners upset by last year's outdoor-dining fee now claim Mayor Wu hates white, Italian men

By [name] - Tue, 03/07/2023 - 10:53pm

Children's Hospital technician drops suit over firing for refusing Covid-19 shots

By [name] - Tue, 02/21/2023 - 11:05am

Man who once took hostages at a Hillary Clinton campaign office foiled in bid to make China pay him $100 million for allegedly spreading Covid-19

By [name] - Fri, 02/10/2023 - 11:44am

Roslindale bar that went dormant with the pandemic is getting closer to re-opening

By [name] - Thu, 02/09/2023 - 5:48pm

Canton woman gets 3 1/2 years for role in online-romance and pandemic fraud scheme

By [name] - Wed, 02/01/2023 - 1:55pm

Food fight: McDonald's sues Boston Market over back rent at turnpike rest areas

By [name] - Fri, 01/27/2023 - 2:20pm

Man who got $850,000 in Covid relief funds to support employees he didn't actually have used the money to buy a house, a Rolls Royce and French bulldogs, feds charge

By [name] - Thu, 01/26/2023 - 5:06pm

With area Covid-19 rate dropping, UMass Boston ends indoor masking requirement

By [name] - Wed, 01/18/2023 - 10:33am

Judge tosses lawsuit against Boston rule requiring proof of vaccination in indoor public places, not because it's expired, but because the case should never have been brought to begin with

By [name] - Thu, 01/12/2023 - 3:44pm

Brighton food-truck operator admits he used much of the $1.5 million or so in Covid relief funds he got to play the stock market instead of keeping people employed

By [name] - Thu, 01/12/2023 - 2:38pm

Psychiatrist who refused to answer court-ordered questions over his Covid-19 vaccination status appeals judge's dismissal of his case against the hospital that fired him for not getting shots

By [name] - Thu, 01/12/2023 - 12:48pm

UMass Boston to require indoor masking again

By [name] - Fri, 01/06/2023 - 5:28pm

CDC says Suffolk County at high Covid-19 risk again

By [name] - Fri, 01/06/2023 - 3:37pm

BPS wants students, teachers and staff to wear masks for the first eight days of school, but won't punish anybody who refuses

By [name] - Fri, 12/30/2022 - 2:26pm

We're back to hockey-stick growth in Covid-19 numbers

By [name] - Fri, 12/30/2022 - 10:11am

Wu: No decision yet on bringing back mask requirement in BPS

By [name] - Wed, 12/28/2022 - 10:03am

Boston officials considering a return to an indoor mask mandate

By [name] - Mon, 12/26/2022 - 10:09pm

Lawyer fails to convince federal judge that a policy that required masks in state courts was the same as waterboarding

By [name] - Thu, 12/22/2022 - 2:12pm