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Boston Children’s Hospital is warning staff of increased threats of violence over the surgical care it offers to transgender youth.

The hospital became the target of activists in recent weeks who made a variety of false claims about its treatment of young transgender people.

Police in Massachusetts will maintain a visible presence at Norfolk Public Schools this week after threats were allegedly made toward students at one of the district’s schools on Monday. Norfolk Police Chief Charles Stone and Superintendent Ingrid Allardi say school officials and the police department are working together after someone allegedly made threats of violence outside of the Freeman-Kennedy...

A Dedham man has been charged in federal court with threatening an interracial couple after they announced their engagement online.

A Massachusetts man posted racial epithets, crude language and threats of physical harm in response to an interracial couple who had announced their engagement on Facebook, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Stephen M. DeBerardinis, 45, of Boston and Dedham, is scheduled to make his first court appearance Wednesday. An email seeking comment was left with his federal public defender. “Today’s arrest…

A social media agitator was convicted Wednesday on federal charges of threatening to kill members of Congress, a verdict that rejected his claims it was harmless rhetoric.

A New York City man could face years in prison after being arrested for allegedly threatening politicians and conservative broadcasters, federal prosecutors announced Friday. Rickey Johnson, also known “Nigel Dawn Defarren,” was arrested Thursday night based on a criminal complaint filed in Manhattan federal court charging Johnson with with making threatening interstate communications, which carries a maximum sentence of five…

A Maryland man faces federal charges for threatening former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris in a letter he left outside a home with Biden/Harris signs in the yard, prosecutors say.  James Dale Reed, 42, of Frederick, was charged with threatening the Democratic candidates, the Justice Department said Wednesday. He was allegedly caught on a doorbell camera...

Amid the debate on reopening schools, teachers in one New Hampshire school district are being targeted with online threats, according to the state teacher’s association.

A high school student in West Newbury, Massachusetts is facing a felony charge after police say he threatened other students on social media. Police said Tuesday a sophomore at Pentucket Regional High School was arrested after authorities were notified about social media posts in which the suspect allegedly made threats to commit a violent act at the school.

The California man who threatened to kill employees of The Boston Globe has been sentenced to four months in prison. Federal prosecutors had recommended that Robert Chain serve 10 months. The Los Angeles man was arrested in August 2018 after he made 14 calls threatening the lives of Globe staff because the newspaper called on media organizations to denounce President...

Federal prosecutors are recommending that the California man who threatened to kill employees of The Boston Globe be sentenced to 10 months in prison. In a Monday court filing, prosecutors also recommended that Robert Chain pay the Globe more than $16,000, the amount the newspaper spent on additional security expenses following his threats. The Los Angeles man was arrested in...

A juvenile New Hampshire suspect arrested over the weekend for allegedly making threatening phone calls to two Boston gay bars could appear in court as early as Monday afternoon, authorities said. The suspect, who has only been identified as a 16-year-old boy from Hampton, New Hampshire, is accused of making threatening phone calls earlier this month to Alley Bar in...

The man allegedly said in a phone call to the Boston Globe, “I’m going to shoot you in the [EXPLETIVE] head later today, at 4 o’clock. Goodbye.”

A New Hampshire man was arrested on Wednesday after he allegedly threatened to harm members of a local police department.

A Massachusetts man charged with threatening to burn two mosques the day after the terror attacks in Paris is expected to plead guilty on Tuesday.