Stephanie Ebbert

Four of the shelters are expected to remain open through the end of July, state officials confirmed on Friday.

George Regan, who already worked for Mayor Carlo DeMaria, was the only bidder when the city decided to hire a communications consultant.

City councilors are pushing Carlo De Maria to refund the city $180,000 that a state investigator determined he inappropriately received.

Three months ago, Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria Jr. announced the owner and publisher of a local newspaper had agreed to pay him $1.1 million to settle a defamation claim.

Governor Healey expressed outrage this week about a drug and gun arrest at a state shelter. But records show the state has been aware of crimes reported in the Massachusetts-run system.

A Haitian national was arrested for the rape and assault of a pregnant woman in a Peabody hotel shelter. It was a case of domestic violence, the state says.

It is a new and stunning kind of public power-push by uber-rich donors, whose ranks are growing, and who suddenly appear hungry to use their money to shape higher education in America today, experts said.

On social media, the combative billionaire investor has described his campaign since the day Hamas attacked Israel as “an effort to save higher education from itself.”

Several academics said Gay’s work clearly appeared to violate Harvard’s policy on plagiarism, which calls for strict delineation between a writer’s ideas and those that originated with others.

The vote is expected to put the town in compliance with the state’s historic law requiring communities served by mass transit to rezone to help alleviate the region’s housing crisis.