BOSTON (AP) — The DeVry University chain of for-profit colleges has agreed to a $455,000 settlement over allegations that it misled students in Massachusetts.
State Attorney General Maura Healey had accused the Illinois-based chain of using deceptive advertising claims to attract students into online programs between 2011 and 2015.
The company has no physical campuses in Massachusetts, but offers online courses.
Healey says the company advertised that 90 percent of its graduates found relevant jobs within six months of graduation, but Healey found rates as low as 52 percent in some programs.
In the settlement, DeVry agreed not to misrepresent employment or earnings data.
Healey’s office says more than 100 of the school’s Massachusetts graduates are expected to be eligible for restitution payments from the settlement.
DeVry officials say they’re pleased the matter has been resolved.
LUDLOW (AP) — Officials say an air conditioner caused a house fire that killed three people in western Massachusetts.
Emergency crews responded to the fire in Ludlow shortly after dawn Tuesday. Firefighters say a neighbor called 911 and tried to douse the flames with a garden hose.
Fire officials say multiple departments were called in, and the fire was brought under control.
Authorities say the air conditioner was located in the living room.
The State Fire Marshal’s office says the victims were a 78-year-old woman, her 82-year-old husband and their adult son. Their names will be released when family has been notified.
BOSTON (AP) — A wax sculpture of President Donald Trump has left Boston onlookers divided — but not politically.
The Boston Globe reports the sculpture was visible Wednesday through the windows of the Dreamland Wax Museum on Boston’s City Hall Plaza.
Museum vice president of sales Michael Pelletz says people have been amazed at how “life-like” the sculpture looks, and have stopped to pose and take pictures in front of the artwork. But some spectators told the newspaper it didn’t quite look like the Republican president. One woman said it more closely resembles the late Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Pelletz says the figure was put on display for Independence Day. The sculpture has been taken down but will appear in a museum exhibit set to open later this month.
BRATTLBORO, Vt. (AP) — Police say emergency crews in a Vermont town of about 12,000 have responded to 11 opiate overdoses in 24 hours, including two people who were in critical condition.
Brattleboro police said Thursday that the overdoses occurred in a downtown alley, residences, hotel rooms and a gas station bathroom.
Emergency responders administered the opiate overdose antidote naloxone to several of the patients. Some patients required several doses of naloxone.
Two victims were flown to regional hospitals. As of Wednesday morning, police said they had survived.
There are similarities between the overdoses, including markers or stamps on the bags of heroin.
In the past police have released those markers as a warning, but police now say users seeking an effective high will look for the batches highlighted by police.
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Highway Commissioner Tom Tinlin has decided to resign after battling a brain aneurysm.
Tinlin was off the job since May 1 and was set to return to work this week, but opted to step down instead.
He said in a statement Wednesday that he wanted to thank the doctors and nurses at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for returning him to health so he could start the next chapter of his life “as a healthy husband and father.”
Tinlin joined the Massachusetts Department of Transportation in January 2014 as chief of operations and maintenance and in March 2015 was promoted to highway administrator.
Jonathan Gulliver will continue in the role of acting highway administrator through September.
Republican Gov. Charlie Baker said Tinlin “worked tirelessly to support the commonwealth’s commuters.”
BEVERLY, Mass. (AP) — The man who inspired the ice bucket challenge to raise millions of dollars for Lou Gehrig’s disease research will have his own medical bills covered for the near future.
The Salem News reports that Pete Frates and his family are being helped by a new program from the ALS Association that covers the uninsured cost of skilled home care for several ALS patients in Massachusetts each year.
Frates’ parents have said his medical bills can reach $80,000 to $95,000 each month.
Frates inspired the ALS ice bucket challenge, in which people dump buckets of ice water over their heads.
The former Boston College baseball star was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 2012. His family said on Facebook Sunday that he had returned to a Boston hospital, where he was resting comfortably.