BREAKING NEWS:  Lawrence, Mass., schools superintendent Wilfredo T. Laboy -- whom Rumbo News has been closely watching -- was indicted today along with his son and two others.  El superintendente de las escuelas públicas de Lawrence (Mass.) Wilfredo T. Laboy ha sido acusado formalmente por las autoridades. Junto con él, su hijo Wilfredo Laboy; Mark Rivera, asistente especial del superintendente; e Israel Reyes, ex candidato a la alcaldía de esta ciudad. Entre ellos hay 19 cargos. 

A new campaign seeks to find uninsured kids and teens in Massachusetts, of whom 9% speaks Portuguese.  Many of the state's uninsured Spanish-speaking youth live in Lawrence, Methuen, Boston, Revere and Chelsea, reports NEWz.  (This story was first posted on Feb. 11, 2010, then deleted following a Web site crash.  NEWz regrets the photo and technical inconvenience.)

VIDEO:  Portuguese-language BTN reports on a new push to reach kids and teens in Massachusetts who have no health insurance.  BTN airs in three states: Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire.   

Watch now-former Mass. Rep. William Lantigua's entire press conference in which he announced his resignation, taped by Lawrence-based Rumbo newspaper.  The then-state rep also unexpectedly visited Rumbo's publisher at her co-hosted radio show last week.  Stay tuned to NEWz for more coverage from Latino press.  (NEWz is having technical difficulties with photos.  We apologize for this situation.)

At the Museum of African American History in Boston, 29 immigrants from more than 20 countries became US citizens.  Dreams, education, torn homelands -- and the right to vote for one -- led them to citizenship, reports NEWz.

The Boston Haitian Reporter has been the source of information about Haiti and related local news ever since the Jan. 12 earthquake struck the country.  The February edition of the BHR is now available for free in Greater Boston.

Massachusetts immigrants and advocacy groups launched the state arm of the national Somos (We Are) campaign, which calls for an end to negative media stereotypes of immigrants, reports Bay State Banner.

Telemundo Boston airs a new Spanish-language telenovela (soap opera), adapted from a popular Brazilian one, about a Muslim woman who falls in forbidden love with a Westerner.  (ESPANOL y INGLES)

Creole-English readers/translaters are needed for MIT's Center for Future Civic Media.  The Center is helping to develop a database to help rescue workers get to Haiti's earthquake victims, notes Boston Haitian Reporter.

Sen. Kerry issued a statement today regarding the US Dept. of Homeland Security's decision to grant TPS to eligible Haitians in the United States.

White southerners hoped to silence civil rights "agitators" in the New York Times v. Sullivan lawsuit in 1964. The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously against their interests in the historic case, reports Bay State Banner.  

New England Ethnic Newswire is posting a list of persons in Haiti who are missing and unaccounted for.  To add names of your family members to the list, please e-mail EthnicNews@yahoo.com.

Boston is rallying to the support of the earthquake victims in Haiti.  Find out which nonprofits -- with national headquarters in Boston -- are providing humanitarian aid.  (Story developing)

Mass. resident Arvinder Bahal is on a quest to visit every single country of the world.  Already the father of two has traveled to about 150 countries and regions, including the North Pole and Antarctica, reports INDIA New England.

An "Evening of Haitian Film & Video" is planned for Feb. 4, 2010, in Somerville, Mass.  Deadline to submit works: Jan. 20.  One focus of the event will be the role of media regarding Haiti, says the Boston Haitian Reporter.