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Sunday, October 4

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The U.S. Coast Guard says crews have found a debris field confirmed to be from the missing medical transport aircraft that was carrying six people from Bermuda to Boston when it lost contact with the Federal Aviation Administration early Saturday, prompting a massive search off Nantucket, Massachusetts.

The search for those onboard — four Canadian nationals and two Bermudian nationals — is continuing, according to the Coast Guard. Next of kin have been notified.

A fast response cutter, the CGC William Sparling, will search throughout the night, the Coast Guard added, noting that 1,644 square miles had been searched over approximately 27 hours. Crews were searching in the air and on the water all day Saturday.

One person is dead, another is in critical condition and a third is missing after a boating incident in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, on Saturday.

The Coast Guard and local police were notified shortly before 4:30 p.m. about a vessel in distress off Singing Beach, according to Essex County District Attorney Paul Tucker and Manchester Police Chief Mark McCoy. Three men — 67, 65 and 37 years old — and a dog had been on the 30-foot center console fishing boat before they ended up in the water.

Search crews were able to locate two of the men in the ocean. The 67-year-old was taken to Beverly Hospital where he was declared dead. The 65-year-old was flown by medical helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital where he’s in critical condition.

Country singer Zach Bryan wore a “Free Palestine” T-shirt during his concert at Gillette Stadium near Boston on Friday night, weeks after stadium’s owner Robert Kraft was accused of pressuring Ed Sheeran to drop his opening act over pro-Palestinian remarks.

Videos across social media showed Bryan, 30, wearing a black cutoff T-shirt with “Free Palestine” in white letters during his tour stop at the stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Kraft, who owns the New England Patriots, is a staunch supporter of Israel.

Last month, rapper Macklemore said he was removed from Sheeran’s tour at Kraft’s behest after he spoke out in support of Palestinians at the tour’s shows in New Jersey.

Ads depicting children with the slogan “BPS IS FAILING THEM” began going up across the MBTA system on Wednesday. A day later, the T objected and began removing them.

MassPotential, a K-12 education advocacy nonprofit led by former Boston Public Schools school committee member Mary Tamer, raised $1.5 million for the ad campaign “aimed at calling to attention the disturbing trends of a lack of student achievement in the Boston Public Schools.” It was run through a new coalition in the nonprofit, Next Chapter Boston.

But on Thursday, the ads were “flagged” and had “already begun being removed per MBTA orders – based on the copy itself,” according to an email shared with the News Service, sent from OUTFRONT, the T’s exclusive contracted advertising agency, to the ad agency MassPotential had contracted.

Police responded to multiple fights, at least one of which involved officers being assaulted, at a high school football game on the South Shore of Massachusetts on Friday night.

Hanson police said in a Facebook post that they responded to “two troubling incidents” at the football game between Whitman-Hanson and Silver Lake on Friday night at Whitman-Hanson Regional High School, and said “multiple criminal charges may be sought” as a result.

Several students were ejected from the game due to inappropriate behavior, and police were then called when a fight erupted between students. While breaking up the fight, police said they took a juvenile into custody who refused to comply with orders and then assaulted officers.

A recent human trafficking case in Malden, Massachusetts, prompted a local pest control company to call attention to a group of people it says could play an important role in identifying potential victims: workers who regularly enter private homes.

Galvin Murphy, director of business development at Yankee Pest Control, said technicians, health care workers and other service providers often have access to homes that law enforcement and others do not.

“You’re in the metro area and you got 30,000 houses just in Malden alone, and we can get into maybe 100 of those a day. You can make a difference,” Murphy said.