It’s a minor miracle right out of a holiday movie: when a woman lost two cherished rings while vacationing in Boston, a stranger who was also on vacation happened to find them, moments after joining in the search.
Finding the rings on Boston Common was “total luck,” Kory Kelly told NBC10 Boston. “I mean, it was the first pile of leaves I walked over. I didn’t even bend down, I just kicked it over with my foot and there they were.”
Lori Lange had lost the two rings — one that belonged to her mother, the other her wedding ring, with a diamond for each of her seven grandchildren — when the Phoenix resident recently visited Boston on trip to her mother’s hometown last week.
The rings got lost while she was having some fun tossing the multi-colored fall leaves in the park, and it made her feel like she’d let her loved ones down: “By goofing around in leaves, I had disappointed them.”
When she realized the rings were gone, she returned to Boston days later, according to her daughter, who reached out to NBC10 Boston with the story — and the acts of kindness that followed.
Several people stopped what they were doing to search the piles of leaves and find the ring, even holding off landscapers who were going to clear the leaves. And that’s when Kelly, who was visiting Boston with his own mother, stepped in.
“We see a bunch of ladies kind of on the ground digging through the leaves and I just thought, ‘What the heck are these people doing? Is this a northeastern thing?’”
Lange said she hadn’t told anyone else what she was looking for, leaving that to her friends, but she did tell him. She recalled what happened next: “He’s like, ‘We’ve got some time. I’m going to look.’ Him and his little boot just kicked. Like, before I even had a chance really to turn around he goes, ‘Is this it?’ I’m like…is this it?’ And I really don’t remember that first ring.”
He’d found Lange’s mother’s ring in an instant, providing instant relief and sparking cheers among the people searching.
“My girlfriend is like, ‘I knew we’d find that one, if we didn’t find anything else,’” Lange said. And then Kelly said, “‘There’s two?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, there’s another one. My wedding ring. But that’s OK, that’s OK.’”
Moments later, he found that one, too — it was caught on video, with Lange screaming and hugging Kelly.
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The pair had messages for one another. Kelly, who called Lange “really sweet,” said he hopes their paths cross again and that she pays the kindness forward.
Lange was more effusive about Kelly: “I had already been over that spot, there’s actual video of other people who were just standing right over that spot. Nobody saw it. Kory saw it. I will believe he had his angel wings under his little red flannel shirt. Just his demeanor, his pure love and happiness and joy, he’s such a good person. And, yeah. Summed up Boston for me! It was pretty great.”
After her “Hallmark moment,” she had a message for Boston, too.
“There’s nothing like Boston in this entire world. It’s home. It’s home — and it’s great,” she said.
BOSTON (WHDH) – Police are investigating a shooting in Downtown Crossing that occurred Thursday night.
Officials said the shooting occurred around 10:30 p.m. near Tremont and Temple Streets.
When officers arrived on scene, they found a man with a gunshot wound; he is expected to survive.
Police have not said if any arrests have been made.
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An East Boston father is suing ICE, alleging immigration agents unlawfully stopped, arrested, and detained him because of his race and national origin despite having his legal status, his lawyers said.
Lawyers for Civil Rights filed the lawsuit Thursday on behalf of Jose Pineda, a 62-year-old Salvadoran immigrant who has lived in the U.S. for more than three decades and is authorized to remain and work through humanitarian relief, the nonprofit legal organization said in a press release.
The suit is seeking damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act, alleging false arrest, false imprisonment, assault, and severe emotional distress.
“I came to the United States to escape the civil war that devastated El Salvador. I worked hard, started a family, and built a life here,” said Pineda, who works as a landscaper and lives with his wife and 13-year-old daughter. “I never expected to feel that kind of fear again, much less in the United States.”
According to the 30-page complaint, written by LCR senior attorneys Victoria Miranda and Mirian Albert, Pineda has been a recipient of Temporary Protected Status, which allows certain foreign nationals from designated countries to live and work legally in the U.S.
Pineda also had a pending asylum petition and had been granted a T visa, which provides immigration protections to trafficking victims, the complaint states.
“We will not stand idly by as ICE wreaks havoc on immigrant families. Through racial profiling, ICE agents are carrying out an unquestionably discriminatory agenda,” Miranda said in the release. “The law exists to protect people like Mr. Pineda, and it must be enforced against ICE.”
The lawsuit stems from a May 2025 encounter in Weymouth, where Pineda was driving a landscaping truck to a job site when agents in unmarked ICE vehicles surrounded him, according to the complaint.
“The aggressive nature of the questioning made it clear to Mr. Pineda that he was not being judged based on any evidence of unlawful conduct, but rather on his identity, race, ethnicity, and/or national origin,” Pineda’s attorneys wrote.
The lawsuit alleges ICE officers then “forcibly” handcuffed and shackled Pineda before taking him to the agency’s field office in Burlington.
Officers searched Pineda’s belongings during the stop and again at the field office, allegedly confiscating $600 in cash that he intended to use to pay his family’s rent. The money has not been returned, according to the complaint.
Pineda spent two days in ICE custody under what the lawsuit describes as “cruel and inhumane conditions.”
“After what ICE did to me, and after everything my family has endured, I don’t know if I will ever truly feel safe again,” Pineda said.
According to the complaint, he was held in severely overcrowded cells containing more than 40 people — at times as many as 60 — leaving little room to sit and forcing him to remain standing for much of his detention. Detainees also allegedly shared a single toilet and sink without soap or toilet paper and were not provided toothbrushes, clean clothes, or showers.
Fluorescent lights remained on around the clock, making it difficult to sleep, while temperatures became “extremely cold” overnight and some detainees received only aluminum blanekts for warmth, the complaint states.
Pineda was given only a two-minute phone call during his detention and received two bottles of water each day, along with “inadequate and limited” food and water, according to the complaint.
“Mr. Pineda has suffered devastating and ongoing physical and emotional harm that has impacted all aspects of his life,” his attorneys wrote. “Mr. Pineda brings this action to seek accountability for these violent and traumatizing tortious acts of the ICE officers and to address the harms inflicted upon him.”
According to LCR, Pineda was released following advocacy by Centro Presente, a Massachusetts immigrant rights organization.
After his release, ICE initiated removal proceedings against him depsite his humanitarian protections, the organization said. Those proceedings were ultimately dismissed.
“ICE targeted Mr. Pineda based on nothing more than his perceived national origin and the nature of his work,” Albert said in the press release. “Our laws prohibit this kind of arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement. Through this lawsuit, we seek to hold the federal government accountable for the violence and harm inflicted on Mr. Pineda.”
ICE referred questions about the lawsuit to the Department of Homeland Security. DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday evening.
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BOSTON (WHDH) – A pedestrian was hit and killed in Roxbury Thursday morning.
The collision occurred just before 8:20 a.m. on Tremont Street.
Police said Tremont Street was closed in both directions between Brigham Circle and Roxbury Crossing.
This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.
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