Gov. Baker today announced a statewide ban on public gatherings of more than 250 people to try to slow the spread of Covid-19. Read more.

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Northeastern University, meanwhile, reports Customs and Border Patrol has refused to tell it why agents blocked one of its Iranian students from leaving Logan and then put him on a plane out of the country 30 minutes after a judge ordered them not to.

UPDATE: Removal stayed for 48 hours, although he remains in CBP custody; hearing in federal court tomorrow morning.

Mohammad Shahab Dehghani Hossein Abadi, who got a visa from the State Department a week ago so he could fly her to start as a freshman in an economics program at Northeastern, is now being held at Logan's Terminal E, where Customs and Border Patrol wants to put him on a flight back out of the country. Read more.

UPDATE: At least 18 other similar seizures made at Logan this year.

A Chinese graduate student who had been doing research at Beth Israel Hospital was arrested at Logan Airport on Dec. 9 after customs agents found 21 vials of an unknown brown liquid wrapped in plastic bag in a sock in one of his checked bags as he prepared to board a flight back to China, according to court documents unsealed yesterday. Read more.

Dr. Ed was on a plane getting ready to take off at Logan this morning when he looked out his window and saw a plane on fire.

Fortunately, it was just a training exercise for firefighters, involving a dummy plane.

State Police report a Virgin Atlantic plane, on its way from New York to London, landed at Logan last night due a fire in the passenger compartment. Read more.

A crash inside the Sumner Tunnel this morning caused backups past Day Square, while computer glitches have caused delays at Logan. Read more.

Theradrebe spotted a jet belonging to the suddenly defunct Wow at Logan today.

CommonWealth reports Massport thinks the answer to growing auto congestion at Logan is to do something about the estimated 15 million rides Uber and Lyft riders now take to the airport - including increasing the ride-share surcharge from $3.25 for pick ups to $5 for both pick ups and drop offs. Massport also wants to eliminate 1,000 parking spaces on the first floor of the central garage to make way for a new centralized area for ride-share drivers to go when they're hailed or dropping off.