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Boston Red Sox Submit Formal Petition To City To Make Tom Yawkey Disappear
The Boston Red Sox are looking to turn back the clock to 1977, the year the city honored then-recently-deceased longtime…
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Massachusetts High Court Retreats On Stun Gun Ban
BOSTON — The state's highest court retreated on Tuesday from its long-held stance that a Massachusetts statute banning civilian possession…
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Healey To Sue Trump — Again — Over Census Citizenship Question
BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said Tuesday she plans to sue President Donald Trump's administration over plans to reintroduce…
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Boston’s Yawkey Way Now Officially Gone, But What About “Jersey’s” Past?
BOSTON — The city's improvement commission voted unanimously on Thursday to enact a petition submitted by Boston Red Sox owner John…
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Maine Dems Kill Bill Making Genital Mutilation A Crime
A bill that would criminalize female genital mutilation in Maine was struck down this month in Augusta by House Democrats, a development…
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Boston Globe To Investigate Its Star Columnist’s Boston Marathon Claims
The ongoing feud between the Boston Globe and sports talk radio giant WEEI reached new highs this week after morning show host Kirk Minihane and producer Chris Curtis began questioning the Boston Marathon bombing
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State Police Brass Named In ‘Troopergate’ Lawsuit Angling To Have Case Removed From Federal Court
BOSTON — Attorneys representing a host of former top State Police brass accused in a federal lawsuit by an underling of conspiring to…
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After AG Healey Punts On Thornton Law Dem Donor Probe, Essex DA Declines To Pursue Criminal Charges
BOSTON — The law firm that saw one of its most powerful attorneys step down from his post as state representative months before…
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Cambridge Mayor Calls Video Of Black Harvard Student’s Arrest ‘Disturbing’
CAMBRIDGE — Police have released an onlooker's video depicting the takedown-style arrest of a naked black Harvard student police say…
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AG Healey Scores Another Victory In Push To Investigate ExxonMobil
BOSTON — Massachusetts's highest court has sided with Attorney General Maura Healey in her bid to force ExxonMobil to produce and…
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Warren Rips Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Chief Mulvaney During Hearing
Massachusetts U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who dreamed up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and saw it transform into reality under the…
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Expect A Notable Absentee When Boston Commission Votes Thursday On Red Sox Yawkey Way Name Change (UPDATED)
UPDATE: The Boston Red Sox have asked the city to postpone Thursday's scheduled vote. The request has been granted and…
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Baker Skips VP Pence’s Boston Visit, Dem Guv Candidate Calls Him Out
Governor Charlie Baker was nowhere to be found when Vice President Mike Pence visited Boston on Tuesday evening for a fund-raising…
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Can Harvard Seal Admissions Data in Asian-Americans’ Lawsuit? Justice Department, First Amendment Groups Say No
BOSTON — A collection of Asian-Americans contesting Harvard University's affirmative action policies in federal court are gaining the backing of…
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Anti-ICE Tattle-Tale Phone Line Goes Live In Somerville
Editor's note: An earlier version of this story initially reported the city of Somerville's launching of an immigration-…
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Federal Judge Sides With AG Healey, Rules Second Amendment Does Not Cover AR-15s & High-Capacity Mags
BOSTON — Attorney General Maura Healey is hailing a federal judge's dismissal of a lawsuit challenging Massachusetts's 1998 assault…
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Pick-Your-Own-Prison Gender-Identity Bill Approved; What Will Governor Baker Do?
BOSTON — The sweeping criminal justice reform package that cleared the House and Senate chambers this week now awaits Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker&…
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Former Drug Dealer Who Somehow Became A Massachusetts State Trooper Breaks Her Silence
The Massachusetts state trooper whose court-documented history of drug dealing and money laundering somehow eluded the Massachusetts State Police's…
