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Maura Healey

State fights challenge to recording law

BOSTON — Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, served this past spring with a federal lawsuit by controversial undercover journalist James O'Keefe's Project Veritas Action Fund over enforcement of Massachusetts' recording laws, responded Friday with a motion to dismiss. Conley's chief argument for

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Group that busted ACORN takes aim at Bay State

BOSTON – James O'Keefe, the conservative activist who founded the undercover journalism enterprise Project Veritas, which has embarrassed National Public Radio and led to the death of the ACORN community activist group, wants to bring his brand of exposé to the Bay State. On Thursday, O'Keefe spoke

Maura Healey

Pearson exec slams opponents of Common Core as supporters head to court to prevent Mass. vote

A video in which a former textbook publishing executive defends the controversial federal Common Core educational standards and says that its creators aim to marginalize teachings of America's founding principles became public last week, just days before Common Core supporters filed suit in Massachusetts court to stop voters