Massachusetts

U.S. 02/12/20, 07:19

Massachusetts lawmakers who want to make it possible for illegal aliens to receive driver’s licenses would have to have enough support for their bill to overcome Gov. Charlie Baker's expected veto. This would mean all 125 Democrats in both branches would need to support the bill after a veto by ...

U.S. 02/02/20, 07:30

An eighth case of coronavirus in the United States has been confirmed in a male University of Massachusetts—Boston student who recently returned from traveling in Wuhan, China, health officials said Saturday, Feb. 1. The man sought medical care after his return on Jan. 29 and he's been under quarantine at his ...

U.S. 12/20/19, 05:34

Traditionally, if you want a shirt with the name of a candidate on it, you're buying it from the campaign or stands in locations like the National Mall. But, from playing cards to T-shirts, keychains to socks with an unmistakable coif, the Trump stores in New England have everything you could ...

U.S. 06/24/19, 19:00

The Massachusetts driver who plowed into a group of motorcyclists in New Hampshire has been charged with seven counts of negligent homicide. Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was arrested on Monday morning, June 24, near his home in West Springfield, Massachusetts, Deputy Attorney General for New Hampshire Jane Young, said in a press ...

Opinion 05/07/19, 04:12

Remember when judges used to uphold the law? Unfortunately, that’s not always the case today. Consider the Massachusetts trial judge who is accused of helping a twice-deported illegal immigrant slip out the back door rather than hand him over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent waiting to arrest him. According to authorities, Massachusetts District Court ...

U.S. 04/09/19, 06:16

US dilemma: Saving the Climate Without Destroying Jobs

U.S. 03/31/19, 20:55

A legislative panel is considering a statewide ban on single-use plastic shopping bags in Massachusetts. Under the legislation scheduled for a public hearing on Tuesday by the Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Committee, retail establishments would be barred from providing customers with the single-use bags after Aug. 1. Stores would be allowed ...

U.S. 02/15/19, 23:37

Bill Weld, former governor of Massachusetts, forms presidential exploratory committee

Politics 02/15/19, 09:35

William Weld, a former governor of Massachusetts who two years ago ran for vice president on the Libertarian Party ticket, has become the first Republican to announce a challenge to President Donald Trump in the 2020 primaries. Fiscally conservative but socially liberal, the 73-year-old Weld ran on the Libertarian party ticket ...

Entertainment 01/07/19, 09:46

Oscar-winning actor will be arraigned in Nantucket District Court after being charged last month with one count of felony indecent assault and battery

Politics 01/02/19, 19:36

The Democratic leader of the Massachusetts Senate promised Wednesday to work for lower prescription drug costs, expanded mental health services and a reform to the state's education funding formula as she laid out an ambitious agenda at the start of the Legislature's new two-year session. Republican Gov. Charlie Baker administered oaths ...

U.S. 11/22/18, 17:49

Authorities said an elderly man driving the wrong way on a Massachusetts highway caused a fiery crash that killed him and injured six on Thanksgiving Eve. State Police spokesman Dave Procopio said the crash happened around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday on Interstate 495 in Taunton. Procopio said 84-year-old Arnold Reda, of Foxborough, was ...

U.S. 10/18/18, 23:40

Authorities say they've recovered a child in Florida who they say was abducted by his mother in Massachusetts two years ago. The Orlando Sentinel reports that 40-year-old Christina Hale was arrested Tuesday at an Orange County home. Authorities say Hale fled Webster, Massachusetts, with her now-5-year-old son after a court in that ...

U.S. 09/16/18, 14:18

WELLFLEET, Mass. (AP) — Friends say a 26-year-old man who was killed in a shark attack off a Cape Cod beach was an engineering student who loved the outdoors.