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Massachusetts collects $2B in January taxes; Below...
Officials say Massachusetts collected just over $2 billion in tax revenues in January, down slightly from the same...
Massachusetts Thinks President Obama Should Root...
# superbowl46 According to the Massachusetts arm of Obama For America, a vote for the Pats is a vote for Obama. But if history is to be our guide, Obama should be pulling for the Giants. President Obama and a New York Giants vs. New England Patriots Super Bowl are inextricably linked. Think back to just four short years ago: The Giants won the Super Bowl in 2008 and Obama won the White House ...
Warren raising bulk of campaign funds out of Mass.
Democratic Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren is continuing to raise the bulk of her campaign contributions from outside of Massachusetts as she hopes to oust Republican Sen. Scott Brown from office.
Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick will write...
Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, who signed a deal with Hyperion for two new books, will release the first this May in e-book form only.
Research urged into 'troubling and tragic' Cape...
A Massachusetts congressman today called the recent string of more than 100 dolphin strandings on Cape Cod âtroubling and tragicâ and urged an investigation into the cause, even as an animal welfare group said another 10 dolphins were in danger.
Best Ice Fishing Spots in Barnstable,...
Just because there are snowflakes swirling around in the Massachusetts skies, it doesn't mean that it's time to put the fishing gear away. Even when there is a nip in the air and frost on the bait bucket, there are still plenty of places to go both fresh and salt water...
Indictment of teen driver eyed
Friday February 3, 2012 GREAT BARRINGTON -- Prosecutors plan to seek a grand jury indictment in Berkshire Superior Court against the driver being blamed for the death of a Lenox teenager in a fiery crash late last year in Lee.
Two brought to hospital after County Ambulance,...
Friday February 3, 2012 PITTSFIELD -- A crash at the intersection of Valentine Road and Lakeway Drive on Friday afternoon flipped an ambulance that was transporting a patient, sending at least two people, including the patient, to Berkshire Medical Center.
Pittsfield teen arraigned in assault
Saturday February 4, 2012 PITTSFIELD -- A Pittsfield teen was arraigned Friday in Central Berkshire District Court on assault and battery charges
Missing runaway found in New York
Saturday February 4, 2012 A runaway who went missing last week has been found in New York City.
New baseball team readies move to Pittsfield
Saturday February 4, 2012 PITTSFIELD -- The latest baseball team to call Wahconah Park home is getting ready to move in.
Mass.: Bone marrow donor recruiting case settled
Massachusetts officials have announced an agreement that will require a bone marrow registry and medical laboratory company that used fashion models to recruit donors to pay $520,000.
Massachusetts governor has two-book deal
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has a two-book deal, including a budget-priced e-book and a second work that will build on responses to the first.
Massachusetts officials reach agreement in bone...
A bone marrow registry and medical laboratory company that used fashion models wearing high heels and short skirts...
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick Inks Book Deal
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick inked a deal with Hyperion to publish two books, one of which will be released in May, ahead of the November elections. The first, to be a short eBook, will focus on Patrick's vision of the country. A democrat first elected...
Criminal charges against Bank of America protesters dropped
The Suffolk County district attorney has dropped criminal charges against 24 protesters who were arrested Friday...
Former Suffolk president's severance in jeopardy
The retired former president of Suffolk University may not receive the full multimillion-dollar payout in the severance...
Punishments don't always fit the crimes
Christmas did not come early for Latoya Thomas-Dickson yesterday.A Suffolk judge did not place an electronic...
Suffolk's 75th birthday brings back memories
When pari-mutuel horse racing was legalized in Massachusetts in 1935, the Eastern Racing Association rushed into...
Ex-Mass. rabbi arraigned again in child abuse
A rabbi who once taught at a Boston-area school has been arraigned on a new child assault charge stemming from an incident that occurred more than 30 years ago. The Suffolk County district attorney's office says Stanley Z. Levitt of Philadelphia was arraigned Wednesday on a single count of indecent assault and battery on a child in Brighton.
Ex-Mass. rabbi charged again in child abuse
The Suffolk County district attorney says a rabbi who once taught at a Boston-area school faces another child assault charge. Authorities said Sunday that Stanley Z. Levitt was charged with indecent assault and battery on a child. The 64-year-old Levitt is expected to be arraigned Wednesday in Suffolk Superior Court.
DA: Boston teen who fired on police shot himself
Investigators say a Boston man who died during a gunfight with police over the weekend shot himself in the head. The Suffolk district attorney's office says four officers working with an anti-gang unit approached 19-year-old Manuel DaVeiga Jr. at a street memorial for a homicide victim at about 9:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Old gun statute is DA's secret weapon
The Suffolk District Attorney's Office is deploying a long-dormant state statute to lock up "career criminals"...
Suffolk's chairman set to step down
Suffolk University's beleaguered 80-year-old chairman of the board Nicholas Macaronis will retire in February. "I believe the time is right for new leadership...
Deval Patrick may 'divide and conquer' race
Bay State voters just can't quit Deval Patrick, even though most would cast ballots against him, a new 7News/Suffolk University poll shows. The poll shows a three-way...
6 treated in Boston after crash involving jail van
Two correction officers and three Suffolk County detainees have suffered minor injuries after a sheriff's van carrying prisoners collided another car in Boston. A spokesman for the Suffolk County Sheriff's office says a vehicle crossed the median strip and hit the side of the van that was returning four detainees back to the Suffolk County House of Correction on Friday.
Former inmate awarded $900,000
A former inmate at the Suffolk County House of Correction was awarded close to $900,000 in damages yesterday by a federal jury that found correctional officers beat and humiliated him in 1999.
In spite of rivals, Menino holding plans close to...
City Councilors Michael Flaherty and Sam Yoon are in the race for mayor. So is South End business owner Kevin McCrea. Former Suffolk district attorney Ralph Martin has ruled out entering the fray.
Mass. correction officer charged with inmate rape
A 17-year veteran of the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he raped a female inmate at a Boston jail. Lt. Thomas Healy, a corrections officer at the Suffolk County House of Correction, turned himself in Tuesday morning. Prosecutors said Healy groped and raped the woman in her cell on Nov. 12.
Inmates sue over lack of bathrooms at Mass. jail
Nearly 4,000 current and former inmates are suing the Suffolk House of Correction for failing to provide timely access to bathrooms.
Inmates: Denial of toilet access just doesn't wash
Nearly 4,000 current and former inmates are suing the Suffolk House of Correction for failing to provide timely access to bathrooms. U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton...
Former Suffolk DA won't challenge Menino
The absence of former Suffolk District Attorney Ralph C. Martin II from the political landscape is a boon to Mayor Thomas M. Menino but does not remove the threat of a potential...
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