A 200-year-old white ash tree was taken down in Scituate, Rhode Island.
One of relatively few tall trees to survive the Hurricane of 1938, the tree at the time of its felling was 110 feet tall and 17 feet around the base. It took four hours for a tree service to take it down, according to The Providence Journal.
BOSTON — Attorney General Maura Healey is hailing a federal judge's dismissal of a lawsuit challenging Massachusetts's 1998 assault weapons ban, a ruling she said "vindicates the right of the people of Massachusetts to protect themselves from these weapons of war and our efforts to enforce the law."
The order was handed down by Massachusetts U.S. District Court Judge William Young, who concluded firearms such as "AR-15s and its analogs, along with large-capacity magazines, are simply not weapons within the original meaning of the individual constitutional right to bear arms."
