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Patriots Quarterback Jacoby Brissett Said He Cried Multiple Times Before Sunday’s Game

New England Patriots quarterback Jacoby Brissett cried three times before the team's 16-10 upset win against the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday. The journeyman quarterback was happy to get the start in Week 1 and to have new head coach Jerod Mayo believe in him.

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Cops In Massachusetts Must Show They Didn’t Racially Profile During Social Media Investigations, State’s Highest Court Rules

The state's highest court has again expanded the responsibility of police in Massachusetts to show that their investigations aren't racially biased. The high court upheld a trial court judge's dismissal of gun charges because Boston police wouldn't turn over documents showing how

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Vermont Department of Health Urges People To Not Say ‘Son’ and ‘Daughter’ For Sake of Inclusion

Don't say "son" and "daughter" because those terms are not inclusive enough, the Vermont Department of Health recently said. Vermont's public health agency is under fire over a Facebook post where it urged its state's residents to stop saying "

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Immigration Shaping Up As Hot Topic In Warren-Deaton Race

By Sam Drysdale State House News Service

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Massachusetts Democrats Call For Gun Control and Improved School Safety Following Georgia School Shooting

Massachusetts Democratic lawmakers called for more gun control in the wake of a Georgia school shooting on Wednesday. A 14-year-old shot and killed four people — two students and two teachers — and hospitalized nine others — eight students and one teacher — during a mass-shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, according

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Federal Immigration Authorities Arrest Haitian Illegal Charged With Child Molestation In Mansfield

Federal immigration authorities recently apprehended an 18-year-old Haitian illegal immigrant charged with sexually assaulting a child in Massachusetts. Offices from the Boston field office of Enforcement and Removal Operations arrested Akim Marc Desire in Attleboro on Friday, August 30, according to a press release from U.S. Immigration and Customs

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Maura Healey Picks New Superintendent From Outside Massachusetts State Police Ranks Following Karen Read Scandal

By Sam Drysdale State House News Service Governor Maura Healey used the new powers afforded to her under law and picked the retired second-in-command of the New Jersey State Police to take over as the next superintendent and colonel of the Massachusetts State Police. Geoffrey Noble, who retired as New

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Pro-Life Conservative Unseats Moderate Republican State Representative; Victory Likely In November

A pro-life conservative unseated an incumbent Republican state representative in Massachusetts this week. Carver planning board member and Coast Guard Veteran John Gaskey defeated state representative Susan Gifford (R-Wareham) in the Second Plymouth District Republican primary on Tuesday, September 3. No Democrat is on the ballot in the November general