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The Boston Red Sox are looking to turn back the clock to 1977, the year the city honored then-recently-deceased longtime team owner Tom Yawkey by renaming the section of Jersey Street bordering Fenway Park's third base line in his name. Current owner John Henry is now spearheading a
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BOSTON — The state's highest court retreated on Tuesday from its long-held stance that a Massachusetts statute banning civilian possession of stun guns is not unconstitutional, marking a rare win for the commonwealth's right-to-bear-arms activists. Tuesday's decision reflects a March 2016 United States Supreme Court
Maura Healey
BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said Tuesday she plans to sue President Donald Trump's administration over plans to reintroduce a citizenship question to the 2020 federal census. "The Census is supposed to count everyone," Healey said in a Twitter post Tuesday morning. "This is
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BOSTON — The city's improvement commission voted unanimously on Thursday to enact a petition submitted by Boston Red Sox owner John Henry to permanently delete the namesake of a former Hall of Fame-enshrined owner from one of the Hub's most well-known streets. Yawkey Way, named in honor
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A bill that would criminalize female genital mutilation in Maine was struck down this month in Augusta by House Democrats, a development that appears to validate an eye-opening claim made in August by Republican State Representative Heather Sirocki that the practice is already under way in the Pine Tree State.
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BOSTON — The ongoing feud between the Boston Globe and sports talk radio giant WEEI reached new highs this week after morning show host Kirk Minihane and producer Chris Curtis began questioning the Boston Marathon bombing-related reporting and claims of longtime Globe columnist Kevin Cullen. Apparently spurred by a wildly emotional
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BOSTON — Attorneys representing a host of former top State Police brass accused in a federal lawsuit by an underling of conspiring to erase embarrassing details from the arrest report involving a prominent Worcester County judge's daughter are working to have the case removed from federal court, sources tell
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BOSTON — The law firm that saw one of its most powerful attorneys step down from his post as state representative months before word leaked regarding the firm's track record of reimbursing its lawyers and their spouses for political donations made to both Massachusetts and national Democrats will not