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BOSTON – Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and the state Department of Public Health on Wednesday announced plans to steer $700,000 in grants to Boston and 39 other Bay State communities hit hardest by the opioid drug crisis. The money will be used to buy and administer naloxone, also known as
Massachusetts
BOSTON – Several of the state's leading Democrats on Tuesday rushed to back President Barack Obama as he issued an executive order tightening gun controls by beefing up background checks on prospective buyers and imposing new restrictions on sellers. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh traveled to Washington to be one
Massachusetts
LOWELL — Frigid temperatures and a slow-moving security checkpoint line snaking its way across several city blocks could not deter supporters of Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate who rode into the Mill City on Monday night to regale those who packed into the Tsongas Center arena. Strutting to the stage
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BOSTON — A home-delivery disruption at the Boston Globe quickly deteriorated last week into what Boston Newspaper Guild President Scott Steeves described as "crisis mode" by Saturday night, according to the Boston Business Journal. The critical situation developed as it became clear that the broadsheet's new delivery
Massachusetts legislature
BOSTON – The year 2016 promises to be a fascinating year in Massachusetts politics. Here are some Bay State politicians that voters should keep their eyes on in the months ahead: U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton
Donald Trump
The dynamics fueling the surging campaigns of presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are more similar than not, as the success of the upstart Sanders, running for the Democratic nomination, and the outsider Trump, in the Republican race, shows how turned off some American voters are by "establishment&
Massachusetts
BOSTON – Plenty of Massachusetts news was fit to print in 2015. Here's our take on the 10 biggest Bay State stories of the year, in chronological order:
Democrats
WASHINGTON – A flurry of social media posts put up over the Christmas weekend by Jim Webb, the former senator from Virginia who pulled out of the Democratic presidential primary race in October, led to speculation that he will re-enter the 2016 election as an independent candidate for the White House.