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Matt McDonald, a Boston-area native, has decades of experience as a reporter, editor, and copy editor. His work has appeared in The Mashpee Messenger, Cape Cod News, and The Norfolk Boomerang.
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Secretly recorded video that police take without a warrant can't be used at trial against a suspect in Massachusetts, the state's highest court has ruled. Prosecutors in a drug case in East Boston and Brighton were hoping to use at least the video without the audio
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A U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that invalidated the way Massachusetts cities and towns seize real estate for back taxes may end up getting a couple in Marlborough much more money than they would have had otherwise – and they may end up keeping their home. The Massachusetts Appeals
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I've looked at every poll and every announced trend from the past several days, and I'm not going to pretend that I can make sense of it. There is so much conflicting data, and the election is (apparently) so close, I don't see how
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A longtime state representative leaving office in January 2025 cited the Massachusetts Legislature's refusal to put same-sex marriage to a statewide referendum as among his proudest moments in office. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in November 2003 issued a 4-3 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in the state, the
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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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The end of Catholic acute health care in eastern Massachusetts is in sight, as a bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of four nominally Catholic hospitals formerly run by the Archdiocese of Boston. The current owner, Steward Health Care System LLC, filed for bankruptcy on May 6, and is in
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Governor Maura Healey told Massachusetts reporters that she doesn't want to be attorney general of the United States – days after not quite saying that on national television. Healey, a Democrat, who is in her first term as governor, was asked Sunday, September 1 on CBS's Face
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Switchblades are now legal to carry in Massachusetts because a state law banning them violates the right to keep and bear arms, the state's highest court said. Gun-rights decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years that confirm an individual right to keep and bear arms