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The executive director of Alaska's state agency that tries to prevent discrimination has resigned after using the agency's Facebook page to try to shame a gun owner who had a "Black Rifles Matter" sticker on his pickup truck. The gun owner, Brent Linegar, owns
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Being seen going into residential building with a gun doesn't provide police with enough justification to search an apartment without a warrant, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. "Of course, carrying a firearm is not itself a crime in the Commonwealth," the court said in
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The largest teachers union in Massachusetts is endorsing a planned Youth Climate Strike this week, in which students plan to skip school to demand implementation of the Green New Deal. The board of directors of the Massachusetts Teachers Association unanimously passed a motion supporting the strike, according to the union.
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The Massachusetts House of Representatives expects to vote on a bill that would ban conversion therapy for minors on Wednesday. The House bill would threaten therapists with losing their license if they try techniques designed to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of children 17 and younger.
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Governor Charlie Baker said he's "inclined to support" a ban on conversion therapy for minors in Massachusetts, which would make it illegal for a licensed therapist to try to help a minor change sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling. The governor, a Republican, spoke to
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A woman who knocked a red Make America Great Again hat off a customer in a Mexican restaurant on Cape Cod is an illegal Brazilian immigrant and is facing deportation, federal immigration authorities said. Rosiane Santos, 41, who lives in East Falmouth, was arrested on charges of assault and battery
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A group seeking to change the name of Faneuil Hall in Boston because the man it's named after was a slave owner and slave trader praised Mayor Marty Walsh for allocating money for a slavery monument, but they still want Faneuil's name gone from the historic
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The size of Governor Charlie Baker's proposed tax increases has the head of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation concerned. "I would say we're not anti-tax, which is an important distinction. But we do want to make sure that your tax dollars are spent appropriately and efficiently.