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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has upheld the first-degree murder conviction of a heroin dealer who shot a potential customer to death in Lawrence. Jose Hernandez claimed at trial that he shot Roberto Plaza in the chest on June 7, 2009 in self-defense when Plaza while sitting in his car
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A Northampton resident who called police officers "violence workers" seven times while arguing against allowing the city's police department to accept a donation of $13,000 worth of ammunition from Walmart is standing by her statement. The issue came up last month when the general manager
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Editor's Note: Below is draft language for a proposed bylaw that would ban selling and releasing helium balloons in the the town of Orleans, Massachusetts, which is on Cape Cod. The language comes from the packet of documents for the Orleans Board of Selectmen meeting of Wednesday, January
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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is joining a lawsuit against the Trump administration's Department of Commerce to try to stop seismic testing for offshore drilling for oil and gas in the Atlantic Ocean. The lawsuit, filed by Maryland's attorney general, is also joined by the attorneys
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Two Massachusetts clergymen confronted U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday during a speech in Boston and were escorted from the venue. A video clip of the incident can be viewed here. The two men have been identified by Boston Magazine (and others) as United Methodist pastor Will Green
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[Editor's Note: The following is the text of a notice posted by a YMCA official in Springfield, Massachusetts concerning parents coming to the Y smelling like marijuana. This text does not include the letterhead at the top and the address at the bottom. Boldface shown below is in
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Former President George Herbert Walker Bush's state funeral service took place Wednesday, December 5 at Washington National Cathedral. The Episcopal service overflowed with grandeur, spectacle, music, eloquence, and emotion.