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State Representative Geoff Diehl got off to an early lead and never gave it back Tuesday night, winning the three-way race for the Republican nomination to take on U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, according to New England Cable News. The Whitman Republican had a healthy lead in the hard vote
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Massachusetts taxpayers could see a small reduction in their state income taxes next year if revenue projections hold. By law, the state's income tax has to go down 0.05 percent if state revenues meet certain thresholds. So the tax rate on January 1, 2019 could be 5.
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Alec Baldwin, the actor who appears frequently as Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live, plans to headline the annual fund-raising dinner of the New Hampshire Democratic Party. Baldwin, 60, a liberal activist who has toyed with running for office, in September 2000 denied ever having said "unequivocally" that
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Football legend and actor Jim Brown praised President Donald Trump and America this morning, following up on his criticism of black professional athletes kneeling during the national anthem. Brown, 82, an African-American, asked on Fox & Friends if Trump is a racist, said:
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A northern Ohio public school teacher asked seventh and eighth grade students to pick eight of 12 hypothetical people to save based on occupation, race, religion, sex, age, nationality, and sexual orientation – with the remaining four doomed to destruction. Among the candidates: "a homosexual, male professional athlete"; "
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A dead 9-foot-long great white shark washed up on a beach in Truro on Thursday morning, state authorities and shark researchers said. The shark had three lead weights in its stomach, according to the Atlantic Shark Conservancy, although researchers had not announced complete results from a necropsy as of Thursday
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Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin soft-pedaled his reputation as the state's lone pro-life statewide officeholder in a debate with challenger Josh Zakim, who is running hard to Galvin's left in an effort to sway liberal voters in the Democratic primary. As a state representative from
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Beth Lindstrom supports legal abortion, but she would likely vote for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh even if he doesn't answer questions about abortion law during his confirmation hearings scheduled for next month. Jim Braude, the host of Greater Boston on WBGH-TV Channel 2, pressed Lindstrom