Gerry Cassidy, a former city councilor and longtime aide to the late Sen. Thomas Kennedy, is on track to become Brockton's next state representative after winning one of three special primary elections held in Massachusetts Tuesday.
Voters in districts covering Brockton, Peabody, Fitchburg and part of Lunenburg selected their nominees for March 1 elections to fill the seats of lawmakers who left the House in recent months.
(RNS) — The number of Muslim Americans involved in terrorism cases "rose dramatically" in 2015, although the overall threat they posed to public safety has been exaggerated, says the author of a new terrorism study.
"The demonization of Muslim Americans in some American social and political spheres has created a hostile climate far out of scale with the actual number of Muslim Americans involved in violence," said University of North Carolina sociologist Charles Kurzman, author of the report released Tuesday (Feb. 2).
