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The Obama administration is pressuring colleges to not include questions about criminal records on applications, and the country's largest application is already giving ground.
Massachusetts
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Investigators say a former chemist who tested drugs for Massachusetts police departments was high almost every day she went to work for eight years, potentially putting thousands of criminal convictions in jeopardy. Sonja Farak, who worked for an Amherst lab that tested drug samples for police, was
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Massachusetts
BOSTON (AP) — Former mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, convicted of participating in 11 murders during the 1970s and '80s, will not get a new trial, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit of Appeals found that Bulger had not
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government calls it a "vicious guard dog" that hurts national security. Apple says it's critical to protecting consumer privacy against increasingly sophisticated hackers. As the debate over built-in iPhone encryption has deadlocked in the courts, law enforcement and the world'
Massachusetts
BOSTON (AP) — The woman who spent 16 years on the run with Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger pleaded guilty Wednesday to a criminal contempt charge for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating whether other people helped him as a fugitive. Catherine Greig, 64, entered her plea
crime
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage says with a laugh that he wants to use the guillotine to execute drug dealers at public executions. The governor's office said Tuesday the remark during a radio interview on WVOM was just a joke to illustrate his support for tougher
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