BOSTON — Attorney General Maura Healey is hailing a federal judge's dismissal of a lawsuit challenging Massachusetts's 1998 assault weapons ban, a ruling she said "vindicates the right of the people of Massachusetts to protect themselves from these weapons of war and our efforts to enforce the law."
The order was handed down by Massachusetts U.S. District Court Judge William Young, who concluded firearms such as "AR-15s and its analogs, along with large-capacity magazines, are simply not weapons within the original meaning of the individual constitutional right to bear arms."
Diversity and inclusion don't seem to have been as important to trustees of the University of New Hampshire when it came to picking a new president as ability to raise cold, hard cash, a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People official said.
UNH announced this week it is hiring James W. Dean Jr., an administrator and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as the new president.
