A 43-year-old abortion supporter who could serve until 2050 is Governor Maura Healey's first nominee to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Elizabeth Dewar, the state solicitor in the Massachusetts Attorney General's office, is the first nominee to the state's highest court not to have served as a judge since 2000.
Flags are flying at half-staff in Massachusetts in honor of Paul Tracey, a long-time Waltham police officer killed Wednesday while on duty as a roadside work site.
A speeding Ford pickup truck driven by a New Hampshire man with a history of mental illness and attacks on police struck and killed Tracey, 58, and a National Grid gas operations technician, Roderick Jackson, 36, on Tottem Pond Road in Waltham during the late afternoon of Wednesday, December 6.
