Newton city councilor Jake Auchincloss defeated former Brookline selectman and Planned Parenthood employee Jesse Mermell in a crowded Democratic primary in Massachusetts's Fourth Congressional District earlier this week — though the race wasn't called until this morning.
Auchincloss was finally declared the winner in the nine-way race (seven candidates still actively running at the time) on Friday, September 4 He received 22.4 percent of the vote to Mermell's 21.1 percent, as the Associated Press reports.
Eastern equine encephalitis is back in Rhode Island this year.
The state tested mosquitos in Chapman swamp in Westerly in late August and found some of them tested positive for the virus, as CBS Boston reported earlier this week.
