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31st Annual Massachusetts Tomato Contest

Past the shiny new vendors and down a backdoor hallway of the Boston Public Market, the 31st Annual Massachusetts Tomato Contest drew attention on Thursday from customers as well as from pedestrians walking past the glass windows on Hanover Street. Shoppers had a hard time passing, as the largest tomatoes

Massachusetts

Baker names three judges as picks for state’s top court

BOSTON – Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday named three Superior Court judges with extensive prosecutorial backgrounds as his picks for seats on the Supreme Judicial Court, seeking to elevate experienced jurists in a rare opportunity for a governor to shape the court so early in his first term. Baker, in

Donald Trump

Trump made ‘textbook’ racist remark about judge, Ryan says

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's comments about a U.S.-born judge of Mexican heritage are the "textbook definition of a racist comment," U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday. Later in the day, Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said his remarks have

Barack Obama

Obama: ‘I have transformed the federal courts from a diversity standpoint’

Massachusetts

Massachusetts, Alabama, and judges

Among the Supreme Court decisions issued last month following the death of Justice Scalia was a per curiam decision of the Court that reversed an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that did not recognize the validity of a same-sex couple's adoption in Georgia. A per curiam decision means that