Four male write-in candidates who emerged after state Senator Stanley Rosenberg resigned last month are being called sexist for running against a woman who is the only candidate appearing on the Democratic primary ballot.
Rosenberg resigned May 4, after the deadline for getting on the ballot had passed. But five write-in candidates have emerged, and four of them are men.
A state trooper helped a mother duck and ducklings get across an interchange of the Massachusetts Turnpike in Dudley, as a video on the homepage of MassLive.com shows.