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STATE HOUSE — An emotional Gov. Charlie Baker fought back tears Monday as he recounted the stories he's heard from the parents of young people who have died from drug overdoses and letters he received from students at North Shore Recovery High School, detailing their "heartbreaking stories of
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STATE HOUSE — Struggling against a ballooned budget, backers of the Green Line Extension do not expect development dollars to contribute as much to the project as is the case around the country. State transportation officials last year identified a gap of as much as $1 billion for the trolley extension
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BOSTON – The clock is ticking to pull the plug or put a bill before Bay State lawmakers that would make physician-assisted suicide legal in Massachusetts, as the Joint Committee on Public Health has until Wednesday to recommend action on the measure. The bill (HB 1991) began its legislative journey anew
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STATE HOUSE — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren plans to get behind a presidential candidate and in an interview televised on Sunday she did not rule out joining a ticket this year. "Way, way, way premature to talk about that," the Cambridge Democrat told New England Cable News reporter
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STATE HOUSE — Speaking to advocates visiting Beacon Hill to promote cancer prevention, Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner Monica Bharel said Thursday that more needs to be done prevent young people from using tobacco, but stopped short of endorsing a bill that calls for raising the tobacco purchasing age in Massachusetts from
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BOSTON (AP) – Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, genealogical research website Ancestry.com is making 10 million Catholic parish records from Ireland – some dating to 1655 – available online for free to help people trace their Irish heritage. The goldmine of information, available without cost for a week
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When the members of Asperger's Are Us met at a summer camp on the North Shore, they never imagined that more than a decade later they would be stars of a documentary at one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. The name Asperger's
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LOWELL – Niki Tsongas, the congresswoman from Lowell, thinks women should be required to register and be ready to be drafted for military service, calling it another step toward gender equality in the armed forces, according to comments reported by the Lowell Sun newspaper. The Sun posted a video of a
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