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Great Barrington's board of selectmen plans to hire a law firm to investigate a police investigation at a local public middle school seeking a graphic novel called Gender Queer. The teacher at the center of the police investigation wants to know who told police to investigate the presence
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By Chris Lisinski State House News Service
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The Boston Red Sox plan to begin spring training this month, according to the team's web site. Pitchers and catchers are supposed to report to spring training on Wednesday, February 14. The rest of the team follows suit on Monday, February 19. The team's first spring
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A columnist for The Boston Globe recently reported a story about a woman traveling from Connecticut to Vermont to use the state's physician-assisted suicide law — except he made himself part of the story. The story notes that to take advantage of Vermont's physician-assisted suicide law, someone
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At the beginning of January, commissioner Robert Goldstein of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health issued a memorandum to all Massachusetts health care providers, supposedly to remind them about their licensure obligations. But to careful readers, it was immediately apparent that the letter represented a thinly veiled threat against the
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Several Massachusetts state troopers conspired to give passing scores for commercial driver's licenses to would-be truck drivers who failed their road test in exchange for goods and services, federal prosecutors say. State troopers often sent text messages after the test describing the applicant as a "mess,"
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The Newton Teachers Association entered the eighth day of its illegal wildcat strike on Tuesday, but Massachusetts Republican Party chairman Amy Carnevale wants to see the teachers get back to work. Carnevale said Newton teachers are playing politics with kids' educations, which she said is wrong.
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The average price for a gallon of gas in Massachusetts has not moved over the past week, according to AAA Northeast. The price has held steady at $3.11 per gallon, which is 11 cents cheaper than it was one month ago and 32 cents cheaper than it was at