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Immigration Shaping Up As Hot Topic In Warren-Deaton Race
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Massachusetts Democrats Call For Gun Control and Improved School Safety Following Georgia School Shooting
Massachusetts Democratic lawmakers called for more gun control in the wake of a Georgia school shooting on Wednesday. A 14-year-old shot and killed four people — two students and two teachers — and hospitalized nine others — eight students and one teacher — during a mass-shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, according
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Federal Immigration Authorities Arrest Haitian Illegal Charged With Child Molestation In Mansfield
Federal immigration authorities recently apprehended an 18-year-old Haitian illegal immigrant charged with sexually assaulting a child in Massachusetts. Offices from the Boston field office of Enforcement and Removal Operations arrested Akim Marc Desire in Attleboro on Friday, August 30, according to a press release from U.S. Immigration and Customs
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Maura Healey Picks New Superintendent From Outside Massachusetts State Police Ranks Following Karen Read Scandal
By Sam Drysdale State House News Service Governor Maura Healey used the new powers afforded to her under law and picked the retired second-in-command of the New Jersey State Police to take over as the next superintendent and colonel of the Massachusetts State Police. Geoffrey Noble, who retired as New
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Pro-Life Conservative Unseats Moderate Republican State Representative; Victory Likely In November
A pro-life conservative unseated an incumbent Republican state representative in Massachusetts this week. Carver planning board member and Coast Guard Veteran John Gaskey defeated state representative Susan Gifford (R-Wareham) in the Second Plymouth District Republican primary on Tuesday, September 3. No Democrat is on the ballot in the November general
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John Deaton Wins Masssachusets GOP U.S. Senate Primary In A Landslide
Attorney John Deaton of Swansea cruised to victory in the Massachusetts Republican primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday. Deaton had 64.6 percent of the vote with 92 percent of the vote counted, according to the Associated Press. This gave him a substantial lead over Robert Antonellis of Somerville
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Catholic Hospitals To Be Sold To Secular Entities, Almost Ending Catholic Acute Health Care In Eastern Massachusetts
The end of Catholic acute health care in eastern Massachusetts is in sight, as a bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of four nominally Catholic hospitals formerly run by the Archdiocese of Boston. The current owner, Steward Health Care System LLC, filed for bankruptcy on May 6, and is in
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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey Denies Wanting To Be U.S. Attorney General, Blames Trump For Migrants Surge
Governor Maura Healey told Massachusetts reporters that she doesn't want to be attorney general of the United States – days after not quite saying that on national television. Healey, a Democrat, who is in her first term as governor, was asked Sunday, September 1 on CBS's Face