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Massachusetts

Top court OKs trial for girl who texted boyfriend urging suicide

BOSTON (AP) — A teenager who sent her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to take his own life and telling him to "get back in" a truck filled with carbon monoxide fumes must stand trial for involuntary manslaughter, the state's highest court ruled Friday. The

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Rep. Fattah took illegal loan for Philly mayor’s race, US says

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah took an illegal $1 million loan to prop up an ailing mayoral bid and obtained federal funds and charity grants to pay most of it back, federal prosecutors said Monday as they outlined their racketeering case on the opening day of his trial.

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Challenge to union campaign-finance loophole set for trial

BOSTON – A trial date has been set in December for a lawsuit challenging a Massachusetts campaign-finance law that lets unions contribute as much as $15,000 to a candidate for election to a state or local office while barring businesses from making any contributions at all. The action came just

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Bulger bid for new trial rejected by appeals court

BOSTON (AP) — Former mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, convicted of participating in 11 murders during the 1970s and '80s, will not get a new trial, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit of Appeals found that Bulger had not

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History repeats itself: The Boston Massacre reenactment

BOSTON — Do your kids think history is boring? They won't when it's re-enacted before their very eyes! Stop by the Old State House, at the intersection of Devonshire and State streets, this Saturday evening, March 5, for a reenactment of the legendary Boston Massacre.

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Judge orders release of documents in Boston Marathon bombing

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the public release of hundreds of documents in the case of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tsarnaev was convicted and sentenced to death last year for his role in the 2013 bombing. Three people were killed and more than 260 injured when Tsarnaev

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Sampson death-penalty case judge steps aside

BOSTON (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the death penalty trial of a Massachusetts man is stepping down from the case. Gary Lee Sampson was condemned by a jury to die after pleading guilty to carjacking and killing two Massachusetts men in 2001. In 2011, U.S. District Court Judge

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Boston Marathon bomber’s lawyers to argue for new trial

BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are heading to court to urge a judge to grant him a new trial. Judge George O'Toole Jr. is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday in U.S. District Court, but only on the portion of Tsarnaev's motion