Massachusetts News

The hot new Republican hit on health care reform legislation came in the form of a press release from Rep.

The father of an autistic Massachusetts boy who died after his mother allegedly withheld cancer medication has died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.

A unit at the state's maximum security prison in Shirley is locked down after four correction officers were injured in a scuffle with an inmate.

Calling addiction to opiates a bigger epidemic than swine flu, the Massachusetts OxyContin and Heroin Commission pressed for new educational and preventive programs to stem the flow of illegal prescription pills around the state.

A Boston man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in connection with bank robbery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Massachusetts has received about $2 million in federal stimulus funding to help identify the speed and location of broadband services in the state over the next five years.

Four guards at a maximum security state prison in Massachusetts have been injured by an inmate wielding a homemade weapon.

A Massachusetts town has voted in favor of inviting two men detained at Guantanamo Bay military prison to resettle in the community, if they are ultimately cleared of terrorism ties and released.

A Massachusetts man has been indicted on new charges in an alleged terror plot to kill two prominent U.S. politicians and shoot people at American shopping malls.Tarek Mehanna , of Sudbury, is accused of conspiring with two other men - Ahmad Abousamra, who authorities say is now in Syria, and an unnamed cooperating witness.The 27-year-old Mehanna ...

Share + Nov 5, 2009 1:50 pm US/Eastern Tamper-proof prescription pads, jail diversion programs and school-based drug counselors are some of the steps Massachusetts should adopt to stem OxyContin and heroin overdoses, according to a new report.

Still another state library is under attack by the politicians. At a press conference on Thursday, October 29, the Governor's Office announced that Governor Patrick is considering closing the State Library of Massachusetts as a cost-saving measure.

Massachusetts Tax collections have come in slightly over expectations in October.

Two organizations that represent the interests of technology companies in Massachusetts are combining forces.

Tufts University has dethroned Boston College as Massachusetts' costliest school, but both institutions and seven other Bay State colleges have joined the "$50,000 Club" - universities charging $50,000 or more per year.

The Education Department is reassuring the state of Massachusetts it does not agree with an internal watchdog who suggested the state was using economic stimulus money improperly.

Lawsuits against two meat companies claim a Massachusetts girl and a Rhode Island boy were sickened by ground beef contaminated by E. coli bacteria.

It's now illegal in one Massachusetts town to own more than three cats without getting a special license.

Nearly two dozen incumbent mayors are facing challenges on Election Day in Massachusetts.

A new state super agency that oversees most of Massachusetts' transportation needs has officially taken over.

Gerald Leader loves California wines but lives in Massachusetts, where state law sharply limits the ability of out-of-state wineries to ship their products directly to consumers.