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Schools want state cover virus-related costs of reopening
BOSTON (AP) — School committess across Massachusetts are asking the state to cover all associated with protecting students and staff from the coronavirus when classes restart. More than 100 school committees have passed identical resolutions seeking full state reimbursement for all COVID-19-related costs,...
Massachusetts tells fireworks seller to stop ads in state
BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts attorney general is demanding that a fireworks retailer with stores in New Hampshire stop targeting its advertising to residents of Massachusetts, where fireworks are illegal. Attorney General Maura Healey in a cease-and-desist letter sent Wednesday to Phantom Fireworks...
Black-owned businesses see sales surge amid racism reckoning
BOSTON (AP) — When Mahdi Hashemian was looking for a bicycle for his 7-year-old daughter Zeynab last week, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, resident decided to skip his local cycle shops in favor of a Black-owned one a few miles away in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. At Spokehouse, a bike shop with...
Boston's Faneuil Hall reopening; 28 more COVID-19 deaths
BOSTON (AP) — Faneuil Hall Marketplace, one of Boston's most popular tourist destinations, reopened to the public Wednesday with a pair of special performances by the facility's favorite street musicians. The market, which includes several buildings of retail outlets and restaurants and lined with...
Man sentenced to life in 1980 killing of Colorado intern
A Florida man was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for killing a college student from Massachusetts who was working as a Denver radio station intern 40 years ago, a case solved with the help of DNA profiles shared by relatives online. James Curtis Clanton, 63, a truck driver from Lake Butler, Florida, was...
Sen. Markey, Rep. Kennedy both report $1.9M fundraising haul
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Edward Markey raised more than $1.9 million in the past three months, ending the quarter with about $4.8 million in cash left in his campaign account, campaign manager John Walsh said Wednesday. U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III, Markey's Democratic primary challenger, also...
Town finds 200 uncounted ballots a week after election
GRAFTON, Mass. (AP) — An official in a Massachusetts town has found more than 200 uncounted early-voting ballots in the town clerk's vault a week after the election, throwing the passage of an override vote into question, authorities say. Grafton Town Administrator Timothy McInerney told the select board...
Revere police make arrest in vandalism to Muslim woman's car
REVERE, Mass. (AP) — The person police say is responsible for spray painting swastikas on all four sides of a Muslim woman’s car in a Boston suburb last month has been arrested. Jason Pagliuca, 38, of Revere, was arrested Tuesday and charged with defacement of property and and property damage for...
Police detective fired after anti-police social media post
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts police detective who posted on social media a picture of her niece at a Black Lives Matter event holding a sign that suggested shooting police officers has been fired, according to a published report. Rookie Springfield Detective Florissa Fuentes tells The...
Gang leader pleads guilty to racketeering, drug charges
A man described by authorities as the former second in command of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin Kings gang has pleaded guilty to racketeering and drug charges, federal prosecutors said. Jorge Rodriguez, 32, who pleaded guilty Tuesday, faces up to 25 years in prison at sentencing scheduled for Oct. 16,...
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