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02/05/2023

Massachusetts legislators reintroduced a bill Friday to establish a civil right to request medical care during encounters with police.

07/19/2022

Annamarie Cochrane-Rintala was found at the bottom of the couple's basement staircase, bloody and beaten, cold to the touch and covered in paint.

07/15/2022

06/26/2022

The hospital, parent company Mass General Brigham, as well as more than a dozen employees are named as defendants.

06/16/2022

A 74-year-old Alabama man has been indicted in the cold case murder of an 11-year-old New England girl who was killed nearly 35 years ago, prosecutors announced.

05/26/2022

“This was core political speech, and a citizen is going to be facing jail time for engaging in political speech?" a defense attorney argued.

05/24/2022

On Wednesday, a Massachusetts judge will decide whether Joao DePina will face the possibility of a decade behind bars for publicly criticizing a district attorney.

05/14/2022

An Alabama man facing charges in Massachusetts over a cold case murder from 1988 was denied bail on Friday.

04/28/2022

A former head of Boston’s police union facing a total of 33 charges in connection with the r**e and abuse of six children over various periods of time beginning in the 1990s pleaded guilty Monday. Patrick Rose had previously pleaded not guilty and maintained his innocence, but changed his plea dur...

04/09/2022

(WJAR) — A spokesman for the Massachusetts State Police said 11 troopers and one sergeant were fired Friday for failing to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The spokesman said the fired troopers were dishonorably discharged. Gov. Charlie Baker signed an executive order in August requiring all e...

03/17/2022

"There are no known stories of any abductions here," says Anna Hershberger.

01/26/2022

12/12/2021

It’s not enough to release James Lucien from prison. We have to prevent more wrongful convictions like his. That means taking a big-picture approach. You’re up, Mayor Wu.

12/08/2021

The 48-year-old had an emotional reunion with his family after a judge decided to vacate the 1995 murder conviction against him.

10/17/2021

The kits seem simple — mix a chemical or two with the suspicious substance and see what color it turns. But the tests are imprecise and prone to user error, so they can flag everything from doughnut glaze to motor oil as illegal substances. They’ve generated so many wrongful convictions that some courts refuse to allow them as evidence. Even so, many prison systems still rely on them to punish people for drugs they don’t have.

Lockups use unreliable tests to claim that lawyers are sending drugs to their clients behind bars.

10/02/2021

09/27/2021

Under the governor's executive order, all executive department employees are required to show proof of vaccination by Oct. 17. Up to 20% of employees are not vaccinated.

07/08/2021

This is the Massucco family.

The Massachusetts government is suing them for $42 million, over a salamander that isn't endangered.

Back in 2017, the Massuccos bought a property in South Dartmouth, MA for them to raise their children, and care for their horses and multitude of pets.

Before they bought it, they made sure they has permission to clear some trees to make room for their horses. They were told everything was fine, so they bought it and proceeded to clear.

Soon after, the Massachusetts government informed them that their entire property was a "priority habitat" for the marbled salamander, a non-endangered species.

The reason no one knew this is because the government doesn't bother registering their "priority habitats" with the state registry.

The Massuccos have never seen a salamander on their property, but that's ok because the state is not required to prove that the species even lives on the properties they claim as "habitats".

Attorney General Maura Healy gave the Massuccos a chance to "settle" the matter by giving the property to the state and paying hundreds of thousands of dollars. They refused, so now she's suing them for $42 million, plus $30,000 each day for every day the suit continues.

Again, the state didn't bother telling anyone the property was "protected", they never have to show that a single salamander lives there, the salamander isn't even threatened, but that isn't stopping them from trying to ruin a family's life.

There's no way of knowing how many other families they've done this to, because these agencies are covered by laws that protect them from the public, who is not allowed to access their records.

This is what happens when government is put in charge of "protecting the environment": they use that power to ruin people's lives and steal their property, while the big businesses who put them in office continue to pollute with impunity.

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