Massachusetts
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PublishedMay 26, 2022
It’s only taken 329 years to pardon the last Salem ‘witch’ who wasn’t
But for some reason, Elizabeth Johnson’s name wasn’t included in various legislative attempts to set the record straight.
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PublishedApril 22, 2022
MIT researchers propose fighting Lyme by releasing mice on Nantucket
They want to release hundreds of thousands of native white-footed mice engineered to resist the bacteria that causes Lyme in an effort to slow disease transmission.
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PublishedApril 8, 2022
Boston Marathon bomber again tries to avoid execution
A U.S. Supreme Court decision last month reinstated Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death penalty.
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PublishedMarch 29, 2022
Ten-inch knife found in baby car seat at Boston airport
After the knife was confiscated, the car seat was rescanned and the woman and her baby were allowed to continue on their flight to Atlanta.
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PublishedMarch 25, 2022
Father, stepmother indicted in case of long-missing New Hampshire girl
Harmony Montgomery disappeared in 2019 at age 5, but authorities did not know she was missing until last fall.
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PublishedJanuary 27, 2022
Massachusetts chief justice orders review in case of long-missing girl
The New Hampshire girl was last seen in 2019 at age 5, months after a Massachusetts judge gave custody of the child to her father, prompting criticism from New Hampshire’s governor.
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PublishedNovember 25, 2021
Tribes mourn on Thanksgiving: ‘No reason to celebrate’
Thursday’s solemn National Day of Mourning observance in downtown Plymouth, Massachusetts, recalled the disease and oppression that European settlers brought to North America.
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PublishedNovember 23, 2021
Maine DEP suspends construction license for $1 billion power line
The license will be reinstated if the New England Clean Energy Connect project's developer wins its legal fights over state land or a pending statutory ban.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2021
Hundreds of Massachusetts state workers suspended over vaccine order
The governor announced in August that executive branch workers will have to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccination or seek an exemption from the state, otherwise they'd risk being fired.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2021
Three years after Boston mobster ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s killing: No charges, still questions
The lack of answers has only spurred claims by the crime boss's family that the frail 89-year-old was 'deliberately sent to his death' at the penitentiary nicknamed 'Misery Mountain.'
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