May 10, 2023 Ex-Massachusetts troopers' union boss gets 2 1/2 years for fraud, racketeering Former Massachusetts State Police troopers' union president Dana Pullman was sentenced to over two years in prison Wednesday for accepting kickbacks and embezzling union funds.
May 10, 2023 MA high court upholds $37M payout for woman who smoked Marlboro lights, got cancer Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court ruled in favor of Patricia Walsh Greene, who was previously awarded $37 million in her suit against Marlboro parent company Philip Morris.
May 9, 2023 Former Massachusetts cop decertified for alleged role in 2017 white nationalist rally A former police officer has been decertified by the state's police standards board for his alleged involvement in a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville in 2017.
May 5, 2023 Boston principal who shot student he forced to sell drugs sentenced for racketeering Shaun Harrison, a 63-year-old former high school dean from Boston, will serve at least 44 years in prison for gang-related activity, including trying to kill a student.
May 5, 2023 Crews begin cleaning Massachusetts site where a pharmaceutical plant blast killed 1 worker A Massachusetts blast site that killed one pharmaceutical plant worker is moving to the cleanup phase. The explosion tore the roof off a building and killed one worker.
May 5, 2023 7th-grade student fights back after school told him to change his ‘There are only two genders’ T-shirt Liam Morrison, a 7th grader at Nichols Middle School, speaks out after he was sent home for refusing to change his shirt that said 'There are only two genders.'
May 4, 2023 Massachusetts college program ends the use of the word ‘field': 'May hold negative associations' The Smith College School of Social Work will now end the use of the word "field" to abide by its commitment to “anti-racist work" and to be more inclusive to Blacks and people of color.
May 4, 2023 Massachusetts worker remains missing after pharmaceutical plant explodes, ripping off roof A pharmaceutical chemical plant in Massachusetts was rocked by an explosion early Thursday that injured five workers, including one who remains missing.
May 4, 2023 Powerful explosion at Massachusetts pharmaceutical plant sends 4 to hospital, 1 worker left unaccounted for A Massachusetts pharmaceutical plant explosion has left four people injured and another missing. The blast blew an industrial-sized vat into the parking lot.
May 3, 2023 Massachusetts man awarded $13M after serving 32 years for wrongful arson conviction Victor Rosario, 35, has been awarded $13 million from the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, after spending 32 years in prison for an arson he did not commit.