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Here's the results of Tuesday's State Election In Massachusetts as of 2:20am. ^U.S. Senate 2,148 of 2,173 precincts - 99 percent x-Ed Markey, Dem (i) 1,268,429 - 62 percent Brian Herr, GOP 775,241 - 38 percent < ^Governor 2,148 of 2,173 precincts - 99 percent x-Charlie Baker, GOP 1,023,674 - 48 percent Martha Coakley, Dem 988,061 - 47 percent Evan Falchuk, Uni 70,383 - 3 percent Scott Lively, I

Republican Charlie Baker has been elected governor of Massachusetts, defeating Democrat Martha Coakley and three independent candidates to reclaim the state's top political office for the GOP. The 57-year-old Baker is the former CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care...

Election day is tomorrow in Massachusetts. The Bay State will have a new governor as Deval Patrick announced in January that he will not seek the office again.

Democratic candidate for governor Martha Coakley is headed to New Bedford to meet with fishermen and representatives of the Massachusetts fishing industry. The visit on Friday comes several days after the final televised debate of the campaign during which Coakley's Republican rival, Charlie Baker, tearfully recalled a meeting with a New Bedford fishermen who regretted pressuring his sons to follo

BOSTON (AP) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker has acknowledged that an emotional story he told about a struggling fisherman during a debate Tuesday night dates to the 2010 campaign. During the debate, Baker and Democratic opponent Martha Coakley were asked about the last time they cried...

Charlie Baker's story of a New Bedford fisherman he met while on the campaign trail is raising eyebrows on the South Coast. Baker's says the story of the mountain of a man who told his sons to work as fishermen instead of taking athletic scholarships actually occurred during the 2010 gubernatorial campaign...

Republican Charlie Baker and Democrat Martha Coakley made their final pitches to voters in a televised debate. During Tuesday's match-up, the two laid out their plans for job growth, the best response to Ebola, the proliferation of outside political ads, and how the state should cope with immigrants who are in the country illegally...

Independent candidate for Massachusetts governor Evan Falchuk has gone to court to try to force the organizers of an Oct. 27 gubernatorial debate to include him. Falchuk said he was asked to participate in the debate, but then was told by NECN that he was no longer invited...

€” Former Massachusetts governor, and one-time presidential candidate, Michael Dukakis testified for the defense in the Robel Phillipos trial. The friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber has been charged with lying to investigators after the attacks...

Former President Bill Clinton is coming to Massachusetts to campaign for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Martha Coakley.