A handful of mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses would be repealed and the state's approach to juvenile offenders overhauled in a sweeping criminal justice bill released Friday by House and Senate lawmakers.
The six House and Senate lawmakers negotiating a complex overhaul of the state's sentencing and criminal justice laws have reached a tentative agreement.
After a self-driving car killed a pedestrian in Arizona Sunday, the House chairman of the Transportation Committee Tuesday asked for bills regulating the emerging technology to circle back to committee.
The students who survived the St. Valentine's Day massacre at a high school in Parkland, Fla. last week could have a major impact on this Fall's midterm elections for Congress.
Seventeen people were killed when a 19-year-old former student who should not have had a gun got one and went on a shooting spree...
A lawsuit filed against officials at a Massachusetts county jail alleges that mentally ill inmates are often held in solitary confinement with little treatment.
Late Wednesday night, the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed a general bond bill that included two critical projects for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.