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BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge in Boston has scheduled a hearing in a class-action lawsuit by Walmart employees who sued the retail chain for denying health benefits to their same-sex spouses. A proposed settlement of $7.5 million would pay for claims by current and former Walmart associates in the U...

Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson is being sued by a civil rights group over his decision to enter into a federal immigration enforcement program, as well as his offer to send Bristol County inmates to build President Donald Trump's proposed wall along the U...

NEW BEDFORD - The State Medical Examiner's Office has officially ruled Aaron Hernandez's death as a suicide, and now his family is filing suit. Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez will file a civil suit on behalf of her and Aaron's daughter, Avielle, asking for an injunction to preserve all evidence in the investigation into the death of the former New England Patriots player...

Dartmouth officials say the town could have lost a lot more money had they not settled out of court with former police chief Timothy Lee. At Monday's Select Board meeting, the town's attorney in the case, Nora Adukonis, discussed the settlement details, calling the negotiations 'grueling'...

HAMPTON, New Hampshire (AP) - A New England fishermen's group suing the federal government over the cost of at-sea monitoring is scheduled to present oral arguments before the federal Court of Appeals in March. The monitors are workers who collect data that help the government craft fishing regulations...

NEW BEDFORD - ABC Disposal Service is suing one of it's creditors.

The City of New Bedford has joined in a lawsuit to block the construction of a wind farm approximately 11 miles of the coast of New York.

BOSTON (AP) - A conservative Christian organization has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Massachusetts law that prohibits discrimination against transgender people in public restrooms. Alliance Defending Freedom sued Tuesday on behalf of four Massachusetts churches to protect their right to operate their facilities "in a manner that doesn't violate their core religious beliefs... Read Mo

The Mashpee Wampanaog Tribe has decided to intervene in a lawsuit regarding a proposed Taunton casino.

The parents of an 11-year-old Somerset girl who died after choking on a marshmallow at a friend's birthday party have filed a wrongful death lawsuit.