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Former President Bill Clinton released a statement Friday afternoon after a lawsuit was filed in Boston Federal Court. The lawsuit claims Clinton violated campaign laws on March 1 at several polling locations in Massachusetts. One of the campaign stops was the Buttonwood Warming House in New Bedford, where Clinton thanked Hillary Clinton supporters...

A lawsuit has been filed in Federal Court in Boston against former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin. The suit, reportedly filed by the MA Sanders Voters and Volunteers Disenfranchised by Bill Clinton, was filed Wednesday and alleges President Clinton disenfranchised voters through illegal campaign activity in Massachusetts on March 1, Super Tuesday...

BOSTON (AP) _ A Springfield man is among 61 drug offenders whose sentences have been shortened by President Barack Obama. A federal judge in Massachusetts sentenced Manuel Colon to 20 years in 2007 for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, crack cocaine and heroin, and a related charge...

State law indicates there can be no electioneering within 150 feet of the entrance to a polling place on election day. That rule has many people questioning whether former President Bill Clinton and New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell violated campaign rules as they stumped for Hillary Clinton right in front of a city polling location Tuesday...

New Bedford was at the center of the political storm on Super Tuesday, if only for a few minutes.

I don't know who picked the spot for President Bill Clinton's visit to New Bedford, but what the heck were they thinking?! President Clinton visited the Whaling City today, stumping for his wife, Hillary. The visit wasn't officially confirmed until Monday evening, with city officials saying the former president would be at the Buttonwood Park Warming House around noon on Super Tuesday...

The number of single-family homes sold in Massachusetts jumped 25% in January compared to the same month in 2015, and weather appears to have played a factor. Cassidy Murphy, the Warren Group's Editorial Director said ``the weather was much more conducive to doing business than last year at this time...

AMHERST, Mass. (AP) _ Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is planning a campaign stop in Massachusetts. The Vermont senator will hold a rally on Monday at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Sanders campaign officials say he plans to discuss a range of issues, including eliminating big money from politics, combating climate change and making college affordable...

As part of his budget proposal, President Obama is including $1.1 billion to address the nation's opioid epidemic. Congressman William Keating says he's glad the problem is being addressed in a large way by the administration. Speaking on "The Taylor Cormier Show, Keating says if the proposal is approved, $920 million would go toward community-based programs that already exist, which he says

The "Boston Herald" is endorsing New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for the Republican presidential nomination. The newspaper's editorial staff calls Christie a "tested leader for troubled times" and stresses the need for real leadership at home and internationally...