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BOSTON (AP) _ The Democratic leader of the Massachusetts House has ordered a review of sexual harassment policies in the Legislature. House Speaker Robert DeLeo on Friday described himself as ``infuriated and deeply disturbed'' to learn of allegations from at least a dozen women who said they were sexually harassed at the Statehouse...

Last night Henry Bousquet, New Bedford city councilor of Ward 3, attempted to pass a motion in the city council demanding an apology from the Democrat Party nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton who used New Bedford in her acceptance speech as an example of what was wrong with America in 1973...

Massachusetts health regulators are strengthening oversight of nursing homes by creating a unit to conduct unannounced inspections and promising to fine problem-plagued facilities. Public Health Commissioner Dr. Monica Bharel told The Boston Globe that consumers will also have access to a new online system to file complaints and find more detailed information about nursing homes...

A group of Taunton property owners have filed suit in Federal Court hoping to block a $500 million casino in Taunton being planned by the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. The Boston Globe says the lawsuit claims the Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs made a mistake when it designated a 150-acre site as reservation land...

Boston Globe subscribers waited later than usual on Sunday or may not have even gotten yesterday’s edition of the Boston Sunday Globe.

What a painful and shameful disgrace to find out from a Jan Ransom Boston Globe story that the 18-year-old charged in the brutal murder of New Bedford cab driver, Donald Depina, simply walked out of a "staff secure" group home in Fall River...

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) _ The Department of Youth Services is conducting an internal review to figure out how an 18-year-old with a history of mental illness and a lengthy criminal record was able to flee a staff secure group home in Fall River, only to resurface as a suspect in a killing weeks later...

High-ranking leaders of the Catholic church have sent talking points to U.S. dioceses in advance of the wide release of "Spotlight," a movie detailing the Boston Globe's 2002 investigation into the church's cover-up of clergy abuse. The Boston Globe reports the U ...

A judge has rejected a motion by The Boston Globe to publicly release the names of jurors in the Boston Marathon bombing trial. Judge George O'Toole Jr.'s ruling Monday came more than three months after a federal jury convicted DzhokharTsarnaev in the deadly 2013 attack and voted in favor of the death penalty...

Massachusetts' current state slogan is "It's All Here," but is it time for something new?