Mass. House and Senate

BOSTON (AP) - With the clock ticking down to the last day of the formal session on Beacon Hill, Massachusetts lawmakers are scrambling to take final votes on a series of bills they hope to ship to Republican Gov. Charlie Baker's desk before they break on July 31...

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a bill prohibiting ``upskirt'' photos of women.       Patrick's office said the governor signed the measure Friday, two days after the state's highest court ruled that a man who took cellphone photos up the skirts of female subway passengers in Boston wasn't violating state law as it's written.  ...

Massachusetts lawmakers are wasting no time in reacting to a court ruling that upskirt photos are legal.  A measure banning secret pictures of women's and children's "sexual or intimate parts" sailed through the House and Senate Thursday.  P...