Massachusetts

A person stumbles through deep snow Monday in Marlborough, Mass.

Winter Storm Reaches Northeast, Smothering Region With 1st Major Snow Of The Season

1:43pm December 02, 2019

by Paolo Zialcita

The post-Thanksgiving travel rush has ended, but the winter storm continues to bear down in the New England region, causing hundreds of flight cancellations and delays.

The newly signed law is set to take effect on June 1, 2020. A temporary blanket ban on all vaping products will remain in place until Dec. 11.

Massachusetts Governor Signs Law Severely Restricting Flavored Tobacco, Vape Products

3:32pm November 27, 2019

by Vanessa Romo

The legislation is not a blanket ban. Instead, it limits the sale of flavored nicotine vaping products, including menthol, "to licensed smoking bars where they may only be smoked on-site."

Flavored vaping solutions stand displayed at a shop in New York City. Amid a mysterious health scare apparently caused by e-cigarettes, New York and Michigan have banned the sale of flavored vaping products, while Massachusetts has banned all of them for

Health & Safety

Store Owners Resist State Vaping Bans As 'A Death Sentence For Their Business'

7:10pm September 27, 2019

by Colin Dwyer

Facing a spate of illnesses linked with e-cigarettes, some states have temporarily banned selling various kinds of vaping items. But business owners who rely on those sales are pushing back in court.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks to the media in the spin room after the first night of the Democratic presidential debate in Miami last month.

Politics & Government

Warren Rising: Massachusetts Progressive Announces $19 Million Fundraising Haul

4:37pm July 08, 2019

by Scott Detrow

The Massachusetts senator has been rising in the polls, and she's now raising solid amounts of money, when there were serious questions previously about the size of her campaign.

Regina Mark, co-owner of Mee Sum Restaurant in Fall River, Mass., holds a chow mein sandwich, which the restaurant has served for more than 50 years.

National

How The Chow Mein Sandwich Claimed A Small Slice Of New England History

4:45pm June 24, 2019

by Sarah Mizes-Tan

This quirky concoction, which traces its decades-old roots to Fall River, Mass., took off when Chinese restaurants adapted their menus to appeal to European textile workers. And people still love it.

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At Cambridge City Hall in Boston, Marcia Kadish (left) and Tanya McCloskey exchange rings as they are married before Clerk D. Margaret Drury on May 17, 2004. They were the first couple to be married in Cambridge that morning.

National

The 1st Legally Married Same-Sex Couple 'Wanted To Lead By Example'

3:33pm May 17, 2019

by Victoria Whitley-Berry

Fifteen years ago, Tanya McCloskey and Marcia Kadish were the first same-sex couple to be legally married in the U.S. Kadish reflects on their marriage and on her late wife.

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On Thursday, Andrew Lelling, U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, revealed federal charges against a Massachusetts judge and a former court officer for allegedly preventing an immigration official from taking custody of an undocumented immigra

National

Mass. Judge And A Retired Court Officer Charged With Helping Defendant Evade ICE

4:55pm April 25, 2019

by Shannon Dooling

The judge and the former court officer allegedly helped an undocumented immigrant slip out of a courtroom to avoid arrest by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in April 2018.

Uncovered fiber rolls in front of a private home on Town Neck Beach in Sandwich, Mass. These large rolls are made from coconut fiber and filled with sand and are designed to prevent beach erosion.

As Dunes Disappear, Fiber Rolls Protect Cape Cod Homes From Coastal Erosion

5:48pm April 09, 2019

by Hayley Fager

Beachfront homeowner Laura Wing in Sandwich, Mass., says the sand in front of her house is eroding away. Her best option is to create manmade dunes by installing huge fiber rolls along the shore.

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Families that lost loved ones to the opioid crisis protested outside Suffolk Superior Court in Boston as lawyers for Purdue Pharma entered the courthouse for a status update in the Massachusetts attorney general's suit against the company on Jan. 25.

Lawsuit Details How The Sackler Family Allegedly Built An OxyContin Fortune

1:50pm February 01, 2019

The Massachusetts attorney general alleges that the family behind Purdue Pharma knew that OxyContin was causing overdoses, yet continued to cash in. New documents in the case were released Thursday.

A filing by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey detailed the Sackler family's role in Purdue Pharma's marketing of OxyContin.

Health & Safety

Massachusetts Attorney General Implicates Family Behind Purdue Pharma In Opioid Deaths

9:30am January 16, 2019

In a detailed memorandum, Attorney General Maura Healey alleges eight Sackler family members and nine Purdue board members or executives played key roles in the nation's deadly opioid epidemic.