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Students have been suspended, banned from prom and kicked off after school sports for their preferred hairstyle.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — California and Massachusetts voters approved measures allowing recreational marijuana Tuesday, handing the legalization movement a huge victory in the nation’s most populous state and giving it a toehold in the densely populated Northeast. Voters in seven other states also considered proposals to expand legal access to the drug, which is still […]

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TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) — Three people were killed and two others injured Tuesday in separate attacks at a shopping mall and a home in Massachusetts, and the suspect was one of the dead, authorities said. State police said a man stabbed two people at a Taunton home, then crashed a car through the front of […]

The five-year-old was given a badge, handcuffs, and even caught an assault suspect on his first day on the job.

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SALEM, Mass. (AP) — Lawyers in the trial of a Massachusetts teenager accused of killing his high school math teacher plan to make opening statements Monday. Philip Chism is charged in the October 2013 rape and slaying of Colleen Ritzer. The body of the 24-year-old teacher at Danvers High School, north of Boston, was found […]

A Boston police officer was shot and remains in a medically induced coma after he was shot in the Roxbury section of the city on…

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BLACKSTONE, Mass. (AP) — The bodies of three infants were found in a Massachusetts house filled with vermin and piled high with soiled diapers, where four other children were removed by authorities last month, a prosecutor said. Detectives investigating a case of reckless endangerment of children found the bodies Thursday at the house in Blackstone, […]

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BOSTON (AP) — A man who took cellphone photos up the skirts of women riding the Boston subway did not violate state law because the women were not nude or partially nude, Massachusetts’ highest court ruled Wednesday. The Supreme Judicial Court overruled a lower court that had upheld charges against Michael Robertson, who was arrested […]

A plaque honoring America’s first black Army infantry, the 54th Regiment, now sits at the corner of Beacon and Park Streets in Boston. The Shaw Memorial by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens is a new monument that stands 11 feet tall and 14 feet wide. It honors the fallen black soldiers who fought bravely in the Civil […]