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Four human cases of West Nile virus now reported in Massachusetts
Spectrum News NY1 - New York
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September 5, 2025
Worcester, MASS-- The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced two more human cases of West Nile virus, now bringing the total number of cases this year to four. All human cases were announced this week. The most recent cases are...
The Ultimate Fall Adventure Awaits With These 3 Haunted Places in Massachusetts
Only In Your State
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The lazy days of summer will soon be behind us, but new adventures await with the start of the busy fall. There is so much to love about autumn in New England, but the part that I am most looking forward to is the spooky Halloween season. Yes, I...
Senator Ed Markey addresses vaccine availability in Massachusetts
WDHD 7 - Massachusetts
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September 5, 2025
BOSTON (WHDH) - U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts says its time for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to go. It comes one day after a contentious hearing on Capitol Hill where Kennedy testified he didn’t know if...
Massachusetts Man Pleads Not Guilty in Death of Portland Man
Pure Oldies 105.5 - Maine
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A 42-year-old Massachusetts man accused of killing a Portland man last month is pleading not guilty. Police say Christopher Caron murdered Declan Perry, who was found wrapped in blankets and duct tape in the backseat of a car outside a hospital in...
How will Trump's crackdown on transgender care impact Massachusetts?
MetroWest Daily News - Massachusetts
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Massachusetts has enacted a shield law and established a trust fund to protect and support gender-affirming care within the state. While some Massachusetts lawmakers are pushing for protections, others have filed bills to regulate care,...
Christian foster parents sue Massachusetts for requiring them to support ‘gender transitions’
LifeSite
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September 5, 2025
News The Massachusetts Department of Children & Families is facing legal action after threatening to remove a happy, healthy little girl from a Christian foster family because the parents refuse to affirm transgender ideology. (LifeSiteNews) — A...
School bus monitor from Massachusetts facing child molestation charges
Boston 25 News - Massachusetts
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September 5, 2025
BARRINGTON, R.I. — A Massachusetts man is facing child molestation charges in connection with alleged incidents involving young girls that authorities say happened while he worked as a bus monitor for a Rhode Island school district. Kevin P....
Best Massachusetts pizzas reviewed by Portnoy. How they ranked
Cape Cod Times - Massachusetts
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Bar Stool Sports founder Dave Portnoy of Swampscott, Massachusetts, certainly loves a good slice. Ever since 2013, Portnoy has been reviewing pizzas as part of his famous online video series: One Bite Pizza Reviews. Portnoy grades a pizza shop off...
Christian foster families fight Massachusetts policy requiring them to promote LGBT ideology
CatholicVote - Wisconsin
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September 5, 2025
Two Christian foster families sued Massachusetts officials Sept. 3 after they were told that they cannot keep their foster care licenses if they refuse to promote LGBT ideology to the children in their care. Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), one...
The Riveras and the Right to Move: How Massachusetts Turned Family Life Into a Criminal Act
PJ Media - Virginia
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September 5, 2025
America has long prided itself on the notion that we are a free people in a free land. You can pack up your car and move from Boston to Boise, Providence to Phoenix, without filing paperwork with bureaucrats or seeking permission from state...
New England's Largest Utility-Scale Battery Energy Storage System Now Online
TMCNet
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September 10, 2025
Plus Power's 150 MW / 300 MWh facility will strengthen the reliability of the regional grid CARVER, Mass., Sept. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Plus Power announced it is now operating its Cranberry Point Energy Storage facility in Carver,...
Massachusetts ‘junk fee’ crackdown takes effect Tuesday. Here’s what to know
Boston 25 News - Massachusetts
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September 2, 2025
BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s new consumer protection regulations prohibiting “junk fees” or deceptive pricing take effect in Massachusetts on Tuesday. “Junk fees” are sometimes referred to as “convenience fees” or...
2 Massachusetts high schools limiting cellphones but in different ways
CBS 4 Boston - Massachusetts
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Massachusetts lawmakers are reviewing a bill that would ban cellphone use in schools across the state. Several towns have already come up with their own ways to limit phone use in school. Two of them are in Ipswich and Newburyport, where both have...
Marquis v. Massachusetts Brief: Americans Have the Right to Travel Armed
Cato Institute - Washington D.C.
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September 5, 2025
Matthew Cavedon One of the oldest and most basic rights guaranteed by the Constitution is the right of American citizens to travel from one state into another. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that states are forbidden from interfering with...
Massachusetts man arraigned in Portland man’s death
News Center Maine
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September 3, 2025
A Massachusetts man has been arraigned on a murder charge in the death of a Portland man found outside a hospital in Weymouth. WEYMOUTH, Mass. — A Massachusetts man accused of killing a Portland man and leaving his body outside a hospital in...
Massachusetts firefighter killed in motorcycle crash was a Plymouth State graduate
WMUR 9 - New Hampshire
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September 3, 2025
WINTER AND WRAP UP BY THE END OF NEXT SUMMER. IT'S BEING PAID FOR WITH FEDERAL MONEY. TONIGHT.. WE'VE LEARNED A MASSACHUSETTS FIREFIGHTER KILLED IN A MOTORCYCLE CRASH.. WAS A GRADUATE OF PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY. 23-YEAR-OLD JACK BONAZZOLI WAS...
New Hampshire, other GOP-led states urge Supreme Court to review Massachusetts’ gun licensing rules
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Should the Supreme Court not reverse the ruling, they argued that residents from their states “confront an intolerable ultimatum: submit to flagrantly unconstitutional regulations each year . . . or abandon their Second Amendment rights at...
Massachusetts man charged in death of Portland chef arraigned
Pure Oldies 105.5 - Maine
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New details were released Tuesday in the death of a Portland chef whose body was found in his car in Massachusetts. Christopher Caron of Massachusetts was arraigned Tuesday on a murder charge for the death of Declan Perry, who was found dead last...
Massachusetts state court allows consumer protection suit over home equity investment product to proceed
JD Supra - California
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September 2, 2025
On August 21, a Massachusetts superior court denied a motion to dismiss filed by a financial technology company offering a home equity investment (HEI) product. The financial technology company asserted that the HEI is an option to acquire a...
Where to go apple picking in Massachusetts: Map of over 100 locations
WCVB Channel 5 Boston - Massachusetts
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September 5, 2025
Apple season is here and Massachusetts has more than 100 places where you can pick your own.Use this map and searchable list, created with information from the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources, to find information about the...