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In their complaint, Everett's top school officials allege “blatant and overt acts of discrimination and retaliation” by Everett’s mayor, Carlo DeMaria, and his allies in city government. DeMaria disputes the charges.

Congregation Beth Israel, which owns the historic funeral chapel in Hartford's Beth Israel Cemetery, still has not agreed to postpone the March 21st demolition date with Connecticut Attorney General William Tong's office.

A new true-crime podcast called Up Against the Mob features Springfield's notorious mobsters who surrounded Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno, as well as the voices of prosecutors, cops, journalists and others who were involved after Bruno was killed.

Andrea Campbell is first Black woman to serve as the top law enforcement official in Massachusetts.

Christopher Hood, as well as another member of NSC-131, face racially motivated trespassing charges for allegedly displaying a banner on a highway overpass last July.

A collaborative study of plea bargains by the Wilson Center at the Duke Law School and the Berkshire District Attorney's office found some racial disparities in convictions, but not in sentencing, in Berkshire District Courts.

The trial has begun in the case of a suspended Springfield police officer in connection with a fight outside a city bar in 2015 involving off-duty cops and four Black civilians.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently ruled that the state constitution does not protect a doctor who prescribes medication to help a terminally ill person die.

Chelan Brown alleges she was retaliated against, and eventually fired, after calling into question why MGM Springfield officials were allegedly submitting false employee diversity numbers to state gambling regulators.

The five Connecticut police officers who were recently charged with reckless endangerment and cruelty for neglecting a Black man after he was partially paralyzed in the back of a police van appeared in court Thursday.