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Western Mass. colleges make fallback plans while waiting for Supreme Court affirmative action rulingA decision by the court could come as soon as this week.
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Elspeth Cypher's departure will come several years before she turns 70, the mandatory retirement age for Massachusetts judges, and creates the first vacancy on the Supreme Judicial Court since Healey was elected in November.
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'How are the citizens to know?' Critics of EPA's Housatonic plan take fight to federal appeals courtTwo environmental groups are appealing the EPA’s cleanup plan, which is backed by General Electric and a committee representing towns along the river.
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The Massachusetts Attorney General's office found the Housatonic Rest of River Municipal Committee in violation of the open meeting law because an agenda item was not specific enough to inform the public. The item was to vote to approve funds to pay an attorney to argue in favor of the EPA's river cleanup plan in federal appeals court.
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There are calls for a now-retired Springfield police officer to be charged with attempted murder after wounding a suspect in a vehicle theft last year.
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'Knowing, willful, and serious violations': DOJ watchdog says Rollins tried to influence DA electionThe top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts, who has announced her resignation, tried to influence the outcome of a race for Boston’s district attorney and violated multiple policies, the Justice Department’s internal watchdog said in a report released Wednesday.
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The Justice Department's watchdog has yet to release its report detailing the findings of its investigation, but an attorney for Rollins said she will be submitting a letter of resignation to President Joe Biden by close of business Friday.
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The court let stand a California law, which says that pork sold in the state must come from pigs with a certain amount of living space. A similar law in Massachusetts has been on hold pending the Supreme Court's decision.
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The complaint argues the school district violated Lavigne's parental rights to control and direct the education and upbringing of her child by intentionally withholding information about her child's gender expression.
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The town of Lee, Massachusetts, is suing Bayer, which owns Monsanto, for selling PCBs to General Electric. The EPA plans to put a low-level PCB disposal site in Lee as part of its cleanup plan for the Housatonic River.