BOSTON The mayor forced organizers of the city’s St. Patrick’s Day parade to invite an LGBT veterans group to march two years ago, the parade group’s lawyer said. The lawyer, Chester Darling, made the accusations in an amended complaint filed this week to an earlier civil lawsuit accusing Mayor Martin Walsh of strong-arming organizers in […]

BOSTON Overdose deaths related to the use of the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl are on the rise in Massachusetts, according to preliminary data for the first half of 2016 released by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Wednesday’s report shows fentanyl related deaths continuing to climb — with 66 percent of 2016’s confirmed opioid-related overdose […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. A man convicted of taking hostages at a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office in 2007 has been arrested in a New Hampshire bank robbery. Police say Leeland Eisenberg, a 55-year-old parolee from Concord, was arrested Tuesday in Manchester. He was charged with robbery and possession of a controlled drug. Eisenberg, whose criminal record […]

EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Lifeguards have whistled in swimmers off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard after beachgoers reported sightings of a shark only about 5 feet from shore. Some suspected the animal spotted Wednesday close to the Massachusetts coast was a hammerhead shark, about 10-feet-long. But John Chisholm, a state marine fisheries biologist, says he […]

BOSTON (AP) — Officials with the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families say a 4-month-old who was found unresponsive in a Lynn homeless shelter last year died of natural causes. The Boston Globe reports the DCF’s findings were based on their own investigation into the September 2015 death of Charles Brand III as well as […]

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) — A 55- year-old Massachusetts woman is suing the Boston Archdiocese and her former teacher at a Catholic high school in Framingham over claims of sexual abuse dating back to the 1970s. The lawsuit, filed anonymously Tuesday in Suffolk Superior Court, claims that Diane Ryszewski abused the victim from 1975 to 1977, […]

DOVER, N.H. (AP) — A man has admitted to his role in a conspiracy to illegally purchase guns in New Hampshire and Maine and smuggle them out of the country for use by the Indonesian Presidential Guard. Feki Sumual, of Dover, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Concord to federal charges of conspiracy to smuggle […]

HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — A woman known as the “shooting gallery lady” who ran a popular shooting game at a New Hampshire beach for decades has died. Hampton Beach Casino manager Jake Fleming tells The Portsmouth Herald that Elizabeth Moreau suffered a stroke at work and at her home on Monday. She was then taken […]

BOSTON (AP) — For the first time this November, Massachusetts voters will have a chance to cast ballots as early as 11 business days before Election Day. Today, a coalition including Common Cause Massachusetts, MASSPIRG, and the League of Women Voters will report on how prepared local communities across the state are to implement the […]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Republicans’ frustration with Donald Trump has reached new heights, with party leaders scrambling to persuade their presidential nominee to abandon divisive tactics that have triggered sinking poll numbers and low morale. Party chairman Reince Priebus is appealing to the New York billionaire’s adult children to help amid new signs of a campaign […]