HOOKSETT, N.H. Republican presidential hopefuls called for a more compassionate discussion around drug addiction Tuesday, with emphasis on substance abuse as a curable disease, not a moral failing. “This is a national calling,” former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said at the New Hampshire Forum on Addiction and the Heroin Epidemic. “We should be able to […]

BOSTON Two former students of a prestigious Rhode Island boarding school spoke haltingly or cried Tuesday as they detailed being sexually abused as teenagers by an ex-athletic trainer. A third former student said he was raped by another pupil and described how his assault was so well-known on campus that there was a joking reference […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A federal judge has agreed to postpone the deposition of Bill Cosby’s wife in a Massachusetts lawsuit that accuses the comedian of defaming several women. Camille Cosby had been scheduled to be deposed today by lawyers for the women who said Bill Cosby sexually assaulted them decades ago. Last week, U.S. […]

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) — A 59-year-old South Hadley man charged with raping a child more than 20 years ago has pleaded not guilty. The Daily Hampshire Gazette reports that Gary Mackechnie was released on personal recognizance at his arraignment Monday in Hampshire Superior Court. A grand jury indicted him in December on two counts of […]