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Police arrested a fugitive disguised as an elderly man after he had been on the run for several months in Massachusetts.

The number of cases of very dangerous, multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) reported in Massachusetts spiked 75 percent in 2015, to seven cases, up from four in 2014, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Per a Fox 25 Boston report, a picture of a young child giving a Springfield, MA police officer the finger has gone viral. The child’s dad reportedly taught his son to give police officers the finger. The photo was posted just days after two African-American

Only a few months after a coalition of left wing attorneys general and environmentalists commenced an intimidation campaign against ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) for its presumed politically incorrect views on climate change, the effort has begun to stall after the U.S. Virgin Islands dropped its subpoena amid accusations of political bias and civil rights violations.

According to a NBC4i report, an elementary school teacher in Worcester, MA is under evaluation after witnesses say they saw him running around school grounds naked. The unidentified teacher is accused of running through the halls of Rice Square Elementary School

A Massachusetts DJ who was cited for disorderly conduct has been fined for playing N.W.A.’s 1988 song “F—k tha Police,” as police officers attempted to clear an overcrowded bar last fall.

The New York Post reports that an online petition, launched by supporters of Bernie Sanders, to have Bill Clinton arrested for violating Massachusetts election laws has gathered almost 100,000 signatures.

WWLP reports their investigative team, I-Team, uncovered some of the places where welfare recipients are taking out EBT or food stamp money at ATMs in Massachusetts. Meant for helping lower income families, Massachusetts welfare recipients took out more than $236-million

The state of Massachusetts wants to turn a lake island into a breeding colony for swimming rattlesnakes.

Massachusetts Governor Charles Baker and his Lt. Governor, Karyn Polito, announced on Friday that they are endorsing New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for President of the United States. Baker said in a statement; Right now, our country is in dire

In the midst of battling claims that it is promoting radical Islamism, the Massachusetts branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has just appointed to its board a woman who works for The Muslims of America Inc. (MOA), a prominent organization with ties to Islamic extremists.

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump praised a man wearing a Donald Trump-Tom Brady t-shirt during a campaign rally, where “thousands and thousands packed into arena in Lowell, MA.”

The Leominster police department sent out a warning to residents about a phone scam in which the caller claims to be a member of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Haslam is apparently off the list of possible plaintiffs—governors of the 12 “Wilson-Fish alternative program” states where non-profit VOLAGS, not state governments, run the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program—the Thomas More Law Center says it is looking to represent in a constitutional legal challenge to the program.

Although often seen as a day to kick off the Christmas shopping season, Thanksgiving is perhaps the most deeply American holiday and its tradition is connected to the idea of “American exceptionalism.”

University students in Massachusetts who were upset by an image of a Confederate flag sticker on another student’s laptop were offered counseling services at Framingham State University.

Massachusetts Gov. Charles Baker (R) is the first state leader to issue an executive order that mandates the commonwealth alter its Supplier Diversity Program (SDP) to include LGBT-owned businesses along with those owned by other minority groups.

The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) has approved a new viciously anti-Israel ad that the state body had previously rejected. The poster, which showcases a picture of a child with the word “Violence” in bold print and large, capitalized letters,

On the night of November 14, a break-in took place at the Army Reserve Armory in Worcester, Massachusetts, and some of the facility’s weapons were missing when law enforcement arrived.

People discovered vandalized gravestones and urns of veterans at a cemetery in West Bridgewater, MA, only days before Veterans Day.

Black Lives Matter protesters gathered at the Springfield, MA, courthouse Thursday as a hearing was taking place inside to determine the fate of 15 protesters who were arrested in April for blocking traffic.

Access by “transitioning” men to women’s bathrooms and locker rooms is a fundamental human right, transgender advocates argued this week at a State House hearing on expanded transgender legislation – the “bathroom bill,” as it is called.

Common Core publishing giant Pearson PLC will sell its Financial Times newspaper to focus more sharply on its education businesses.

State governors are stepping up to do President Obama’s job for him, lowering their flags to half-mast in honor of the Chattanooga dead.

The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is one of two federally funded interstate test consortia that have been developing tests aligned with the controversial Common Core standards. But there is no official information about who selected the individuals to write the Common Core standards. None of the writers of the math and English Language Arts standards have ever taught math, English, or reading at the K-12 level.

On June 19, a man with a long criminal history, who was allegedly armed with a knife near Boston University, was shot and killed by a Massachusetts state trooper.

On Friday, a Massachusetts judge denied a request from a non-profit group—which had been holding a continuous 24/7 vigil for almost 11 years at a church south of Boston—to suspend his order that they leave the property.

On May 11th, we released a mini-documentary on Breitbart.com chronicling how Suheil Laher, MIT’s Muslim Chaplain for sixteen years, raised money for Al Qaeda affiliates around the world, incited Boston Muslims against Jews and Christians, and called on all Muslims to join in a violent Jihad against non-Muslims. Despite these serious charges, two religious leaders at MIT, a Jew and a Christian, are defending Laher.

A public hearing is taking place Wednesday morning in the Massachusetts State House to look into a controversial sex survey given to middle school and high school students.

A “global education” workshop for high school students given by a Boston University group and reportedly compliant with the Common Core standards encourages Jewish students to empathize with Hamas and teaches that the United States’ use of military drones is terrorism.

A new poll of Bostonians finds that residents are turning against the city’s bid to secure the 2024 Summer Olympics with over 50 percent opposing the idea.

The verdict in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial for the Boston Marathon bombings began unrolling shortly after 2:00 PM Eastern time, and it was guilty, guilty, guilty right down the line. The first ten charges he was found guilty on all carry a potential death penalty, including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death.

A swastika was keyed into a car of a student at Framingham State University in Massachusetts on Friday.

When the Republican-controlled Congress promoted welfare reform as one of its top priorities in 1995, opponents accused them of being unsympathetic to the plight of impoverished Americans and insisted the proposed policies would end up harming true reforms.

Prosecutors have charged a Plainville, Massachusetts teen with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly encouraging a friend to kill himself in a parking lot last July. The charge against Michelle Carter, now 18, reports the Boston Globe, claims she helped Conrad Roy

Maybe Hillary Clinton isn’t as weak as pundits think, or perhaps Elizabeth Warren isn’t as strong even in her home state of Massachusetts.