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Obama uncle held in by immigration officials
FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts (AP) — President Barack Obama’s uncle was stopped on suspicion of drunken driving, told police he planned to arrange bail through the White House and was being held without...
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Official: Obama uncle here illegally since 1992
BOSTON (AP) — A federal official says President Barack Obama’s uncle, an illegal immigrant charged with drunken driving in Massachusetts last week, was ordered by an immigration judge to leave the...
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Man charged with rape at Bears player's home
FromNBC Chicago Newly signed Bears safety Brandon Meriweather’s Massachusetts home was allegedly used as the location for a rape. A 29-year-old Mississippi man is free on $10,000 bond Tuesday after...
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Obama's uncle makes appearance in court
FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts (AP) — President Barack Obama’s uncle has completed a brief appearance in a Massachusetts court on a drunk driving charge. A Framingham District Court judge on Thursday...
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Adele has vocal cord surgery in Boston
BOSTON (AP) – Adele has undergone throat surgery to stop a recurrent condition that caused her to cancel tour dates and promotional appearances for the rest of the year. A spokesman for Massachusetts...
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Obama's uncle makes court appearance in Mass.
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama’s uncle plans to argue that Massachusetts police did not have the right to stop his car before his drunken-driving arrest. A lawyer for Onyango...
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Romney campaign: Mass. governor helping Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top aide to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is using his office as “an opposition research arm” of President Barack Obama’s...
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Singer Stevie B in Mass. court over child support
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — The singer Stevie B is in a Massachusetts courtroom for a hearing on what the state says is more than $400,000 in unpaid child support. The singer, best known for the 1990 hit...
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Mass. man faces sentencing in Obama-inspired fire
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A white Massachusetts man convicted of burning down a predominantly black church because he was angry with President Barack Obama’s election faces sentencing in federal court....
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Dead body in public swimming pool for days
FALL RIVER, Mass. – Two former Massachusetts state workers are set to face criminal charges after they allowed a dirty swimming pool to stay open while a woman’s body lay at the bottom. On June 26, the...
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Deval Patrick: Massachusetts governor could emerge as key Mitt Romney critic
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire – If Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination and competes in this state in the general election, one of his chief critics is likely to be a man whose political rise Romney...
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Oprah planning to join Lady Gaga at Harvard for kickoff of her Born This Way...
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) — Lady Gaga is expected to be joined by Oprah Winfrey and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at Harvard University for the launch of the singer’s...
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Santorum, Romney duel in Ohio, split other states
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney split six states and dueled in an almost impossibly close race in Ohio on a Super Tuesday that stretched from one end of the country to the other in the...
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Father arrested for biting off piece of coach's ear
A father of a 6th grade boy got into a fight with the child’s basketball coach after a game. The fight ended with the father, Timothy Lee Forbes, biting of a piece of the coaches ear. The man was taken...
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Obama's uncle admits to drunk driving evidence
FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts (AP) — A drunken driving charge against President Barack Obama’s uncle will be dismissed if he stays out of trouble for a year, officials said Tuesday. Onyango Obama, 67,...
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Mitt Romney defenders: Barack Obama ate dog meat
Jim Treacher, a conservative writer for The Daily Caller, is defending Mitt Romney against online attacks after news leaked of him strapping his family dog to the roof of their car for a drive from...
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Governor Deval Patrick calls Bain Capital a ‘perfectly fine company’
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick talked about his relationship with his predecessor and current Republican candidate for president, Mitt Romney, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Patrick revealed his...
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Outcry over Romney’s Mass. affirmative action move
ANDREW MIGA, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney scuttled the Massachusetts government’s long-standing affirmative action policies with a few strokes of his pen on a sleepy holiday six...
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Massachusetts officer punished for racial slur of Boston Red Sox’s Carl Crawford
LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts police officer was put on paid leave Wednesday after an internal investigation found that he directed a racial slur at Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Crawford....
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Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick takes aim at Romney record
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The current governor of Massachusetts has little good to say about his predecessor in that office, Mitt Romney. Deval Patrick, the Democrat who took over from Romney in 2007,...
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Drug lab scandal might taint over 1,100 inmate cases
BOSTON (AP) — More than 1,100 defendants are now serving prison sentences based at least in part on drug tests by a chemist accused of failing to follow protocols and deliberately mishandling samples...
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Scott Brown pays homeless $8 an hour to campaign in black areas
Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown is under fire for a racially-tinged campaign tactic in his contentious 2012 U.S. Senate race. According to the Boston Herald, the GOP candidate has been paying...
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Massachusetts legislative candidate denies Rosa Parks ‘gimmick’ comment
Cambridge Community Television recently aired a debate between Massachusetts legislative candidates; Democratic state Rep. Tim Toomey and Republican Thomas Vasconcelos and Independent Mike Connelly....
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Dems win GOP seats in Indiana, Massachusetts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats closed in on keeping their majority in the Senate, swiping Republican-held Senate seats in Indiana and Massachusetts on Tuesday and keeping a once vulnerable seat in...
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Can Deval Patrick bring diversity to the US Senate?
Presidential administrations typically go through a few staff changes while making the transition from a first term to a second. People leave due to personal ambition, work-related fatigue, or are...
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Obama uncle wins new deportation hearing
BOSTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s uncle in Massachusetts is getting a new deportation hearing. Onyango Obama is from Kenya but has lived in the U.S. for many years. He was ordered by an...
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Poll: Scott Brown leads Deval Patrick in hypothetical Senate match-up
Recently-defeated Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) is in position to beat Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, the preferred Democratic choice, to return to Senate, according to a new poll released...
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Deval Patrick pressed to name Barney Frank to Kerry seat
BOSTON (AP) — Liberal groups have launched twin online petitions aimed at pressuring Gov. Deval Patrick to temporarily name former congressman Barney Frank to U.S. Sen. John Kerry’s seat if Kerry is...
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Massachusetts gov Deval Patrick appoints African-American Mo Cowan to John...
A top Democratic aide has confirmed to NBC News that Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) will appoint his former chief of staff, William “Mo” Cowan, to be the interim pick to fill the state’s vacated...
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Deval Patrick diversifies US Senate further with Mo Cowan appointment
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has appointed one of his senior advisers, Mo Cowan, as John Kerry’s interim replacement in the United States Senate, meaning that two African-Americans will serve in...
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Mo Cowan becomes US senator: Can blacks win without appointment?
Newly-confirmed Secretary of State John Kerry left a vacant Senate seat in Massachusetts and the state’s Governor Deval Patrick announced Kerry’s replacement yesterday. Patrick appointed his former...
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‘Mo’ Cowan officially sworn in as Massachusetts’ new senator
WASHINGTON (AP) — William “Mo” Cowan of Massachusetts is the Senate’s newest member. The 43-year-old Democrat took his seat Thursday after a swearing-in ceremony led by Vice President Joe Biden. Cowan...
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Police investigate 9-year-old rapper Lil’ Poopy’s music videos
BROCKTON, Massachusetts (AP) — A lawyer for the family of a 9-year-old Massachusetts rapper who appears in sexually suggestive videos is criticizing authorities’ decision to investigate whether the boy...
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Gov. Deval Patrick: No unexploded bombs at Boston Marathon
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick says no unexploded bombs were found at the Boston Marathon. He says the only explosives were the ones that went off Monday. Three people were killed,...
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Michelle Obama to fundraise for Mass. Senate candidate Ed Markey
First Lady Michelle Obama is wading into the political fray. According to the Boston Globe, she will headline a big-ticket fundraiser for the Democrat running to replace John Kerry in the U.S. Senate....
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Rep. Ed Markey wins Massachusetts Senate race with aid from Obama
BOSTON (AP) — Drawing on the political might of the White House, Democrats have exorcized the ghost of Scott Brown. Three years after the little-known Republican state senator shocked the political...
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Aaron Hernandez is denied bail in Mass. murder case
FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — A judge on Thursday denied bail for former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a friend....
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Soft-spoken teen accused of killing Mass. teacher
DANVERS, Mass. (AP) — A 14-year-old high school student described by classmates as soft-spoken and pleasant was accused of killing a well-liked math teacher, whose body was found in the woods behind...
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Mass. boy pleads not guilty to killing teacher
SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy pleaded not guilty to murder, aggravated rape and armed robbery charges Wednesday in the killing of his high school math teacher. Philip Chism is accused in the...
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White House reverses story on Obama living with Kenyan uncle in the 1980s
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Thursday that President Barack Obama briefly lived with an uncle who faced deportation from the United States, correcting its previous statements that the...
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Deval Patrick responds to presidential run rumors: ‘Maybe’
Two-term Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick responded to rumors that he may run for the White House in 2016 with a “maybe.” According to Politico, the 57-year-old Democrat is considering mounting a...
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The pros and cons of a Deval Patrick presidential run
Deval Patrick for president in 2016? The Massachusetts governor says “maybe.” Patrick, 57, the first African-American executive of the Bay State, says that he is considering a run for president, which...
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Aaron Hernandez involved in jailhouse ‘altercation’
This video is playable across all supported devices. A Saginaw County lawmaker wants abuse victims to carry guns in gun free-zones but domestic violence workers say there may be other options....
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Car slams into office building after shootout
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Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate: Obama ‘a radical homosexualist’
A gubernatorial candidate for Massachusetts has accused the president of pushing “a destructive homosexual agenda,” and even questioned President Obama’s sexuality. In an interview with Channel 4 News,...
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Edward W. Brooke, the first black man elected to the U.S. Senate, dies at 95
BOSTON (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Edward W. Brooke, a liberal Republican who became the first black in U.S. history to win popular election to the Senate, died Saturday. He was 95. Brooke died of natural...
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‘I was sad and heartbroken’: High school students suspended over racist texts...
Six high school students from Lowell High School, in Massachusetts, have been suspended over racist texts that they sent about the newly elected senior class president, who is black. “I was sad and...
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Judge agrees to delay Camille Cosby’s deposition in lawsuit
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...
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Police warn residents to look out for men challenging them to rap battles,...
CHARLTON, Mass. (AP) — Police in a Massachusetts town are warning residents to be on the lookout for men challenging passers-by to rap battles. Charlton police told WCVB-TV that a black SUV containing...
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Archaeologists digging at Malcolm X’s boyhood home in Boston
BOSTON (AP) — Archeologists in Boston are digging at the boyhood home of slain black rights activist Malcolm X. The two-week archaeological dig begins Tuesday in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood....
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