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When a state Senate committee begins deliberating later this summer on how to respond to the kidnap and killing of 12-year-old Brooke Bennett, it also will be under pressure to deal with a new federal law named for another slain child.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain is pledging support for a proposal to expand protections for disabled people under an 18-year-old landmark civil rights law.
About 30 people turned out Saturday for a rally to demand that Vermont adopt tougher penalties for child sex offenders, one month after the state saw its first-ever AMBER alert issued for a 12-year-old Braintree girl later found dead.
State and local governments over the last five years have committed to spending an estimated $115 million to $235 million on 386 public employees who were allowed to invoke an obscure part of a state law to win earlier and significantly larger pensions, a Globe analysis has found.
A coalition of business and insurance groups is vigorously lobbying lawmakers against Governor Deval Patrick's plan to collect millions of dollars from them to help close a $130 million gap this year in funding of the state's landmark health insurance law.
The Massachusetts House of Representatives has given its initial approval to a bill that would require all future legislation be written in language that is gender neutral.
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left.
An FBI agent testifying at the first Guantanamo war crimes trial said interrogators did not advise detainees here of any rights because the military prison is dedicated to intelligence gathering, not law enforcement.
In five years, New Jersey residents seeking driver's licenses will have to decide whether they want to become organ donors under a new first-of-its kind law.
A swimming pool company president charged with second-degree manslaughter in connection with the drowning of a 6-year-old boy had been told about a law requiring a safety device but failed to install it in the pool, according to an arrest affidavit.
Iraq's parliament passed a law Tuesday meant to pave the way for provincial elections despite a Kurdish boycott, but critics warned it's unlikely the vote will be held this year as had been expected.
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says he might pursue new gun restrictions in response to a recently enacted Georgia law that could allow people to carry concealed firearms in parts of the Atlanta airport.
Congress should explicitly declare a state of armed conflict with al Qaeda to make clear the United States can detain suspected members as long as the war on terrorism lasts, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Monday.
After serving eight months behind bars for a conviction of receiving stolen property, Annette McWashington Pruitt was excited about the prospect of being able to vote again.
BOSTON Governor Deval Patrick is chuckling at a report he could be a Supreme Court justice in a Barack Obama administration. The state's first black governor said he loves his current job and "intends" to run for reelection in 2010. He is also campaigning for Obama, a fellow Chicagoan and Harvard Law School graduate trying to become the first black ...
Prosecutors said Tuesday they want a 78-year-old man committed to a mental hospital after he was found incompetent to stand trial for killing two South Carolina law officers.
