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A Fort Hood soldier from Tyngsboro said yesterday he's stunned the man suspected of turning the Texas base into a killing zone, murdering 13 and wounding 28, is a psychiatrist...
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Lisa Law View (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Employers need to be aware that the state of Massachusetts recently increased the penalties for those who misclassify employees as independent contractors. Somers v. Converged Access explains that, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules that the independent contractor law is a strict liability statute. This means that the employer’s intent in misclassifying a worker is irrelevant. Therefore,...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. federal prosecutors have charged two men with providing material support to terrorists and other crimes, including conspiracy to kill in a foreign country and lying to law enforcement officers.
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
MassResistance.org A Massachusetts man was fired from a national retail corporation because of his traditional beliefs on same-sex marriage. Peter Vadala was formally dismissed from his job as second deputy manager of the Brookstone store at Boston’s Logan Airport on August 12, 2009, after a supervisor reported him to Human Resources regarding an incident two days [...]
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Sentencing Law and Policy (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
This story from the Boston Globe, which is headlined "Death penalty foes rip Coakley for signing brief," highlights that the politics of the death penalty in Massachusetts in quite different than in other parts of the country. Here is the...
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 55 minutes ago
Massachusetts will honor the armed forces with a series of observances through Veterans Day on Wednesday. The Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne will hold its annual...
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 53 minutes ago
The Patrick administration is rethinking its support of wood-burning power plants, a key element of its long-term strategy to wean Massachusetts off fossil fuels. Wood,...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Massachusetts will honor the armed forces with a series of observances through Veterans Day on Wednesday.
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
A Marine whose parents live on Cape Cod is being laid to rest. A funeral Mass for Capt. Eric Jones was scheduled for Saturday morning at the John Wesley United Methodist Church in Falmouth. Burial at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne will follow.
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Day on Torts (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
A little over a week ago I wrote this post about the general rule in the law of torts that one person does not have a duty to rescue another from harm. To be sure, there are exceptions to that general rule, but the fact remains that this is one area of tort law in where the duty imposed by law is generally less than that imposed by the moral code of most people. This post from the Volokh Conspiracy...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Carmen M. Ortiz, who grew up in a humble setting in New York City’s tough Spanish Harlem neighborhood, has been confirmed as the new US attorney for Massachusetts, the first woman and the first Hispanic to hold the job of the state’s top federal prosecutor.
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
NASHUA, N.H. - Cops say they seized a massive stash of pills at a Nashua house that were stolen in Massachusetts. Tam Mitchell, 32, has been charged with possession of...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
A forecast of sunny skies and mild temperatures this weekend is bound to bring out late-season boaters. But the Coast Guard says they should be aware of just how cold New England waters can be at this time of year.
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
A disgraced ex-judge in Galveston serving time in a sex-abuse case has been moved to Florida over apparent security concerns.
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alvirarqx6l | 08/21/2009
WASHINGTON – Dangling the promise of $5 billion in grants, President Barack Obama pressured states to embrace his ideas for overhauling the nation's schools, ideas that include performance pay for teachers and charter schools. To get the money, state officials may have to do things they, or the teachers' unions, dislike. But in a recession that is starving state budgets, the new "Race to the Top" fund...
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