The state's largest and third-largest auto insurers are merging under a $1.54 billion deal that needs the Insurance Commissioner's approval. What the law requires, the market share math, and why your policy does not change yet.
Second-degree murder is life with parole after 15 to 25 years. First-degree is life without it, unless you were under 21. Why the Parole Board has released 39 murderers since 2024, and what parole actually means.
The Open Door Trust of Boston just collected $25 million and the winner's name will never be public. Massachusetts does not allow anonymous claims, and this is how winners get around it.
Kratom is illegal in Massachusetts as of August 28, 2026, by a one-year emergency order rather than a statute. Possession counts, retailers are losing licenses, and the Legislature has not voted.
A West Point graduate who ran Abiomed for 19 years and sold it for $16.6 billion, Mike Minogue won the Republican primary by 51 points and trails Maura Healey by 20 or more in every poll. Who he is and what he says he would do.
The standing record of the Acton case: what prosecutors allege, the ChatGPT searches, why Massachusetts law sends a 17-year-old murder defendant to adult court automatically, and why life without parole is off the table.
There is no Lindsay Clancy documentary, only a 20/20 special, a 48 Hours podcast and repackaged courtroom feed. The footage exists; the access does not. Who could make one, in what form, and why Massachusetts has no law against her profiting from it.
No check is coming this year. The $5,000 dividend needs an appropriation Congress has not passed, would cost $1.2 trillion against $210 billion in tariff revenue, and Massachusetts would tax it only if Congress wrote it as cash rather than a credit.
The Suffolk and Middlesex Senate recount changed one vote out of 24,000, and that is what recounts usually do. Who can petition for one, the half-percent rule, the deadlines, and what a recount is not.
The SJC found Judge Shelley Joseph turned off the recorder and talked too freely at sidebar, and found no evidence she knew the defendant was about to leave through the back door. What a public reprimand is, and why it took eight years.
