A federal appeals court has ruled that a public school's policy not informing parents about a child's LGBTQ identity does not ...

Democratic money helped elect a liberal to the state Supreme Court, swinging it to the left. Now, Elon Musk and other wealthy ...

Aggrieved litigants can’t compel the Massachusetts attorney discipline board to give lawyers a slap on the wrist, the state’s Supreme Judicial Court held.

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The man convicted of raping and killing a high school teacher in Danvers, Massachusetts, was denied a chance at a new trial ...

Philip Chism, convicted of killing Danvers teacher Colleen Ritzer, will not get a new murder trial or be resentenced.

Convicted murderer Philip Chism, who was sentenced to life in jail for the brutal rape and slay Danvers math teacher Collen ...

A man convicted in the rape and murder of a Massachusetts high school teacher more than a decade ago when he was a teenager ...

It's yet another hurdle for the MBTA Communities Act, which mandates cities and towns served by the T make it easier to build ...

Philip Chism's appeal for a new trial or resentencing in the murder of Danvers math teacher Colleen Ritzer has been denied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Philip Chism was convicted in the 2013 death of Danvers High School teacher Colleen Ritzer. He was 14 when he followed Ritzer into a school bathroom, strangled her, stabbed her at least 16 times and ...

Coalition Life, a St. Louis pro-life group, had last summer petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the buffer law ...