BOSTON (AP) — Workers in several New England states are looking forward to a bump up in the minimum wage in 2024 while advocates in Massachusetts are pushing a ballot question aimed at phasing out the state's subminimum wage of $6.75 per hour for tipped workers. In Rhode Island, the state's ...
LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) — The trial of a 76-year-old Alabama man accused of the 1988 killing of an 11-year-old girl in Massachusetts ended Wednesday with a judge declaring a mistrial due to a deadlocked jury. Marvin C. McClendon Jr. had pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in connection with ...
Social media companies collectively made over $11 billion in U.S. advertising revenue from minors last year, according to a study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health published on Wednesday. The researchers say the findings show a need for government regulation of social media ...
BOSTON (AP) — A Boston-area police lieutenant was arraigned in court Wednesday on child rape and other charges, according to Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden. Winthrop Police Lt. James Feeley, 56, has been charged with one count of rape of a child and two counts of indecent assault ...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A man charged with killing his parents and two of their friends days after being released from prison in Maine no longer intends to use an insanity defense. Through his lawyer, Joseph Eaton withdrew a plea of "not criminally responsible" because of mental illness but ...
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A union representing more than 9,000 state workers in Maine has ratified two-year agreements that include an across-the-board 6% pay increase at the new year, and two additional pay increases of 3% and 4%, officials said Tuesday. Also included are provisions for an ...
