MASSACHUSETTS

Mass. panel: No profanity on rapper's headstone

Commissioners at a Massachusetts cemetery have said no to profanity on headstones.

By Associated Press , May 09, 2013

Mass. man charged in terror plot pleads not guilty

A man accused of plotting to fly explosives-packed remote-controlled model planes into the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol pleaded not guilty Monday.

October 03, 2011

Hot air balloon lands off Mass. Turnpike

It was unusual sight for rush hour motorists on the Massachusetts Turnpike: an emergency landing by a hot air balloon.

July 28, 2011

Four reported dead after tornadoes in Mass.

At least two tornadoes swept through western and central Massachusetts Wednesday, sending debris slamming into buildings and killing four people, Massachusetts’ governor said.

June 02, 2011

1 killed, 1 hurt falling out of tour bus in Mass.

One man was killed and another injured when the two fell out of a bathroom window of a tour bus in Massachusetts that was coming from a brewery in New Hampshire, Massachusetts State Police said Sunday.

April 03, 2011

Video of boy's Uzi shooting shown at Mass. trial

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Jurors in the trial of a former police chief watched video Thursday of an 8-year-old boy accidentally shooting himself to death with an Uzi submachine gun at a 2008 gun fair, a sight that prompted a collective gasp in the courtroom.

January 06, 2011

Mass. pizza parlor stiffed by fake Dylan rep

A man wearing a Bob Dylan backstage pass who ordered 178 pizzas from a Massachusetts pizza parlor has left the restaurant blowin’ in the wind.

November 23, 2010

Mass. school janitor finds 3-foot python in locker

A custodian cleaning out lockers at a Massachusetts high school was so shocked when a 3-foot-long snake fell at his feet that he didn't even think it was real.

July 07, 2010

Mass. town can’t unload house near landfill

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts town has lowered the price of a home it’s trying to sell because there’s barely been a sniff of interest.

June 15, 2010

Other views: Pay attention to how Massachusetts teaches

Thursday’s Bismarck Tribune editorial says it plain: “North Dakotans can take some comfort in that its fourth-graders and eighth-graders test on average better than their peers nationally. “Unfortunately, being above the national average isn’t much to write home about.”

By Grand Forks Herald , April 14, 2010

Obama visits flood emergency site in Massachusetts

Detouring from his schedule, President Barack Obama on Thursday thanked emergency workers struggling against disastrous flooding in the Northeast.

April 01, 2010

Rising star senator for waterboarding: Do you care?

Riding around Massachusetts in his pickup truck, Scott Brown hit a home run when he insisted: “This is not a Kennedy seat or a Democratic seat. It’s the people’s seat.” For a while, I thought Thomas Jefferson’s prophecy might be coming true: “Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. ... Whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, the people, if well informed, may be relied on to set them to rights.”

By Nat Henthoff, First Amendment , February 03, 2010

We the people

In his first comment following Scott Brown’s stunning victory in the Massachusetts special election to fill the seat of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, President Barack Obama told the losing candidate, Martha Coakley, “you can’t win them all.” No, but President Obama hasn’t won any since his own election more than 15 months ago (not counting the Nobel Peace Prize, which was an unearned gift). Three candidates he campaigned for in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts lost, and his personal appeal for Chicago to host the Olympics in 2016 was rejected. That’s 0-4. If he were a quarterback, the coach would be eyeing the backup right about now.

By Cal Thomas, Tribune Media Services , January 22, 2010

Details sought on Ireland, U.S. clergy abuse cases

Victims of clergy sex abuse and a group that tracks pedophile priests called on local Roman Catholic leaders and the Irish government Monday to publicly detail known connections between the clergy abuse scandals in the U.S. and Ireland.

December 29, 2009

9 fires in western Massachusetts leave 2 dead

Authorities say nine fires that left two people dead in a western Massachusetts town are ``suspicious' and they're treating them as potential crimes.

December 27, 2009