The Cannabis Control Commission has issued ?commence full operations? notices to pot shops in Leicester and Northampton. 

The list of unaccounted-for persons was dynamic and could easily contain duplicate names and unreliable spellings of names, officials said. 

The district will no longer suspend kindergartners and first- and second-graders, and will stop suspending older students for minor offenses. 

The Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau?s board of directors Friday selected Martha Sheridan to be its new chief executive. 

??This is not a speech of concession,? said Abrams, the Democrat who ran for governor. 

When state lawmakers rammed a bill into law last year giving them and other elected officials hefty pay hikes, the governor was unequivocal in his disapproval.  

At one point during the bizarre attack, the man was stabbing with a knife into a closet door where the father and children had taken refuge, police said.  

US intelligence officials have concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing ? a claim the Saudi government has denied. 

The president said he still hasn?t submitted his written response to investigators. 

A judge in Washington, D.C., ordered the White House to immediately restore CNN reporter Jim Acosta?s press credentials.  

A 14-foot skiff was found unoccupied, with its engine running, off Newport, R.I., officials said earlier. 

Kevin Dante Williams Jr., 21, had been held without bail after the Oct. 6 fatal shooting in Dorchester. 

Partners realized any deal would be extremely difficult ? if not impossible ? to pull off in a state where it?s long been under the microscope.