Janet Mills, who sparred with Paul LePage as attorney general and will become the state?s first female governor, has promised in a more civil tone.  

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is now recuperating at home, according to a spokeswoman. 

Stocks are recovering some of their losses from a steep drop that left the benchmark S&P 500 index on the edge of a bear market.  

Owen Labrie, the former St. Paul?s School student convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl on campus in 2014, began his nine-month prison term Wednesday.  

Many older people don?t know when they ? or their partners ? will retire, or what they?ll do after. And economic volatility adds to the uncertainty.  

The cause of a deadly Christmas house fire in Avon that left two people dead appears to have been accidental, according to state fire officials.  

Massachusetts begins its march to a $15-an-hour minimum in 2023 with a hike to $12 Jan. 1, but a number of businesses aren?t waiting. 

Although the sheriffs said they had long wanted to do this, recent legal actions may have added pressure to act now. 

US Customs and Border Protection is seeking help from other agencies to perform medical checks on every child in its custody. 

A student was asked to remove a sign from her dorm window that used derogatory language to tell Nazis they aren?t welcome, prompting debate on campus.  

In the fall of 1968, Donald Trump received a timely diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels that led to his medical exemption from the military during Vietnam. 

In a call, President Trump told the 7-year-old it was ?marginal? for a child of her age to still believe in the jolly old elf.