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BOSTON (AP) _ Beacon Hill lawmakers are pushing legislation they say will help make sure the internet remains as level a playing field as possible, even after U.S. regulators rolled back federal ``net neutrality'' rules. A bill under consideration by the Massachusetts Senate aims to promote net neutrality through state government contracts and by targeting practices like blocking or ``throttling''

"We need more help in battling the opioid crisis in Fall River." That was the plea made to Mass. Attorney General Maura Healey during a visit to Fall River on Monday afternoon. According to the Fall River Opioid Task Force, Fall River has seen 41 opioid-related deaths in 2017...

In Tennessee, a father was arrested for attempting to pick his kids up from school in a startling new example of how the federal government and states are increasingly treating children as its own property.