12+ hour, 12+ min ago   (733+ words) LOWELL — Jeff Markley has been building data centers since 1991. Some 35 years later, he still is, but is concerned that opposition to the technology is challenging the commonwealth’s ability to remain competitive and relevant into the 21st century. “If Massachusetts wants to…...

12+ hour, 27+ min ago   (499+ words) Gov. Ron DeSantis says Florida is ready to “provide asylum” to the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy mistrial after NBC10 Boston reported on what the station described as a “history of domestic violence allegations.” The governor’s invitation to the…...

13+ hour, 38+ min ago   (186+ words) The Tunnels to Towers organization that helps first responders pay for homes isn’t letting up now that the 25th anniversary of the attacks has passed. The 5k walk and run around Castle Island on Saturday included a $50,000 donation from New England GMC…...

1+ day, 54+ min ago   (732+ words) LOWELL — A man is behind bars after being accused of stabbing a woman three times in the face, arm and leg at an apartment at the City View Towers on Wednesday, causing “permanent disfigurement,” according to police. After the stabbing,…...

13+ hour, 43+ min ago   (611+ words) Massachusetts is among dozens of states that don’t require 9/11 to be taught in schools, leaving students without knowledge about “perhaps the most transformative day in the country’s history.” That’s according to Pat Bavis, the chairman of the Massachusetts 9/11 Fund’s education…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1076+ words) By MICHELLE L. PRICE and LISA MASCARO Republicans know they are up against history, which traditionally rebuffs the party in power during midterms, but they’re relying on Trump’s personal appeal to voters. Vance, with a primetime speaking slot right before the…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (465+ words) The Trump administration’s policy of holding immigrants without a chance for release on bond is illegal and “harkens back to some of the darkest moments in our country’s history,” including the mass detention of Japanese Americans during World War II,…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (587+ words) The “known crack cocaine user” accused of firing more than 60 rounds from a rifle at motorists on Cambridge’s Memorial Drive has pleaded not guilty to dozens of new charges stemming from the chaotic May terror. Middlesex Superior Court Judge Michael…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (538+ words) Massachusetts’ highest court has issued a public reprimand of state district court Judge Shelley Joseph for her part in the escape from the courthouse of a suspect wanted by ICE in 2018. The reprimand represents an end to the legal quagmire…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (836+ words) Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes declined in August to their slowest annual pace in more than a year as home shoppers grappled with rising mortgage rates and home prices. Existing home sales fell 2% last month from July to a seasonally…...