Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick confirms that at least 19 communities in his state have been impacted by tornadoes.
If confirmed, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's nominee for the state Supreme Judicial Court would be the first openly gay justice to serve on the state's highest court.
Massachusetts is bracing for the biggest budget cuts in 20 years...even as its tax revenues are on the rise.
The phrase "it's cold outside" doesn't begin to describe it. With the mercury well below zero in parts of the Northeast, people in New York and the New England states are facing some of the coldest temperatures the region has seen in years.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick lifted a state of emergency Thursday, one day after blizzard conditions pounded his state and created hazardous travel conditions across New England.
A snow-packed winter continues to sweep much of the U.S.
Thousands of travelers spent the night camped out on airport floors and thousands more were stranded in hotel rooms and relatives' homes as blizzard conditions halted flights at New York's three major airports, slowed rail travel and continued to create treacherous conditions on roads throughout the East Coast on Monday.
Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates Tim Cahill and Charlie Baker exchange heated words.
Tempers flew at a Massachusetts gubernatorial debate Tuesday night, as the four candidates hashed out their positions just six weeks before the election.
For political junkies, the midterm election's marquee races are well known -- and I offered a list of those last week. But in a year when politics is hitting the boiling point, a top 10 list can't cover all the interesting races going on across the nation.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick urged a school district to revise its policy allowing students as young as in elementary schools to get condoms if they are believed to be sexually active.
Provincetown, Massachusetts, schools will be providing free condoms to first through twelfth graders.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick addresses the media about the FBI raids in the Boston area.
Rescue crews travel by boat to pull residents from their flooded homes in Rhode Island. CNN's Reynolds Wolf reports.
President Barack Obama made a previously unannounced visit Thursday to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, which is dealing with widespread flooding in the region.
Local and state authorities in Northampton, Massachusetts, are investigating nine suspicious fires that have killed two people and left residents shaken, officials said Sunday.
A community is in shock after a series of suspicious fires left two dead. Affiliate WWLP reports.
Local and state authorities in Northampton, Massachusetts, are investigating a string of suspicious fires that killed two people and left residents shaken, officials said Sunday.
What was Hyatt thinking? That no one would notice? That no one would care? Well, the privately held hotelier, which announced plans recently to go public, screwed up big-time; everybody knows that now. Even Hyatt knows, although something tells me it hasn't completely sunk in yet.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick named Paul G. Kirk as the interim U.S. senator from Massachusetts on Thursday.
Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick announces the date of the special election to fill the Senate seat left vacant by Ted Kennedy.
It may be months before Edward Kennedy's Senate seat is filled, following his death at the age of 77 on Tuesday.
Hurricane Bill spun northward toward the New England coast Saturday with wind and rain as officials warned beach lovers to head indoors for the night.
President Obama said Friday he spoke with the police officer who arrested a Harvard professor and told the officer he did not mean to malign the Cambridge Police Department when he said police acted stupidly.
State officials nationwide are wrestling with yet another round of budget shortfalls, this time due to plummeting April income tax revenues.
CNN's Jeffrey Toobin looks at some of the candidates that President Obama may consider to fill a Supreme Court seat.
In Washington and throughout the nation's legal system, speculation took off Friday over who may join the Supreme Court after the retirement of Justice David Souter.
The Obama administration will not support a policy of taxing drivers based on their mileage, the Transportation Department said Friday after a published interview in which Secretary Ray LaHood called it an idea "we should look at."
A severe ice storm prompted President Bush to declare Saturday that a state of emergency exists in northern Massachusetts, a move that authorizes the use of federal aid to help the recovery effort.
The governors of Massachusetts and New Hampshire declared states of emergency Friday after high winds, rain and snow swept through the Northeast, leaving at least a million homes and businesses without power.
A real-time look at how undecided voters viewed key moments in the Democratic debate.
Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama each accused the other of borrowing portions of their presidential campaign speeches Monday.
The latest war of words between Clinton and Obama is all about words, just words. CNN's Candy Crowley reports.
CNN Meteorologist Reynolds Wolf has more on the winter storm that's heading toward the northeastern U.S.
John Walsh is a veteran Democratic operative who concedes technology hasn't always been his strong suit.
MARKS: Happy Dow breaking 13,000 to you! Happy Dow breaking 13,000 to you! You look like a short seller, and you weep like one too! Just one for instance: AP reports that, "Apple blew past Wall Street expectations Wednesday, posting quarterly profits that jumped 88%, fueled by strong sales of its iPod players and Macintosh computers." And remember that's coming off strong comps! Yep. As Shawn Tully calls it: "A perfect calm."
Gov. Deval Patrick is trying to increase accessibility to Massachusetts' political leaders.
It's known as "The Crisis" around Texaco's sprawling office headquarters in a leafy suburb north of New York City, which is certainly apropos. It was the embarrassing and expensive saga that forced...