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BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - The highest court in Massachusetts approved the continued use of controversial electric-shock treatments on mental-health patients, saying there was not enough evidence to overturn a 1987 consent decree authorizing the procedure.

California law requires the state to serve and support individuals with developmental disabilities, but many families report persistent and often maddening roadblocks in trying to obtain assistance.

As many school district administrators know, Connecticut recently enacted Public Act No. 23-137, which extends eligibility for special education...

BOSTON — State lawmakers are considering a proposal aimed at easing a chronic backlog of pediatric patients who are stuck in hospital emergency rooms awaiting beds in mental health facilities.

Last year, 53 people in Fredericksburg and surrounding counties died by suicide.

BOSTON — State lawmakers are considering a proposal aimed at easing a chronic backlog of pediatric patients who are stuck in hospital emergency rooms awaiting beds in mental health facilities.

Wayne Branch found that some struggles in life were easier when you had a strong support system behind you. On Thursday, Branch spoke about the importance of the ReDCo Group in his life and how the st...

SOUTHBURY — The Southbury Training School Thrift Shops, Thrift One, Thrift Too and the Little Shop, are open from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 10

BOSTON — State lawmakers are considering a proposal aimed at easing a chronic backlog of pediatric patients who are stuck in hospital emergency rooms awaiting beds in mental health facilities.

Roughly 42% of all votes cast by 3 p.m. Tuesday were in the closely-watched District 6 race, where the City Councilor Kendra Lara is trying to hold onto her seat in the wake of a late June car crash that left her facing several charges.