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“It’s back to work for the state Legislature, so it’s back to demanding common sense gun laws passed in our state,” Jennifer Robinson, co-chair of the Massachusetts arm of Moms Demand Action, told the Herald.

The 126-year-old cupola atop the State House is banded together by chicken wire and orange bracing after an 8-foot column broke free from it earlier this year. The 225-year-old golden dome hasn’t been re-gilded since 1997.

I still read books, which, apparently, makes me old. I don’t listen to them being read to me in my car or read them on...

Memorial Day is a Federal Holiday observed on the last Monday of May every year, and this year it falls on May 29.

The horrors of Foeste's war captivity can be summed up by his own words, spoken years later to a hired man on his farm. “They damn near killed me in that camp.”

For the first time in three years, Hadley held its Memorial Day parade Sunday under a near-perfect sunny day. The hourlong march began with a flag-raising at the Hadley American Legion Post 271 on Russell Street and ended on the Town Common on West...

The Lincoln Memorial turns 100 years old May 30. The prolific sculptor who created it, Daniel Chester French, had deep Bay State roots.

BOSTON — When the doors to the Statehouse were thrown open to the public, people from around Massachusetts and across the country filed in to see the grand building and

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Let’s time travel together, first to Connecticut in 1776. The American Revolution begins. Members of the Seely family take opposing sides. Obadiah, family patriarch, is a staunch loyalist. He is a prominent citizen in Stamford…