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Dozens of educators in the Whitman-Hanson school district could lose their jobs in the middle of the year because of a surprising budget issue.

A fight over whether a Massachusetts city can display Catholic statues on its new police headquarters follows similar litigation around the country.

The movie house, located at 24 Patriot Place in Foxborough, Massachusetts, first appeared in 2008, when the Massachusetts-based media company National Amusements chose to open their second theater in Foxborough, according to this report by the New England Real Estate Journal.

The break-in happened at the retail store of the Mass Firearms School after 11 p.m. The video shows the thieves smashing the glass of the store's front door with a hammer, and two of them run inside. They are seen leaving the same way they came in, with two guns in hand.

The Massachusetts House passed a sweeping early literacy reform bill this week by a vote of 155-0 — despite opposition from the state's largest teacher's union. As the legislation moves to the Senate,

An aide to Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey was arrested for cocaine trafficking after investigators intercepted packages with the drug slated to be delivered to a state office building where he worked, prosecutors said.

The pills were seized in Johnson, Warwick and at locations in Massachusetts, according to Rhode Island State Police.

Two teenagers died early Saturday morning during an early-morning crash in New Bedford, Massachusetts. It happened just before 2 a.m. around the 2.1 mile marker on Route 140 South in New Bedford. A 911 call alerted police to the deadly crash.