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A Massachusetts court Thursday added $81 million in punitive damages to $71 million in compensatory damages it had already awarded to the family of a woman who died of lung cancer.

Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts say pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline will pay $750 million to settle allegations that it knowingly manufactured and sold adulterated drugs at its plant in Puerto Rico, including the popular antidepressant Paxil.

A $10,000 bill? The staff at a Massachusetts bank just wasn't buying it.

Tempers flew at a Massachusetts gubernatorial debate Tuesday night, as the four candidates hashed out their positions just six weeks before the election.

Two Massachusetts men stole and tried to sell a customs form with the birth date, address and signature of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Facing a mortgage payment she couldn’t afford, a Massachusetts woman allegedly faked the death of her son serving in the military, and eventually faked her own death, to avoid foreclosure.

The Massachusetts Republican party today endorsed Charles D. Baker for governor, while Christy Mihos, a second gubernatorial hopeful, failed to garner enough votes from delegates to appear on the September ...

Five men and one woman miraculously survived a terrifying plunge when their all-terrain vehicle plummeted over a Massachusetts cliff in total darkness -- sending some of them tumbling as far as 700 feet down into a ravine, the New York Post reported Tuesday.

A dispute has arisen between school officials in South Hadley, Mass., and the district attorney over whether the officials had long known about the hazing of a 15-year-old.

There are ways to prevent or mitigate the damage bullying can do to a child, experts stressed after nine Massachusetts teens were charged with harassment in the suicide of a 15-year-old.