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March 10, 2016

Steven Spielberg picked to give Harvard commencement address

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg has been chosen to give Harvard's 2016 commencement speech.

March 10, 2016

Saudi man who fooled teen into sending sexual pics gets jail

A Saudi Arabian man who befriended a Massachusetts girl online by posing as a teen girl himself has been sentenced to 2 ½ years in jail for tricking her into sending him explicit photos that he later gave to her family.

March 10, 2016

Elderly marijuana dealer faces sentencing in large business

An 80-year-old man who ran a multistate marijuana-dealing operation faces sentencing in a plea agreement that calls for up to seven years in prison.

March 9, 2016

Mom convicted of withholding cancer-stricken son's medicine gets new trial

Massachusetts' highest court has granted a new trial to a woman convicted of withholding potentially life-saving medications from her cancer-stricken son.

March 8, 2016

Teen accused of murder in fatal shooting near Boston

Authorities say a 16-year-old boy has been arrested on a murder charge in connection with a weekend shooting that killed a man and left six other people injured by gunfire in the Boston suburbs.

March 8, 2016

Boston students walk out of class to protest budget cuts

More than a thousand Boston public school students walked out of their classes to protest proposed budget cuts.

March 7, 2016

Shooting near Boston that killed 1, hurt 6 happened at party

Authorities say a shooting that killed one man and left six other people injured by gunfire happened at a party in a vacant apartment in the Boston suburbs.

March 7, 2016

In Boston, an incomplete picture of police searches, frisks

Boston police say they're narrowing the gap between how often black residents are subjected to police searches as compared with whites and other ethnic groups.

March 7, 2016

Ex-mobster 'Whitey' Bulger's bid for new trial rejected by appeals court

Former mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, convicted of participating in 11 murders during the 1970s and '80s, will not get a new trial, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.

March 7, 2016

Virginia officer killed her 1st day on job is set for burial

A Virginia police officer who was shot and killed her first day on the job is being laid to rest next to her father in a Massachusetts cemetery.