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The Massachusetts Legislature’s Cannabis Policy Committee plans to wade into the laws surrounding state marijuana regulators at a State House hearing the day before Halloween. The committee posted a notice for an informational hearing to inform its “reconsideration” of the 2017 law that formed the Cannabis Control Commission, whic...

Here’s a look at the top five MLB relief pitchers set to become free agents this winter.

Tom E. Curran and Phil Perry reveal their “Stock Up” and “Stock Down” from the Patriots’ Week 5 loss to the Dolphins.

Boston’s Sumner Tunnel will no longer need to be closed on weekends, as the major rehabilitation project that’s required the key roadway to repeatedly close, MassDOT says.

A man accused of taking his toddler from the boy’s day care in Canton, Massachusetts, despite a restraining order, appeared before a judge in Rhode Island Monday, waiving his right to an extradition hearing in that state so he can face the charges against him.

A man has been arrested in the death of a woman last month in Mexico, Maine, police said Monday.

As Jayden Daniels thrives in Washington, John Tomase argues the Patriots could be in a better place if they had followed a similar plan with Drake Maye.

The fight over the fate of a sweeping new gun law expanded to another front late last week with a second lawsuit challenging the measure’s constitutionality. Gino Recchia and the Bellingham gun shop he owns, Mass Armament, filed a complaint in federal court Friday, alleging that sections of the new law updating the definition of assault-style...

Poor offensive line play was far from the only issue that cost the Patriots in their 15-10 loss to the Dolphins. Phil Perry shares what he learned from arguably the sloppiest Pats loss of the season thus far.

A man was convicted of first-degree murder on Monday in the shooting of a teenager in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood in 2022, prosecutors said.

C.J. Stroud and the Texans will visit the Patriots at Gillette Stadium in Week 6. Here’s a full preview of Sunday’s game.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Tom E. Curran ponders whether the Pats will abandon their Drake Maye plan after another loss.

If there’s one positive about the Patriots’ season, it’s that they have a good chance of earning the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.