Democratic candidate for Massachusetts Senate seat Martha Coakley waves at rally.
Democratic candidate for the Massachusetts Senate seat, Martha Coakley, waves to the crowd during a rally at Cabot Center on the Northeastern University campus in Boston, Massachusetts on January 17, 2010. UPI/Matthew Healey
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A Massachusetts drug lab chemist has pleaded innocent to charges she falsified drug test records.
Massachusetts' top lawyer says she is investigating more than a dozen for-profit colleges and trade schools for their recruiting and lending practices.
A second Massachusetts drug-lab chemist was arrested for allegedly tampering with evidence, leaving the state only one lab for testing evidence, officials said.
An accused fraudulent Massachusetts drug lab chemist continued a statewide court tour, pleading not guilty in Middlesex Superior Court, her lawyer said.
A former chemist in the Massachusetts state drug lab faces a 27-count indictment alleging she botched evidence and forged test results, officials said.
Massachusetts officials said they are determined to repair the state's criminal justice system after it was revealed a state crime lab chemist faked results.
A judge in the corruption trial of former Massachusetts Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill declared a mistrial Wednesday with the jury deadlocked.
The Massachusetts judiciary said it will require some $13.6 million more to resolve about 136,000 criminal cases involving mishandled drug lab evidence.
Massachusetts officials say they are preparing to reopen potentially thousands of closed cases due to the alleged mishandling of evidence at a drug lab.
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the 2-year-old healthcare reform law could spur a challenge to the Massachusetts law that inspired it, a law professor said.
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