Massachusetts

Training and equipment that Boston police received from the federal government saved lives after the April 15 Marathon bombings, Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis told a House panel May 9. He singled out the Urban Areas Security Initiative, a grant program run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Shelter-in-place advisements, which were issued April 19 for Boston and nearby municipalities, are typically associated with hazardous biological, chemical or radiological materials, not dangerous fugitives. "All in Watertown, Cambridge, Waltham, Newton, Belmont, Allston/Brighton, Brookline, and Boston should stay indoors," Gov. Deval Patrick  wrote  on his official Twitter account that day.

Hurricane Sandy is about 250 miles south-southeast of New York City and moving north-northwest at 18 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour as of 11 a.m. on Oct. 29, the National Hurricane Center  says . Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 175 miles, mostly southwest of the center of the storm.

A pilot project to broadcast and archive live webstreams of district court proceedings in Massachusetts may not be ordered to censor itself once its cameras have captured events, ruled the