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DA Ryan Asks State's Highest Court To Review Cases Tied To Hinton Drug Lab

Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan filed a petition with the state's Supreme Judicial Court on Friday asking it to review all criminal drug convictions based on evidence tested at the now-closed Hinton Drug Laboratory during the years in which two disgraced state chemists worked there.

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Former Boston City Council President Kim Janey, 55, speaks after being sworn in as Boston's new mayor at City Hall, Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Boston. (Elise Amendola/AP)

WATCH LIVE: Acting Mayor Janey Gives Updates On The Coronavirus In Boston

Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey will hold her first press conference since being inducted. She is expected to give updates on the city's response to the coronavirus.

Mar 26, 2021

A man waves a Bruins flag on Causeway Street, in front of the entrance of TD Garden before the Bruins/Islanders game, the first game open to the public now that stadiums and arenas are permitted to hold up to 12% capacity since they were restricted by COVID-19 protocols. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

'I Feel Like A Little Kid Right Now': Win Or Lose, Bruins Fans Happy To Be Back At The Garden

Face masks were required, fans couldn't gather in the concourse, and only 12% capacity was allowed. That's only about 2,220 fans, but despite the much smaller crowd, the excitement was...

03:08Mar 26, 2021

Boston Children’s Hospital. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Mass. Psychiatrists Concerned About Increase In Suicidal Thoughts, Attempts Among Adolescents

Boston Children's Hospital reports that between July and October of last year it saw a 47% increase, over the same period the year before, in kids needing to be hospitalized...

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08:13Mar 25, 2021

Gov. Charlie Baker speaks at a press conference at the State House on February 8, 2021 in Boston. (Matt Stone/ Boston Herald via Getty Images)

Cities Shorted Under Fed Funding Formula Getting $100 Million

Chelsea, Everett, Methuen and Randolph will be able to use the additional aid to address a range of COVID-19 needs, such as replacing lost municipal revenue, investing in water, sewer...

Mar 25, 2021

Consider This Boston: MA's Introduction of Emergency Teacher Licensing Has Led To More Diversity In Teachers

When schools went remote last year, one of the challenges facing Massachusetts state education officials was making sure the process of bringing new teachers into the profession didn’t come to...

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06:55Mar 25, 2021

A baby right whale swims with its mother in Cape Cod Bay in 2019. (Amy James/Center for Coastal Studies/NOAA via AP)

Cape Cod Researchers To Test New Camera That Could Protect Right Whales From Ships

Researchers on Cape Cod are testing a thermal camera that can identify and protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from ship strikes.

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Mar 25, 2021

It's Spring Break. Should We Be Traveling?

How should we be thinking about traveling right now? What does "safe" travel look like?

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22:06Mar 25, 2021

Former Boston City Council President Kim Janey, 55, takes off her face mask to speak after she was sworn in as Boston's new mayor at City Hall, Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Boston. Janey, who is the city's first female and first person of color to take the office, replaces Marty Walsh who resigned Monday evening to become President Joe Biden's labor secretary. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

How Kim Janey Is Meeting The Moment As Boston's New Mayor

Plus, it's spring break -- and as more people get vaccinated, is it safe to travel?

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47:55Mar 25, 2021

Former Boston City Council President Kim Janey, 55, reacts as she is introduced to be sworn in as Boston's new mayor at City Hall, Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Boston. Janey, who is the city's first female and first person of color to take the office, replaces Marty Walsh who resigned Monday evening to become President Joe Biden's labor secretary. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

'Something I Wasn't Sure I'd Ever See:' Kim Janey Takes Helm As Boston's First Black, Woman Mayor

Boston's new mayor, Kim Janey, joins us to talk about her agenda and this moment.

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13:35Mar 25, 2021

Checking The Score: Bruins Welcome Fans Back To The Garden, Celtics Make A Move At The Trade Deadline

We Check the Score on a big day for Boston sports.

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11:59Mar 25, 2021

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How The Pandemic Has Tipped The Balance Between Work And Motherhood

We take listener calls and talk with two working mothers about how their lives have been affected this past year.

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19:57Mar 24, 2021

General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt speaks during a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of GE's new headquarters as Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, left, and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh look on in Boston on May 8. (Michael Dwyer/AP)

Jeff Immelt Unravels His Controversial Tenure At General Electric

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47:45Mar 24, 2021

Tension Between Gov. Baker And State Legislators Continues

Governor Baker spoke to the state legislature's COVID Oversight Committee at its second hearing yesterday. WBUR senior State House reporter Steve Brown joins us to...

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06:05Mar 24, 2021

Kim Janey Officially Sworn In As Mayor Of Boston

We speak with WBUR senior political correspondent Anthony Brooks, who was at the ceremony.

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05:51Mar 24, 2021

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As Prisons See Drop In Cases, Another Man Imprisoned In Mass. Has Died Of COVID-19

The man was in his 80s and in custody at Bridgewater State Hospital, according to state correction officials, who said he had been hospitalized since January before his death at...

Mar 25, 2021

Gov. Charlie Baker talks with reporters at a press conference in the State House in March 2020. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Baker's Approval Wanes, But He Remains The Man To Beat

Charlie Baker, long one of the nation’s most popular governors, has faced sharp criticism recently over the way his administration has handled the pandemic, raising questions about his political future.

04:57Mar 25, 2021

Lee Brooks lost her son to leukemia, and Brian Dellascio had Hodgkin lymphoma as a teen. They're pictured outside Brooks' Wilmington home. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Wilmington Survivors React To Long-Awaited State Study Linking Cancer Cluster To Contaminated Water

The two-decades-long Department of Public Health study suggests a connection between prenatal exposure to NDMA, which leached into Wilmington's public water aquifer from the Olin chemical manufacturing facility, to childhood...

05:50Mar 24, 2021

Former Boston City Council President Kim Janey, 55, composes herself as she begins to speak after being sworn in as Boston's new mayor at City Hall, Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Boston. (Elise Amendola/AP)

Kim Janey Sworn In As First Woman, First Black Mayor Of Boston

Kim Janey, who as a child had rocks hurled at her school bus during Boston's desegregation era, marked her historic elevation as the first woman and first Black person to...

Mar 24, 2021

An MBTA Commuter Rail train on the Haverhill line travels through Andover. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Fire Takes MBTA Commuter Rail Locomotive Out Of Service

There were no injuries to passengers or train crew members, according to a spokesman for Keolis, which runs the T's commuter rail network.

Mar 24, 2021

Boston City Council President Kim Janey, who will soon become Boston's acting mayor, poses for a portrait at City Hall in Boston on Feb. 17, 2021. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

WATCH: Kim Janey Is Sworn In As Mayor Of Boston

Kim Janey is set to be sworn into office as mayor of Boston at 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday. She will be the 55th mayor of the city, and the first...

Mar 24, 2021

Children carry "stop the hate" and "Asian lives matter" as they walk around Clemente Park in Lowell, Mass. during a vigil held for the victims of the shooting spree in Atlanta at Clemente Park on March 17, 2021. (Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

'Perpetual Foreigners': Two Asian Americans Reflect On Living In Massachusetts

"It's a source of pride, it's a source of accomplishment, it's a source of visibility; but it's also a source of pain, and that pain is something that I've been...

08:34Mar 24, 2021

Gov. Charlie Baker during his second appearance before the oversight committee. (SHNS)

Baker Defends Vaccine Strategy, Use Of Large Sites In Oversight Hearing

In his second appearance before a legislative COVID-19 oversight committee, Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday argued that his administration has led a nation-leading vaccination effort using a strategy backed up...

Mar 23, 2021

State Police Union Sues, Claims Members Being Cheated Out Of OT Pay

The union representing rank-and-file Massachusetts State Police troopers has sued the agency, alleging it broke state and federal labor law by intentionally miscalculating what qualifies as regular pay, costing members...

Mar 23, 2021

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker speaks at a vaccination site at the Natick Mall on Feb. 24. A year of battling the spread of the coronavirus has taken a political toll on Baker as he faces slumping popularity. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald via AP, Pool, File)

Pandemic Takes A Political Toll On Gov. Baker

For Baker, the pandemic has had an inverse impact on his popularity. Confidence remained high as the crisis began and he took dramatic steps to shut down the state, only...

Mar 23, 2021