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In this July 2013 photo provided by Matthew Pollack, his son Ben Pollack stands beside chickens in Sidney, Maine. Matthew and his wife Jane Quirion are fighting against a southern Maine school district to allow their non-verbal autistic son to carry an audio-recording device at school to ensure he's being treated properly. (Jane Quirion via AP)

Parents Fight to Record Disabled Son’s School Day

by Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressJanuary 7, 2018

FILE - In this June 6, 2017, file photo, a reporter holds up an example of the amount of fentanyl that can be deadly after a news conference about deaths from fentanyl exposure, at DEA Headquarters in Arlington, Va. The chief justice of the Massachusetts Trial Court told prosecutors she fears that allowing fentanyl and carfentanil into courtrooms as evidence puts people at risk even when the drugs are properly packaged. Some medical experts said a proposal to ban them from courtrooms appears to be driven by a misguided understanding of the real dangers of the substances. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Mass. Could Ban Opioids in Courts

by Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressDecember 3, 2017

In this Jan. 22, 2013, file photo, Sonja Farak, left, stands during her arraignment at Eastern Hampshire District Court in Belchertown, Mass. Massachusetts prosecutors said Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, they will dismiss more than 6,000 convictions tied to the former chemist who authorities say was high almost every day she worked at a state drug lab for eight years. Farak pleaded guilty in 2014 to stealing drugs from the state crime lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and tampering with evidence. (Don Treeger/The Republican via AP, Pool, File)

Tainted Drug Cases in Mass. to Be Dismissed

by Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressDecember 3, 2017

Transgender Woman Sues Mass. Over Placement in Male Prison

by Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressNovember 16, 2017

Former Boston television news anchor Heather Unruh speaks Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, in Boston, about the alleged sexual assault of her teenage son by actor Kevin Spacey in the summer of 2016 on Nantucket. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)

Former TV Anchor Says Spacey Sexually Assaulted Her Then-18-Year-Old Son

by Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressNovember 8, 2017

FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2017, file photo, Glenn Chin, supervisory pharmacist at the now-closed New England Compounding Center, leaves federal court after attending the first day of his trial in Boston. Chin, a Massachusetts pharmacist charged in a deadly meningitis outbreak has been cleared of murder allegations. A Boston jury on Wednesday, Oct. 25, found Chin not guilty of causing the deaths of 25 people who were injected with mold-tainted drugs. But jurors found convicted Chin of mail fraud and racketeering. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Pharmacist Acquitted In Meningitis Outbreak

by Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressOctober 26, 2017

FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2017, file photo, Glenn Chin, supervisory pharmacist at the now-closed New England Compounding Center, leaves federal court after attending the first day of his trial in Boston. Closing arguments are expected Thursday, Oct. 19. Chin is charged with second-degree murder and other crimes under federal racketeering law for his role in the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people and sickened hundreds of others. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Prosecutor: Mass. Pharmacist Caused Meningitis Deaths

by Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressOctober 22, 2017

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2017 file photo Bill Cosby departs Montgomery County Courthouse after a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case in Norristown, Pa. A woman is asking a federal appeals court to reinstate a lawsuit accusing comedian Cosby of defaming her when his representative disputed a news story about her rape allegations. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in Boston, is to hear arguments Wednesday, Oct. 4, in Katherine McKee's case against Cosby. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Woman Seeks Revival of Defamation Suit Against Cosby

by Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressOctober 5, 2017

Orion Krause stands with his attorney Edward Wayland at Krause's arraignment in Ayer District Court in Ayer, Mass., Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. Krause, of Rockport, Maine, was ordered held without bail at Bridgewater State Hospital pending a competency hearing at his arraignment on murder charges Monday in Ayer. (Josh Reynolds/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)

New Grad Charged With Killings

by Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressSeptember 12, 2017

In this Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017 photo, a pedestrian walks past the Acton Congregational Church in Acton, Mass. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments Thursday whether the town is improperly permitting taxpayer-funded community preservation grants to be used for renovations to the church building. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)

Church, State Battle in Mass.

by Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressSeptember 10, 2017