Predator tab grows Calling experts to testify cost taxpayers $100000

Public defenders seeking to keep convicted sex offenders’ identities secret spent nearly $100,000 in taxpayer money last year on expert testimony - a strategy pushed in a widely circulated handbook advising attorneys on how to beat the state’s registry, a Herald review found.The review comes as the Senate yesterday approved a measure to add the names of Level 2 predators to the Sex ...

Maine Senate OKs cellphone privacy bill

The bill, which was approved Thursday night, would require police to get a warrant before engaging in location tracking of cellphones and other GPS-enabled devices in non-emergency ...

Vaxess lands first tranche of $4M round

Last year, the founders of Vaxess Technologies - including Michael Schrader, Livio Valenti, Kathryn Kosuda, and Patrick Ho- won Harvard University President's Challenge. Newly-launched Vaxess Technologies Inc., a life sciences company developing vaccine stabilization technology, has closed the first tranche of a $3.75 million Series A round of financing. Norwich Ventures led the round, which ...

Senate approves $34B Mass spending plan

BOSTON (AP) -- The Massachusetts Senate has given final approval to its version of the state budget, setting the stage for negotiations with the House over the $34 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July ...

Northampton removes some downtown benches

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- The city of Northampton has removed six of the 16 benches in its busy downtown shopping district -- because it seems people were actually sitting on them.Mayor David Narkewicz says the city received numerous complaints, particularly from businesses, about people loitering for hours on benches he says were meant for short-term use.Daniel Yacuzzo, director of the Business ...