On September 1, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell announced $1.15 million in citations against Adult & Teen Challenge Northeast, a Brockton-based Christian residential addiction treatment program. According to the Attorney General’s Office, men in the organization’s Brockton and Worcester programs were required to work without pay between August 2017 and August 2025. Some were…

Connecticut just took a title nobody wants. In ConsumerAffairs’ 2026 analysis of federal crash data, Waterbury ranked as the single most dangerous driving city in the United States — first out of 338 cities with populations above 100,000. It is the only city in the entire Northeast to appear anywhere in the 45 worst-ranked. The…

SmartAsset just published its 2026 ranking of the best and worst states for drivers, and Massachusetts came out first in the country. Ahead of Minnesota. Ahead of New Jersey. Ahead of the forty-six other states that don’t feature the Storrow Drive merge. Connecticut placed sixth. If you’ve driven the Pike at rush hour or tried…

On August 10, 2026, Governor Healey signed An Act Prioritizing Patient Access to Care (H.5595, 194th Gen. Court). Most coverage has described it in terms of what it means — “removing the 24-week ban,” “expanding access throughout pregnancy,” “abortion until birth,” depending on who’s talking. Very little of it has quoted the statute. The bill…

Connecticut’s highest court just handed down its first punishment for AI-generated fiction in a legal brief — and the story is more unsettling than it sounds. On July 31, 2026, the Connecticut Supreme Court punished a lawyer for filing court papers that cited cases which had never been decided, by judges who had never heard…

Caroline Ashworth was about eighteen when she met Michael Mollow. He was about fifty-seven. They started seeing each other in the winter of 2019, and for the next three years he paid her rent until he stopped paying it, controlled where she went and who she talked to, and cut off her phone service when…